Zero-Time Selling


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In today’s fast-paced information-driven economy, customers want to make informed buying decision about new products in the least time possible. Your customers will acquire approximately 70% of the information they need to make an informed buying decision about your product or service from the Internet before they ever contact your company. Thus, when the customer finally contacts you, it means that their need for information is time-sensitive and urgent. The sales team that is the first to respond with the complete answers to the customer’s questions dramatically improves their chances to win the order. Zero-Time Selling shows you, the CEO, business owner, sales manager and sales professional, in 10 simple steps, how to always be first.




Selling the True Time


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This first comprehensive, scholarly history of timekeeping in America studies the transition from local to national timekeeping, a process that led to Standard Time—the worldwide system of timekeeping by which we all live. The book describes the contributions of the railroad industry, university astronomers, clockmakers, and civil and electrical engineers.




It's Time to Sell


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We all have a vision for our lives: for our career, our families, our health, and our happiness. Wouldn't it be great if we could articulate that vision and discover the right mind-set to enable that vision to come to life? It's Time to Sell helps people in the sales profession, future salespeople, and entrepreneurs to achieve exactly that. It's Time to Sell is a narrative based on Chris's experiences as both student and mentor in the world of sales. He chose to present his vision in this narrative form to best inspire, educate, and motivate others. Some people will want to know exactly which character Chris most resembles. The truth is that Chris is all of them--and so are you. Who you identify with may change upon subsequent readings or based on your current situation. Chris's hope is that you will benefit from all of the content and remember your own history that has gotten you to this point even as you are inspired to take your journey ever further. Chris Spurvey is an entrepreneur and sales expert. After consciously choosing the sales profession as a means to create a better life for his family, he realized that negative images of sales were holding him back. By shifting his mind-set, Chris was able to transform his "inner game" and use his innate values and talents to become a top sales professional. Chris inspires entrepreneurs and sales professionals to deal with the paradigms that hold them back. Now let him inspire you







Analyzing Retail Selling Time


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5-Minute Selling


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WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Add 50% to 100% to Your SalesIn 5 Minutes Per Day 5-Minute Selling presents a proven, simple process that can double your sales, even if you dont have time for an elaborate new sales system. When you spend your days scrambling to take orders and resolving customer issues, there is little time for new sales techniques. This book is for you. In 5-Minute Selling, Alex Goldfayn describes how thousands of his clients and workshop attendees have generated dramatic annual sales growth with short bursts of action throughout the day. With three-second efforts throughout the day, you can add 50 to 100% to your sales. The techniques in this book are simple but powerful: Youll learn the power of picking up the phone proactively to call customers and prospects when nothing is wrong, because almost nobody does this Youll get approaches for offering customers additional products and servicesand asking about what else they are buying elsewherebecause almost nobody does this either Youll also learn about the low-tech but incredibly effective singular impact of the hand-written note In short, 5-Minute Selling is about showing customers and prospects that we care about them more than our competition does with simple, repeated, lightning-fast, high-value, consistent communications. Dont Read This Book, DO THIS BOOK: 5-Minute Selling lays out a Two-Week Challenge for you implement in your sales work. Follow the detailed process for five minutes per day, for 10 working days (less than one total hour of time), and, like thousands before you, you will begin to see dramatic improvements in your sales growth.




SPIN® -Selling


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True or false? In selling high-value products or services: 'closing' increases your chance of success; it is essential to describe the benefits of your product or service to the customer; objection handling is an important skill; open questions are more effective than closed questions. All false, says this provocative book. Neil Rackham and his team studied more than 35,000 sales calls made by 10,000 sales people in 23 countries over 12 years. Their findings revealed that many of the methods developed for selling low-value goods just don‘t work for major sales. Rackham went on to introduce his SPIN-Selling method. SPIN describes the whole selling process: Situation questions Problem questions Implication questions Need-payoff questions SPIN-Selling provides you with a set of simple and practical techniques which have been tried in many of today‘s leading companies with dramatic improvements to their sales performance.




How to Sell Anything to Anybody


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Joe Girard was an example of a young man with perseverance and determination. Joe began his working career as a shoeshine boy. He moved on to be a newsboy for the Detroit Free Press at nine years old, then a dishwasher, a delivery boy, stove assembler, and home building contractor. He was thrown out of high school, fired from more than forty jobs, and lasted only ninety-seven days in the U.S. Army. Some said that Joe was doomed for failure. He proved them wrong. When Joe started his job as a salesman with a Chevrolet agency in Eastpointe, Michigan, he finally found his niche. Before leaving Chevrolet, Joe sold enough cars to put him in the Guinness Book of World Records as 'the world's greatest salesman' for twelve consecutive years. Here, he shares his winning techniques in this step-by-step book, including how to: o Read a customer like a book and keep that customer for life o Convince people reluctant to buy by selling them the right way o Develop priceless information from a two-minute phone call o Make word-of-mouth your most successful tool Informative, entertaining, and inspiring, HOW TO SELL ANYTHING TO ANYBODY is a timeless classic and an indispensable tool for anyone new to the sales market.




Competitive Selling: Out-Plan, Out-Think, and Out-Sell to Win Every Time


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Become a Dominant Predator in today’s dog-eat-dog sales environment There’s a hard fact that we all have to face: Buyers have evolved. They’ve become shopaholics. They almost never consider a single vendor when making a buying decision. Instead, they call you—and your competitors—and choose from multiple options. They know that pitting you against your competition always works to their benefit. In today’s sales environment, only the strongest and smartest live to sell another day. Master sales strategist Landy Chase calls these top performers dominant predators—salespeople who consistently win business, at higher prices, by crushing the competition at every turn. He knows exactly how they do it because he’s the one who teaches them how to do it. Now, it’s your turn. In Competitive Selling, Chase reveals the master strategy of the dominant predator, offering a proven, step-by-step process for entering the fray as a prepared and confident warrior. You’ll learn how to: Identify your competition before meeting with the buyer Open competitive selling opportunities Out-flank your competitors using the Client Needs Analysis Eliminate competitors without badmouthing them Stand out to the decision makers Win sales even as the higher-priced option It’s a jungle out there. The goal in today’s winner-take-all world of selling is to make every selling opportunity an unfair fight—in your favor. You have to adapt to your surroundings and take control of your environment. Be assured, your competitors are out there trying to do the same thing. Competitive Selling provides the techniques and skills for seizing the advantage before they even see you coming.




Make a Fortune Selling to Women


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Want to Close The Deal? Want to Make The Sale? Want to Retain More Customers? Are you selling to the dominant economic force in the country?

There are 190 million of them in the U.S. alone. They have $4.4 trillion in collective buying power. They purchase 85% of all products and services, and they influence most of the rest of the purchases. They are responsible for 85% of the checks written. Forty-seven percent of them are stockholders. Who are they? Women.

In Make a Fortune Selling to Women, Connie Podesta combines psychology and sales tactics to create a how-to guide for how to sell to women and how to market to women.

With a lively voice and no-nonsense tone that both men and women will appreciate, Podesta offers specific tips for overcoming the big five Deal Breakers:

  1. She doesn't want to play the game
  2. She doesn't think the salesperson views her as a legitimate decision maker
  3. She doesn't like the salesperson
  4. She doesn't trust the salesperson
  5. She doesn't think the salesperson is the right person for the job

Riddled with revealing anecdotes, Make a Fortune Selling to Women describes the male and female approach to the buying experience--without being condescending to either gender. And both salesmen and saleswomen will rely on this book to help them secure more sales with women. Discover exactly the right approach when selling to women and use it to close the deal.