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In today's turbulent and volatile marketplace, even the most experienced professionals are struggling with the rapid commoditization of their complex, high-value solutions. The complexity of the problems to be solved and the competitive threats we face are increasing at an alarming rate. At the same time, your customers are wrestling with mission-critical decisions and evaluating solutions that all sound the same and come packaged with a high degree of risk and a low probability of success. Your success demands an exceptional strategy and precise execution that must clearly set you apart from your competition.

Unsure how to differentiate yourself in a busy market without slashing profits? Worried weak sales skills will doom your small business efforts? Need to generate higher ticket averages and fewer callbacks? Joe Crisara was once a struggling home service contractor. He’s now a worldwide educator, entrepreneur, and author who is inspiring everyone from startup managers to Fortune 1000 companies with his unique process. And now he’s ready to reveal his trusted playbook to help you double your income while staying confident in your ethics.

Whether you work at a startup or a large, established company, we all know that building great products is hard. Most new products fail. The Lean Product Playbook helps improve your chances of building successful products through clear, step-by-step guidance and advice. The Lean Startup movement has contributed new, valuable ideas about product development and has generated lots of excitement. However, many companies have yet to adopt Lean thinking. Despite their enthusiasm and familiarity with the concepts, many teams run into challenges trying to adopt Lean because they lack guidance.

Discover network marketing secrets to grow your business, such as taprooting, the art of sponsoring a circle of influence, how to grow your business through social media, how to utilize events and expos, creating a recruiting mindset, and much more.

In the old days, when we made physical products, setting project goals wasn’t that hard. But in today’s service - and software-driven world, “done” is less obvious. When is Amazon done? When is Google done? Or Facebook? In reality, services powered by digital systems are never done. So then how do we give teams a goal that they can work on? Mostly, we simply ask teams to build features - but features are the wrong way to go. We often build features that create no value. Instead, we need to give teams an outcome to achieve.

Here’s the deal: At its core, selling isn’t about sleazy tactics, convincing your prospects, or any tips or tricks. True selling has very specific steps and stages, a process. One that leaves your customer feeling happy and helped.

In a post-pandemic, up or down economy, it's harder than ever to meet highly complex and ever-changing customer expectations. The top-selling Marketing For Dummies covers basics like sales strategy, channel selection and development, pricing, and advertising. We also teach you complex elements like personalization, customer behavior, purchasing trends, ESG ratings, and market influences. With this complete guide, you can build a business that not only competes in a challenging market, but wins.

The best-selling author of Big Data is back, this time with a unique and in-depth insight into how specific companies use big data. Big data is on the tip of everyone's tongue. Everyone understands its power and importance, but many fail to grasp the actionable steps and resources required to utilise it effectively. This book fills the knowledge gap by showing how major companies are using big data every day, from an up-close, on-the-ground perspective.

Value-Added Selling (Fourth Edition) offers proven strategies and tactics to help you not only close more sales, but improve repeat business without compromising on price. You'll learn how to anticipate the needs, wants, and concerns of buyers from the very beginning of the sales process. The book shows how to compete more profitably by selling value, not price.

In Pick Up the Phone and Sell: How Proactive Calls to Customers and Prospects Can Double Your Sales, sales expert, consultant, and Wall Street Journal best-selling author Alex Goldfayn delivers a comprehensive road map to one of the most important weapons in any salesperson's arsenal: the phone. From the author of Selling Boldly and 5-Minute Selling, the book teaches you techniques to supercharge your sales by making the proactive call the tip of your selling spear.

The hottest single audio ever created in the Network Marketing Industry! Subjects include awakening to the opportunity, profits are better than wages, the magic of part-time selling, the Law of Averages, the Law of Reaping and Sowing, developing new skills, working together, communication, presentation and testimonials, deserve vs. need, how your skills determine your future, and living a good life.

Years ago, developing and sustaining a book of business was not as big a problem for accountants, attorneys, financial planners, and other professionals as it is today. Clients were more loyal to the firms they worked with, and unlikely to shop your services, compare rates, or jump ship. Times have changed! And if you don't change along with them...well, you're not going to enjoy yourself or have as much control over your career as you deserve. Believe it or not, you can enjoy the process of expanding your client base.

FINALLY! Build an affiliate business that’s so lasting, simple, & profitable you could sell it for millions… This book contains the simple systems and secrets that took me from living in my parents' basement to building lasting affiliate businesses that make me $10,000,000+ per year. Want to know the secret sauce? Pay-per call.

Storyshowing is an instruction manual for making connections. Storytelling has been shown to be one of the most effective methods of persuasion, motivation, and inspiration, yet the disconnect remains - you're still only telling. To truly influence people, you need to go deeper than that - you need to show them your story. By inviting your audience in, you connect on a much deeper, more emotional level; you bypass the brain and connect at the root of what it means to be human, leaving a profound impact on their entire outlook.

The latest book from Dr. Direct™ will show you how to master online advertising and enhance your social media strategies. This is the perfect companion to the author’s bestselling book Ca$hvertising. Cashvertising revealed the secrets of ad agencies to the masses. With Cashvertising Online, Whitman reveals even more and how to implement his advice in clear-language to increase your bottom line.

Hopper shares 50 lessons to help you overcome your mental blocks, find your work-life balance, and achieve the career of your dreams. No matter where you are on your freelance journey, the five sections on getting started, pitching, doing the work, caring for clients, and finding work-life balance have something for everyone. With short chapters and practical advice, What Gives You the Right to Freelance? is sure to help creative folks make more money and love their work.

Imagine having a large list of happy readers/listeners who devoured every email you sent. Or launching a book and activating an army of fans who did the selling for you. You could be that person, with the help of Newsletter Ninja. Newsletter Ninja is a comprehensive resource designed to teach you how to build and maintain a strongly engaged email list - one full of actual fans willing to pay for the books you write, rather than free-seekers who will forget your name and never open your emails.

This bundle provides the essential hacks and secrets to establishing a successful online presence, from understanding YouTube algorithms to optimizing website rankings and driving organic traffic. With this guide, you will learn to create engaging content that hooks and sells, make money as a video influencer, use hashtags effectively to build an influential Instagram presence and leverage the unique features of TikTok and Twitch to monetize content.

Stuck in a "win-win versus win-lose" mind-set, most negotiators focus on the face-to-face process at the table. David Lax and James Sebenius urge bargainers to look beyond tactics at the table. Persuasive tactics are only the "first dimension" of the authors' path-breaking approach, developed from their decades of doing deals and analyzing great dealmakers.

The Business of Glamping and Unique Holiday Rentals, with Sarah Riley, covers exactly what it takes to build a successful vacation rental in the luxury hospitality industry. With masterclasses, advice, interviews and inspirations to give you ideas and business tips to help you invest, plan and build your holiday retreat sites. This includes treehouses, canvas tents, geodesic domes, safari tents, yurts, architecturally designed structures, pods, tiny homes and everything in between, involving the experience-focused glamping business marketplace. In fact, in this niche serviced accommodation ...