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   <description>Keep upto date with the latest pages and posts from intelligent dialogue, a really useful website for all those involved in training and development of customer facing roles</description>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:04:44 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>What is Lead Generation</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/what-is-lead-generation.html</link>
    <description>What is lead generation? Rather than trying to get people to buy from you, you get them to come to you when they are ready to spend with you.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:04:42 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>South West Contact Centre Awards 2010</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/south-west-contact-centre-awards.html</link>
    <description>South West Contact Centre Awards Ceremony 24th June 2010</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:01:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Customer service video</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/customer-service-video.html</link>
    <description>Customer service video from our friends at customer service training helper - what have you done today to help you feel proud?</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:29:08 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>How do you lead your team?</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/how-do-you-lead-your-team.html</link>
    <description>How do you lead your team? How do we inspire the people around us? How do we inspire ourselves to greatness?</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:01:51 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Practice Makes Perfect</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/practice-makes-perfect.html</link>
    <description>Practice makes perfect; The more I practice the luckier I get, try this for fun, and then think about how you learn</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 07:36:41 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Handling angry customers</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/handling-angry-customers.html</link>
    <description>Handling angry customers can be a horrible experience, made worse by lots of advice which is simply wrong.</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:02:11 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>This wasn&#39;t squirty cream</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/this-wasnt-squirty-cream.html</link>
    <description>I&#39;ve just attended a one day call handling skills training course. When I went back to the office at lunch time, I could really hear the difference in</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:37:37 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Non-technical Technical Support People Reading from a Script</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/nontechnical-technical-support-people-reading-from-a-script.html</link>
    <description>I absolutely go crazy whenever I have to deal with a so-called technical support specialist who obviously doesn&#39;t have a technical bone in his or her body!</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:47:41 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Being passed to another department without any explanation</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/being-passed-to-another-department-without-any-explanation.html</link>
    <description>You&#39;ve come through to the wrong department  Yep, silly me, didn&#39;t work out the correct number to press from the automated message at the beginning of</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:53:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Your call is important to us</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/your-call-is-important-to-us.html</link>
    <description>This message has to be the worst - if the call was important they&#39;d organise themselves so they could take the call,and sort the problem out.  It really</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:28:17 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Worst hold music</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/hold-music.html</link>
    <description>Worst hold music, what&#39;s the worst music you&#39;ve heard? What&#39;s the worst music you could think of? What winds you up about being put on hold? Let us know what you think.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:06:58 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>South West Contact Centre Forum Developing Call Quality for Business Results</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/South-west-contact-centre-forum.html</link>
    <description>South West Contact Centre Forum, 25th March, see us talk about Developing Call Quality for Business Results.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:07:52 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sales Development Training that Delivers the Results You Need</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/sales-development-training.html</link>
    <description>Sales Development Training that delivers the business results you require. Tailored to your products and services, the market place you operate in and the challenges you face.</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:45:47 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Customer Service Skills Training</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/customer-service-skills-training.html</link>
    <description>Customer service skills training that develops the skills, confidence and competence when dealing with your customers.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:35:09 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Head of Contact Centre Recruitment</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/head-of-contact-centre-recruitment.html</link>
    <description>Intelligent Dialogue have a long and successful history of delivering superlative development interventions for a variety of employee groups and levels</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:37:25 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Developing Call Quality</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/developing-call-quality.html</link>
    <description>Developing Call Quality is at the heart of achieving many business results. Are your calls costing or making you money? Download this intelligent dialogue whitepaper on improving customer contact</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:44:29 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>How to retain customers</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/how-to-retain-customers.html</link>
    <description>How to retain customers, the results of our b2c survey and other ideas for customer retention</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:44:27 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Call Centre Performance</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/call-centre-performance.html</link>
    <description>Call Centre Performance; are your calls cosyting or making you money? Download on intelligent dialogue whitepaper on developing call quality for business results</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:38:56 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>define good customer service</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/define-good-customer-service.html</link>
    <description>Define good customer service, constantly exceed your customers expectations and deliver good customer service so that your business keeps customers. It&#39;s that simple.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Dynamic Development Programme  which made a real difference</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/dynamic-development-programme-which-made-a-real-difference.html</link>
    <description>A dynamic and fascinating look at communication and call handling skills and their use at work and everyday life.  I learnt more in this course than</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:27:17 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>b2b training and development</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/b2b-training-and-development.html</link>
    <description>b2b training and development, experts in conversations with customers that deliver your business results. Training to gain new business, retain &amp; grow your existing customer base</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:45:05 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Dialogue development workshop</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/dialogue-development-workshop.html</link>
    <description>Dialogue development workshop from intelligent dialogue.  Map out your ideal calls and set best practice for your call centre</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:56:02 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Customer Service Tips, Ideas, Survey results and resource centre</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/customer-service-tips.html</link>
    <description>Customer Service Tips; A useful resource for any one customer facing, from dealing with angry customers to customer service skills. Use these ideas to increase customer retention and increase profit.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:07:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>b2b Sales Training</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/b2b-sales-training.html</link>
    <description>b2b Sales Training gain new customers, or retain and grow the spend of your existing customers with telephone training or sales training courses from intelligent dialogue</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:58:41 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sales Team Training</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/sales-team-training.html</link>
