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To Sell Is Human explains how selling has become an important part of almost every job, and equips the reader with tools and techniques to be more effective at persuading others.

• Anyone who wants to be better at influencing, persuading and convincing people, at work or in their free time
• Anyone interested in the new ABCs of sales

Trust Agents describes how anyone can use the web to become a trust agent – meaning someone who is well-versed in the tools of the web and who is very influential and trusted because of this.

• Anyone who wants to understand what successful marketing looks like in the internet age
• Anyone who wants to greatly expand their influence

Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment teaches you how to change the hearts, minds and actions of the people around you, turning them into spirited advocates of your cause. It also provides key steps on the path to building a lasting fascination with your product and company, as well as useful advice on how to resist the enchantment of others.

• People who want to motivate others to join in their life’s mission
• Anybody who manages or works with others
• Anyone who wants to regain control of their purchasing habits

This book shows you how to craft messages and ideas that stick in the minds of your audience because they are Popular, Original and Pithy. Author Sam Horn offers a highly adaptable and systematic approach to creating pitches, titles and taglines that grasp people’s attention and win them over to your brand, product or idea.

• Anyone who wants to learn how to sell
• Anyone who has to deliver professional pitches or create titles or taglines
• Anyone who wants to share their ideas and make them stick

The Ultimate Sales Machine offers twelve key strategies for improving how we do business, as well as other methods and tools to help you work smarter and more effectively in all aspects of your business, from management to marketing and sales.

• Anyone involved in operating, marketing, selling or running a company or department
• Executives, CEOs, entrepreneurs
• Anyone who wants to market their product or idea better

In The Greatest Salesman in the World, you’ll learn the unconventional secrets to becoming the best salesperson you can be. It turns out that the path to reaching sales targets doesn’t actually involve studying salesbooks or copying the methods of others. Rather, it’s about developing healthy habits and becoming a better person overall.

• Salespeople who want to further develop their professional life
• Anyone who wants to live a more fulfilled and productive life
• Anyone fed up with traditional books on marketing and selling

The Art of Influencing Anyone provides detailed information on how to influence people to do what you want. An invaluable read for salespeople, it is also useful for anyone who wants to learn how to sound more convincing and persuasive.

• Anyone who works as a salesperson
• Anyone interested in how to influence others

In Agile Selling, you’ll discover how to boost your productivity and learn to thrive in any kind of sales environment. The book explores the strategies of great salespeople and how they adapt to new circumstances, and offers practical advice on how you too can become more adaptive in your business.

• Anyone involved in selling products in a new industry
• Long-time salespeople who need a boost of inspiration
• Anyone struggling to sell in an ever-changing market

Sales strategies have changed. Instead of shilling “one-size-fits-all” products, today’s top sales reps excel by providing a customized solution to a unique problem. To do this, these sales reps follow the “challenger” selling model. In this book you’ll learn what this model is and how it can revolutionize your sales organization.

• Sales managers and salespeople eager to improve their techniques
• Entrepreneurs curious about how to best present a product to customers
• Business leaders who want to stay current with new sales strategies

In Truth, Lies and Advertising (1998), leading account planner Jon Steel shares an insider’s insight into the world of advertising. For Steel, the creation of great ads is all about understanding the consumer, and his compelling behind-the-scenes anecdotes illustrate the role account planners play in developing a successful campaign.

• Anyone who’s starting out in advertising or planning
• Mad Men fans who want to understand how a real advertising agency works
• Business owners want to hire an advertising agency to develop a campaign

Brainfluence (2012) explores the unconscious thoughts and motivations that influence our decision-making process, and offers tips and tricks on how savvy marketers can exploit them. By understanding the mechanisms that cause us to buy (or not buy), you can increase your sales while keeping your customers happier.

• Marketers, managers and business owners, as well as those in the nonprofit sector
• People whose jobs depend on making sales
• Anyone interested in how to best get their message across

Predictable Revenue (2014) breaks open the secrets of the hugely successful SalesForce.com. You can’t bid for more investment if your future sales are a mystery, so follow the steps in these blinks to anatomize and optimize your salesforce and create real – and forecastable – leads that keep on coming.

• Salespeople and CEOs
• Start-ups trying to scale up their business while attracting venture capital
• Any business owner who wants predictable leads and revenue

These blinks explain how compensation can be optimized to motivate sales representatives and ensure the growth of the company. It offers advice on finding the right people, crafting a strong sales compensation plan that drives your team to hit their targets, and implementing that plan effectively.

• CEOs looking for the best way to energize their sales teams
• Sales managers who want to maximize their strengths
• Directors of sales compensation

Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions (2008) is the sales manager’s guide to coaching salespeople and learning how to build powerful connections among your sales force. You’ll learn how to empower your team, let go of your fears and become a highly effective sales coach.  

