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		<title>Pipeline Management Series: &#8220;Diving is Not Your Roll, But You Have to Hold the Line.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Goldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the last post some of you may be irritated with my assumptions that you can defer questions at presentation time. You think, “But I work with technical people, I have to show them the details.” or maybe it’s, “If I do not handle everything in the first presentation, I may not get another chance.”
Well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pipeline Management Series: Time to Show Them Something</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Goldfield</dc:creator>
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Well, you are exhausted. That is to say that questioning has taken you as far as you need to go. You know who is involved, what they want, what they don’t want, and most of all what will get them running right onto the client list of one of your competitors. It is time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pipeline management – The discovery phase</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Goldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have already covered the basic tenets of what it takes to decide a prospect is worthy of entering our trusted pipeline.
For review:

Get buy in from whoever you are talking to that you can communicate with anyone involved in the buying process
Get confirmation that there is budget
Uncover all of the problems, desires, wishes, needs, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pipeline management 2 – The lure of sales technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Goldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a rant for the Sales Managers out there. OK, it is for the Directors, the VP’s, the CEO’s, and yeah you the sales rep too. So often we miss the point sales technology and the empowerment it provides. Sure sales tools help us manage our selling activities, but sales technology, even the latest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pipeline management 1 – When is it an opportunity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Goldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my least favorite activities as both a young sales representative and a young sales manager was reviewing pipelines. Why? Because as a young sales person I was never taught what opportunity really meant, and as a young sales manager I was not skilled at teaching others.
The problem in both cases was the same. [...]]]></description>
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