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.

The Mindset of a Sales Warrior is your ticket to silence your inner critic and unleash the power within you now. Dive into 42 simple, easy-to-apply strategies, with FPG CEO Jason Forrest, and FPG President, Mary Marshall Forrest. You’ll join with some of the top entrepreneurs in the world to free your mind, so you can earn what you re truly worth. Each strategy comes with a powerful real-world application to bring each one to life with your real-life prospects in your industry today. It’s time to unleash the most authentic version of yourself.

Based on 20 years of sales experience, Built to Grow is the go-to-market field guide for startup founders. Startup founders often wish for a playbook for building and scaling a sales function. All too often, it's an experimental, improvisational process, in which any wrong move can lead to wasted time and capital. But in her 20 years building and scaling go-to-market teams, Stephanie Friedman has identified a set of steps that any B2B founder can take to build a successful sales organization.

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...

There are nearly 50,000 screenplays registered with the Writer’s Guild every year. And 99 percent of them suck. But they don’t have to. That’s why I decided to write this book. So before you head out to another hundred-dollar screenwriting conference to learn how to write a screenplay or buy another paint-by-the-numbers 3-act script formula give my book a try. I can’t guarantee you’ll sell your script.

**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 ...

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: ...

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.

In What's Your Story? Using Stories to Ignite Performance and Be More Successful, author, entrepreneur, professor and master story teller Craig Wortmann demonstrates the powerful impact stories have on the three most common performance challenges: leadership, strategic selling, and motivation. While the technique of telling stories is the oldest form of communication, it's also the one form that rises above the din of our information-saturated environment.

 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. 

Push Back Selling: Stand Up for Yourself, Protect Your Value, and Win More Sales Most salespeople work hard, stay busy, and still feel like they are chasing maybe. They follow up on prospects who never move forward, give away too much information, and lose control of the sales process. They feel pressure from every direction and often blame themselves when sales don’t happen. It does not have to be that way. In Push Back Selling, Mario Jannatpour shares a practical and honest approach to sales that puts you back in charge of your conversations, your time, and your value. Drawing on more ...

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.

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.

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—...

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.

Crush complex enterprise deals and eliminate ghosting with a B2B sales framework built for modern revenue growth. Whether you are strategizing on your morning commute or prepping for a high-stakes boardroom pitch, this no-nonsense audio guide cuts through outdated closing tricks. Shift from a...

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.

High performance in the sales arena is a matter of strategy and discipline. Top sales people are those who have disciplined themselves to do what others aren't willing to do, or don't know how to do. In this high-powered, fast-paced program, you'll get a blueprint for success that is certain to take your sales results to the next level.

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.