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Praise for How to Sell at Margins Higher Than Your Competitor «This is the complete book for both new and experienced salespeople and business owners to learn and re-learn the essentials for success. How to Sell at Margins Higher Than Your Competitors emphasizes the pricing strategies and tactics to increase the market share and profits of any organization. This is a book that is as important to presidents as it is to salespeople.» –Bill Scales, CEO, Scales Industrial Technologies, Inc. «As the largest service provider in our industry, we have a significant market advantage. However, we constantly walk the pricing tightrope because, as this book so clearly states, 'business is a game of margins . . . not a game of volume!'» –John K. Harris, CEO, JK Harris & Company, LLC «If you live and die on price, this book could be your only lifeline.» –Tom Reilly, CSP, author of Value-Added Selling and Crush Price Objections «How to Sell at Margins Higher Than Your Competitors successfully illustrates profitable sales truths to assist us in selling for maximum return. This book's well-researched, logical, and affirming words validate the simple fact that as a premium company we deserve premium margins. So, while our competitors reduce or match prices out of fear and scarcity, our managers, thanks to this powerful sales tool, can continue quoting and closing with profitable confidence.» –Joe Bracket, President, Power Equipment Company «I learned a long time ago that it is pretty difficult to control what my competitors will do, but we must control what we do–like maintaining margins. This book is a 'wow!' that will help my salesmen crack bad habits. Sales organizations should design their entire training programs around the content in this book.» –George C. Giessing, President, Brusco-Rich, Inc. «This energizing book is the 'right stuff' for every sales force. It should be a required study for every executive and sales professional who seeks to be successful.» –David R. Little, Chairman and CEO, DXP Enterprises, Inc.

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A six-step plan for driving a wedge between the competition and the customer For sales people, convincing a potential customer to choose them over the competition is no easy task, and especially when the competition already has the account. Finally, How to Get Your Competition Fired shows readers a proven system for breaking the relationship between the competition and the customer. Randy Schwantz's method, The Wedge(r), includes a six-step plan that drives a «wedge» between the competition and the customer. He shows how to reveal the competition's shortcomings without seeming to, letting prospects decide independently to dump their current provider, exclude other competitors and, finally, switch to the salesperson's product or service. Offering real tactics, not just theory, this is the only sales strategy that really works to break the relationship between customers and the competition and bring in more business, faster than ever. Randy Schwantz (Dallas, TX) is a leading authority and expert on the sales process. A highly successful sales professional, he is a nationally respected sales trainer, author, sales coach, consultant, and public speaker. Randy is President and CEO of The Wedge Group, whose clients include Fortune 500 companies as well as small businesses.

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An innovative approach to winning more profitable sales in the growing professional services industry In recent years, professional services providers have had to rethink their sales methods and adapt to profound changes in the way clients buy services. In response, Winning the Professional Services Sale argues for fundamental changes in the seller's mindset and sales strategies. Rather than pressing the sale, salespeople must help clients buy–the way that works best for each client. This new approach gives buyers what they now want in a services seller: a consultative problem solver, change agent, and solution integrator, all rolled into one. Author Michael McLaughlin presents a strategy for winning new business with a holistic approach to each client relationship. Only by fully understanding a sale from every angle, including its impact on the client's business and career, can salespeople thrive in the new era of the service economy.

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What's the Secret? gives you an inside look at the world-class customer service strategies of some of today's best companies. You'll learn how companies like Disney, Nordstrom, and The Ritz-Carlton get 50,000 employees to deliver world-class customer service on a consistent basis- and how your company can too. Packed with insider knowledge and a wealth of proven best practices, author John DiJulius will show you how your company can emulate the world's best customer service providers.

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Great copy is the heart and soul of the advertising business. In this practical guide, legendary copywriter Joe Sugarman provides proven guidelines and expert advice on what it takes to write copy that will entice, motivate, and move customers to buy. For anyone who wants to break into the business, this is the ultimate companion resource for unlimited success.

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"If you are a salesperson, you will find yourself in this book. Treat it like your road map to success and you will be a professional salesperson." – Willis Turner, CSE President, Sales and Marketing Executives International, Inc. «This action-oriented book covers the best practices of top sales performers in all critical areas. The lessons are easy to learn and they will help you forge more rewarding customer relationships, a higher income, and a richer career satisfaction. A must-read for any salesperson who wants to improve and reach the next level of success.» – Gerhard Gschwandtner, founder and Publisher, Selling Power magazine «As a professor teaching MBA students for twenty years, I encourage everyone in management to make this required reading for their sales teams.» – Dr. Michael Russell, Chairman of the Marketing Dept., St. Bonaventure University «Each page is full of ideas for instant sales and commissions!» – Anthony Parinello, author of Secrets of VITO: Think and Sell Like a CEO

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Your Internet Cash Machine takes you buy the hand and leads you through the entire process of building a successful Internet business. It walks you through the process of selecting a niche based on your interests and desires, building a site, and managing your business. Covering important topics like marketing and attracting traffic and packed with handy resources, this is the hands-on guide you need to start making money now.

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In this practical, enlightening guide, master salesman John Klymshyn reveals how you can be assertive and effective without rubbing people the wrong way or fulfilling the stereotype of the jerk salesperson. He detonates traditional sales methods and replaces them with modern techniques for reading customer behavior and regulating your own behavior to make more sales without having to get pushy. If you want to sell more and be a nicer person, this is an ideal sales resource.

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Classic radio ad campaigns from the last fifty years, and how they used humor to win over audiences And Now a Few Laughs from Our Sponsor offers an in-depth look at some of the most successful and entertaining radio ads from the last half century, presented by advertising veteran Larry Oakner. An accompanying CD-ROM allows readers to listen to the fascinating and funny advertisements that chronicle radio history. Extensive interviews with account executives, clients, producers, and actors offer a unique perspective on the development of humorous radio advertising over the years and what it takes to create a memorable and effective campaign. And Now a Few Laughs from Our Sponsor shows advertising professionals how to maximize just sixty seconds of airtime to win customers over and provides original recordings of some of the most fun and enlightening advertising ever produced.

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Inspired Marketing! presents the inside secrets of today?s most successful marketers. If you sell anything, this handy, practical, rainmaking guide reveals a new way to sell without resorting to hype, scare tactics, or manipulation using an amazing step-based model anyone can apply. If you?re a salesperson or marketer who knows that the old tactics no longer work and that long-term success requires fresh ideas, this is the perfect guide for you.