Geoffrey James
Award-Winning Sales Blogger, Author and Professional Speaker
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by Neil Rackham·You?
by Neil Rackham·You?
Written by Neil Rackham, former president and founder of Huthwaite corporation, SPIN Selling is essential reading for anyone involved in selling or managing a sales force. Unquestionably the best documented account of sales success ever collected and the result of the Huthwaite corporation's massive 12 year, $1 million dollar research into effective sales performance, this groundbreaking resource details the revolutionary SPIN (Situation, Problem, Implication, Need payoff) strategy. In SPIN Selling, Rackham, who has advised leading companies such as IBM and Honeywell delivers the first book to specifically examine selling high value product and services. By following the simple, practical, and easy to apply techniques of SPIN, readers will be able to dramatically increase their sales volume from major accounts. Rackham answers key questions such as “What makes success in major sales” and “Why do techniques like closing work in small sales but fail in larger ones?” You will learn why traditional sales methods which were developed for small consumer sales, just won't work for large sales and why conventional selling methods are doomed to fail in major sales. Packed with real world examples, illuminating graphics, and informative case studies and backed by hard research data SPIN Selling is the million dollar key to understanding and producing record breaking high end sales performance. Sales Behavior and Sales Success. Obtaining Commitment: Closing the Sale. Customer Needs in the Major Sale. The SPIN Strategy. Giving Benefits in Major Sales. Preventing Objections. Preliminaries: Opening the Call. Turning Theory into Practice.
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by Jeffrey Gitomer·You?
by Jeffrey Gitomer·You?
Winner of the 2009 Audie Award for Business/Educational Audiobook New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Gitomer shares his crucial sales principles featuring strategies and techniques on how to efficiently sell anything. With a lifetime of sales experience New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Gitomer shares his 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness so you can understand why sales happen—and how you can improve your skills. Packed with the information you’ve been looking for, The Little Red Book of Selling delivers strategies for success that will last a lifetime. Gitomer provides his long-term, relationship-driven, and referral-oriented advice that has nothing to do with manipulation or other old-world sales tactics and everything to do with understanding buying motives and taking ethical, relationship-building actions. With these tried and tested principles you will learn the ins and outs of the field and master the fundamentals of selling success.
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by Zig Ziglar·You?
by Zig Ziglar·You?
MAKE 'EM SAY YES All of us are involved in selling every day. Whenever we present a product or a principle, inform a client, or instruct a child, we are engaging in the art of effective persuasion. Allow America's master of the art of selling explain proven, practical sales techniques all of us can use every day. He provides vital strategies for specific closes, hundred of sales questions, and dozens of persuasion procedures to help everyone sell their ideas, or themselves. No matter what your age, gender, occupation, or lifestyle, these proven techniques from America's selling sensation can work for you.
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Recommended by Geoffrey James
by Tom Hopkins·You?
by Tom Hopkins·You?
After he learned the world's best sales techniques, Tom Hopkins applied his new skills and earned more than one million dollars in just three years. Now, in this fully updated and revised edition of the million copy seller, Hopkins shows how you can succeed in the profession of selling. Learn: How to create the perfect selling climateSpecific questions and tie-downsReferral and non referral prospectingHow to "sell" the most important people you knowEffective phone techniquesHow to finesse the first meetingHow to handle objections and what to do when you hear the word "no"How to test different closes and master sixteen powerful closesHow to plan for greatest selling impactAnd he shows you how his great selling techniques can be yours!
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by Linda Richardson·You?
by Linda Richardson·You?
The USA Today and New York Times Bestseller! Meet your sales objective and close more business in 20 minutes a day CONNECT with your customer immediately EXPLORE customer needs thoroughly and quickly LEVERAGE your solutions persuasively RESOLVE your customer’s questions and objections confidently ACT when the time is right "Your thinking 'What? Another book about selling?' Wrong! This book is about winning! These days, when those of us who sell need every molecule of competitive edge we can muster, Linda cleverly pulls it together for us. And she does it with a voice radiating experience, knowledge, and sincere empathy for the challenging job we all have." --Dave Stein, CEO & Founder, ES Research Group, Inc., and author of How Winners Sell "In five steps, Linda helps you master the process of the sales call to a tee, freeing your creativity to focus on your customer and deal with the unexpected that will always occur." --Larry Wilson, sales leadership guru and bestselling author "For years, Linda Richardson has been one of the top two or three sales training consultants in the world. This is invaluable material and a must-read for anybody who cares about success in selling." --Geoffrey James, journalist and author of the popular blog, "Sales Machine"
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by Robert Miller & Stephen Heiman·You?
by Robert Miller & Stephen Heiman·You?
