Performance Selling

You can’t sell without listening to your customers—and yourself. In Listen to Sell, sales coaches Mike Esterday and Derek Roberts draw on their decades of industry experience to reveal the conversations, mindset, and skillset needed to amplify your sales confidence and bring purpose back to your customer relationships. With self-analysis exercises and customized strategies, you’ll learn how your mindset—which encompasses your attitude, what you believe about yourself, and the confidence you have to succeed—is the foundation of top sales performance.

For years, we've been told that success comes from working harder, moving faster, and pushing longer. The result? Burnout, disengagement, and leaders who look accomplished on the outside but exhausted on the inside.

**You don’t hate sales. You hate pretending.** If you’re an introvert, selling often feels like a performance you were never meant to give. You believe in your work—but not in hype. You value clarity—but resist self-promotion. You want your business to grow—but not at the cost of your energy, identity, or integrity. Selling Without Performing offers a different path. This book is for introverts who have to sell— their business, their services, their ideas, and themselves— but refuse to become louder, pushier, or more visible just to do it. This is not a sales book built for ...

We need trusting, customer-supplier relationships now more than ever. Technology allows us to understand customers far better at a data level and gives us myriad new ways to communicate. But this explosion of data and technology also creates noise; noise we have to cut through to find trust. Trust. It sits at the heart of all strong relationships. It is no less so in customer relationships. And without trust, the sales process becomes transactional. The dynamics of a technology-based, fast-paced, commercially oriented world cause many salespeople to fall into the transactional-selling trap....

Whether you are an accomplished sales executive leading a large organization or a sales manager leading a team, your ability to remove obstacles and speed the sales process will determine your success. High-Performance Selling is geared for the sales leader who has to persuade others to work as a sales force of one.

New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Power of Full Engagement, examines the way we tell stories about ourselves to ourselves and, most importantly, the way we can change those stories to transform our business and personal lives. "Your story is your life," says Loehr. As human beings, we...

Winning in sales is just like winning in football, you don’t score by playing it safe. You move with purpose, execute with precision, and close with confidence. Red Zone Selling is your ultimate playbook for taking control of deals, eliminating stalls, and finishing strong. Whether you’re facing last-minute objections, slow-moving opportunities, or competitive threats, this framework gives you the structured approach to push every deal over the goal line. With battle-tested strategies inspired by elite athletes and top sales professionals, you’ll master: ● The Closer’s Mindset—...

Wall Street Journal and Business Week best-selling author and leader of one of America's top sales training companies, Todd Duncan reveals the 10 most deadly mistakes salespeople make, and offers insight on how to avoid them. Duncan addresses the catastrophic mistakes that are commonly made with...

TV WRITING TOOL KIT 2nd Edition—is an update of my latest story tools, breakdowns, and handouts. The book covers story structure for a TV pilot and spec script, logline formulas for Logline For Your Life and your story, and character. With character, the book goes into the wound and the flaw. I cover everything that I teach in Writers on the Verge at NBC. There are breakdowns for several shows, including—THE GOOD WIFE, MODERN FAMILY, THE NIGHT MANAGER, HOMELAND, FLEABAG, and DEAD TO ME. The book also explores staffing and development.

Authored by a former story analyst-turned-development executive, this newly revised, expanded, and updated edition of The 1-3-5 Story Structure Made Simple System guides screenwriters, producers, and other entertainment industry professionals through the industry's best practices. This includes writing, developing, pitching, and selling a screenplay from the buyer's point of view.

AWESOME LIFE NOW: The High-Performance Guide to Becoming Rich, Successful, Healthy, Happy, and Respected is the only book you need to transform your life. Are you TIRED of living Paycheck to Paycheck? Don't you want more time and more money, and never having to work again? Of course you do. I've made hundreds of millions of dollars, and now it's your turn. Don't you want to take holidays whenever you want, drive the car you want, and live in a mansion? I'll show you how. I've helped tens of thousands of people transform their lives and now I want to help you! This book transforms your mind,...

Go from Reasons to Results! What's preventing you from creating what you want? You are motivated and work hard, but it isn't enough. You feel you have run "smack dab into reality" and are stuck. Narrated by Krystal Zellmer, Brian Klemmer goes beyond platitudes and cliches to offer proven advice that will forever change your personal bottom-line. You will learn three concrete tools that will eliminate feeling overwhelmed by any workload that has increased beyond what you think you can do.

Don’t try to become a better predictor. Build a better system. After more than twenty years of investing, one line still holds: the hard part is not the forecast. It is doing nothing when doing nothing is the rule, and doing the scheduled thing when the scheduled thing feels insane. The Psychology of Investing is a method book for U.S. readers who already suspected the spreadsheet was not the bottleneck. It shows how fear, greed, FOMO, loss aversion, and overconfidence show up as trades—and how to write a small set of rules before the market asks for a decision. You will learn how to: ...

Close more deals by understanding what your customer really wants. Too often, we hear the message that selling is shallow. In reality, it's the opposite. The most effective salespeople are the ones who dive deeper—who prioritize relationships and stay focused on the big picture of what they're playing for. Iceberg Selling is a technique based on the understanding that, for every person, company, and situation, you can only see 10% of what's really going on. Using single-serving lessons and real-life anecdotes, you’ll learn a series of mindsets and best practices.

Hey, Sales Manager, feeling overworked, overwhelmed, and underappreciated? You're not the first. The Happy Sales Manager is your guidebook to becoming the BEST Sales Manager you can be, minus the unnecessary stress and frustration.

 Next Level Sales Coaching offers insights to sales executives, customer-service managers, business owners, and other professional managers on strategies to overcome common challenges in building a "best in class" sales team. Sales performance can impact a company's revenue, profits, market share, and employee retention. The question is, how do you positively impact those goals? The answer is simple: Sales improve when your team is better trained, coached, and supported. 

Selling is the art of convincing people to your way of thinking, and it is not just isolated to products or services. It is also related to ideas. The Sales Messenger is especially beneficial to sales professionals, but it is also a practical, informative book that can benefit anyone because everybody is selling something in one form or another.

What is the recipe for becoming a high performing b2b salesperson? Conversational Selling provides a detailed look into the preparation and execution of seven key sales conversations that drive success. The sales capabilities required in today’s business environment are outlined in an easy to apply format. By providing a framework and set of strategies this book will help any b2b salesperson, regardless of experience, to increase their productivity.

THIS ISN’T A BOOK ON SALES. IT’S A BOOK FOR SALESPEOPLE. It’s a book for achievement-driven sales professionals seeking to thrive in their careers while maintaining fulfillment and purpose in their lives. In fact, this is THE book for those who want to feel their hearts on fire—and sell that way, too. Whether it’s your best year or your worst, we all face the same challenge—there’s always going to be a next year. Sales is hard.

How much specialized training must a world-class athlete put in before they reach that coveted top step, hear their country's national anthem played, and receive the gold medal? The answer varies by country and by specialty...but it is always measured in years and sometimes even in decades.