The Street Smart Sales Pro


Book Description

Evaluate the top producers in any sales force, and what will you find? You’ll find salespeople who know how to sell in the real world—people who are positive, aggressive, motivated, and savvy; people who are confident and think quickly on their feet; people who know how to get things done; people who are just plain street smart. Were these people born this way? Absolutely not! They learned their skills from doing, asking, and observing. And now, thanks to The Street Smart Sales Pro, these valuable lessons are available to those looking to supercharge their ability to sell. While most books on this subject examine the act of selling from an abstract boilerplate perspective, The Street Smart Sales Pro offers a realistic “street smart” point of view, focusing on real people in real situations. It covers every aspect of selling, from highlighting the essential qualities that make up the truly triumphant salesperson, to providing hundreds of practical tips, insights, and tactics needed to make that initial contact and successfully close the deal. Motivational stories of actual salesmen and saleswomen who went for the gold and achieved it provide further inspiration throughout this book. Although designed for men and women who sell products and services, this book can also benefit those who have to sell themselves in other situations. No matter how difficult the challenge ahead or how many doors have been closed to you in the past, knowing how to be a true street smart salesperson will allow you to see the world differently—a world that is filled with opportunities. All you need is someone to show you how, and you will not find a better teacher than The Street Smart Sales Pro.




The Street-Smart Salesman


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GROWING UP IN POVERTY, every day is a battle with fear, stress, and anxiety. Mistakes, misreads, misplays, miscalculations: all can end in missed opportunities that may never come again. The struggles of the poor demand courage, stamina, constant re-ordering of priorities, and the need for winning strategies. Salespeople from entry-level cold callers to wily veterans suffer much the same anxieties but lack the street-smart skills that a deeply deprived childhood demands: adapt or die,while still having fun! Author Anthony Belli is a millionaire high-performance salesman and sales force manager who grew up dirt poor in East Harlem, New York. Often hungry and without a cent in his pocket, as a child, Belli became expert in the highly creative art of person-to-person negotiation using a variety of risk- managed, cash-producing techniques to underwrite his next slice of pizza, tactics he describes as "eating without stealing." The Street-Smart Salesman imparts Belli's hard-earned wisdom and advice to the lasting benefit of a salesperson's bottom line and ability to sleep at night. Populated with real-life characters from Belli's old neighborhood deadbeat landlord, hooker with a heart, mobbed-up candy store owner, countless junkies, winos, and wiseguys this unflinching memoir teaches how the survival skills of the honest poor can be used to maximize success in sales. Belli's wholly unconventional, ghetto-tested strategies include: Minimize cold-calling: Using customers' networks to supply your pipeline Recognition that sales are driven by emotions not logic, and not price Playing dumb: When to talk and when to shut up Why hope is your enemy and reality your friend Ways to play a last-minute balky customer Prioritizing for profit And more! Belli's hard-earned insights defy conventional sales training wisdom by valuing humility, creativity, attention, and improvisation over the vaunted one-two punch of ceaseless script recitation accompanied by free samples. Take his advice to heart, and watch your anxiety recede as your fortunes grow.




The Street-Smart Salesman


Book Description

GROWING UP IN POVERTY, every day is a battle with fear, stress, and anxiety. Mistakes, misreads, misplays, miscalculations: all can end in missed opportunities that may never come again. The struggles of the poor demand courage, stamina, constant re-ordering of priorities, and the need for winning strategies. Salespeople from entry-level cold callers to wily veterans suffer much the same anxieties but lack the street-smart skills that a deeply deprived childhood demands: adapt or die,while still having fun! Author Anthony Belli is a millionaire high-performance salesman and sales force manager who grew up dirt poor in East Harlem, New York. Often hungry and without a cent in his pocket, as a child, Belli became expert in the highly creative art of person-to-person negotiation using a variety of risk- managed, cash-producing techniques to underwrite his next slice of pizza, tactics he describes as "eating without stealing." The Street-Smart Salesman imparts Belli's hard-earned wisdom and advice to the lasting benefit of a salesperson's bottom line and ability to sleep at night. Populated with real-life characters from Belli's old neighborhood deadbeat landlord, hooker with a heart, mobbed-up candy store owner, countless junkies, winos, and wiseguys this unflinching memoir teaches how the survival skills of the honest poor can be used to maximize success in sales. Belli's wholly unconventional, ghetto-tested strategies include: Minimize cold-calling: Using customers' networks to supply your pipeline Recognition that sales are driven by emotions not logic, and not price Playing dumb: When to talk and when to shut up Why hope is your enemy and reality your friend Ways to play a last-minute balky customer Prioritizing for profit And more! Belli's hard-earned insights defy conventional sales training wisdom by valuing humility, creativity, attention, and improvisation over the vaunted one-two punch of ceaseless script recitation accompanied by free samples. Take his advice to heart, and watch your anxiety recede as your fortunes grow.




