Value-Added Selling : How to Sell More Profitably, Confidently, and Professionally by Competing on Value, Not ...9 reviews
Tom Reilly

McGraw-Hill, 2002

Just Closed Largest Order and Made $$$$

+ Outstanding Resource for Mastering the Concept of Value-Added Selling
+ Value-Added Selling at it's best !!!!

I have been a professional salesperson for over two decades, and have sold all over the world. Finding a sales book that actually makes me money is difficult. Most sales books are very general and motivational based. Tom Reilly is right on target. This is not the first book I have read from this ...
  
  











  



  
Consultative Selling Advanced, Sixth Edition: The Hanan Formula for High-Margin Sales at High Levels7 reviews
Mack Hanan

AMACOM, 1999

A classic book for the sales practitioner!

+ The best source for consultative selling.
+ Consultative Sales Training

This book is in it's 7th printing and it is a gem! I am currently working with one of the world's largest software companies on a process that they call Value Engineering. While it is more refined than the process that Mr. Hanan describes, he is definitely the original thought leader around ...
  
  











  



  
Sales Management
William C. Moncrief, Shannon Shipp

Prentice Hall, 1997
  
  











  



  
High-Impact Sales Force Automation: A Strategic Perspective4 reviews
Glen Petersen

CRC, 1997

Possibly the best book on the market.

+ High-Impact Strategy
+ This a must read
+ One of the better books on the subject of sales automation
  
  











  



  
Major Account Sales Strategies: Breaking the Six Figure Barrier in Consultive Selling1 review
Alan L. Shifflett

CRC, 2000

A Good Step-by-Step Workbook

If you are looking for a workbook on securing corporate deals and managing corporate accounts, this book takes you on a step-by-step journey on a case or two. In particular, the book is easy to read and the short-sharp contents are well organised for impatient people like me. But the book could ...
  
  











  



  
Buzz: Harness the Power of Influence and Create Demand12 reviews
Marian Salzman, Ira Matathia, ...

Wiley, 2003

Highly Recommended!

+ Timeless advice...
+ Buzzing

This book is essentially a compendium of standard marketing lore repackaged as a new gospel of brand building. Breezily if sometimes awkwardly written, it provides some useful insight into how technology and social changes have reduced the importance of advertising and magnified the impact of ...
  
  











  



  
Sales: Games and Activities for Trainers6 reviews
Gary B. Connor, John A. Woods

McGraw-Hill, 1997

Great Resource for Use in Training

+ A Super Resource

I do training for an association in which we are members. Although the exercises in this book are for sales people, I have adapted more than a dozen of them to use in various training sessions, from surviving or thriving in our changed economy to direct marketing by snail mail and email. Would ...
  
  











  



  
Secrets of VITO: Think and Sell Like a CEO3 reviews
Anthony Parinello

Entrepreneur Press, 2002

Great Info About How to Communicate With CEOs

The book focuses on the mind of CEOs and how to communicate with them. Most sales people fear having to sell to top officers, because they have very little experience working with them (other than following orders or being managed by them). Anthony provides a ton of information on how top officers ...
  
  











  



  
Getting to 'Closed': A Proven Program to Accelerate the Sales Cycle and Increase Commissions4 reviews
Stephan Schiffman

Kaplan Business, 2002

How to Reduce the Sales Cycle

+ Insightful!
+ Revolutionary system for increasing sales

There are several excellent books on sales and sales training. This is one of the best. It offers what I consider to be a uniquely comprehensive, cohesive, and time-effective system which Schiffman calls a "Prospect Management" program. Apparently this system have been adopted, in some instances ...
  
  











  



  
Sales Forecasting Management: Understanding the Techniques, Systems and Management of the Sales Forecasting ...3 reviews
John Tom Mentzer, Carol C. Bienstock

Sage Publications, Inc, 1998

The Best Book Ever Written On The Subject

+ how and why to develop sales forecasts

Anyone who ever wants to improve thier companies ability to forecast demand should read this book. The book is filled with excellent examples of both qualitative and quanitative techniques that will help to improve the forecasting process. In addition, an excellent benchmark study is examined ...
  