This programme works no matter what you are selling, or who the customer is. It removes luck and replaces it with proven, visible, repeatable skills that are the mark of every sales professional who wants to succeed in our fast changing and competitive sales environment.
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by Brian Tracy·You?
Double and triple your sales—in any market.The purpose of this book is to give you a series of ideas, methods, strategies, and techniques that you can use immediately to make more sales, faster and easier than ever before. It’s a promise of prosperity that sales guru Brian Tracy has seen fulfilled again and again. More sales people have become millionaires as a result of listening to and applying his ideas than from any other sales training process ever developed.
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Praise for Mastering the Complex Sale"Jeff Thull's process plays a key role in helping companies and their customers cross the chasm with disruptive innovations and succeed with game-changing initiatives." ―Geoffrey A. Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm and Dealing with Darwin "This is the first book that lays out a solid method for selling cross-company, cross-border, even cross-culturally where you have multiple decision makers with multiple agendas. This is far more than a 'selling process'―it is a survival guide―a truly outstanding approach to bringing all the pieces of the puzzle together." ―Ed Daniels, EVP, Shell Global Solutions Downstream, President, CRI/Criterion, Inc. "Mastering the Complex Sale brilliantly sets up value from the customer's perspective. A must-read for all those who are managing multinational business teams in a complex and highly competitive environment." ―Samik Mukherjee, Vice President, Onshore Business, Technip "Customers need to know the value they will receive and how they will receive it. Thull's insights into the complex sale and how to clarify and quantify this value are remarkable―Mastering the Complex Sale will be required reading for years to come!" ―Lee Tschanz, Vice President, North American Sales, Rockwell Automation "Jeff Thull is winning the war against commoditization. In his world, value trumps price and commoditization isn't a given, it's a choice. This is a proven alternative to the price-driven sale. We've spoken to his clients. This stuff really works, folks." ―Dave Stein, CEO and Founder, ES Research Group, Inc. "Our business depends on delivering breakthrough thinking to our executive clients. Jeff Thull has significantly redefined sales and marketing strategies that clearly connect to our global audience. Read it, act on it, and take your results to exceptional levels." ―Sven Kroneberg, President, Seminarium Internacional "Jeff's main thesis―that professional customer guidance is the key to success―rings true in every global market today. Mastering the Complex Sale is the essential read for any organization looking to transform their business for long-term, value-driven growth." ―Jon T. Lindekugel, President, 3M Health Information Systems, Inc. "Jeff Thull has re-engineered the conventional sales process to create predictable and profitable growth in today's competitive marketplace. It's no longer about selling; it's about guiding quality decisions and creating collaborative value. This is one of those rare books that will make a difference." ―Carol Pudnos, Executive director, Healthcare Industry, Dow Corning Corporation
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by Jill Konrath·You?
by Jill Konrath·You?
Struggling to Get Your Foot in the Door of Big Companies? Setting up meetings with corporate decision makers has never been harder. It's almost impossible to get them to pick up the phone. They never return your calls. And if you do happen to catch them, they blow you off right away. It's time to stop making endless cold calls or waiting for the phone to ring. In today's crazy marketplace, new sales strategies are needed to penetrate these big accounts. With Selling to Big Companies, discover how to: Target accounts where you have the highest likelihood of success.Find the names of prospects who can use your offering.Create breakthough value propositions that capture their attention.Develop an effective, multi-faceted account-entry campaign.Overcome obstacles and objections that derail your sale efforts.Position yourself as an invaluable resource, not a product pusher.Have powerful initial sales meetings that build unstoppable momentum.Differentiate yourself from other sellers.Use these sure-fire strategies to crack into big accounts, shrink your sales cycle and close more business. Check out the Account Entry Toolkit for ideas on how to apply this process to your own unique business.