StreetSmart Marketing


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A ``how-to'' guide to low-cost, effective marketing for small businesses and franchises. Shows you how to out-think the competition without out-spending them. Includes case histories of successful low-cost publicity campaigns that make for lively reading. Includes a wealth of tips on how to get press coverage without paying for it, increase sales through ``grass-roots'' marketing, get publicity exposure by promoting charities, manage inexpensive promotions with the help of local organizations, and negotiate the best possible local radio, television, newspaper, or outdoor advertising deal.




The Street-Smart Side of Business


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Have you ever thought about what it would be like to own your own business? Maybe you’ve given thought to how you can turn your passion into a career or maybe you just want to do something different. Most people have at least teetered with the idea–if you have, this is the book for you! Wouldn’t it be amazing to be able to have your income generated by something that you really enjoy or are interested in? It doesn’t matter our age or where we are in our lives. We have the power to redirect, set new goals, and achieve them. We just have to be smart about it. This book provides realistic insight as to what running a business is really about. It will help prepare you for all aspects of business and teach you how to protect yourself and your investment. The simplicity of using our intuition is often overlooked. The point is to understand exactly what you’re getting into and not be blinded by the appearance of a good opportunity. This book will open your eyes and show you how to evaluate opportunities, people, and motives–skills often overlooked but are critical aspects of owning and operating a successful business. Prepare to get in tune with your “street smarts” in order to be successful in business and in life.




Street Smart Disciplines of Successful People


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Street Smart Disciplines by John A. Kuhn and Mark K. MullinsThese are the Disciplines that can change everything!Street Smart Disciplines gives you access to decades of successful real world, street smart business experience and best practices mined from successful people and businesses encapsulated into 7 easy to understand and executable action plans for Breakout Success.The authors identified the 7 essential and vital disciplines that people must incorporate into their playbook to reach the pinnacle of business success. Kuhn and Mullins speak from experience. One of their first businesses was started for less than $1,000; built it into a multimillion-dollar success and sold debt-free to a Fortune 500 company using these very same disciplines. They continue to use these disciplines to achieve ongoing success and personal fulfillment.The eye-opening insights and practical wisdom will inspire and guide go-getters who want to climb the corporate ladder, aspiring entrepreneurs looking to launch new businesses and established business owners who want to take their organizations to the next level. These indispensable disciplines are drawn from real people, real experiences, real successes, real problems, and real solutions. They are tried and true, time tested, and proven on the street by the authors, successful companies, and successful people—from Wall Street to Main Street—and include a compilation of advice, tips, tactics, techniques, and strategies that work.This is the first book that explains the how and why of Disciplines. Street Smart Disciplines captures the essence of good business practices and distills them into simple, straight- talking, and no-nonsense language. Kuhn and Mullins demystify the process of achieving Breakout Success. You can immediately start applying this vast storehouse of knowledge that combines the winning perspectives of successful entrepreneurial, corporate and academic experts.Learn how to: • Develop a Dynamic Plan for Break-Out Success • Maximize Yourself and Your Ideas• Duplicate Winning Strategies of Successful People • Manage Change and Complexity • Master the Mental Game of Doing Business • Establish Bulletproof Financial Systems and Controls • Create Powerful and Compelling Presentations • Seek out Role Models, Mentors and Smart People • Optimize your Resources …and much more. Integrate the disciplines one by one into your life and business and achieve more success and personal fulfillment in your life than you ever thought possible! “Straight talk! The only book that shows what it should really take takes to succeed in business. One of most honest books I've read.” Michael Kenny, Founder, Agoda.com (subsidiary of Priceline.com)




Who


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In this instant New York Times Bestseller, Geoff Smart and Randy Street provide a simple, practical, and effective solution to what The Economist calls “the single biggest problem in business today”: unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs a company $1.5 million or more a year and countless wasted hours. This statistic becomes even more startling when you consider that the typical hiring success rate of managers is only 50 percent. The silver lining is that “who” problems are easily preventable. Based on more than 1,300 hours of interviews with more than 20 billionaires and 300 CEOs, Who presents Smart and Street’s A Method for Hiring. Refined through the largest research study of its kind ever undertaken, the A Method stresses fundamental elements that anyone can implement–and it has a 90 percent success rate. Whether you’re a member of a board of directors looking for a new CEO, the owner of a small business searching for the right people to make your company grow, or a parent in need of a new babysitter, it’s all about Who. Inside you’ll learn how to • avoid common “voodoo hiring” methods • define the outcomes you seek • generate a flow of A Players to your team–by implementing the #1 tactic used by successful businesspeople • ask the right interview questions to dramatically improve your ability to quickly distinguish an A Player from a B or C candidate • attract the person you want to hire, by emphasizing the points the candidate cares about most In business, you are who you hire. In Who, Geoff Smart and Randy Street offer simple, easy-to-follow steps that will put the right people in place for optimal success.




