Skip to Main Content
Books
Closing a Sale : Ten tips to turn prospects into customers by 50Minutes.com
Ready to take your business to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about effective sales techniques with this practical guide. It is tempting to think that sales skills are something that you either have or do not have, and it is certainly true that selling does not come naturally to everyone. In reality, by following a small number of golden rules, anyone can win over even the most challenging customers. This concise and straightforward guide will give you the tools you need to hone your powers of persuasion, showcase your product’s strengths, build positive customer relationships and secure repeat business. In 50 minutes you will be able to: • Adapt your sales pitch based on your customer’s needs and motivations • Communicate effectively with customers to avoid misunderstandings and persuade them to make a purchase • Establish a relationship based on trust with your customers and keep them coming back ABOUT 50MINUTES.COM | COACHING The Coaching series from the 50Minutes collection is aimed at all those who, at any stage in their careers, are looking to acquire personal or professional skills, adapt to new situations or simply re-evaluate their work-life balance. The concise and effective style of our guides enables you to gain an in-depth understanding of a broad range of concepts, combining theory, constructive examples and practical exercises to enhance your learning.
ISBN: 9782808005005
Publication Date: 2018
Financial Services Sales Handbook by Clifton Warren
Acquiring, retaining, and developing clients are the major steps for any successful business; failure to accomplish these steps is the major reason many professionals and firms fail to achieve their full potential.The financial services industry is currently facing its biggest challenge: increased competition; smarter buyers who want to deal with professionals instead of sales people; and the emergence of social media, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google. The Financial Sales Handbook: A Guide to Become a Top Producer is for experienced professionals as well as for those who want to make the transition from managing work to more effective selling. The book is also for professionals who want to sharpen their skills. It is intended as the nucleus for corporate training programs as well as for self-employed professionals who must market and sell to stay in business.
ISBN: 9781631574931
Publication Date: 2016
Key Account Management : Strategies to Leverage Information,Technology, and Relationships to Deliver Value to Large Customers by Joël Le Bon; Carl Hermann
Now more than ever, companies are faced with a critical and challenging truth. Today’s customer is demanding more attention, superior service, and the expertise of a dedicated sales team. Suppliers must make dif cult choices to determine how to allocate limited resources, including which customers receive the highest level of service. Increasingly, supply side organizations are working to design and implement key account programs to meet or exceed these expectations. Key account management is a specific business strategy that involves complex sales processes, large-scale negotiations, and the alignment of multiple internal and external stakeholders. This multi-pronged process is anything but straightforward, and the business world is filled with examples of key account programs that have not achieved the expected results. This book addresses the strategic challenges facing top executives and sales leaders as they build strategies to better manage their key accounts. By leveraging up-to-date research, testimonials drawn from interviews with experienced practitioners, best practices of successful companies, along with straightforward practical guide- lines for executives and sales leaders, this book can serve as an instruction manual and toolbox for organizations working to achieve success through their key account strategies to meet the demand of their key customers.
ISBN: 9781631571749
Publication Date: 2015
Sales Engagement : How the World's Fastest Growing Companies Are Modernizing Sales Through Humanization at Scale by Manny Medina; Max Altschuler; Mark Kosoglow
Engage in sales--the modern way Sales Engagement is how you engage and interact with your potential buyer to create connection, grab attention, and generate enough interest to create a buying opportunity. Sales Engagement details the modern way to build the top of the funnel and generate qualified leads for B2B companies. This book explores why a Sales Engagement strategy is so important, and walks you through the modern sales process to ensure you're effectively connecting with customers every step of the way. * Find common factors holding your sales back--and reverse them through channel optimization * Humanize sales with personas and relevant information at every turn * Understand why A/B testing is so incredibly critical to success, and how to do it right * Take your sales process to the next level with a rock solid, modern Sales Engagement strategy This book is essential reading for anyone interested in up-leveling their game and doing more than they ever thought possible.
ISBN: 9781119584346
Publication Date: 2019
Sales Ethics : How To Sell Effectively While Doing the Right Thing by Alberto Aleo; Alice Alessandri
Do ethics pay? In an attempt to answer this question, the authors analyze the economic theories that might rehabilitate ethics in the world of sales and turn them into an effective tool for conducting negotiations. This book proposes a “bottom-up” approach that starts from an analysis of sales activities to build a business style that, if adopted by an entire organization, can make the difference thus enhancing the company’s success. Italian culture provides a backdrop to the book; the authors reinterpret the particular nature of the country’s economic and social fabric and integrate this into an approach to business that can create authentic relationships, shared prosperity and quality of life across other cultures. Sale Ethics stimulates the development of a self-entrepreneurial mind-set that is useful in any field, and provides a simple and effective method of capitalizing on your own talents while respecting others and at the same time garnering the rewards of ethical behavior.
