takeaways from the top 20 sales books
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20Sales Books
TAKEAWAYS FROM THE TOP
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Neil Rackham’s
SPIN Selling
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TAKEAWAY:
“People do not buy from salespeople because they understand their products but because they felt the salesperson understood their
problems.”
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Michael Bosworth & Ben Zoldan’s
What Great Salespeople Do
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“People who tell the stories rule the world.”
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Matthew Dixon & Brent Adamson’s
The Challenger Sale
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TAKEAWAY:
“Sales professionals who challenged customers thinking and offered new insights or solutions proved to be four times more likely to be a top
performer.”
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Michael Bosworth’s
Solution Selling
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“Shed the high-pressure, ‘always-be-closing’ mindset and align your sales approach with a buyer’s real desires.”
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Rick Page’s
Hope Is Not A Strategy
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“No longer is being ‘a closer’ the basis of sustainable
success.”
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Jeffrey Gitomer’s
Little Red Book of Selling
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“If you can’t get in front of the real decision maker, you suck.”
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Jill Konraths’s
Selling To Big Companies
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“Your ability to provide a continuous stream of fresh ideas, insights, and information to corporate buyers will make you irresistible, invaluable, and ultimately,
indispensable.”
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Dale Carnegie’s
How to Win Friends and Influence People
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“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people
interested in you.”
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Robert Miller and Stephen Heiman’s
The New Strategic Selling
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“Persistence is an admirable quality, but it won’t get you anywhere unless the people you are persistent with
believe in you and are absolutely convinced that they can trust you.”
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Geoffrey James’
How to Say It: Business to Business Selling
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“Selling is the heart and soul of the business world.”
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Mahan Khalsa and Randy Illig’s
Let’s Get Real or Let’s Not Play
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“Helping clients succeed is not a euphemism for sales- it is the
essence of sales.”
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Jill Konrath’s
SNAP Selling
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“Using clever objection-handling techniques insults your prospect’s
intelligence.
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Aaron Ross’
Predictable Revenue
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“Making field reps cold call is using highestcost sales resources to perform lowest
cost activities.”
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Tom Hopkins’
How to Master the Art of Selling
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“No one limits your growth but you. If you want to earn more, learn
more.”
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Zig Ziglar’s
The Secrets of Closing the Sale
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“Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value
of the product or service in the prospect’s mind.”
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Brian Tracy’s
The Psychology of Selling
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“The most important rule for selling success is spend more time with better prospects. This rule
contains just six words, but it summarizes your complete strategy to selling.”
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Linda Richardson’s
Perfect Selling
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The beginning of the call is “your customer’s window into you- your style, your professionalism, your level or
preparedness, who you are- and it gives you a good peek into the customer- if you look.”
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Robert Cialdini’s
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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“A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People
simply like to have reasons for what they do.”
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Og Mandino’s
The Greatest Salesman in the World
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“Only a habit can subdue another habit.”
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Jeff Thull’s
Mastering the Complex Sale
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“A smarter way to sell should transform the conventional sales pitch that customers must
endure into a high quality decision-making process that customers value.”
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