• Sales managers
• Entrepreneurs looking to build an effective sales force
• Consultants, trainers and coaches

It’s hard to sell to people that you don’t know. Buyer Personas (2015) gives you the tools you need to truly understand your customers – their motivations, their quirks, their reservations – so that you can fine-tune your messaging to become a maximally effective seller.

• Marketing executives
• Company leaders who are looking for a product market
• Anyone who wants to be a better communicator

Pricing For Profit (2013) is a practical strategy guide for pricing. These blinks use real world business examples to paint a comprehensive picture of how to optimize your pricing and maximize your profits.

• Any business owner who is concerned about their company’s lackluster growth
• Every entrepreneur and anyone who sells anything

Connect (2015) lays out the most effective ways to use LinkedIn’s potential to kick-start your marketing success. With the help of case studies, you’ll learn how to use LinkedIn as a valuable sales tool, host great webinars and turn your enthusiastic audience into new clients.

• Seasoned entrepreneurs who want to learn about social networks like LinkedIn
• Anyone interested in sales and marketing
• New business founders searching for ways to attract clients quickly

New Strategic Selling (1995) teaches you how to close sales in the most positive, beneficial way for both you and your buyer. Long-term success in sales is all about building relationships, satisfying your customers and identifying the key factors that influence the sale, and these blinks will set you on your way.

• Salespeople
• Anyone who wants to get better at building lasting business relationships

The Psychology of Selling (2004) will school you in the psychology of consumption. These blinks reveal the techniques used by outstanding salespeople – techniques that you can use to increase your sales performance in any market.

• Salespeople
• Anyone struggling to maintain a positive self-image
• People who want to improve their negotiating abilities

Smart Calling (2010) is all about the art of cold calling, an important business practice that even seasoned salespeople dread. Many of us tend to associate cold calling with call center cubicles, boredom or manipulative strategies – but it doesn’t have to be this way. These blinks explain how you can overcome the challenges of cold calling to create a more pleasant and fulfilling experience for both you and your prospective customer, funder or employer.

• Sales representatives
• Anyone who works in fundraising

The Millionaire Real Estate Agent (2004) is your guide to success in the real estate business. These blinks detail practical strategies for building a real estate empire from the ground up and keeping it profitable.

• Real estate agents who want to step up their game
• Anyone looking to buy or sell real estate
• Salespeople from any industry

The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing (2010) reveals the fundamental importance of how you price your products. By exposing common misconceptions, explaining the three dimensions of effective pricing and the five steps you can take to achieve it, these blinks are an essential guide to maximizing your profits through clever pricing.

• Business students hoping to understand the underlying principles of pricing
• Entrepreneurs planning to launch a new product and struggling to find the right price
• Any shopper curious about how price tags are set

Targeted (2014) takes you on a journey from the early days of internet advertising to today’s complex online ad exchanges. On the way, the author reveals the vital importance of harnessing the power of Search Engine Marketing or SEM to target the consumers you need to make your company grow.

• Anyone interested in Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
• Entrepreneurs who want to learn the advantages and drawbacks of different SEM tools
• Anyone interested in modern advertising

Predictive Analytics (2016) provides a helpful introduction to a complex and fascinating field. Learn how data gets crunched so that people can make more informed decisions, a practice that has drastically altered the way the world conducts its research and runs its businesses. Siegel offers an enlightening glimpse at the wide-ranging areas that have been forever changed, from marketing to health care, banking to artificial intelligence.

• Business students interested in applied analytics
• Readers interested in economics
• Tech geeks curious about artificial intelligence

What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School (1984) is an introduction to everything your professors don’t and can’t teach you at business school. Learn tips and tricks that only people with real job-market experience have in their arsenal, like how to make a good impression and how to leverage the concept of fear when making sales.

• Entrepreneurs and small-business owners
• Managers and executives
• Business school students and graduates

Sales Management. Simplified. (2016) takes a critical look at today’s troubled sales departments and offers a comprehensive plan on how to inject energy and vitality into your sales team. It runs through the most common and chronic problems and provides practical advice that any manager can follow to avoid pitfalls and turn a sleepy sales department into a strong and unified team.

• Sales managers and leaders at any level
• Entrepreneurs and freelancers
• Readers who want to learn the basics of sales management

Never Lose A Customer Again (2018) is full of sage advice for businesses seeking to provide superior customer experience. Whether your business is big or small, global or local, author Joey Coleman has got some words of wisdom for you. In addition to explaining why customer experience is so important, he details the many ways it gets overlooked. As Coleman makes clear, understanding the desires, fears and emotions of your customers will allow you to retain them and benefit from their support – and that will pay off in the form of major dividends.

• Managers looking for ways to boost sales
• Customer service representatives
• Readers interested in learning new business insights

The Heart of the Deal (2017) offers ambitious real estate agents guidance on how to make it in the industry. It’s packed with examples from the author’s own experiences so that you too can learn how to win over clients and achieve similar levels of success.

We’re thrilled to announce that the author has worked together with Blinkist to create this book-in-blinks for you.

