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		<title>Small Business Owners &#8211; Are Your Sales Skills Sharp Enough To Cope? (Part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://www.andypreston.com/2009/01/small-business-owners-are-your-sales-skills-sharp-enough-to-cope-part-1/' addthis:title='Small Business Owners &#8211; Are Your Sales Skills Sharp Enough To Cope? (Part 2) '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>Continued from the previous article, Andy Preston talks about the essential selling skills needed by the small business owner, and how a lot of them feel underprepared for the role that they have to take in their own businesses.....<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://www.andypreston.com/2009/01/small-business-owners-are-your-sales-skills-sharp-enough-to-cope-part-1/' addthis:title='Small Business Owners &#8211; Are Your Sales Skills Sharp Enough To Cope? (Part 2) '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Small Business Owners &#8211; Are Your Sales Skills Sharp Enough To Cope? (Part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Preston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://www.andypreston.com/2009/01/small-business-owners-are-your-sales-skills-sharp-enough-to-cope-part-1-2/' addthis:title='Small Business Owners &#8211; Are Your Sales Skills Sharp Enough To Cope? (Part 1) '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>Are you a small business owner? It’s very likely then that you don’t consider yourself a traditional ’salesperson’, yet you probably still have to ’sell’ what you offer….

In the current market conditions things are changing…..and if you don’t change your sales skills or the ‘way’ you sell in order to cope….then you may not be around this time next year, or at best will really struggle.

In this article Andy explains what you need to focus on…right now…..to give yourself the best chance…..
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