Strategic Selling

Never Say Sell explains how to scale individual engagements into long-term business relationships. Cowritten by Tom McMakin, the coauthor of How Clients Buy and expert in account development, and colleague Jacob Parks, this book provides insights into how key rainmakers at firms like Accenture and IBM drive growth from existing relationships. Never Say Sell is a business development guide for professional service providers like consultants, accountants, and lawyers, whether they are sole proprietors or members of account teams tasked with expanding key accounts.

For years, The Relationship Edge has successfully shown people how to build personal relationships and repair damaged ones with a proven three-step process. This completely updated third edition offers a fresh perspective on that process and includes more contemporary case studies, as well as how to build and nurture relationships online.

Your projects, programs, and career turn on the difference between "no" and "yes". Yet selling ideas, especially the kinds of ideas that make organizations work, is a skill shrouded in mystery. Part emotional intelligence, part politics, part rhetoric, and part psychology, selling ideas is not like tricking someone out of his money. It's about helping others to see things your way: engaging their minds and imaginations.

Any organization can win more customers and increase sales if they would only learn to be more strategic with their customer service. This audiobook draws on more than 30 years of research from companies such as 3M, GE, and Chick-Fil-A to teach listeners how to transcend a good business into a profitable word-of-mouth machine that transforms the bottom line.

If you’re tired of the nine-to-five workday rat race, want to ensure a comfortable retirement, or are just convinced that life has more to offer, grab hold of this cutting-edge method for real estate investment. This exciting investment strategy is both satisfying and lucrative. In fact, real estate is the single best way to reach financial freedom and leave a legacy for your family.

What would a social media revolt, based on a single mishandled customer exchange, cost your company? This book's 48 rules for strategic customer care give you the guidelines you need to make intelligent strategic investments in customer care, based on the world-famous Sandler Selling System. Customer Service: The Sandler Way helps you and create and sustain a working culture built on the belief that the customer not only matters, but is the only reason your organization exists.

Strategic Advertising Management provides the firm foundation you need to understand the effective strategic planning of advertising and other marketing communications. Renowned experts in the field, the authors draw on their extensive experience to present the essential principles of communication that demonstrate how advertising works.

As globalization creates increasing challenges to established marketing practices, marketing efforts need to reposition and adapt continuously to maintain an organization's ability to reach potential customers. This Very Short Introduction provides a general overview of the function and importance of marketing to modern organizations. Kenneth Le Meunier-FitzHugh discusses how marketing remains central to creating competitive advantage, and why it needs to be forward looking and constantly reinventing itself in line with new developments in the marketplace.

What are the best B2B companies doing differently to achieve growth? This is the primary question that you will get an answer to by listening to Revenue Growth Platform. Based on the authors’ 20+ years of personal experience from sales transformation projects, as well as their research and interviews, they now share both their strategic insights about business models and tactical ideas for improving and scaling marketing, sales, and customer success.

Eighty percent of small businesses never sell. If you own a business and plan to retire one day, the sale of your business must be part of your retirement strategy. Are you like most business owners with all of your net worth tied up in your business? If you only have 20% chance of selling your business, that can be devastating. Even if you are lucky enough to be in the minority who do sell, will you get what you need from the sale to live the lifestyle you want to live? The good news is, The Ultimate Sale can help you build your business for its final sale.

Buying a home is the most expensive investment most people make in their lives, yet few people understand the method to buying a house. In Strategic Homebuying, veteran real estate professional Chad Durie provides a step-by-step guide to purchasing a home, from becoming financially ready to determining if you’ve found your dream home. You’ll learn how to establish the right mindset when buying a house, the importance of planning before purchasing, and other valuable advice