The Best Sales Books From The Sales Podcast

Most people are stuck. Every day we seem to just go through the motions, following our usual routine without ever stopping and thinking why we do what we do, or what we'd rather be doing instead. But sometimes we have that one day - that Perfect Day - where everything just clicks. We feel great. We are unstoppable. And at the end of it we think, Why can't every day be like this? Get the Focus You Need to Take Your Career to the Next Level and Achieve the Financial Freedom You've Always Dreamed About... Most entrepreneurs start a business so they can have full control over their life. However... they end up saying YES to every opportunity and becoming bottlenecked with too many responsibilities. This was my biggest problem before I met Craig and it limited my ability to have MAJOR breakthroughs. One of the most valuable lessons that I learned from The Perfect Day Formula was to keep a strict schedule.

For decades, sales managers, coaches, and authors talked about closing as the most essential, most difficult phase of selling. They invented pushy tricks for the final ask, from the “take delivery” close to the “now or never” close. But these tactics often alienated customers, leading to fads for the “soft” close or even abandoning the idea of closing altogether. It sounded great in theory, but the results were often mixed or poor. That left a generation of salespeople wondering how they should think about closing, and what strategies would lead to the best possible outcomes.

Business Development Culture defines how to facilitate a sales-oriented perspective throughout a company culture, enabling it to sell more on an ongoing and consistent basis. Highly practical in its approach, this book empowers readers to break away from the frustrations of missed opportunities and lost leads, and to escape the repetitive 'feast and famine' sales patterns. Providing direct guidance on the implementation of an immersive business development culture, this book will ensure that the wider objective of generating business profit is embraced by the entire organization, not just the sales team.

Author Akbar Sheikh started out homeless and destitute on the streets of San Francisco. Tired of his situation, he went all-in, building 3 7-figure funnels using sound digital marketing principles. Here in this slim volume, he shares those principles and other golden nuggets to help you reach your own digital marketing success.

In The Modern Seller, Amy Franko explains the factors behind this challenging new sales economy and its impact on customers, sellers, and leaders. She explains why it demands a modern seller: one who is a recognized differentiator, extends the value of his or her company's offerings, and is viewed by his or her clients as the competitive advantage in their success. Franko explains the Five Dimensions of the Modern Seller, which will become your new blueprint for success in modern selling. These Five Dimensions-agile, entrepreneurial, holistic, social, and ambassador-will boost by 10X the effectiveness of your sales activities and results. Through research, stories of her own personal journey, as well as anecdotes of other modern sellers, Amy offers specific and actionable strategies for sales professionals and leaders. As you become a modern seller, you'll increase your impact, and deliver top results for your clients, your organization, and yourself.

Forget the rest. Learn to sell like the best. Better leads, solid presentations, and a more versatile closing strategy are all great for boosting B2B sales. But truly successful salespeople-the ones who seem invincible when everyone else is struggling-possess more than foundational skills. They are proactive, entrepreneurial, and find solutions for their clients. They highlight their personal value and actively manage their careers. They're hyperfocused on cultivating relationships with customers and colleagues. The Ultimate Sales Pro shows everyone how to elevate their game. Drawing on the author's vast experience training salespeople for top organizations, the book explains how to: Be your own mentor * Problem-solve with peers * Manage any boss * Identify your ideal clients * Research industry trends * Share knowledge to foster trust * Craft a powerful Unique Value Statement * Script emails and voicemails that earn attention * Uncover customer needs * Position yourself as an expert * Create customized solutions * Motivate customers to commit * Set goals * And more Whether you're new to sales or seeking to escape a career plateau, The Ultimate Sales Pro helps you finesse skills, build expertise, and create a personal brand that will set you apart.

Ask the questions-and get the sale. As a salesperson your product knowledge is extensive, but that's not enough. If you fail to ask the right questions-the ones that uncover a customer's real needs-you will never close the deal. Questions that Sell reveals advanced questioning techniques that will help you sell your products or services based on value to the customer, rather than price-and increase your success rate as a result. Packed with powerful examples, exercises, and hundreds of sample questions for a wide range of buyer interactions, the revised and updated second edition now includes new material on how to: Use questions to qualify prospects (without insulting them) * Discover hidden customer needs and motivations * Raise delicate questions * Overcome stalls * Reinvigorate a stale relationship * Soothe anxious buyers * Accelerate the decision process * Upsell and cross-sell so you no longer leave money on the table * Prospect for new business * Pose intriguing questions to position yourself as a thought-leader on social media * Turn social media contacts into active sales leads * Identify dead-end opportunities * Secure referrals * And more Success is yours for the asking. Smart questioning will get you there.