The Street-Smart Manager


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"I liked your book. It was easy to read. It was snappy." - Mark Sanborn, bestselling author of The Fred Factor Imagine that you have just been promoted to sales manager and the selected method for your training is through osmosis. This is the gradual, often unconscious, absorption of knowledge or ideas through continual exposure rather than deliberate learning. In short, there is no organized plan or structure to guide you along. The realization that this method of non-training still exists is a perplexing phenomenon. How can the successful manager pass on the legacy of his accomplishments to new protégés and others in a clear, crisp, and easy-to-read format? How can he train them to think like a manager? How can he help them to gain the wisdom of his experience? Michael Fishman is the perfect candidate to answer these questions. His twenty-five years of hard-earned practical knowledge have set the stage for a delightful transfusion of information. The style of The Street-Smart Manager is rapid-fire bullet points mixed with clever anecdotes that add some home-grown flavor to help the reader to appreciate the message.




Street Smart Franchising: A Must Read Before You Buy a Franchise!


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THE INSIDER'S GUIDE TO BUYING, OWNING AND OPERATING A FRANCHISE. Prepping you for what it takes to succeed in franchising, franchise experts Joe Mathews, Don DeBolt and Deb Percival deliver an insider's view of how franchising works, imparting real-world tactics and strategies, and empowering you to decide if franchising is for you. Street Smart Franchising is the kind of book I wish every one of our current and prospective franchisees would take the time to read. It beautifully captures the challenges of owning and operating a franchise business along with practical guidance on how to make it work. Anyone considering a franchise investment will make a better investment decision by reading this down-to-earth self help book. Don't miss it!" -- David McKinnon, chairman/CEO, Service Brands International: Molly Maid, 1-800 Dryclean, Mr. Handyman, Ductz "Twenty-five years ago when I became a franchisee of the Great American Cookie Company, this book would have saved me a world of grief. Street Smart Franchising lays it out. No sugar coating. It’s a realistic guide on how to make one the most important decisions of your life." -- Lawrence (Doc) Cohen, past chairman, International Franchise Association, franchisee of 21 units - Great American Cookie Company, Pretzel Time, and Coffee Beanery. "At the International Franchise Association, we were privy to all the fine books on franchising. What's truly unique about Street Smart Franchising is the carefully crafted treatment of how emotions and behavior influence success. It's another must read for any prospective franchisee--good stuff for folks who have been in the business a while too." -- Matt Shay, past president, International Franchise Association Joe Mathews has held management roles with such national chains as Subway, Blimpie, Motophoto and the Entrepreneur's Source. Don DeBolt is a former president of the International Franchise Association. Deb Percival works in franchise development.




Hate Sales Love Sales


Book Description

Are you, · Struggling with guiding principles; and want to work on PHILOSOPHY for SALES, and INCREASING EFFECTIVENESS? · Desiring to know WHAT in SALES will help, in keep taking to NEXT LEVELS? · Curious to know, what to value; TO BE GREAT, SHINING and keep getting GREAT SOLUTIONS? · Disturbed and frustrated most of the time; and want to get present to the INNER STATE, INNER SWING whether it is towards HATE FOR SALES or LOVE FOR SALES? · Fed up of getting stuck with RESISTANCE & PAIN; and want to know the CORE of MULTIPLYING GROWTH & HAPPINESS? · Curious to know what is “LiMtri -33”, and want to develop listening quality to access SALES happening DRIVING FORCES and EMOTIONAL TRIGGERS? · Tired of business not getting locked; and want to CLOSE NEW BUSINESS consistently to create GREAT momentum? · Getting HURT & SICK with REJECTIONS; and want to learn BOUNCE BACK & CREATING own SUCCESSES? · Afraid of HARD SELL, NO SELL; and desiring to find the space for “best frequency to fine tune” · Worried of leaving money on table and ensuring repeat businesses; and want to bring out quality of NEGOTIATION and NURTURING REPEAT BUSINESS in you? · Fed up getting stuck at advance levels; and is keen in the huge power of INNER STRENGTH, LEADERSHIP QUALITIES and LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES in reaching, where you want to reach? · Getting anxieties from business goals; and you want to learn about THINKING STRATEGIES and DESIGNING ACTIONS to reach your BUSINESS GOALS? ………. Then this book is for you!