• Agents in the real estate industry
• Entrepreneurs who want to build their client base
• People interested in improving their sales tactics

Fanatical Prospecting (2015) is full of home truths and tips and tricks designed to help salespeople up their game – it’s the ultimate no-nonsense guide to salesmanship. The message is simple: If you want to make it as a sales superstar, you have to keep your pipeline full of leads. After all, no one’s going to hit a home run if they haven’t even made it up to the plate. Achieving this approach is exactly what these blinks will teach you how to do.

• Salespeople in the trenches and executives surveying the battlefield
• Entrepreneurs and self-starters tired of faddish, one-size-fits-all business “solutions”
• Lateral thinkers looking for insights from different fields

Talk Triggers (2018) reminds us of a truth so obvious it’s often forgotten: nothing drives customers through your doors as effectively as word-of-mouth recommendations. The trick is to strategically steer the conversation your way with carefully crafted talking points that set you apart from the competition. In these blinks, you’ll learn how to do this.

• Entrepreneurs looking to spread the word about their business
• Salespeople interested in strategy
• People working in marketing

Objections (2019) explores the secrets behind turning around common sales objections. Drawing on insights from both the business world and psychology, it shows how you can transform even the most reluctant prospect into an eager buyer. 

• Sales people looking to up their game
• Budding entrepreneurs about to pitch to investors
• Business buffs seeking fresh insights

Free Prize Inside (2004) provides practical answers to one of the most pressing questions facing marketers, entrepreneurs, and business owners today: In a world where people no longer pay attention to traditional advertising, how can you stand out from the crowd and reach your audience? Seth Godin shows that by tapping into the power of small-scale innovations, you can make your product, service, or company so remarkable, it will generate enough buzz to break through the noise of modern life. 

• Entrepreneurs seeking their next big idea  
• Marketers searching for alternatives to traditional advertising 
• Business owners wanting to give their product or service an edge

Profit First (2014) lays out the practical steps entrepreneurs can take to immediately see a positive difference in their bank accounts. These blinks explain how traditional accounting stands between businesses and the profits their owners dream of, and proposes a new approach that guarantees consistent profitability.   

• Struggling entrepreneurs who want to turn their businesses around
• Successful business owners looking to take their profits to the next level
• Accountants and financial managers interested in learning new methods

Every Job Is a Sales Job (2019) outlines why the art of selling is integral to your career, regardless of your profession. These blinks explore the benefits of integrating sales techniques into your daily interactions, and explain how to uncover hidden opportunities for selling.

• Entrepreneurs hoping to hit the ground running
• Sales professionals looking for a fresh angle
• People managers wanting to upskill their teams

They Ask You Answer (2017) describes a transformative new marketing philosophy. Rather than relying on flashy ads and keyword-stuffed articles, author Marcus Sheridan encourages companies to embrace quality online content that truly seeks to educate customers and win their trust.

• Online content creators
• Company owners who need to improve their sales
• People interested in the world of advertising

The Science of Selling (2016) is a detailed handbook on the science of making a sale. Combining insights from neuroscience and social psychology, this guide presents an evidence-based approach to making a convincing pitch.

• Salespeople looking for an extra edge
• Marketers interested in evidence-based approaches
• Folks who want to learn the neuroscience behind sales

Follow Up and Close the Sale (2020) unpacks the psychology behind why buyers buy and the power of the follow-up to make more sales. It explores tried and true selling techniques for any sales situation, providing tools anyone can use to close the sale.

• Sales professionals looking for fresh insights
• Business owners seeking to boost sales
• Anyone interested in the art of persuasion

Marketing Made Simple (2020) is a handy guide to growing your brand. This practical manual teaches a five-point system for effectively funneling new customers to your business.

• New entrepreneurs looking for a strong start
• Experienced business owners seeking new ideas
• Anyone interested in the fundamentals of marketing

New Sales. Simplified. (2012) is a guide for those charged with finding new business. It takes a look at the fundamentals and offers actionable advice and techniques to the aspiring new business salesperson.

• New business sales executives
• Sales managers
• Account managers and veteran salespeople looking to refresh their skills

Branding Between the Ears (2021) explores how marketers can apply the latest scientific insights to their branding strategy. It explores how the human brain responds to advertising, and how consumers really make the decision to buy or not to buy.

• Marketers and salespeople
• Budding entrepreneurs keen to get their venture off the ground
• Psychology buffs looking for fresh insights

How to Grow Your Small Business (2023) is your six-step flight plan to guide your business as it takes off. When Don Miller started to take his business to the next level, he realized no-one had written a reliable, step-by-step playbook for growth. Since then, his small home content business has expanded into a $20 million dollar company, so he wrote the book he wished he’d had. 

• Small Business Owners
• Entrepreneurs 
• Anyone who spends too much time putting out fires in their business

The 1-Page Marketing Plan (2018) is a streamlined, step-by-step framework for developing your own customized marketing strategy. With only one page, businesses can build and implement a marketing plan that attracts new customers and drives growth.

