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Are You On Your Way Home?
This week's review is Bob Etherington's 'Cold Calling For Chickens'. At first glance, it reminded me of that classic 'get rich quick' tome, The Lazy Man's Way to Riches by the legendary Joe Karbo. Yo...
Snap, Crackle, and Pop
Snap Selling by Jill Konrath was published in 2010. It was preceded by her first book Selling to Big Companies which I shall be reviewing next month. For the most part,Snap Sellingrevolves around se...
Random Dialogues
Had a really good time the other day with the brilliant Jane Tyson of Random Dialogues. We spent (as you can see) laughing and joking for whole hour, or was it forty minutes on our Zoom call.Jane is...
Mind The Gap
No not a post about certain stations on the London Underground system. Instead an evaluation of 'Gap Selling' (published in 2018) by the American author Keenan who describes himself as a Chief Antagon...
Pick Up, Fix Up, Hang Up
One of my favourite sales books is Stephen Schiffman's 'Cold Calling Techniques'. First published in 1987, this week's review looks at the 7th version which came out in 2014. This book is a great 'how...
A Good Salesperson Can Sell Anything
Nothing happens anywhere in the world until a sale takes place. And salespeople bring in the money that everyone else can eventually live off.That foreword above was a truism when this book was ...
Everybody Is A Salesperson
The third book review I've undertaken is Zig Ziglar's 'Secrets of Closing The Sale'. This American book was one of 'the' bibles for salespeople inthe B2B or B2C arena.'Secrets of Closing The Sale...
The Sale Doesn't Begin Until The Customer Says 'No'
William Davis, bornGunter Wilhelm Adolf Keese in Hanover in 1933, was clearly an amazing individual. He wrote many books, including The Super-salesman's Handbook and It's No Sin To Be Rich. He prese...