ISBN: 9781606499269
Publication Date: 2015
Selling: the New Norm by Drew Stevens
Why read another book on selling? Simple. Today's client is more informed; more sophisticated, and has more access to information. Selling professionals today need to be keener to fulfill the needs of the client by offering value, and most important, trust. In the increasing age and rage of globalization and the Internet, competition rises. Selling professionals today need to determine better ways to reach the economic decision maker and better articulate their value. Selling: The New Norm is such a book. This book will provide the tools and templates required to meet today's sales challenges.
ISBN: 9781606499801
Publication Date: 2016
Streaming Video
How to Master the Art of Selling
The best thing about dealing with a good sales person is you don't feel like you're being sold to. This program is designed to equip staff with the skills and techniques they need to approach sales opportunities with confidence. It looks at a variety of scenarios which sales staff can relate to, such as the department store, the DIY store, the bank, the shoe shop, and many more. Using humorous right and wrong-way scenarios, this video illustrates the four key stages of selling in retail and financial situations.
High-end Hopes: Selling Luxury
So what keeps the luxury business afloat in a recession? Experts point to two types of buyers: the super rich who can still afford the finer things, and aspirational buyers, the middle-income earners who save for a taste of the good life. Dive into the story of a Romanian immigrant Cornel Ceapa who hopes to net a good number of these buyers and build an empire selling Canadian caviar.
Long Live Walmart: A Debate
As the largest retail company and private employer in the United States, Walmart has long been a target for critics of corporate expansion. The big-box company, they argue, has pushed locally owned stores out of business and mistreated its employees. Defenders, however, argue that Walmart has provided millions of consumers with low-cost goods and given decent jobs to countless low-skilled workers. Has Walmart been good for America?
Secrets of Professional Selling: Eight Steps to Success
When it comes to professional selling, Bob Kimball literally wrote the book. Throughout this dynamic 8-part sales training series, Dr. Kimball, author of the American Marketing Association’s popular AMA Handbook for Successful Selling and professor of marketing at the University of West Florida, uses his comprehensive, step-by-step training approach to reveal how anyone who is interested in sales or marketing can sell more—and more effectively.
Each skills-oriented program presents secrets of selling in no uncertain terms while spelling out their application through concrete examples, demonstrations, illustrations, and critiques. This engaging, no-nonsense series is ideal for both classroom and business use. 8-part series, 21-30 minutes each.
Selling Products Online: The StartUp Experience
Jim Reeder is a cofounder of Consider It Sold. He left his job as an engineer and built this company from scratch using eBay and other channels, becoming one of the top 200 distributors on eBay—out of 200 million total distributors! Jim also learned how to brand lines of products and market them in cost-effective ways. In this program, Jim discusses where to find the valuable products that your customers want; how to negotiate the best price on the products you carry; how to beat your competition; how to optimize loss leaders; strategic ways to brand and promote your products on a tight budget; how to optimize various Internet distribution channels; and more. (77 minutes)
Starting Relationship Selling: Cutting Edge Communication Comedy Series
In this video, Cutting Edge team members explore relationship selling. Carol is skeptical when Marcus asks her to train Tammy, Carlos, Dion and Casey. The trainees learn through role-plays to build their skills; Carol doesn't hesitate to give them harsh feedback. They learn to show interest, ask questions, be responsive to client needs, and not over push product. Casey realizes relationship selling is all about HEART: Help, Expectations, Ask, Remember and Timing. Sam reluctantly agrees that this is an excellent approach for the company.
Thirst for Profits: Selling Alcohol
On this edition of "Fortune Hunters," we learn about entrepreneurs in the alcoholic beverage industry. John Vellinga is striving to get his vodka, Slava, mainstream and eventually attract a buyer. The booze industry is better poised than most sectors of the economy to weather a recession.
Closing a Sale : Ten tips to turn prospects into customers by
Ready to take your business to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about effective sales techniques with this practical guide. It is tempting to think that sales skills are something that you either have or do not have, and it is certainly true that selling does not come naturally to everyone. In reality, by following a small number of golden rules, anyone can win over even the most challenging customers. This concise and straightforward guide will give you the tools you need to hone your powers of persuasion, showcase your product’s strengths, build positive customer relationships and secure repeat business. In 50 minutes you will be able to: • Adapt your sales pitch based on your customer’s needs and motivations • Communicate effectively with customers to avoid misunderstandings and persuade them to make a purchase • Establish a relationship based on trust with your customers and keep them coming back ABOUT 50MINUTES.COM | COACHING The Coaching series from the 50Minutes collection is aimed at all those who, at any stage in their careers, are looking to acquire personal or professional skills, adapt to new situations or simply re-evaluate their work-life balance. The concise and effective style of our guides enables you to gain an in-depth understanding of a broad range of concepts, combining theory, constructive examples and practical exercises to enhance your learning.
