Salespeople face intense, unremitting, psychological pressure. If they don't sell, they don't eat. Jill Konrath, author of Agile Selling and other well-regarded sales manuals, conducted extensive secondary research on the most effective time-management and productivity techniques for salespeople. She reviewed and analyzed the work of neuroscientists, psychologists, time-management experts, cognitive behavioral specialists, psychiatrists, sleep researchers and business innovators. Here, she synthesizes and presents - perhaps a bit repetitiously - her extensive, practical findings. getAbstract recommends her productivity strategies to salespeople, account executives, entrepreneurs, consultants, sales support personnel and businesspeople.
Being an agile seller virtually guarantees a prosperous career. When salespeople are promoted, switch jobs, or face new business conditions, they need to learn lots of new information and skills quickly. It's a daunting task, compounded by the fact that they're under intense pressure to deliver immediate results. What Jill Konrath calls agile selling is the ability to quickly learn all this new info and then leverage it for maximum impact. Having an agile mindset, one that keeps you going through challenging times, is the crucial starting point. You also need a rapid-learning plan that helps you establish situational credibility with your targeted or existing customers in just thirty days. In Agile Selling, you'll discover numerous strategies to help you become an overnight sales expert, slashing your path to proficiency. Jill Konrath's fresh sales strategies, provocative insights, and practical advice help sellers win business with today's crazy-busy prospects.
Groundbreaking strategies for reaching millions of customers online and boosting traffic, sales, and profits This full-color, seminar-in-a-book presents a proven plan for maximizing your online profits by leveraging the top three services: eBay, Yahoo! and Google. You’ll learn to: expand an existing eBay business to reach millions of targeted buyers; Open a Yahoo! store to build a thriving direct-to-customer business; and send more customers to their online retail business with improved search engine placement and targeted adword buys using Google. How to Make Money Online with eBay,Yahoo!, and Google explains how to use cross-merchandising and integration strategies to promote sales and manage inventory across multiple sales channels.
Tango with No Tail is a story of a curious kitten who lives with his family. The difference between tango and his family is that tango has not tail; he believes if he had a tail, he would be like everyone in his family. He feels excluded from his family, until they go to a family reunion. There he sees how different everyone looks. He discovers everyone is different, and yet they are the same. The story of Tango and how he tries to get a tail will capture the imagination of children and help them feel good about who they are. I would like to dedicate Tango with No Tail to my wonderful grandchildren. You all are so different. I love you all the same.
Selling is tougher than ever before. Potential customers are under extreme pressure to do more with less money, less time, and fewer resources, and they're wary of anyone who tries to get them to buy or change anything. Under such extreme conditions, yesterday's sales strategies no longer work. No matter how great your offering, you face the daunting task of making yourself appear credible, relevant, and valuable. Now, internationally recognized sales strategist Jill Konrath shows how to overcome these obstacles to get more appointments, speed up decisions, and win sales with these short-fused, frazzled customers. Drawing on her years of selling experience, as well as the stories of other successful sellers, she offers four SNAP Rules: -Keep it Simple: When you make things easy and clear for your customers, they'll change from the status quo. -Be iNvaluable: You have to stand out by being the person your customers can't live without. -Always Align: To be relevant, make sure you're in synch with your customers' objectives, issues, and needs. -Raise Priorities: To maintain momentum, keep the most important decisions at the forefront of their mind. SNAP Selling is an easy-to-read, easy-to-use guide for any seller in today's increasingly frenzied environment.
Carbon Cloud is a work of fiction that depicts a family's struggle to survive in the "dust bowl" era. In the small town of Parla, Texas. Hank Carpenter works to raise his family despite hardship and tragedy. His beloved wife Sue, daughters Sharla and Jenny, and other colorful family members and townspeople move in and out of Hank's life as he deals with emotional pain and the puzzle of being a father and a man in Depression America.
Here's the book to turn to if that greeting card just doesn't express your feelings or if eloquence deserts you.Whether you need a quick quip that puts what you want to say into a few words or a thoughtful sentence to start your own creativity flowing, this book puts dozens of well-worded messages at your fingertips. Quotes and notes included range from the traditional to the inexpected and cover: -- Love & Marriage -- Birth & Birthdays -- Family & Friends -- In Sickness & In Health -- Moving Up & Moving On -- Thank-yous -- Postscripts & Afterthoughts
Senior Ashley Martin is thrilled to have the lead in her high school's production of Oklahoma, until she realizes that her former best friend, Daniel Stern, who had dropped her when he left for college, will be returning to direct the musical. Original.
When they learn that their favorite manicurist is getting married, the Tanner sisters run into difficulties after one of them is chosen as a flower girl and the other is not.
This title examines the remarkable life of reality television personality Ree Drummond. Readers will learn about Drummond's family background, childhood, education, and her work as the creative force behind the Pioneer Woman blog as well as her evolution to Food Network star. Informative sidebars, a helpful timeline, a glossary, and an index supplement the rare photos and easy-to-read text showcased in this inspiring biography. There's also a fun-to-make recipe! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Sisters Aly and Brooke launch a nail service for kids at their overworked mother's salon only to discover that their brilliant idea needs a bit of polish.
Tell me who I am. Tell me where I belong. I am a woman without a name, without a home…. For the first time, Eyes-of-the-Sky prayed to the white man's God. One look in the mirror told her she was not a Comanche…yet she remembered no other life. She watched the whites who had taken her in after her "rescue," the mother, Hattie, and her handsome son, Joe, and wondered what her life had been like before her childhood abduction. She looked at Joe, who had suffered much and forgave little, and knew longing in her heart. But questions remained: What am I? Who am I?
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