Sales

  • The must-read summary of Jill Konrath's book: "SNAP Selling: Speed Up Sales and Win More Business with Today's Frazzled Customers".This complete summary of the ideas from Jill Konrath's book "SNAP Selling" shows that most people you try and sell to today will be crazy-busy – frazzled and run off their feet with too much to do. You’ve got to allow...
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  • The must-read summary of Joe Pulizzi's book: "Epic Content Marketing: How to Tell a Different Story, Break Through the Clutter, and Win Customers by Marketing Less".This complete summary of the ideas from Joe Pulizzi’s book: "Epic Content Marketing" tells you how to use epic content marketing to gain loyal customers. Your goal should be to help your customers and consistently...
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  • The must-read summary of John Jantsch's book: "The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself".This complete summary of the ideas from John Jantsch's book "The Referral Engine" shows that everyone loves getting referrals from happy customers but few businesses have systems in place to facilitate this happening more often. In his book, the author states that it's time to...
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  • The must-read summary of John Warrillow's book: "The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry".This complete summary of the ideas from John Warrillow's book "The Automatic Customer" explains that subscription-based products are becoming increasingly popular, as it means customers are buying from a business automatically each month. Rather than having to put lots of time and money into...
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  • The must-read summary of Jon Spoelstra's book: "Marketing Outrageously: How to Increase Your Revenue by Staggering Amounts".This complete summary of the ideas from Jon Spoelstra's book "Marketing Outrageously" shows how the most fun and refreshing marketing campaigns - which therefore make the most money - are those that are outrageous. In his book, the author presents his research into outrageous...
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  • The must-read summary of Joseph Jaffe's book: "Flip the Funnel: How to Use Existing Customers to Gain New Ones". This complete summary of the ideas from Joseph Jaffe's book "Flip the Funnel" shows that using the traditional sales funnel, businesses worldwide spend billions on acquiring new customers. You advertise widely to create awareness and then follow up with those that...
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  • The must-read summary of Ken Blanchard, Jim Ballard and Fred Finch's book: "Customer Mania: It’s Never Too Late to Build a Customer-Focused Company".This complete summary of the ideas from Ken Blanchard, Jim Ballard and Fred Finch's book "Customer Mania" shows that to succeed in business today, you have to provide consistently great customer service. In other words, unless you have...
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  • The must-read summary of Kendra Lee's book: "The Sales Magnet: How to Get More Customers Without Cold Calling".This complete summary of the ideas from Kendra Lee's book "The Sales Magnet" explains that in today’s market, cold calling is dead. Instead it is more efficient to attract the attention of prospects using personal, digital and collaborative attractive strategies, and once you...
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  • The must-read summary of Kevin Davis' book: "Getting Into Your Customer's Head: 8 Secret Roles of Selling Your Competitors Don’t Know". This complete summary of the ideas from Kevin Davis' book "Getting Into Your Customer's Head" explains that most sales today are made through a four-stage buy-learning process: 1. Prospective customers become aware of a need for something 2. They...
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  • The must-read summary of Kevin Maney's book: "Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't".This complete summary of the ideas from Kevin Maney's book "Trade-Off" shows that all of us as consumers are constantly making a choice between products which offer high fidelity and those which offer superior convenience. In his book, the author explains that it is this...
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  • The must-read summary of Lewis Carbone's book: "Clued In: How to Keep Customers Coming Back Again and Again".This complete summary of the ideas from Lewis Carbone's book "Clued In" shows how all businesses exist for two reasons: to make money and to win customers. In his book, Lewis Carbone explains that most industries have focused more on the money-making side...
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  • The must-read summary of Lisa Johnson and Andrea Learned's book: "Don't Think Pink: What Really Makes Women Buy and How to Increase Your Share of This Market".This complete summary of the ideas from Lisa Johnson and Andrea Learned's book "Don't Think Pink" shows that very few corporations purposefully attempt to target women to purchase their products, despite the fact that...
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  • The must-read summary of Lori Greiner's book: "Invent It, Sell It, Bank It: Make Your Million-Dollar Idea into a Reality". This complete summary of the ideas from Lori Greiner’s book: "Invent It, Sell It, Bank It" gives a step-by-step guide on how to take a new product to market and turn your idea into a reality. According to Greiner, these...
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  • The must-read summary of Marc Benioff's book: "Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went From Idea to Billion-Dollar Company- and Revolutionized an Industry". This complete summary of the ideas from Marc Benioff's book "Behind the Cloud" explains how he started with an idea and grew it into a billion-dollar business. According to Benioff, the key to creating...
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  • The must-read summary of Mark Hughes' book "Buzzmarketing: Get People to Talk About Your Stuff". This complete summary of the ideas from Mark Hughes' book "Buzzmarketing" explains that there’s just so much background noise and clutter now that traditional advertising isn’t as effective as it once was. In 2004 alone, American companies spent over $235 billion on marketing – more...
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  • The must-read summary of Mark Roberge's book: "The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology and Inbound Selling to Go from $0 to $100 Million".This complete summary of the ideas from "The Sales Acceleration Formula" shows that, contrary to popular belief, sales management needn't be an art form; it is possible to use a formula to create the strongest possible sales...
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