• Online marketing newbies
• Entrepreneurs
• Disorganized business owners

Unreasonable Hospitality (2022) illustrates how surpassing expectations can take your service-based business to the next level. Through a collection of anecdotes and firsthand experiences, it imparts valuable insights into customer service, as well as employee management.

• Hospitality professionals
• Anyone in the service industry
• Business owners and leaders

$100M Offers (2021) is a guide to creating Grand Slam Offers – big-ticket products or services that sell themselves. By breaking down the psychology of pricing and perceived value, Alex Hormozi teaches readers how to differentiate and optimize their offer until it’s irresistible. 

• Those launching their first business
• Serial entrepreneurs
• People working in sales or marketing. B

The JOLT Effect (2022) promises to shatter your understanding of sales techniques. Grounded in decades of research, this enlightening guide reveals how tackling customer indecision, not status quo bias, holds the key to sales success.

• Anyone working in sales
• Small business owners or entrepreneurs
• Consumers interested in sales techniques

Traffic Secrets (2023) reveals an explosive truth: your dream customers are primed and ready. Learn how to analyze your target audience, locate their hotspots, and capture them with evergreen growth-hacking strategies. This game-changing guide unveils precise techniques for driving consistent traffic to your funnels, laying the foundation for unstoppable online growth.

• Starving startups
• E-commerce entrepreneurs
• Online course creators

Expert Secrets is an accessible, intelligent roadmap to building a business using your unique knowledge and skills. Think you don’t have the qualifications, degrees, or certifications you “need” to start a business? You’re not alone, but you are wrong –⁠ in fact, anyone with the right amount of passion can start and run a thriving business, with the helping hand of a few expert secrets.

• Those with a passion for a particular subject
• Aspiring entrepreneurs
• Business owners searching for a leg up

Sell Or Be Sold (2011) delves into the concept that everyone is involved in sales, regardless of their profession. It outlines strategies and mindsets that can transform both seasoned sales professionals and everyday individuals into persuasive communicators and successful negotiators.

• Aspiring sales professionals seeking career enhancement strategies
• Entrepreneurs looking to boost confidence in business negotiations
• All those interested in mastering persuasive communication techniques

Sell Like Crazy ( 2019 ) is a comprehensive guide that unveils step-by-step strategies for attracting your ideal customers and converting them into loyal, high-paying clients. It presents a proven blueprint for escalating your customer acquisition efforts and outlines a consultative approach to significantly enhance conversion rates.

• Entrepreneurs seeking sales growth
• Marketers seeking conversions
• Business owners looking for new customers

Dotcom Secrets (2015) lays out proven strategies for scaling your online business by transforming how you attract and engage customers. Discover powerful techniques that go beyond traffic boosts and conversion tweaks to fix the root causes holding your business back. Packed with actionable insights, this guide will help you build systems that drive exponential growth and long-term success in the digital world.

• Aspiring entrepreneurs looking to grow their online businesses
• Digital marketers seeking advanced sales strategies and techniques
• Small business owners aiming to boost customer engagement and conversions

Gap Selling (2019) challenges traditional sales techniques that have frustrated generations of salespeople. Dispensing with platitudes, it advocates techniques that create value and establish influence throughout the sales process. Liberating salespeople from the role of order-takers beholden to capricious buyers, it provides a bold new framework for sales success in the modern era. 

• Sales professionals looking to improve their skills and effectiveness
• Business owners wanting to increase sales and revenue
• Anyone in a client-facing role aiming to build trust and relationships

80/20 Sales and Marketing (2013) hands you a magic lens so you can zoom in on what truly matters in your business. Uncover how to focus just 20 percent of your efforts to unlock 80 percent of your profit. Get ready to amplify your impact and ditch the grind.

• Entrepreneurs seeking efficient growth strategies
• Salespeople optimizing client outreach
• Marketers refining campaign effectiveness

Elite Sales Strategies (2022) is a guide designed to catapult you from being a typical salesperson to a trusted consultant. It dives into the One-Up strategy that not only sells but also connects and provides value to clients.

• Salespeople seeking to progress from average to elite through new strategies
• Seasoned sales pros wanting to sharpen their skills and learn modern tactics
• Anyone into sales

$100M Leads (2023) is a proven playbook for attracting more leads than you’ll know what to do with. Through step-by-step frameworks and cutting-edge tactics, it shows you how to build self-sustaining marketing machines that convert at record rates.

• Fledgling founders who want to make their dream business work
• Experienced entrepreneurs who struggle with advertising and marketing
• Seasoned salespeople who want to level up their strategies

Competing Against Luck (2016) challenges you to rethink innovation and growth through what is known as the jobs to be done theory. This transformative concept invites you to understand on a deeper level why customers make the choices they do, thereby helping you shape how you develop and market your products or services. Dive into a world where success hinges not on luck but on a profound comprehension of your customer’s true needs and desires.