  











  



  
Strategic Clarity: The Essentials of High-Level Selling9 reviews
Nathan E. Steele

Strategic Clarity Press, 2002

Outstanding

+ A must read for every Sales professional
+ Pragmatic for GETTING sales DONE !!!
+ Strategic Clarity "is"
+ Great sales book
  
  











  



  
Sales Coaching: Making the Great Leap from Sales Manager to Sales Coach5 reviews
Linda Richardson

McGraw-Hill, 1996

Sales Coaching is practical, applicable, and long overdue.

+ Extremely practical, extremely relevant, very easy to read.
+ Coaching at it's finest
+ Excellent choice for learning to coach a team!
  
  











  



  
Beyond Selling Value: A Proven Process to Avoid the Vendor Trap17 reviews
Mark Shonka, Dan Kosch

Kaplan Business, 2002

A tactical in-the-trenches approach for B2B selling

+ Excellent Resource
+ This is a game changer!
+ Excellent read!
+ The critical question author Shonka choose not to answer
  
  











  



  
Integrity Selling for the 21st Century: How to Sell the Way People Want to Buy26 reviews
Ron Willingham

Doubleday Business, 2003

A Winner of a Book about Sales

+ Excellent advice that works in the modern selling environment
+ One of the best!
+ Achieve more with Integrity Selling
+ What are you selling?
  
  











  



  
Selling Machine: How to Focus Every Member of Your Company on the Vital Business of Selling2 reviews
Stephen E. Heiman

Crown Business, 1997

Selling Machine: making everybody in your organization sell!

+ Selling Machine reinforces modern selling methods!

Reading the books written by Miller, Heiman and Tuleja (The New Conceptual Selling, Successful Large Account Management and The New Strategic Selling) changed the way I looked at complex sales processes completely and increased sales success of the companies I work(ed) for dramatically. Their ...
  
  











  



  
Why Salespeople Fail
Roy J. Hartmann

Authorhouse, 2002

Why Salespeople Fail explains how a salesperson's acceptance of unrealistic sales guidelines is largely responsible for sales failure. The book makes a salesperson aware of more realistic sales guidelines, ones that help him handle problems of doubt and pressure.
  
  











  



  
I.T. Sales Boot Camp: Sure-Fire Techniques for Selling Technology Products to Mainstream Companies18 reviews
Brian Giese

Adams Media Corporation, 2002

I.T. Sales Boot Camp:

+ Roadmap for technology sales
+ Very Realistic - Keys for Salespros
+ Very Realistic - Keys for Salespros
+ Teaching an old dog new tricks
  
  











  



  
How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients67 reviews
Jeffrey J. Fox

Hyperion, 2000

After a Year the results speak

+ Great insights, easy to listen to
+ Good book for the sales benniner
+ Motivational, fast paced, focused
+ Concise, well-written and valuable
  
  











  



  
If You're So Brilliant ...How Come You Can't Identify Your Key Customers?: The Essential Guide to Key Account ...
Peter Cheverton

Kogan Page Business Books, 2002

Key account management (KAM) is not a sales initiative, it is a business-wide process that must be managed and supported from the top. Here we have a book or all those involved in the management of key accounts, but uncertain about how these important customers are identified, selected and managed. In a clean, direct style, Cheverton cuts to the quick and shows how to achieve the core ...
  
  











  



  
How to Hire and Develop Your Next Top Performer: The Five Qualities That Make Salespeople Great7 reviews
Herbert Greenberg, Harold Weinstein, ...

McGraw-Hill Companies, 2000

Great book on Sales Personalities

+ Predicting Sales Performance
+ Great Book, but little How to Advice

I had read an article quoting the authors in Business 2.0 (December 2001- "Gods of Sales") this month and it perked my curiosity. After reading some of the digital copy here at Amazon I ordered it. They did a really great job breaking down the traits that make up a sales persons personality. I ...