Everyone sells every day--themselves, their ideas, their products or services. Soft Sell provides a new approach to selling...one that stresses motivation, communication, relationship-building and self-image psychology to power-boost you to personal sales

Now in paperback, this innovative guide to the art of selling is a hands-on, how-to book about fulfilling your selling potential and enjoying it. Written in an easy-to-read, breezy style, this informative book can be opened to any page to find practical pointers and outstanding advice. The education provided in SOFT SELLING IN A HARD WORLD is all you need to become a successful salesperson in today's tough business environment.

Advertising was the mechanism responsible for Americans' sudden embrace of new standards of hygiene and grooming. By tracking the influence of advertising on changing habits of everyday life, Vincent Vinikas also traces the emergence of advertising as an agency of socialization in modern America. In Soft Soap, Hard Sell, Vinikas shows how advertising functions as a social institution, telling people who they are and how they fit in. He does this by exploring: how advertisers like Lambert Pharmacal created new consumer needs, convincing the public overnight to gargle with a product that previously had been used only to disinfect homes and hospitals; how a barrage of advertising for cosmetics led to a new look for women as Americans grappled with the emancipation of the New Woman of the 1920s; how managing consumer demand through public relations resulted in the birth of the modern beauty parlor; how soap manufacturers united to form the Cleanliness Institute to teach Americans the importance of using soap lavishly; and how popular magazines became the vehicle of both national advertising and national culture in the early twentieth century. Soft Soap, Hard Sell is for the reader interested in the history of social trends and American popular culture. It is a valuable supplementary study for courses in American social and business history, women's studies, and modern mass culture.

This engaging, comprehensive introduction to the field of personality psychology integrates discussion of personality theories, research, assessment techniques, and applications of specific theories. The Psychology of Personality introduces students to many important figures in the field and covers both classic and contemporary issues and research. The second edition reflects significant changes in the field but retains many of the special features that made it a textbook from which instructors found easy to teach and students found easy to learn. Bernardo Carducci’s passion for the study of personality is evident on every page.

A study guide that matches the Edexcel specification to help students succeed at A Level, this volume examines graphics within materials technology and is intended to aid revision as well as study.

This is an innovative new business series that presents 60 succinct techniques to improve core business skills, each technique to be read and digested in 60 seconds. 'Persuasion' provides 60 practical and effective techniques that can be immediately applied to enhance the art of persuasion both in the workplace and outside. This title covers all vital persuasion techniques including people skills and presentation skills, creating winning proposals and sourcing and developing new relationships. 60 fast solutions packaged in small, handy format will enable advice-hungry businessmen and women to dip in and out of this book when ever they have a spare minute!

This book is about marketing. But more important, this is a book about you, the soft sell marketer--your desire, as a service provider or care-giver, to market and sell your products and services online or off without compromising your personal or professional values. In short, it's about putting your heart into marketing. This book: Validates the power of heart-to-heart connections that lead to emotional authenticity and marketing believability, taking sales beyond mere commercial transactions into long-term customer relationships; Presents the principle that Selling Is Spiritual Service, healing the split soft sell marketers often feel between spirituality and sales; Sheds light on the internal aspects of marketing beginning with integrity and ending with a balance between commerce and conscience. Will open and inspire your soft sell imagination, setting the foundation for you to understand and profit from the practice of soft sell marketing.