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Walking the walk, but can you talk the talk?

Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

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In my experience, selling testing is a lot harder than testing. Despite being Irish, “the gift of the gab”  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 ‘product’ and [...]

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