Master today’s breakthrough strategy for developing and sustaining high-performance sales teams! Long-time sales team leader Max Cates shows how to go far beyond "old school," "command and control" sales management, unleashing the full power and energy of your salespeople through a participatory management approach that works. Drawing on 36+ years of sales and sales management experience, Cates presents proven tactics for: Developing your own mental toughness, emotional intelligence, strategic thinking, and promotability Becoming a true servant leader in sales: providing the right structure, challenges, respect, involvement, and support Hiring more effective and productive salespeople – including expert tips for interviewing, recruiting, reading body language, using data, and choosing amongst candidates Building winning teams that meet sales objectives and delight customers Empowering sales reps and teams in decision-making that increases sales productivity Measuring individual and team performance towards objectives Keeping people on target without micro-managing them Promoting team growth and continual improvement Leveraging Six Sigma and the Deming Cycle to sustain success, morale, and performance And much more Seven Steps to Success for Sales Managers presents proven sales management tactics in a "bulletized" format that’s easy to read – and just as easy to use. Cates combines decades of in-the-trenches experience with cutting-edge research on the latest sales trends and tactics. Whether you’re a working sales manager, VP of sales, account team leader, executive MBA program participant, or aspiring sales manager, this guide will help you build an outstanding team, empower it, and lead it to sustained success.

Learn to sell anything! Learn how to be more persuasive! This book breaks the complex behavior of "selling" into 26 easy-to-understand basic concepts, one for each letter of the alphabet. A quick and entertaining read, this book explains how selling works, why customers buy and how you can be more persuasive in anything you do. Professional salespeople use this book as a fun review of their selling skills. Politicians, lawyers, clergy, teachers and parents use it to learn how to better communicate their ideas to others. Now everyone can learn how to persuade other people to accept the value of an idea. That is what selling really is, and EVERYBODY SELLS! You can SPELL anything with the 26 letters of the alphabet; you can SELL anything with these 26 Alphabetical Basic Concepts of Selling. These are the basic concepts of selling that the best professional salespeople use to make huge sales. Why not apply them to your everyday communication skills to become a very persuasive person?

A Sales and Marketing book backed by thirty years of professional experience, bring out your potential inner superstar! This is an owner's manual to unlock your full potential, not just in Sales, but in all aspects of life, because life is about promoting yourself! Even when trying to win over your significant other, you are using sales tactics. This book will help you in all aspects of life, both personal and professional, to motivate you to never give up. Do not let others define you. Everyone is unique and special, let the world know what makes you unique through my techniques.

Discover the secrets superstar sales professionals use to reach the top In “29i – Mastering Your Sales Psyche.” Sales training expert Michael Simpson takes you through the 29 essential ingredients you need for sales success. He addresses the ingredients you must master in order to become a top notch Sales Professional, while providing guidance and inspiration throughout each chapter. Go beyond sales systems and dig deeper to discover how your psyche is at the center of your sales success.

The first year of developing a new sales territory or establishing new customers is a daunting task—especially in dog-eat-dog industries. The traditional advice is to train quickly on products, grab a customer list, start calling for appointments, discover opportunities, and close deals. In fact, almost every sales model out there is based on nothing more than "opportunity" management. But jumping straight to opportunity will leave salespeople chasing their tails and coming up short on payday. With an emphasis on basic sales skills that have been refreshed for today's generation of buyers, Trust-Based Selling shows there is a significant problem you must overcome when opening up new accounts and territories. No matter what you are selling, your prospect already has a trusted relationship with an incumbent vendor and will continue to buy from that vendor even when you have the better solution. The playing field is not level—and you’re on the wrong side. So how can you compete to win? "Trust is the grease that makes business sales effortless," writes sales pro and trainer Dave Monty in this quick-read book. Opportunity metrics are important, but trust—and a few sharp insider tactics Monty reveals—is the guidepost that leads to success. Trust-Based Selling—an abridgement of Monty's Sales Hunting—helps you start establishing trust before you step foot in a prospect’s door, and it shows you the tactics necessary to penetrate new accounts. It also explains: The new basic sales skills as taught by master salesman Dave Monty Why trust-based relationships enable you to get and keep customers for life How to get in step with the customer’s buying cycle How to establish trust-based and traditional sales metrics to guide your efforts With advice based on Monty’s twenty years of IT sales and sales management experience—along with principles confirmed by academic research—Trust-Based Selling is a fast read that is packed with real-life examples and prescriptions for achieving sales success. It will prove a lifesaver for any new salesperson, as well as sales veterans needing to develop new skills and rekindle the zeal required to succeed in sales.

This book has one purpose: to help you get more customers. I've taken 20 years of my experience in growing businesses and I've put it into one fast-reading book for you. Read this book. Use the ideas you learn from it. You'll get more customers, you'll put more money in your pocket and you'll have more fun. Kevin Stirtz Praise for this Book: Kevin Stirtz knows marketing and he knows business. This book is living proof. It's full of useful advice you can use, no matter what kind of business you have. This book is worth it's weight in gold -Jeffrey J. Fox, Best-selling author of How to Become a Marketing Superstar ---------- A short quick read. Stuffed with common sense in an age when common sense is not so common. -Hal Becker, Best-selling author of Can I Have 5 Minutes of Your Time? ---------- From the Publisher: This book is a rare find. Short, fast reading, yet full of informational gems you can use right now.

Hotel Sales and Revenue Management Book 2.0 reflects the changes that Web 2.0 has brought to the hotel industry. Web 2.0 represents a seismic shift in how hotel sales, marketers and revenue managers perform their jobs-separating those that will be average and those that will be awesome! The travel and hospitality industry has had an intricate relationship with the internet since the advent of the Online Travel Agencies such as Expedia, Travelocity, etc. Far more than most industries, the impacting Web 2.0 has been swift and become embedded in the fabric of how the hotel industry conducts business. Do the basics still matter? Yes, but the basics have morphed into a new dynamic driven by changes in the buying habits of customers that increasingly use the internet and social media to make their choices. This shift applies to all segments-from the leisure traveler to the sophisticated meeting planner professionals. Understanding this shift, its evolution and applying the new basics, this book provides a handbook for succeeding in a Web 2.0 world. It is an exciting way and creative approach to hotel sales and revenue management!