Monday, April 5th, 2010 at
5:07 am

Sales is the 2nd oldest profession in the world. Yet it’s the least understood. A Guy Kawasaki Alltop blog, A Sales Guy will give you a daily dose on sales, why it works, how you’ll benefit from it, why it matters, and how to get better at it. And because at the end of the day everything is sales, you’ll get some insight into Web 2.0 and Social Media and how it’s changing how it’s changing our lives. You’ll also get a little enterprise 2.0, business, economics, customer service and marketing. What you won’t get is the same old, same old. No time for that!Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you’re not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle give you full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day…. More >>
A Sales Guy
Sunday, November 29th, 2009 at
8:37 pm

Completely revised and updated for 21st Century selling, this popular text has been renamed and revamped to reflect issues affecting salespeople today and well beyond. The most current text on the market, Sales Management: Teamwork, Leadership and Technology focuses on topics most important to today’s organisations, including team building, leadership, relationship selling, services and non-profit selling, global selling, the multicultural workplace, technology, small business, and increasing competition. A salesperson turned professor, Futrell, empowers students with the tools to win customers for life. Features: * Drawing from his personal sales experience, research, and numerous interviews with practising sales reps and managers, Futrell has created a text that equips readers with the basic skills and knowledge needed to operate an outside sales force from small firms to multinational giants. * The text reflects the author’s “learn by doing” approach used in his own classroom. Stud… More >>
Sales Management: Teamwork, Leadership, and Technology
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at
11:38 pm

“To get a competitive edge in a world of commoditized service, companies have to convert their reactive, cost-oriented contact centers into predictive, engaged, revenue-generating, real-time profit centers. A real-time contact center provides an outstanding customer experience, enhances loyalty, increases sales, reduces expenses, and streamlines information flow between the center and the company at large — all of which adds up to substantial bottom-line improvement. The Real-Time Contact Center is a practical guide to building a service infrastructure that will simultaneously exceed your customers’ expectations, and build revenues. This timely book will help you: Establish the business case for transforming your contact center into a real-time profit center. * Sort through the technologies and systems that enable real-time contact centers, and learn the best ways to use them. * Build profitable relationships with sales and marketing. * Strengthen your self-service applications… More >>
The Real-Time Contact Center: Strategies, Tactics, and Technologies for Building a Profitable Service and Sales Operation
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 at
8:39 pm

Two Silicon Valley insiders reveal the emerging Sales 2.0 trend and how companies can profit from it Sales 2.0 explores the emerging Sales 2.0 phenomenon, how it is characterized, why it is imperative for a company’s long-term success, and how anyone can get started with this new approach to generating revenue. Driven by an explosion of online products and changing customer buying preferences, Sales 2.0 is the marriage of Web 2.0 technologies with innovative sales processes. The book shows readers how to redeploy their sales teams for greater bottom-line results and reveals all the differences between Sales 2.0 and traditional selling. Through real world case studies, readers will learn how industry leaders achieved phenomenal results and a competitive advantage. Applicable to sales teams in any industry, Sales 2.0 presents the future of sales today…. More >>
Sales 2.0: Improve Business Results Using Innovative Sales Practices and Technology