For salespeople, prospecting is as important as it is difficult. For some, it's downright terrifying -- especially the cold calling. Knock Your Socks Off Prospecting shares the hard-won, in-the-trenches prospecting and cold-calling secrets of the most successful salespeople -- in the trademark, fun style of the best-selling Knock Your Socks Off series. This practical book gives sales people renewed energy for a critical (yet often dreaded) phase of the sales cycle. Knock Your Socks Off Prospecting shows how to approach prospecting more positively and productively, and how to maximize return on prospecting efforts. Features include:

* Practical, logical, and easy-to-use tools
* Step-by-step skill-building exercises
* A combination of research and "feet on the street" wisdom
* Real stories and lively anecdotes that prove the power of Knock Your Socks Off Prospecting

Salespeople will gain priceless insight on improving communications, identifying prospects, maximizing their time (the "Powerhour" approach), networking, and more. Destined to be another Knock Your Socks Off classic, this book reveals techniques that will make any sales professional's efforts more enjoyable -- and much more profitable....

Few sales managers are true managers, often falling back on the skills that made them great at sales. This essential book, now updated with strategies in line with the changes in sales since the book's original publication, provides readers with a proven method for managing the sales process, as well as the salespeople. This title is packed with specific, field-tested techniques. Packed with all new metrics and tactics for making the numbers in today's competitive sales environment, this is an important resource no sales manager should be without....

Building on the concrete advice and practical, powerful strategies revealed in its predecessor, More ProActive Sales Management provides harried sales managers with a proven method for managing the sales process and their people. Packed with specific, field-tested techniques, this helpful guide focuses on the five primary areas in which mistakes occur: internal team decisions, upward decisions, sales decisions, infrastructure decisions, and decisions regarding the manager himself. Readers will learn how to:

regain control of their time • create a proactive sales culture • motivate a sales team • use simple yet powerful metrics • weed out failures quickly • coach and counsel up and down the sales organization • reduce reports to one sheet of paper and 10 minutes a week • forecast more confidently

This book shows sales managers at every level how to manage for great results!

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