• Business leaders seeking innovative growth strategies
• Entrepreneurs exploring customer-centric product development
• Marketing professionals interested in consumer behavior insights

Sales Pitch (2024) emphasizes the importance of distinctive marketing in a competitive marketplace. It offers guidance for entrepreneurs, salespeople, and business leaders on crafting compelling sales narratives – and provides a step-by-step method to help build a sales pitch structure that supports confident customer decisions and solid market positioning. 

• Entrepreneurs and salespeople who want to identify and understand their target audience
• Marketers and business leaders looking to create compelling sales pitches through storytelling 
• Anyone seeking to overcome objections and close deals

Power Questions (2012) equips you with strategic questions to transform conversations, redefine problems, and forge deep connections in both professional and personal realms. It presents real-life dialogues with CEOs and influential figures, each demonstrating the impact of incisive questions – and teaches you to harness questioning as a tool for influence, understanding, and meaningful engagement.

• Business leaders seeking deeper client connections
• Sales professionals aiming to enhance customer engagement
• Personal development enthusiasts seeking insightful questioning techniques

Uncommon Service (2012) unveils an innovative approach to conquering the business world. It emphasizes excellence in customer service by making strategic trade-offs and focussing on what the customers value most.

• Startup founders
• Customer relationship managers
• Strategy consultants

Million Dollar Weekend (2024) offers a deep dive into converting entrepreneurial dreams into concrete successes. Through riveting insights, you’ll be guided on how to overcome the fear of starting, embrace the power of asking, and leverage every rejection as a stepping stone toward your goals. All of this will set you on a path of exponential growth and lasting impact in the entrepreneurial world.

• Aspiring entrepreneurs seeking practical startup advice
• Digital marketers looking for growth hacking techniques
• Small business owners interested in community building

Better Brand Health (2023) draws on decades of extensive academic research on brand management to offer practical insights and strategies for assessing and improving brand health.

• Marketing managers and executives looking to improve their brand performance
• Business owners and entrepreneurs seeking to build and maintain strong, healthy brands
• Consultants and agency professionals who advise clients on brand strategy

Email Marketing Demystified (2015) is a comprehensive guide to building a substantial mailing list, crafting compelling copy, and generating increased sales through email marketing. It delves into strategies for capturing email addresses, engaging with subscribers effectively, and optimizing key metrics such as open rates and click-through rates to maximize marketing success.

• Small business owners exploring digital marketing strategies
• Marketing professionals seeking to enhance email campaigns
• Bloggers and content creators building subscriber bases

CMO to CRO (2021) presents a groundbreaking approach to transform the role of the Chief Marketing Officer into a powerful force for driving revenue growth and delivering exceptional customer experiences. It offers a roadmap to breaking down departmental silos, aligning customer-facing teams around a common goal, and harnessing the power of CX technology to gain a competitive edge in today’s ever-changing business landscape.

• Chief marketing officers looking to expand their influence and drive revenue growth within their organizations
• Aspiring marketing leaders seeking strategies to advance their careers 
• Business owners and entrepreneurs seeking to optimize their marketing efforts

Coach Builder (2024) presents an essential guide for professionals aspiring to transition into the coaching and consulting industry, offering an 8-step strategy designed to ensure success. It’s particularly valuable for those who have realized their current careers don’t offer the security or fulfillment they seek and are looking to leverage their expertise into a profitable consulting career. It outlines practical steps to establish a consulting business, from creating a service menu and attracting ideal clients to setting realistic goals and building supportive communities, making it an indispensable resource for aspiring coaches.

• Aspiring coaches seeking a career transition
• Established coaches who want to improve their offerings
• Personal development enthusiasts exploring new career paths

Linked (2022) offers practical advice on how to use LinkedIn effectively for career development. It provides strategic tips on optimizing profiles, engaging with the right networks, and unlocking new job opportunities through the platform. The guide emphasizes the importance of a well-curated online presence in today’s digital job market.

• Job seekers looking to enhance online profiles
• College students preparing for the job market
• Professionals interested in expanding their networks

Quantum Marketing (2021) explains the revolutionary marketing strategies necessary for businesses to remain relevant in today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape. From managing the explosion of data to forging strategic partnerships, it offers a thought-provoking guide to navigating the challenges and opportunities presented by this new era of business.

• Marketing professionals seeking to stay ahead of the curve in an ever-changing industry
• Entrepreneurs aiming to understand and leverage cutting-edge marketing strategies
• Consumers curious about how marketing will shape their interactions with brands in the coming years

Day Trading Attention (2024) explores innovative advertising strategies tailored to the digital age, emphasizing the importance of social media in building a brand. Geared toward helping you leverage content creation and distribution, it focuses on practical steps for harnessing the power of social media platforms to gain consumer attention effectively.

