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		<title>Articulate Your Prospects Problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to cold calling you should always begin with the person’s core challenge or problem. Once you are clear on what problems your product or service can solve for them, you will start to know what to say when you make a call. It really is that simple.
When calling, begin the phone call [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.acarda.com/articulate-your-prospects-problems</link>
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		<title>Cold Calling Heavy Mental Attitudes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you find that the telephone can become like a HUGE weight when it comes to lifting it up and making calls? I was like that at the beginning as well. The good news is that you are not alone.
If you&#8217;re like most people who make cold calls, you&#8217;re hoping to make a sale &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.acarda.com/cold-calling-heavy-mental-attitudes</link>
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		<title>Discover Why You Should Be Using This Tool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some claim that telemarketing is one of the most rapidly expanding industries in the business world today, and smart businesses companies are utilising this in an effort to increase sales. 
Because it is so affordable and its ease of use, outbound telemarketing has been around almost since the invention of the telephone. Thousands of businesses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.acarda.com/discover-why-you-should-be-using-this-tool</link>
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		<title>Moving Forward In the Sales Process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You don’t have to speak to a prospect for very long on the telephone before you encounter an objection. There is a natural or should I say instinctive, “knee-jerk” response that people make to anyone (particularly strangers) calling on the telephone trying to promote their products and services.
But the last thing you want to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.acarda.com/moving-forward-in-the-sales-process</link>
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		<title>The selling process and objection handlers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephan Scfiffman says there are four steps to an ideal selling process: Qualify/Open, Information, Presentation, and Close. After the initial greeting and qualifying step you reach a critical point where the prospect is likely try to drop out of the conversation. If you can turn that around you reach the information-gathering phase after which you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.acarda.com/the-selling-cycle-and-objection-handlers</link>
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		<title>Ask the &#8220;do&#8221; questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been searching for a house to buy as a rental investment. I’ve looked at dozens of houses over the past few weeks and had four or five different real-estate agents show me round. Some of the agents ask me what I am looking for and listen to my reply. Others don’t even hear me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.acarda.com/ask-the-do-questions</link>
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		<title>Five ways you can increase your income</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Stephan Schiffman book, Telesales, he talks about the five ways you can increase your income. In my last blog I said that you needed to measure your dials, discussions, presentations, and number of sales.
Let’s say you track your calls and you have the following ratios. You make 15 dials in an hour, you typically [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.acarda.com/five-ways-you-can-increase-your-income</link>
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		<title>Ratios hour by hour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I stated in my last blog that telesales was a numbers game. But that isn’t really the whole story. In fact some experts would argue that selling is not a numbers game; it’s a ratios game. It’s about the ratio of dials you make to sales or appointments you set. The ratios tell you how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.acarda.com/ratios-hour-by-hour</link>
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		<title>What are your ratios?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Telesales is a numbers game, the more calls you dial the more sales you will close. No disputing that. It’s the same with appointment setting. The more people you phone the more appointments you will set. It’s not rocket science is it? Yet who knows the number of calls they have to dial on average [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.acarda.com/what-are-your-ratios</link>
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