Entrepreneurial Selling : The Facts Every Entrepreneur Must Know by
A must read for every aspiring entrepreneur. A clear guide to effective and realistic selling for those with a “big idea” who wish to achieve success for their products and to avoid costly and ineffective pitfalls in their quest. The framework balances entrepreneurs’ creativity with a foundation of solid business principles.” --Jim McCann, Founder, 1-800-FLOWERS
Financial Services Sales Handbook by
Acquiring, retaining, and developing clients are the major steps for any successful business; failure to accomplish these steps is the major reason many professionals and firms fail to achieve their full potential.The financial services industry is currently facing its biggest challenge: increased competition; smarter buyers who want to deal with professionals instead of sales people; and the emergence of social media, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google. The Financial Sales Handbook: A Guide to Become a Top Producer is for experienced professionals as well as for those who want to make the transition from managing work to more effective selling. The book is also for professionals who want to sharpen their skills. It is intended as the nucleus for corporate training programs as well as for self-employed professionals who must market and sell to stay in business.
Key Account Management : Strategies to Leverage Information,Technology, and Relationships to Deliver Value to Large Customers by
Now more than ever, companies are faced with a critical and challenging truth. Today’s customer is demanding more attention, superior service, and the expertise of a dedicated sales team. Suppliers must make dif cult choices to determine how to allocate limited resources, including which customers receive the highest level of service. Increasingly, supply side organizations are working to design and implement key account programs to meet or exceed these expectations. Key account management is a specific business strategy that involves complex sales processes, large-scale negotiations, and the alignment of multiple internal and external stakeholders. This multi-pronged process is anything but straightforward, and the business world is filled with examples of key account programs that have not achieved the expected results. This book addresses the strategic challenges facing top executives and sales leaders as they build strategies to better manage their key accounts. By leveraging up-to-date research, testimonials drawn from interviews with experienced practitioners, best practices of successful companies, along with straightforward practical guide- lines for executives and sales leaders, this book can serve as an instruction manual and toolbox for organizations working to achieve success through their key account strategies to meet the demand of their key customers.
Sales Engagement : How the World's Fastest Growing Companies Are Modernizing Sales Through Humanization at Scale by
Engage in sales--the modern way Sales Engagement is how you engage and interact with your potential buyer to create connection, grab attention, and generate enough interest to create a buying opportunity. Sales Engagement details the modern way to build the top of the funnel and generate qualified leads for B2B companies. This book explores why a Sales Engagement strategy is so important, and walks you through the modern sales process to ensure you're effectively connecting with customers every step of the way. * Find common factors holding your sales back--and reverse them through channel optimization * Humanize sales with personas and relevant information at every turn * Understand why A/B testing is so incredibly critical to success, and how to do it right * Take your sales process to the next level with a rock solid, modern Sales Engagement strategy This book is essential reading for anyone interested in up-leveling their game and doing more than they ever thought possible.
Sales Ethics : How To Sell Effectively While Doing the Right Thing by
Do ethics pay? In an attempt to answer this question, the authors analyze the economic theories that might rehabilitate ethics in the world of sales and turn them into an effective tool for conducting negotiations. This book proposes a “bottom-up” approach that starts from an analysis of sales activities to build a business style that, if adopted by an entire organization, can make the difference thus enhancing the company’s success. Italian culture provides a backdrop to the book; the authors reinterpret the particular nature of the country’s economic and social fabric and integrate this into an approach to business that can create authentic relationships, shared prosperity and quality of life across other cultures. Sale Ethics stimulates the development of a self-entrepreneurial mind-set that is useful in any field, and provides a simple and effective method of capitalizing on your own talents while respecting others and at the same time garnering the rewards of ethical behavior.
Selling: the New Norm by
Why read another book on selling? Simple. Today's client is more informed; more sophisticated, and has more access to information. Selling professionals today need to be keener to fulfill the needs of the client by offering value, and most important, trust. In the increasing age and rage of globalization and the Internet, competition rises. Selling professionals today need to determine better ways to reach the economic decision maker and better articulate their value. Selling: The New Norm is such a book. This book will provide the tools and templates required to meet today's sales challenges.