The amazing story of a man who rose from utter failure to overwhelming success in just a few years-and the simple secrets he used to do it. A failure as a life insurance salesman at the age of twenty-nine, Frank Bettger became in the following years one of America's outstanding successes. Here are his personal experiences and the principles of selling as he applied them, that made him one of the country's greatest salesmen. Here are the 13 principles that enabled Frank Bettger to rise from being an unsuccessful professional baseball player to the point where he was acknowledged to be one of the great salesmen of his day-a sales expert. REVIEWS: "Here it is-the most helpful and inspiring book on salesmanship that I have ever read. It will be helping salesmen whether they are selling insurance, or shoes, or ships, or sealing wax, long after Frank Bettger has passed away." Dale Carnegie "I recommend this book to salesmen of insurance or anything else...it is easy to read, full of practical advice and capable of stiffening the back and the jaw of any man or woman who sets out to heat the world and doesn't quite know how to go about it. There are millions of them." Insurance News

In this all-time classic, updated by Tom Ziglar to address unique selling challenges in the 21st century, you’ll get coached by the master—Zig Ziglar—in what he calls “the proud profession!” Zig Ziglar has been called the man who helped turn selling into a profession to be proud of. In this exciting book taken from a seminar given by him, Zig tells you: How you can relate best to your customer The importance of maintaining a positive attitude The importance of servicing your accounts 25 successful sales habits you must develop Why if you’re good at selling, it’s the most secure job you’ll ever find Effective use of the phone and other technology in sales How to turn objections into sales The secrets of great sales presentations And much more! Nobody can make a career in selling sound better than Zig Ziglar can. That’s because he sincerely believes in his product. When he tells you it’s the best career known to man, he really believes it. Once you’ve read this inspiring book from Zig Ziglar, you will too!

If you don't sell, you don't have a business. In Secrets of Successful Sales, Alison Edgar, The Entrepreneur's Godmother, brings together psychology and sales to help you develop a winning strategy for increasing sales and growing your business. Centred around Alison's Four Key Pillars of Sales methodology, this book enables you to understand customer behaviours, provides you with a foolproof process, explains how to create an effective strategy, and close with confidence.

Shook and Farber invite eager entrepreneurs to join 33 of today’s business and sales best as they share the details behind their greatest sales moves and ultimately, impart valuable lessons on how to sell your way to success. Crafted to cover a variety of industries, products, and services, this entertaining playbook urges entrepreneurs to reinvent their sales approach, illustrating proven techniques, tips, and tricks in each story and summarizing the unique take-away offered by its teller. Entrepreneurs uncover such pearls as how to ignite creativity to overcome sale barriers, how to create long-term customers, and how to sell what the customer wants (hint: it’s not always a product or service). Entrepreneurs also gain invaluable insight and encouragement as they turn from story to story, leaving the pages with lessons learned and the excitement of being privy to an exchange among the elite in their industry.

It's time to reinvent your sales life...Your sales career is good, but not great. Your customers like you but don't love you. Every potential customer does not want to talk to you (the salesperson), even if they need your product or service. You keep reading the same sales books and listening to the same CD's and podcasts. Everyone is telling you to do the same old things. You're ready to make a change. In his trailblazing and wonderfully refreshing book, Allan Langer takes on the outdated, overused and utterly ineffective sales philosophies of the past and kicks them to the curb. Today's customer's do not want a sales pitch, do not want to be coerced, and absolutely do not want to be "closed." In this book, you will learn: To sell more than you ever have in your career; to sell customers a product or service and actually feel good about yourself doing it; and to never use a "sales pitch" again. The 7 Secrets is your GPS with a new destination, a new route that will take you from where you are now, to a new place on your personal map that will change your life and the life of your loved ones. It will also change the life of your customers, as they will go from hating salespeople, to only wanting to do business with you. Whether you are brand new in the profession, or a seasoned veteran, 7 Secrets will be the best investment you can make in your career, and in yourself.

"After I sent my team to the Question Based Selling program, not only was the feedback from the training outstanding, but we experienced an immediate positive impact in results."—Jim Cusick, vice president of sales, SAP America, Inc. "Following the program, even our most experienced salespeople raved, saying QBS was the best sales training they have ever experienced!"—Alan D. Rohrer, director of sales, Hewlett Packard For nearly fifteen years, The Secrets of Question Based Selling has been helping great salespeople live you deliver big results. It's commonsense approach has become a classic, must-have tool that demonstrates how asking the right questions at the right time accurately identifies your customer's needs. But consumer behavior and sales techniques change as rapidly as technology—and there are countless contradictory sales training programs promising results. Knowing where you should turn to for success can be confusing. Now fully revised and updated, The Secrets of Question Based Selling provides a step-by-step, easy-to-follow program that focuses specifically on sales effectiveness—identifying the strategies and techniques that will increase your probability of success. How you sell has become more important than the product. With this hands-on guide, you will learn to: Penetrate more accounts Overcome customer skepticism Establish more credibility sooner Generate more return calls Motivate different types of buyers Develop more internal champions Close more sales...faster And much, much more