    <description>Sales Team Training, bespoke training and development depending on your market place, your products and services, and the experience of your people. Training to develop focus, skills and business.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:02:05 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Inside Sales Training</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/inside-sales-training.html</link>
    <description>Inside Sales Training for your telesales teams vital to help your external sales reps hit their numbers. </description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:51:58 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sales Negotiation Training</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/sales-negotiation-training.html</link>
    <description>Sales Negotiation Training, details of the intelligent dialogue uk training course to help ensure you win profitable sales</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sales Presentation Training</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/sales-presentation-training.html</link>
    <description>Sales Presentation Training from intelligent dialogue. To help you convince prospects and accounts that your value proposition can help them. Build confidence, technique and sales.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:43:50 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Telemarketing training</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/telemarketing-training.html</link>
    <description>Telemarketing training from intelligent dialogue. Tailored training to help you gain, retain and customers</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:08:39 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Customer service training UK</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/Customer-service-training-uk.html</link>
    <description>Customer Service Training UK, UK based intelligent dialogue deliver exceptional customer service training so that you get the results you require.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:57:40 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Customer service by phone</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/customer-service-by-phone.html</link>
    <description>Customer service by phone; training course from the customer service training experts intelligent dialogue. Check out their resource centre on their website full of tips ideas for customer service.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:09:45 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Customer service sales training</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/customer-service-sales-training.html</link>
    <description>Customer service sales training, training which helps the most reluctant sales people make the most of the opportunity with the customer.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:34:59 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Call centre training</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/call-centre-training.html</link>
    <description>Call centre training from intelligent dialogue. Transform your call centre with this highly participative, outcome focused training from the training company that delivers your results.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:34:56 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Customer service articles</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/customer-service-articles.html</link>
    <description>Customer service articles from intelligent dialogue. Find articles and tips about customer service and customer retention.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:20:22 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Difference between training and development</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/difference-between-training-and-development.html</link>
    <description>What&#39;s the difference between training and development, intelligent dialogue explore this question and look at how you can achieve a return on your investment from your training and development.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:53:25 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>employee training and development</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/employee-training-and-development.html</link>
    <description>Employee training and development delivers the right return on your investment, and results into your business</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:14:51 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Fabulous content once again</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/fabulous-content-once-again.html</link>
    <description>Fabulous content once again!  The short film was wonderful.  I presented it to the other trainers who agreed, so we may use the film as the initial</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:29:20 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Grow newsletter january 2010</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/Grow-newsletter-january-2010.html</link>
    <description>Grow newsletter january 2010, full of ideas of the power of words when speaking with customers</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The power of words</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/the-power-of-words.html</link>
    <description>the power of words, chosing your words carefully helps with conversations with customers. An intelligent dialogue with colleagues and customers builds business strength</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:58:48 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>inbound sales tips</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/inbound-sales-tips.html</link>
    <description>Inbound sales tips which will help you stay ahead when doing business by telephone</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:05:40 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sales Training Courses</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/sales-training-courses.html</link>
    <description>Sales training courses from intelligent dialogue that help you deliver your sales strategy and achieve your targets.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:13:59 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>managing emails</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/managing-emails.html</link>
    <description>managing emails, how do you deal with the numbers of business emails you receive everyday at the office?</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:17:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>How to write business email</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/how-to-write-business-email.html</link>
    <description>How to write business email: we sent 247 billion emails a day, but the rules for sending business emails are different.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:20:10 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>French phonetic alphabet</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/french-phonetic-alphabet.html</link>
    <description>French phonetic alphabet, there is no standard in French, but these names are commonly used. Use this if the NATO standard alphabet doesn&#39;t apply to your customer base.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:16:18 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Verbal handshake</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/verbal-handshake.html</link>
    <description>Verbal handshake: What makes a good verbal handshake? When should you use one and when? This and other tips to opening a telephone conversation with a customer</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:07:39 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>inbound sales training</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/inbound-sales-training.html</link>
    <description>Inbound sales training, an intelligent dialogue course has no gimmicks just a focus on outcomes which delivers results to your business. Call us now on (00 44) 845 450 0988</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:34:53 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Proactive calls</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/proactive-calls.html</link>
    <description>Proactive Calls - download your copy of our special report Proactive Outbound Calls That Strengthen Your Business</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:59:32 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>call centre research</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/call-centre-research.html</link>
    <description>Call centre research, intelligent dialogue reveal what customers hate about dealing with call centres</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:35:59 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Complaint Handling Training</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/complaint-handling-training.html</link>
    <description>Complaint Handling training, for customer facing personnel who need to develop complaint handling skills inorder to retain customers and protect profit.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:19:30 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Call Centre Management</title>
    <link>http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/call-centre-management.html</link>
    <description>Call centre management, A useful resource centre for call centre managers who want to drive call quality and call centre performance</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:13:21 GMT</pubDate>
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