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    <title>Questions as buying signals-- what to attune to</title>
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    <description>Questions asked may show readiness to buy</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:35:37 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Presentation skills and demonstration skills training Part 2</title>
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    <description>Presentation skills, demonstration skills, Part 2</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:17:45 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Finding sales prospects who can say yes</title>
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    <description>Finding sales prospects:  finding your way to the person who can say yes</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:01:18 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Buying signals gatekeeper -- cues that the &quot;gate&quot; has opened for you</title>
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    <description>Buying signals gatekeeper: cues to be alert for </description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:05:01 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sales techniques: three basic types of questions, and where each fits best</title>
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    <description>Sales techniques ---when and how to use the three basic forms of questions</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:53:56 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Overcoming core objections</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:34:42 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sitemap page 2 </title>
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    <description>Sitemap second page of How-to-Sell-Your-Better-Mousetrap</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:26:51 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>This sitemap gives you an overview of all of the free sales training articles, sales tutorials, and other free how-to within the site</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:25:39 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Selling techniques: How to ensure that the Prospect isn&#39;t wasting your time</title>
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    <description>Selling techniques -- how to protect your selling time when offering proof sources like proposals, presentations, and the like</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:54:52 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Closing the sale, or closing for other buying action</title>
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    <description>Closing the sale. How to close for the prospect to take buying action now --- overview</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:09:28 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sales Demonstrations and Presentations: How to order the E-book</title>
    <link>http://www.how-to-sell-your-better-mousetrap.com/SalesDemonstrationsORDER_Oct16.html</link>
    <description>Sales Demonstrations and Sales Presentations&amp;#8211; How to Plan, Conduct, and Close Successfully</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:43:54 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Handling objections, questions and hesitations -- overview</title>
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    <description>handling objections and questions --- overview </description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:31:38 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Free sales training articles for sales professionals,
small-businesses, start-ups, and career-changers</title>
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    <description>Free sales training articles. Also e-books with practical sales how-to for sales staff and sales managers, small business, sales teams, consultants, independent contractors, free-agents, and career-changers</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:42:51 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Contact us bug fixed</title>
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    <description>If you&#39;ve tried to contact us via the Contact Us link on the Navbar --- well, sorry, we apologize.  You haven&#39;t heard back from us because your messages have been swallowed up by that giant bug lurking within the internet.

All is fixed now, so NOW we can hear from you, and you will hear back from us.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:02:25 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sales Demonstrations and Presentations:  How to order the E-book </title>
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    <description>Sales Demonstrations and Sales Presentations How to Plan, Conduct, and Close Successfully</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:28:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sales Training Tutorials: How to order the E-book</title>
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    <description>SALES TRAINING TUTORIALS -- A PRACTICAL GUIDEBOOK, PART OF THE BOOK SERIES SELLING SKILLS STEP BY STEP</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:26:21 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Free Sales Training for Small Business &amp; Start-Ups</title>
    <link>http://www.how-to-sell-your-better-mousetrap.com/free_sales_training.html</link>
    <description>Free sales training; also e-books with practical sales how-to for sales staff and managers, small business, sales teams, consultants, independent contractors, free agents, and career-changers.</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:34:22 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Free Sales Training for Small Business &amp;amp; Start-Ups</title>
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    <description>Free Sales Training Especially for small business, sales teams, consultants, Independent Contractors</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:47:01 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Free Sales Training for Small Business &amp;amp; Start-Ups</title>
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    <description>Free Sales Training Especially for small business, sales teams, consultants, Independent Contractors</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:38:16 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>SALES DEMONSTRATIONS AND SALES PRESENTATIONS-HOW TO
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    <description>Practical guidebook to SALES DEMONSTRATIONS AND SALES PRESENTATIONS: HOW TO PLAN, CONDUCT, AND CLOSE THEM--- SUCCESSFULLY! From the book series: Selling Skills Step by Step</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:32:53 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Free Sales Training Especially for Consultants, Independent Contractors, &amp;amp; Small Businesses</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:44:19 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Overcoming core objections</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:42:41 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>phone sales skills: convincing the Prospect to meet with you</title>