• Entrepreneurs seeking innovative digital marketing strategies
• Business owners interested in leveraging social media for growth
• Marketing professionals aiming to enhance content creation and distribution

How to Master the Art of Selling (1979) provides a comprehensive guide to effective selling techniques and strategies. It emphasizes the importance of mastering the basics of selling to achieve success in the profession. 

• Aspiring salespeople seeking to learn proven sales techniques
• Experienced sales professionals wanting to refine their skills
• Individuals interested in personal and professional growth in sales

Building Your Money Machine with ChatGPT (2024) opens up new possibilities for online business using AI to streamline tasks and spark creativity. It shows you how ChatGPT can assist in automating your marketing, generating fresh ideas, and increasing productivity. This guide is your key to transforming AI into a valuable business partner.

• Small business owners seeking AI-driven marketing and productivity enhancements
• Freelancers looking to streamline tasks and boost creativity
• Entrepreneurs exploring innovative tools to grow their online presence

Sell Like a Spy (2024) reveals how the clandestine strategies used by intelligence operatives to master the art of persuasion and negotiation can be applied to sales and client relations. It offers a unique blend of espionage lore and practical advice, transforming ordinary interactions into powerful opportunities for influence and success. 

• Sales professionals
• Business leaders and managers
• Anyone involved in negotiations

Hook Point (2020) explores strategies for capturing attention in a world dominated by micro-attention spans, where content has only three seconds to make an impact. It introduces the concept of “hook points,” which are succinct, attention-grabbing messages that help brands stand out amidst the daily barrage of digital stimuli. Through real-world examples, it provides tools to effectively communicate and market content, ensuring sustained growth and brand recognition in both digital and offline spaces.

• Digital marketers who need to create impactful content
• Entrepreneurs who want to share their value proposition with the market
• Content creators looking for effective ways to connect with their audience

Hope Is Not a Strategy (2003) offers a strategic framework for handling complex sales, emphasizing that success depends on more than just closing skills. It outlines a six-step process for identifying prospects’ needs, qualifying opportunities, and building competitive advantages, all aimed at increasing sales effectiveness.

• Sales professionals managing complex, high-stakes deals with multiple stakeholders
• Account managers seeking to build long-term client relationships
• Business leaders aiming to improve their team’s sales strategy

The Brand Benefits Playbook (2024) is a strategic guide tailor-made for organizations looking to harness brand benefits for a competitive edge in the marketplace. It emphasizes the crucial role of recognizing and clearly expressing both the tangible and intangible benefits a brand provides. Focusing on these benefits can greatly boost customer loyalty and strengthen brand positioning.

• Marketing professionals seeking strategic branding insights
• Business leaders aiming for competitive market positioning
• Entrepreneurs interested in brand-driven growth strategies

Cold Calling Sucks (And That’s Why It Works) (2024) equips you with practical strategies to conquer your fear of cold calling and thrive in sales. Through a step-by-step breakdown, industry-specific examples, and real-world data, you’ll learn how to master the first 60 seconds, overcome objections, and book more meetings. Embrace the challenge, and you might just find yourself among the top performers who succeed where others give up.

• Sales professionals looking to improve their cold calling techniques
• New sales reps seeking actionable frameworks for outreach success
• Entrepreneurs wanting to build stronger pipelines and close more deals

Winning at Sales (2025) is a comprehensive guide to mastering the art of influence and growing personal income through sales. Drawing from extensive experience, it offers practical models, frameworks, and scripts to help you connect with others and inspire decisions that benefit both parties. Whether you're new to sales or a seasoned pro, it reveals how to sell with authenticity, respect, and emotional intelligence.

• Aspiring sales professionals seeking practical strategies for success
• Seasoned salespeople looking to sharpen their influence skills
• Entrepreneurs aiming to build trust and close deals

The Introvert’s Edge to Networking (2021) explores the strengths and advantages that quieter personalities can bring to professional interactions, showing how genuine relationships can be formed without resorting to small talk or high-pressure tactics. By reframing the concept of networking, it provides simple strategies to build confidence and create meaningful connections in an authentic, introvert-friendly way.

• Introverted professionals
• Salespeople refining their communication skills
• Career changers looking for authentic networking approaches 

Building a StoryBrand 2.0 (2025) reveals a proven seven-part framework for cutting through marketing noise by turning your business message into a compelling story. The book shows how to position your customer as the hero, your business as the trusted guide, and create clear paths to success that drive meaningful action. 

• Business owners and entrepreneurs looking to make their marketing more effective
• Marketing professionals seeking fresh approaches to connect with customers
• Anyone with a business struggling to stand out in crowded markets

Eat What You Kill (2025) transforms you from a passive order-taker into an unstoppable sales force by tapping into your inner carnivore. Through proven techniques for must-have skills like building pipelines, crafting bulletproof pitches, and turning rejection into fuel, you'll discover how to break through your perceived limits and close more deals than ever before.

