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The Best Sales Books from The Sales Podcast

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.

This eBook is an introductory guide on how to acquire a business without using any of your own cash. Aside from what the book will do for you, it's equally important to understand what the book represents. It's a tool for freedom and change and when you can give ordinary people tools to create freedom from all the frustrations in their job, life or business, that is limitless. You are either a trapped employee or manager, frustrated in your current job. Or a new entrepreneur scared to death of the 96% failure rates of new start-ups. Or a frustrated owner-manager of a current business that is struggling to add new customers, one at a time. Finally, you could be a franchise or business opportunity seeker but don't want to invest heavily in someone else's expensive system.

In this book you’ll learn the 7 drives that motivate people: The Desire For Mastery, The Need To Belong, The Power of Stories, Carrots and Sticks, Instincts, Habits, and Tricks Of The Mind. For each of the 7 drives behavioral psychologist Dr. Susan Weinschenk describes the research behind each drive, and then offers specific strategies to use. Here’s just a few things you will learn:
  • The more choices people have the more regret they feel about the choice they pick. If you want people to feel less regret then offer them fewer choices.
  • If you are going to use a reward, give the reward continuously at first, and then switch to giving a reward only sometimes.
  • If you want people to act independently, then make a reference to money, BUT if you want people to work with others or help others, then make sure you DON’T refer to money.
  • If you want people to remember something, make sure it is at the beginning or end of your book, presentation, or meeting. Things in the middle are more easily forgotten.
  • If you are using feedback to increase the desire for mastery keep the feedback objective, and don’t include praise.

Neuro Web Design

From Episode 318, Dr. Susan Weinschenk

Why do people decide to buy a product online? Register at your Web site? Trust the information you provide? Neuro Web Design applies the research on motivation, decision making, and neuroscience to the design of Web sites. You will learn the unconscious reasons for people’s actions, how emotions affect decisions, and how to apply the principles of persuasion to design Web sites that encourage users to click.

Learn to increase the effectiveness, conversion rates, and usability of your own design projects by finding the answers to questions such as: 

  • What grabs and holds attention on a page or screen?
  • What makes memories stick?
  • What is more important, peripheral or central vision?
  • How can you predict the types of errors that people will make? What is the limit to someone’s social circle?
  • How do you motivate people to continue on to (the next step? What line length for text is best?
  • Are some fonts better than others?

Weinschenk’s new book, 100 MORE Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People applies the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, brain research, and social psychology to the design of technology products, including websites, apps, wearables, and artificial intelligence. Weinschenk combines real science and research citations with practical examples to make her 100 MORE Things engaging, persuasive, easy to read, accessible, and useful. 100 MORE Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People is not just another “design guidelines” book because it explains the WHY behind the guidelines, providing concrete examples and prescriptions that can be easily and instantly applied.

Make every sales call count and be the ONE seller buyers want to talk to! With DISCOVER Questions™ , you will be able to differentiate yourself from the pack, create value for your buyers and connect is ways you never knew were possible. The research (over 15 years of it with sellers like you!) and anecdotes from actual sales calls will show you exactly how to become more effective in all stages of your sales process. You will advance the sale more efficiently when you use DISCOVER Questions™ and the sales approach described in this book.

Make extraordinary sales happen! In the Age of the Customer, sales effectiveness depends mightily on the buyer experience. Despite nearly-universal agreement on the need for creating value in every step of the buyer’s journey, sellers continue to struggle with how to create that value and connect meaningfully with buyers. New research bridges the gap and reveals the behavioral blueprint for sellers that makes buyers more likely to meet with them — and more likely to buy from them.

  • Inspire, challenge, and enable buyers
  • Change your behavior to build trust and increase sales
  • Step into your leadership potential
  •  See yourself the way your buyers do
  • Feel good about selling again

This ultimate guide to leglocking in the modern era by these two well-known BJJ black belts instructors is now available as a 6 DVD set This resource will give you a proven, step-by-step system for safely adding ultra-effective lower body submissions to your game. Now you can add the same leglock techniques and strategies that have transformed the grappling scene to your own submission arsenal. Leglocks are the hottest area of jiu-jitsu right now, and that’s for a good reason… They are the great equaliser and give you a totally unfair advantage on the mat. Leglocks allow you to go against people who should be completely dominating you, turn the tables, and tap them out instead. There are lots of grapplers who are super skilled at the traditional upper body submissions but are still absolute beginners at leglocks. It’s not the way it should be, but many BJJ black belts are wizards at armbars and triangle chokes but only white belts when it comes to understanding the lower body game. This creates a HUGE opportunity for you right now to submit higher belts. All you need is to know what to do. 

How to Defeat the Bigger, Stronger Opponent in No Gi is the latest offering by BJJ black belts Emily Kwok and Stephan Kesting. This set contains more than 7 hours of hard-hitting instruction on the guard sweeps, pin escapes, guard passes, chokes and armlocks that work against someone much bigger than you when you're on the ground. The particular emphasis of this set are techniques that work especially well in no gi grappling, when you don't have your opponent's lapels and sleeves to hold onto.

Guard sweeps get you from the bottom to the top in grappling situations. Sweeping an opponent is a very important, yet difficult, skill to master in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, submission grappling and mixed martial arts. The butterfly guard and X guard, working together, give you some of the most powerful sweeps available

This workout is a self-contained introduction to the art of Yoga, designed specifically to meet the needs of the modern martial artist. Learn the stretches, breathing exercises and underlying principles that are making Yoga a neccessity for serious martial artists everywhere. Improve your flexibility, strengthen your body, increase your energy and master your breathing. Each stretch is presented in detailed with easy to follow instructions, shown from multiple angles for maximum clarity. Beginner and more advanced variations are demonstrated to ensure both safety and challenge for all levels of students. The DVD includes a menu for easy navigation and a special section on the benefits of Yoga for martial arts.

Because starting a small business is not only a huge financial risk but also a complete lifestyle change, anyone who wants to be his or her own boss needs to approach entrepreneurship thoughtfully and with careful planning. That’s why there is no better resource than The Wall Street Journal Complete Small Business Guidebook, a practical guide for turning your entrepreneurial dreams into a successful company, from America’s most trusted source of financial advice. It answers would-be business owners’ biggest question—how do I fund my venture?—then explains the mechanics of building, running and growing a profitable business. You’ll learn:

  • How to write a winning business plan
  • Secrets to finding extra money during the lean years and beyond
  • Ways to keep your stress in check while maintaining a work/life balance
  • How to manage your time, including taking vacations and dealing with sick days
  • Strategies for keeping your business running smoothly—from investing in technology to hiring the right people
  • Marketing and management basics
  • When angel investors or venture capital might be an appropriate way to grow
  • How to execute your exit strategy

Let Inc. help launch your dreams. Makers, doers, and dreamers-for decades they have turned to Inc. for help in getting their businesses off the ground. The publication's keen advice clarifies the process, while startup stories fuel aspirations and spark action. Warby Parker shook up the eyewear sector with its innovative, socially-conscious business model. Skullcandy tapped into the surfing, skateboarding, and hip-hop scenes-and built a standout audio brand. All along, Inc. was there, capturing triumphs, setbacks, and lessons learned. Now, Start a Successful Business gathers these important lessons into a single path-charting guide. From brainstorming to crowdfunding to building partnerships, the book walks new and aspiring founders through seven crucial stages:

  • Come up with a brilliant business idea
  • Select the best structure and strategy for your startup
  • Figure out funding
  • Get the word out-and get customers
  • Dig deep to discover their wants and needs
  • Become an exceptional leader
  • Prepare to go global
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