Shut Up and Listen!


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Shut Up and Listen! is a true leadership roadmap to the summit of career success and satisfaction, featuring concise principles for entrepreneurs and business leaders at any level. Tilman Fertitta, also known as the Billion Dollar Buyer, started his hospitality empire thirty years ago with just one restaurant. Over the years, he’s stayed true to the principles that helped him build the largest single-shareholder company in America, with over $4 billion in revenue, including hundreds of restaurants (Landry’s Seafood, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, Morton’s Steakhouse, Mastro’s, Rainforest Café, and over forty more restaurant concepts) and five Golden Nugget Casinos. He’s also sole owner of the NBA’s Houston Rockets. This book shares the key insights that made it all possible. In Shut Up and Listen!, Fertitta shares straight-talk “Tilmanisms” around six key action items that any entrepreneur can adopt today: Be the Bull No Spare Customers Change, Change, Change Know Your Numbers Follow the 95/5 Rule Take No Out of Your Vocabulary For aspiring entrepreneurs or people in business, this guide will help you take your company to the next level. When you put this book down, you’ll know what you’re doing right and what you’re doing wrong to operate your business, and if you’re just getting started, it will help set you up for success. A groundbreaking, no-holds-barred book, Shut Up and Listen! offers practical, hard-earned wisdom from one of the most successful business owners in the world.




I'd Listen to My Parents If They'd Just Shut Up


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A practicing clinical psychologist for children and adolescents, Anthony Wolf, author of the phenomenal bestseller Get Out Of My Life, But First Can You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall? (“I love this book!” —Parenting Magazine) returns with another wise, funny, and eminently practical guide to raising and understanding teenagers. I’d Listen to My Parents If They’d Just Shut Up offers frustrated moms and dads humorous, dialog-based advice and techniques for what to say and not to say when parenting teens today.




Time to Shut Up and Listen


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Shut Up and Sell More Weddings and Events


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It all starts with a sale Whether you love it or hate it, making sales drives your wedding and event business. You don't get to use your creative skills for cooking, music, flowers, decor, fashion, ceremonies, or whatever your business is, until you make the sale. If you've been selling for a long time, this book will be a good refresher. If you're new to selling, this book will give you the tools, and the confidence, to make more sales. I'll show you how to ask better questions, really listen to the answers, and help your customers buy. Using real examples and stories, of people just like you, I'll guide you to find you own, unique selling style. When your customers can see and understand why they should buy from you, and only you, they have to pay your price. You've taken an important first step towards making more sales. Thanks for choosing me as your guide. Alan Berg, CSP




Shut Up and Listen


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Tackles the nuts and bolts of communication at work in a no-nonsense way with startling honesty and practical tips. The authors' views are supported by comment from an impressive line up of experts whose communication strategies drive a range of successful organizations. For all those who struggle to make themselves heard in the business world




