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<title>Believing in Your Product or Service is a Must if You Want to be a Success in Sales</title>
<description>Having belief in your product or service is almost as important as having total belief in yourself and indeed in some cases it is just as important. If you haven't got total belief then you are just conning your customers into buying something you wouldn'...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_76770_36.html</link>
<pubDate>25th July 2006</pubDate>
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<title>To be a Success in Sales: Trust isn't Very Important it's Vital</title>
<description>In sales, it is vital to have trust, just as in any other relationship in life. When I say trust there are a couple different areas that I am referring to:

-Trust in yourself that you truly want to help the customer

-Trust that you can help
	
-Tru...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_76519_64.html</link>
<pubDate>25th July 2006</pubDate>
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<title>How to Manage Yourself in Order to Be a Success in Selling and Business</title>
<description>Managing your sales career should be just like managing a business. Since it is not the same as working a 9 to 5, you need to make sure that you are disciplined and organized in the way you coordinate all of your daily duties. Therefore you should manage ...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_76517_36.html</link>
<pubDate>25th July 2006</pubDate>
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<title>There Are Times You Have To Leave Your Standards At The Door</title>
<description>In the sales industry many times we have our own standards and the ways we would like to present to our clients, and we are just adamant about touching every planned point of the presentation. You need to know, it is not always necessary to presents the e...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_76514_36.html</link>
<pubDate>25th July 2006</pubDate>
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<title>Goals – They Can Work for You – If You Let Them</title>
<description>As all of you who know me or my teachings will know that in order to achieve you must have the right mindset. 

What the mind can see and believe it can achieve

But having the right mindset and having total belief will not work on its own. You will a...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_76511_36.html</link>
<pubDate>25th July 2006</pubDate>
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<title>Get Organized</title>
<description>If confusion breeds chaos, what does organization breed? SUCCESS! That's right. There is always a decent order and way to run things. Order is used to keep us on our toes, and prioritize out tasks.

Getting organized can mean many different things in th...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_70968_15.html</link>
<pubDate>08th July 2006</pubDate>
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<title>The Grass Isn't Always Greener</title>
<description>We have heard the phrase over and over again, "That the Grass isn't always Greener on the other side". 
Yet we always manage to be in somebody else's yard and checking out what they have.

This is a terrible trap that many of us as new salespeople fall...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_70963_36.html</link>
<pubDate>08th July 2006</pubDate>
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<title>Sales: Why We Get Such a Bad Rep</title>
<description>If there is one area in sales training that really annoys me more that any other is CLOSING. To me closing is nothing more than an insult to human intelligence. The people that you are trying to manipulate by using smart statements are your present and mo...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_70957_64.html</link>
<pubDate>08th July 2006</pubDate>
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<title>Always Talk to the Decision Maker if you Want to Sell</title>
<description>Have you ever been through an entire presentation, or even an introductory presentation and then was told that you needed to talk to the decision maker? Not only was it a waste of your time, but for the other person as well. So make sure that anyone and e...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_70952_15.html</link>
<pubDate>08th July 2006</pubDate>
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<title>The Preamble</title>
<description>In sales, as in any other industry, we have a foundation to lay in order to perform the rest of the necessary tasks. The preamble is part of laying the foundation for the "10 Point Sales Sequence".

The preamble is vital, it is where "I close" the deal,...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_70947_15.html</link>
<pubDate>08th July 2006</pubDate>
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<title>No Second Chances in Selling</title>
<description>There is an old but very true saying: "You don't get a second chance to make a first impression".  So if you are going to work in the $100,000 plus market place, then you must, dress, look, and act the part of a professional and in a very short space of t...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_70943_36.html</link>
<pubDate>08th July 2006</pubDate>
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<title>What the Mind Can See and Believe It Can Achieve</title>
<description>You may have heard the saying before, "What the mind can see and believe it can achieve". But How? I hear you say. By changing your mind set. This will not happen overnight as it takes about 30 days to do it if you are working on it daily. 

All you do ...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_70940_36.html</link>
<pubDate>08th July 2006</pubDate>
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<title>The Market Place</title>
<description>A broad general outline is that the market is divided into two sections. 

1.	The Domestic Market where you are selling to the public. The lion's share of this market is the retail sector but it also has huge direct sales market as well.
2.	The Corpora...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_70934_36.html</link>
<pubDate>08th July 2006</pubDate>
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<title>How to View Your Clients</title>
<description>A good way to view our clients is as people introduced to us by a mutual acquaintance and we are helping this person consider how best you can be of assistance to them.

We have just met these (potential clients), so we don't want to scare them away by ...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_70924_15.html</link>
<pubDate>08th July 2006</pubDate>
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<title>Keys to Finding the Right Company to Represent, or to Represent You</title>
<description>When you are in search for a company to work for, or I shall say represent you, there are many key factors to use. I say represent you, because you are representing the company, this is true and at the same time what that company represents is what the cl...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_55741_36.html</link>
<pubDate>21st May 2006</pubDate>
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<title>Keeping your Eyes on the Prize</title>
<description>Our subconscious mind does not know what is good or bad, positive or negative, what a problem is or what the solution is. It only knows that if you are focusing your conscious mind on it all the time, you must want what you are focused on, therefore it su...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_53491_24.html</link>
<pubDate>15th May 2006</pubDate>
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<title>Know the 4 Major Principles in Selling to be Successful</title>
<description>The total world economy is based on the quality of sales people out there doing their job and the better they do it, the more it benefits every other worker on the globe. Just imagine what it would be like if we sales people were to stop selling, everythi...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_53485_15.html</link>
<pubDate>15th May 2006</pubDate>
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<title>Giving the Customers What They Want</title>
<description>To give customers what they want, you first need to know who they are. There is going to require some research on your part to find out who they are and then what do they need. In doing so, you can develop your own personal niche, in a specific market.
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<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_53481_36.html</link>
<pubDate>15th May 2006</pubDate>
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<title>Stop Selling and Start Creating a Buying Enviorment</title>
<description>So you want to be successful in Selling, the best way to do so, is to stop selling and start creating a buying environment. Selling can be compared to eating an enjoyable meal. You begin your meal with a starter or appetizer course, followed by a nice sal...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_53469_15.html</link>
<pubDate>15th May 2006</pubDate>
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<title>The 4 Major Principles in Selling</title>
<description>As in any other industry there are major principles, or codes that are used in order to be successful. These principles are used as a standard or foundation to rely on for success in that industry. There are 4 major principles in selling.Top Q...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_53453_64.html</link>
<pubDate>15th May 2006</pubDate>
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<title>Your Success in Selling is Presentation vs. Objection Handling</title>
<description>In the industry of selling there are many different techniques and schemes to use to get the customer to buy the product that you are selling. Being successful is not just about closing the deal but, success is the establishment of a relationship with a c...</description>
<link>http://www.a1articles.com/article_53445_64.html</link>
<pubDate>15th May 2006</pubDate>
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