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		<title>Walking the walk, but can you talk the talk?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne-Marie Charrett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my experience, selling testing is a lot harder than testing. Despite being Irish, &#8220;the gift of the gab&#8221;  eludes me, often leaving me tongue tied and twisted when selling my wares.
Its one of the reasons I have got myself a business mentor.  His main focus has been for me to understand my &#8216;product&#8217; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So you want to be a software test consultant?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne-Marie Charrett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I&#8217; m handing out some pointers that may or may not help you on your path to becoming a software test consultant. Some of these I&#8217;ve gained through bitter experience, others are more hindsight on things I ought to have done.
So, without  further ado, here are my tips.
1) Dreams are not goals
Its easy to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engineers make awful sales people</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne-Marie Charrett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a software test consultant I like to provide quotes based on value but is this the right approach?]]></description>
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