Ask the right questions and get improved, sustained employeeperformance Since technology has made it easy to access, share, anddistribute company data, many managers avoid live interaction,instead relying on emails, text messages, Web-based seminars tomanage their employees. But although technology has changed, peoplehave not. There is still a need for effective face-to-facecommunication; managers need to have the ability to ask the rightquestions and use the answers to find solutions.

When it comes to hiring, moving risk as far away from you as possible is always best. By implementing a time-tested, scientifically proven hiring system, you eliminate the costly, frustrating guesswork out of hiring and replace it with certainty. This book shows you how to access up to 88 percent of the "must know" intangibles that are hidden to the naked eye when you interview. This advanced insight is an absolute game changer and enables you to consistently hire the best people with supreme confidence. After all, knowing is always better than guessing!

You’ve gone through all steps of developing a powerful business presence on the Web-—but it’s only the first step. Now, you have to make sure your visitors hit the “Purchase” button . . . before they start clicking through to your competitor’s site.

From Duane Forrester, a leading expert in Search Engine Optimization and the author of the popular How to Make Money With Your Blog, comes a highly practical guide for using all the online tools available for turning curious visitors into paying customers. Turn Clicks into Customers reveals proven techniques for not only standing out in a crowded marketplace but for reaching customers who are most eager to buy your products or services.

Whether you’re an experienced blogger or an absolute beginner, you can make money with your blog. Simply follow the step-by-step advice of two expert bloggers and industry insiders who have launched many successful sites of their own. They’ll walk you through every step of the blogging process, and they’ll even share their most profitable tricks of the trade. Generate income using various types of ads Tap into the power of other blogs Maximize searches for more hits—and more money

Bring your business into focus. Whether you own this company, lead it, or work in it—it’s YOUR COMPANY! Your financial and emotional health are linked to how functional, or dysfunctional, your company is.

• Discover the hidden force pulling companies into dysfunction, and creating frustration.

• Learn how to implement straightforward tools to identify and remove the real source of your pain.

• Eliminate the most common behavior that keeps a company from becoming an unstoppable force.

Your company starts with you and your immediate team. You can replace the daily grind of fighting frustration with achieving desired outcomes that provide a source of energy. Transform Your Company reveals critical steps and business alignment tools that will show you what to do when your company is sucking the life out of you. Finally, you can have the company you’ve always envisioned—one that works for you!

Thimblesofplenty is a group of friends who also happen to be business people and avid readers. We wanted to keep up with the latest business books but found that time was a factor. So we divided out the work and each of us took a book and summarised it for the others. We though it might be a great idea to share these summaries with you. For a small price and a 3 minute time investment, our summary gives you some of the wisdom from the book, some food for thought and hopefully the impetus to make some time to read the whole book!

According to John Warrillow, the number one mistake entrepreneurs make is to build a business that relies too heavily on them. Thus, when the time comes to sell, buyers aren't confident that the company-even if it's profitable-can stand on its own. To illustrate this, Warrillow introduces us to a fictional small business owner named Alex who is struggling to sell his advertising agency. Alex turns to Ted, an entrepreneur and old family friend, who encourages Alex to pursue three criteria to make his business sellable: * Teachable: focus on products and services that you can teach employees to deliver. * Valuable: avoid price wars by specialising in doing one thing better than anyone else. * Repeatable: generate recurring revenue by engineering products that customers have to repurchase often.

Warrillow provides the essential blueprint for winning automatic customers with one of the nine subscription business models, including:

The Membership Website Model: Companies like The Wood Whisperer Guild, ContractorSelling.com, and DanceStudioOwner.com offer access to highly specialized, high quality information, recognizing that people will pay for good content. This model can work for any business with a tightly defined niche market and insider information.

The Simplifier Model: Companies like Mosquito Squad (pest control) and Hassle Free Homes (home maintenance) take a recurring task off your to-do list. Any business serving busy consumers can adopt this model not only to create a recurring revenue stream, but also to take advantage of the opportunity to cross-sell or bundle their services.

The Surprise Box Model: Companies like BarkBox (dog treats) and Standard Cocoa (craft chocolate) send their subscribers curated packages of goodies each month. If you can handle the logistics of shipping, giving customers joy in something new can translate to sales on your larger e-commerce site.

The new entrepreneurial explosion has many Fortune 500 companies pinning their hopes for prosperity on the small business sector. But most blue chip behemoths simply don't know how to reach small businesses-they don't understand this segment's diversity and how to effectively reach out to its various parts. Drilling for Gold will show the big companies just how small businesses tick. John Warrillow reveals the enormous size of the small business marketing opportunity and shows readers various ways to reach this vast, yet seemingly hidden sector. He covers how to address the small business market, managing cost control, and segmenting the customer base, along with numerous case studies.