• Salespeople looking to break free from limiting mindsets
• Entrepreneurs who want to build stronger revenue streams
• Business leaders ready to transform passive teams into hunters

Endless Customers (2025) presents a practical framework for helping businesses become the most trusted and recognized brands in their markets. It shows how aligning content creation, sales strategies, technology, and company culture can drive sustainable growth, especially in an era shaped by AI and digital transformation. It will equip you to build an organization that consistently attracts and retains loyal customers.

• Business owners who want to build lasting customer trust
• Marketing teams seeking a proven content-driven growth strategy
• Sales leaders aiming to reduce friction and close faster

Loved (2022) uncovers the true potential of product marketing, showing how industry leaders use product marketing to shape market perception and category definition. Great product marketing goes beyond sales support to inspire others to tell your product’s story, transforming also-rans into market leaders.

• Product marketers looking for leading insights
• Sales reps who want to transform product features into compelling stories
• Start-up founders who want to position their product for market success

Be the Go-To (2020) introduces the Apollo Method, a four-phase strategic framework for achieving market dominance. It guides businesses in carving out a unique position, igniting demand, delivering exceptional value, and scaling with clarity and control. The method offers a practical path to becoming the first name that customers think of in a crowded marketplace.

• Entrepreneurs building standout market positions
• Executives facing price-driven competition
• Marketers driving premium brand growth

Key Person of Influence (2014) reveals that every industry centers around influential figures who attract opportunities and command higher earnings. It provides a roadmap for becoming one of these pivotal people and fast-tracking your way into the inner circle of your field, through a process of systematic influence-building.

• Entrepreneurs seeking attention from investors, partners, or customers 
• Freelancers and consultants who want to command premium rates
• Ambitious professionals seeking to advance in any new field 

The Sales Skills Book (2024) offers a practical introduction to essential sales techniques, from building customer relationships to closing deals effectively. It emphasizes actionable tools like scripts, templates, and exercises to help readers apply key strategies in real-world sales situations. Designed for both beginners and those looking to sharpen their skills, it focuses on communication, negotiation, and value-based selling.

• Aspiring B2B sales professionals seeking practical guidance
• Ambitious team leads aiming to coach effectively
• Anyone interested in mastering persuasive communication

Lean Marketing (2024) addresses the frustration entrepreneurs face when expensive, complex campaigns fail to deliver results. It applies manufacturing efficiency principles to marketing, showing how to eliminate wasteful practices while creating genuinely valuable customer touchpoints. It focuses on precise targeting, meaningful metrics, and building authentic relationships rather than interrupting potential customers with irrelevant messages.

• Startup founders tired of burning cash on ineffective advertising 
• Small business owners struggling against competitors with bigger budgets
• Anyone in business looking to align product, marketing, and sales

Wealthy and Well-Known (2025) reveals how you can transform your unique expertise into a powerful personal brand that generates both influence and revenue. This actionable guide combines personal insights with data-driven strategies to help you align your personal values with a profitable business model. 

• Experts and thought leaders who struggle to gain visibility in a crowded marketplace
• Entrepreneurs looking to transform their personal reputation into increased revenue 
• Content creators who want to build authentic personal brands

Pitch (2024) transforms the traditional approach to presenting ideas from a dreaded necessity into an opportunity for creative engagement. It explores how successful persuasion relies on emotion and surprise rather than dull presentation slides. It shows how, no matter the context, persuasion is about crafting memorable experiences that resonate emotionally with your audience.

• Entrepreneurs and founders seeking investment or partnerships
• Consultants and freelancers pitching their services
• Anyone whose work requires them to persuade others

Conversations That Win the Complex Sale (2011) provides a new playbook for succeeding in a world where your biggest competitor isn’t another company, but your customer’s own inertia. You’ll discover how to stop competing on features and start provoking your customer to change by telling a compelling story. By reframing the conversation to make your customer the hero, you can create urgency, differentiate your solution, and close more deals.

• Sales professionals struggling to stand out in commoditized markets
• Marketing leaders aiming to create messages that salespeople will actually use
• Business executives who need to drive growth through differentiation

Selling to the Old Brain (2003) explains how people make decisions using the oldest part of the brain, which is driven by emotion, survival, and instinct – not logic. It presents a set of tools to craft messages that connect with this primal decision-maker using visual cues, emotional hooks, and simple, high-contrast language. The goal is to help anyone become more persuasive by communicating in a way the brain is wired to respond to.

• Sales professionals who want more impact
• Marketers crafting persuasive campaigns
• Entrepreneurs pitching to investors or clients

The Three Value Conversations (2015) explains how sales professionals can win complex deals by mastering three critical types of conversations: creating differentiation, justifying investment, and capturing maximum value. It provides practical frameworks and storytelling techniques to guide prospects through the buying journey. By focusing on value rather than price, it helps sellers build stronger cases and protect margins.

