Showing results by publisher "Blackstone Audio, Inc." in Sales & Selling

The only lasting way to enhance your productivity and growth is to focus on a handful of basic concepts and repeat them week after week - and teach your staff to do the same. This audiobook explains how to tune up virtually every area of your business systematically, with just a little disciplined focus. Spend an hour per week on each "impact area" of your business, and you will be astonished at how much you can accomplish.

You want to be in the top percentage of income-earners in your company. In order to do that, you need to learn what the top pros know and how they work. Master sales trainer Tom Hopkins has been building sales champions for years. Learn how to handle normal sales stress factors, how to communicate better with your clients, overcome objections, and close more sales by using the right words and phrases. This nine-part audio series can help you learn and utilize the skills necessary to push yourself and others to the top of the business ladder.

Every one of your favorite influencers started with zero followers and had to make a lot of mistakes to get where they are today - earning more money each year than their parents made in the last decade. But to become a top creator, you need to understand the strategies behind the Insta-ready lifestyle.

Revolutionary retail guru Paco Underhill is back with a completely revised edition of his classic, witty, best-selling book on our ever-evolving consumer culture—full of fresh observations and important lessons from the cutting edge of retail, which is taking place in the world’s emerging markets.

As a teenager visiting the Andy Warhol Museum, Beth Pickens realized the importance of making art. As an adult, she has worked as a consultant empowering artists. Intimate yet practical, Your Art Will Save Your Life helps artists build a sustainable practice while navigating the world of MFAs, residencies, and institutional funding.

Have you ever felt like you're talking, but nobody is listening? Renowned five-time TED Talk speaker and author Julian Treasure reveals how to speak so that people listen - and how to listen so that people feel heard. As this leading sound expert demonstrates via interviews with world-class speakers, professional performers, and CEOs at the tops of their fields, the secret lies in developing simple habits that can transform our communication skills, the quality of our relationships, and our impact in the world.

Does the mere thought of selling cause you to break out in a cold sweat? Is a great salesperson something you desperately want to become, but struggle with overcoming fear, being pushy, or being seen as "that guy/girl" who people avoid like the plague? If this sounds like you, breathe easy, you aren't alone. Hope is here! Selling is littered with many potential land mines; however, you can learn the exact sales skills needed to build greater levels of sales confidence and sell like a pro. Building sales confidence involves being real with yourself and having a proven road map.

Charm is good business. It can increase your income, boost your status, and establish and maintain your reputation. Most businesspeople don't fully understand the concept of charm. It ought to be a reflex, a conditioned response, to "turn on the charm" when dealing with customers, clients, associates, and employees, but it isn't. Charm draws customers. Charm gets noticed. But charm is only partly innate. Much of it is learned.

Best selling author Jack Trout doesn't beat around the bush. He takes marketers to task for taking the easy route too often, employing high-tech razzle-dazzle and sleight of hand when they should be working to discover and market their product's uniquely valuable qualities. He examines successful differentiation initiatives and outlines the many ways you can achieve differentiation.

Learn to harness the power of social media to increase your sales! This multi-session audio program is designed to prepare a sales professional to move to the next level of success in this evolving profession.

Looking for some creative ways to increase your corporate sales and your personal income? In Guerrilla Selling sales consultants Bill Gallagher, Ph.D., and Orvel Ray Wilson team up with the best-selling author of Guerrilla Marketing and Guerrilla Marketing Attack, Jay Conrad Levinson, to create the ultimate guide to selling. The result is a fast-moving guide full of unconventional weapons and tactics for increasing sales that can be applied immediately for impressive results.

Fears can keep us from reaching for our dreams and desires. But, we have a God much bigger than our fears - one who promises us a more abundant life. We just need to trust. The key to indie business success is in your faith, God's promises, and who God made you to be. Mix in a few unique business development success principles, and you have all you need for finding more business, more faith, and more of the life you desire. Unselling isn't just about "not selling"; it's about so much more. Here, you'll learn what an unselling life looks like and how to achieve it for yourself.

Did you know that everything is negotiable? Unfortunately, most people are poor negotiators, and the number one reason why can be traced back to early childhood. This audio series can help you change that. Whether you are trying to influence or negotiate with your largest client, boss, spouse or even one of your children—you need to be skillful. Do you think it might help to be better at reading body language?

The Negotiator in You: Sales is for people who sell anything and everything! Salespeople negotiate constantly in today's increasingly competitive marketplace - making negotiation one of the most vital skills. Take this audio with you on the road, listen to it for timely advice before important meetings, and rest assured that it will provide you with the tools you need to become a more effective negotiator.

Guerilla P.R. Wired transports Michael Levine's legendary street-fighting P.R. tactics to the wide-open domain of the World Wide Web. Motivating, brilliant, and filled with invaluable strategies for getting maximum attention regardless of your budget, Guerrilla P.R. Wired will show you how to get noticed now and help you craft a message that is both powerful and profitable in today's fast moving, wired world.

What Is Marketing and Sales? explores the fundamental elements of a brilliant marketing plan. If marketing is not your area of expertise, then listening to this audio series from handpicked speakers and authors is just the thing you need to build a profitable revenue stream in your business. This real-world look at marketing and sales will illuminate powerful opportunities in your business. From structuring your marketing plan to setting up your website to sell, this product is guaranteed to help you capture leads and convert them to sales.

Here's the first book to apply guerrilla sales and marketing tactics to the unique, high-pressure environment of electronic communications. This groundbreaking resource is packed with valuable tips, expert advice, and insider secrets on finding, closing, and increasing sales by phone and fax, as well as via e-mail and the Internet.

What is a company's balance point between the demands of its customers and the profit expectations of its shareholders? In the era of "lean and mean" operations, is quality service still the key to a business's bottom line? To answer these corporate life-and-death questions, Dick Schaaf, a leading authority on the subject and coauthor of The Service Edge, goes back to the 101 companies he profiled in 1989 and reviews what has happened to them since.