Shut Up! Stop Talking and Start Making Money


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Have you been led to believe that sales success is about learning killer closing techniques and being the master of selling anything to anyone? It isn't. If you want to drive mega long-term sales, get buckets of repeat business and referrals and be the top producer in your company, SHUT UP! Stop Talking and Start Making Money will fast track your success. You don't have to be the best presenter or stunning public speaker. Your customers don't care what car you drive and designer clothes you own. Decision makers want to deal with Salespeople have learned to SHUT UP and stop selling them something they don't want to buy. They want to engage with Salespeople who get it! In this book, you will learn The Five Success Skills of Professional Salespeople in B2B (Business to Business selling) and B2C (Business to Consumer selling): Ask Great Questions - Get great answers to find the true needs of your client. Actively Listen - SHUT UP and hear what your customer is telling you. Paraphrase - Capture the meaning of what was said and confirm the message. Summarize the Customer's Full Needs - The master paraphrase! Project a Positive Personality - Have fun and enjoy the process! Sales success is not rocket science. Stop closing your customers and start connecting with them! Too many Salespeople blow a sale by focusing on their commission, bonus and ego. They rush the sales process to prove to their Sales Manager that they are filling their sales funnel with the required activity level in cold calls, appointments and presentations. The quality of your client engagements will make the biggest difference in your ability to be the Salesperson that clients want to do business with repeatedly! Are you are tired of clients who say "maybe" to only find them running away from your efforts to get a final decision? Are too many customers asking you to send them an email versus booking an appointment with you? Do your clients use a cheap competitor to beat you up on price and put the boots to you? SHUT UP! Stop Talking and Start Making Money will teach you how to lose fast with the wrong customers and win with the right ones by engaging with decision makers that meet your ideal customer profile and close themselves. You will learn to get rid of customer objections by countering them before they even enter your client's mind. Read the reviews from actual Salespeople who have seen great sales results from this book and its Five Star Reviews. SHUT UP! Stop Talking and Start Making Money is a practical guide of proven, consultative sales techniques to generate sales through trust, needs analysis and the use of social media for inbound marketing. The greatest skill in Professional Sales is the ability to listen, not talk. If you truly believe that, allow this book to give you the tools to gain confidence and develop your natural abilities. SHUT UP! Stop Talking and Start Making Money is based on the 30 years of practical experience of the author - Dave Warawa. SHUT UP! Stop Talking and Start Making Money also has a complete Social Media Guide for Professional Salespeople. Start using Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and Blogging to drive inbound marketing. It's short, easy to read chapters are great for experienced sales veterans looking to reach out to new ways to grow business, as well as new Professional Salespeople looking to build a lifetime career in the industry. Stop trying to be successful in sales and start reaching the achievement levels of the top-producers today!




Shut Up and Listen!


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Praise and Reviews `Cary Cooper has taught me a lot about communication - this book is a bonus!`Shirley Conran`A though subject, tackled in a fascinating and entertaining way, offering an insight into some of the top managerial minds in business today`Emma Worthington, Series Editor, BBCIn a no-nonsense way Shut Up and Listen! tackles the nuts and bolts of communication at work with startling honesty and an avalanche of practical tips. The author's views are supported by comment from and impressive line-up of experts, whose communication strategies drive a range of successful organizations, such as Microsoft, the BBC, Nokia, Arsenal FC, Sainsbury's, HSBC and the Samaritans.Shut Up and Listen! has something for all those who face the difficult challenge of making themselves heard in a multi-delivery-channel business world - whether trying to negotiate a pay rise or struggling to put the WOW factor into a presentation.So if you're fed up of the fads and fashions of commercial life then take a trip back to basics.This isn't coalface, it's the coal!




Shut Up and Listen


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This is a guide to clinical communication skills needed by doctors, nurses, midwives, health visitors and vets, and students in these disciplines. It contains excellent practical advice on topics such as breaking bad news, dealing with aggressive and violent patients, discussing sensitive issues and helping patients with difficult decisions.




Shut Up and Listen!


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Shut Up and Listen is a book that will remind us to simply listen to the Word of God so that we may gain knowledge, wisdom, and have a clearer understanding so that we know exactly what God has for us to do according to His Holy Word.Shut Up and Listen is the 39th Career Book Publication of Christian Author & Minister Bobby John Richard, Jr. (BA, MS, CIT)"It is my hope that after the release of this work, that we don't just hear God's Word, but listen to it attentively, in other words: Shut Up and Listen!"-Bobby John Richard, Jr.




Shut up and Listen!


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What happened?! America used to be the most powerful and most respected nation in the world. America used to be the beacon of hope and the epitome of Democracy. America is now a mere caricature of what it used to be. Secular progressives and "anti-America" liberals have destroyed the moral fabric in which this country was founded upon. You need only to look at the moral decline and the incline of criminal activity to see that America needs a return to our Founding Father's original vision. Abortion runs rampant yet convicted criminals enjoy a life of free education and cable TV. We cut military spending resulting in terrorist attacks and then free those same terrorists from Guantanamo Bay. Americans have become apathetic. So long as we have American Idol, Big Macs and Wal-mart, we're content to let our "leaders" infringe upon our inalienable rights. It's time to take America back...