• Ambitious B2B sales professionals seeking stronger deal outcomes
• Strategic sales managers aiming to improve team performance
• Business-minded readers interested in persuasive customer conversations

Me, My Customer, and AI (2025) explores how entrepreneurs can harness artificial intelligence to experiment faster, reduce barriers to entry, and build more customer-focused businesses. It shows how AI can act as a co-pilot for founders, supporting innovation while leaving space for the human qualities of empathy and insight. With practical frameworks and exercises, it helps translate AI’s potential into sustainable competitive advantage.

• Ambitious startup founders seeking AI-driven growth
• Experienced business leaders modernizing customer strategies
• Anyone eager to understand entrepreneurship today

CustomerCentric Selling (2004) flips the script on traditional sales. It shows how to go from pitching products to having conversations that actually matter to decision-makers. You’ll get a repeatable way to uncover a buyer’s goals and guide them to a solution they fully own. The result is stronger pipelines, shorter sales cycles, and a sales process that’s a true competitive advantage.

• Sales professionals tired of losing deals
• Sales managers looking for a repeatable process to coach their teams
• Marketing leaders aiming to create content that salespeople actually use

Marketplace Dignity (2024) argues that customers seek dignity – being seen, able to choose, and treated fairly – from the organizations they interact with. It presents a practical framework to embed representation, agency, and equality into products, services, and customer journeys, improving both human and business outcomes.

• Customer-obsessed product managers and service designers
• Mission-driven nonprofit and public-sector leaders
• Anyone seeking insights into dignified customer experience

The Sales Bible: New Edition (2014) serves as a comprehensive resource for sales professionals seeking practical strategies and techniques to improve their selling abilities. It presents a collection of methods gathered from decades of field experience, emphasizing that effective selling should be grounded in maintaining a positive attitude, possessing strong product knowledge, and delivering exceptional customer service. The approach centers on building genuine relationships with customers and recognizing that people prefer to buy rather than be sold to.

• Anyone looking to boost their sales skills quickly
• Professionals who want stronger client relationships
• Entrepreneurs seeking practical, no-nonsense business advice

B2B Customer Experience (2018) is a practical handbook that guides organizations through creating and delivering exceptional customer experiences specifically within the business-to-business sector. It walks you through five key stages – planning, mapping, structuring, implementing, and controlling an effective B2B customer experience strategy.

• B2B sales and marketing managers looking to boost customer loyalty and competitive advantage
• Business leaders seeking practical frameworks to improve client relationships and retention strategies
• Customer service professionals who need to understand emotional engagement in corporate business settings

Exceptional Experiences (2025) shows how the principles of luxury industries, which are focused on creating exceptional experiences rather than products, can actually be applied to any business. By deploying the five “luxury levers” – entice, invite, excite, delight, ignite – you can differentiate your business, drive profitability, and transform your client relationships.

• Business owners ready to build a fanatically loyal client base
• Sales professionals who want to move from the transactional to the transformational
• Marketers who want to elevate their brand through an experiential approach

AI Strategy for Sales and Marketing (2025) gives you a strategic framework for the shift from basic automation to the human-centered collaboration of Industry 5.0. It walks you through agentic commerce, hyper-personalization, and ethical governance so you can build a business that's both resilient and future-ready. You'll learn how to put intelligence into action – driving sustainable growth, building deep trust, and creating customer relationships that actually mean something.

• Marketing executives working through the shift to automated customer engagement
• Business leaders looking to put artificial intelligence strategies into practice
• Sales directors who want to understand autonomous go-to-market engines

Relationship Currency (2025) presents five communication habits designed to help leaders, salespeople, and entrepreneurs develop meaningful business connections. It provides practical techniques for asking intentional questions, listening deeply, cultivating authentic charisma, and telling compelling stories that inspire action while building trust. Through frameworks grounded in psychology and real-world business experience, it offers a guide for creating lasting professional relationships that drive influence and business success.

• Professionals wanting to strengthen their networking skills
• Sales teams looking to build authentic client relationships
• People who struggle with small talk and meaningful conversations

Etsy Empire by Eric Michael is a comprehensive guide to building a successful business on Etsy. It offers practical tips and strategies for creating a standout shop, optimizing product listings, and effectively marketing your products. Whether you're a seasoned seller or just starting out, this book provides valuable insights to help you grow your Etsy empire.

• Entrepreneurs looking to start or grow their Etsy business

• Artists and crafters who want to turn their passion into a profitable venture

• Individuals interested in learning about online marketing and e-commerce

How to Become a Rainmaker by Jeffrey J. Fox is a practical guide for anyone looking to excel in sales and business. Filled with valuable insights and actionable strategies, this book teaches you how to identify opportunities, build relationships, and close deals like a true rainmaker. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting out, this book will help you unleash your potential and achieve extraordinary success.

• Individuals looking to enhance their sales skills and become top performers
• Professionals seeking proven strategies for generating business and cultivating relationships
• Entrepreneurs and business owners aiming to increase their revenue and expand their client base