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    <description>Phone sales skills -- You&#39;ve made it past the screen and now have the prospect on the line. How to persuade that prospect to grant a face-to-face meeting. What to say, what to avoid.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:22:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:55:37 GMT</pubDate>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:19:15 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Cold call script to adapt</title>
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    <description>Cold call script that you can adapt  to your situation</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:32:02 GMT</pubDate>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:55:46 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Objections to price: What if the prospect insists on focusing narrowly on cost</title>
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    <description>Objections to price:  if the prospect narrows only on price, ignoring the value received</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:44:16 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sitemap page 2</title>
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    <description>Sitemap second page of How-to-Sell-Your-Better-Mousetrap</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:47:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Active listening --- a key selling skill</title>
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    <description>Active listening --- what it is, and how to use it in the sales situation</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:00:29 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Selling 101 : How to order</title>
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    <description>Selling 101 --how to order the book</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:28:21 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sales success strategies: making a strong start to the sales call </title>
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    <description>Sales success strategies: core reasons people and organizations buy, and how that shapes your strategy  as you prepare. Also, key tasks prior to the call, and what to look for in the outer office.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:02:19 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sales tips checklist: how to move the discussion from price to value </title>
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    <description>Sales tips checklist: highlighting value of what prospect receives over cost paid</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:37:07 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Decision influencers: who they are and how to work with them</title>
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    <description>decision influencers:  who they are and how to work with them</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:18:18 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Persuasion techniques:  other ways to use questions in the sales call</title>
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    <description>Persuasion techniques:  questions are a valuable selling tool in multiple ways</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:29:28 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sales tip: using silence</title>
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    <description>Sales tip: how to use the power of silence to build comfort and elicit info</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:25:21 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Consultative sales skills: Set the context before asking sensitive questions</title>
    <link>http://www.how-to-sell-your-better-mousetrap.com/consultative_sales_skills.html</link>
    <description>Consultative sales skills: Exploring ways of developing the prospect&#39;s comfort level when you ask questions</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:22:37 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>sales training techniques handling easy objections </title>
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    <description>Sales training techniques:  handling easy objections </description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:42:24 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Professional selling skills restating objections</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:16:39 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Handling common objections</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:11:17 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Phone sales skills: convincing the prospect to meet with you</title>
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    <description>Phone sales skills -- You&#39;ve made it past the screen and now have the prospect on the line.  How to persuade that prospect to grant a face-to-face meeting.  What to say, what to avoid.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:42:46 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Buying signals to be alert for</title>
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    <description>Buying signals that tell you when the time is ripe</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:43:31 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Telephone etiquette gatekeeper or screen </title>
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    <description>Telephone etiquette gatekeeper or secretarial screen --- what to say, what to avoid, how  to excite interest</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:59:34 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Telephone selling skills:  tips for getting past the gatekeeper or screen</title>
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    <description>Telephone selling skills: ways of  getting past the prospect&#39;s gatekeeper</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:39:45 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Prospecting for sales leads via cold calls</title>
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    <description>How to use cold calls as prospecting and lead generating methods</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:49:02 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Cold call selling checklist</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:48:46 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Generate sales from cold calls</title>
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    <description>How you can create sales from cold calls </description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:13:17 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Cold call sales -- best uses</title>
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    <description>Cold call sales : best uses.  What cold calling involves.  Why cold calling is usually not the best use of time, but the two main cases when it  it is appropriate.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:47:07 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sales staff training early objections</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:26:53 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sales closing tip: why it  pays to complete the order blank BEFORE a sales call</title>
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    <description>Sales closing tip: Why it&#39;s smart to complete the order blank before meeting with the prospect</description>
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