The biggest mistake salespeople make in their careers is equating a faster pitch with a faster close. Author Kevin Davis shows readers how to slow down and focus on the customer buying process, so they can identify and quantify customers' real needs--and adapt their sales pitches accordingly. Slow Down, Sell Faster! does this by introducing a simple yet powerful method for buyer-focused selling that is practical, repeatable, and easily customizable. This buyer-focused approach extends to proposals and presentations, loyalty and retention, and, of course, cultivating more business. Each step in the book corresponds to a role you should adopt to meet customers' needs at each stage of the buying process. Increasing sales is not just about learning more sales techniques; it's about understanding the buying process--from your customer's point of view. Packed with examples from the author's extensive experience and detailed research on customer buying patterns, Slow Down, Sell Faster! offers an alternative to traditional selling that leads to increased sales--and happier customers.

In today's revolutionary market the classic sales model is both out of date and dangerous. Often it seems like you don't just have to run tokeep up, you have to continually sprint, market and discount. That's exhausting, but - there is another way. The best and most successful Organisations don't follow this chaotic strategy: they slow down and design world class solutions that optimize sales for the long term. This is the approach we call 'Slow Selling'. www.slow-selling.org Effective selling has never been easy, but now it's harder than ever. This more stringent world calls for much simpler and more customer focused sales tools and processes, and 'Slow Selling' delivers exactly that. Hyrum Smith, Co-Founder and former CEO of Franklin Covey Working relentlessly to deliver the very finest service has led to a consistent and continual growth in sales. It is this exact approach that is advocated and explained in the 'Slow Selling' process. I thoroughly recommend this book!' Jay Wright, CEO Virgin Wines Sellers need to act in a slower, more considered and sophisticated way: they need to add value to the buyer at every step. This is exactly the message and tools delivered by 'Slow Selling'. Grant Leboff, Bestselling author of 'Sticky Marketing' "Slow Selling is a breath of fresh air. Today's traditional sales approaches are broken, outdated and obsolete. Guy and Brendan offer a breakthrough approach that if implemented will revolutionize how selling should be done in the 21st century. I highly recommend this book. David M. R. Covey, CEO of SMCOV & co-author of Trap Tales​

In a slow real estate market, selling your house can be difficult– especially if you owe more on your mortgage than your house is worth. In times like these, it's not enough to simply list your home and wait; you actually have to sell your home. This practical, important book shows you how to use marketing techniques, advertising, repairs and upgrades, home staging, and other creative, effective tactics to get your house sold fast— no matter how bad the market is.

Buying and Selling explores the many facets of the business of books across and beyond Europe, adopting the viewpoints of printers, publishers, booksellers, and readers. Essays by twenty-five scholars from a range of disciplines seek to reconstruct the dynamics of the trade through a variety of sources. Through the combined investigation of printed output, documentary evidence, provenance research, and epistolary networks, this volume trails the evolving relationship between readers and the book trade. In the resulting picture of failure and success, balanced precariously between debt-economies, sale strategies and uncertain profit, customers stand out as the real winners.