Sales is all about negotiation. Price. Delivery. Terms.

And every day, salespeople leave money on the table. They just don’t have the skills to get what they want. Now Stephan Schiffman, drawing on years of experience, shows you how to nail the sale, hit quotas, and boost the bottom line. Schiffman-style negotiation is all about getting the best deal. And he outlines specific techniques to get there.

Things can be tough out there. But with Schiffman’s negotiation skills in your pocket, you can do battle and win....

Follow the advice of Stephan Schiffman-America's #1 Corporate Sales Trainer-and take your career to the next level. This special anniversary edition of his perennial bestseller, Cold Calling Techniques (That Really Work!), provides you with all of the right tools for turning prospects into meetings, and meetings into big sales.

This easy-to-follow guide will help you beat today's cold calling obstacles such as voicemail, caller ID, cell phones, and e-mail. Schiffman's professional experience and corporate wisdom guarantee your future success. Providing online resources, the anniversary edition of Cold Calling Techniques packs in plenty of potential leads to help you hunt down more business.

Give yourself the edge. Cold Calling Techniques is the one book you need to make your sales opportunities better, pitches stronger, and commissions greater....

Book Description

Having trouble closing your deals?
Hitting a frustrating plateau with your sales numbers?
Feel that upselling is a lost cause?

Let sales guru Stephan Schiffman drive your sales pitches up a notch with his tried-and-true techniques-and get results immediately! Stephan Schiffman's Sales Essentials includes time-tested tips on:

* Mastering the cold call
* Using e-mail as a selling tool
* Raising the steaks to "up" your next buy
* Closing the deal-every time!

Plus! You'll also find 50 surefire questions to ask to make deal after deal, year after year. Packed with insider information you need to beat the competition, you can't afford not to read Stephan Schiffman's Sales Essentials!...

Many salespeople can line up prospects, recite the benefits of their product or service, and stir the interest of their client. But when it comes to actually closing the deal, they fail and the sale falls apart. That’s where sales guru Stephan Schiffman comes in—and saves the sale. In this book, Schiffman reveals the pioneering techniques that have helped more than half a million salespeople nail the sales that matter. This book includes chapters on: the four words to avoid during meetings; why salespeople shouldn’t mix business with pleasure; the most important word when closing a sale; and working existing accounts....

"Steve Schiffman is a great source of practical, real-life, results-oriented insights. You can read his books again and again."
-Patricia C. Simpson, Vice President, Chemical Bank

"Steve's techniques are practical, relevant, and easy to apply. Read this book and put his ideas to use."
-Andrea Becker-Arnold, Director, Corporate Sales Training, U.S. Healthcare

Now you can join the hundreds of thousands of salespeople who have followed Stephen Schiffman's advice and watch your performance soar. Schiffman lets you in on the industry's best-kept secrets.

Learn how to:

• Convert leads to sales
• Motivate yourself and motivate others
• Give killer presentations
• Keep your sense of humor

This new edition includes:

• New examples using the latest advances in sales presentation technology
• Up-to-date cases of these successful habits in action
• Five bonus habits showing readers how to overcome mistakes, set sales timetables, and reexamine processes to shore up weaknesses

If you're a salesperson looking to succeed, this is the book for you!

Stephen Schiffman has trained more than a half-million salespeople at firms such as AT&T, Information Systems, Chemical Bank, Manufacturer's Hanover Trust, Motorola, and U.S. Health Care. He is president of D.E.I. Management Group and the author of such bestselling books as Cold Calling Techniques (That Really Work!) and Closing Techniques (That Really Work!).Do you put off until tomorrow what you should do today? Until next week? Until next month? Forever?

Don't worry. Help is here.

In this quick and practical guide, time management expert Jeff Davidson offers a plan to overcome procrastinators' syndrome once and for all!

Davidson shows you how to:

• Use the computer as a tool to get motivated
• Minimize office distractions like noise and co-workers
• Take on the hard stuff first
• Break through blockage and complete your to-do list

With these sixty practical tips you can get motivated, get organized, and get going-starting now!

Jeff Davidson is the author of numerous books, including The 60 Second Self-Starter and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Time, as well as the audiobook The Power of Simplicity. Davidson, a resident of Chapel Hill, NC, is also a noted professional speaker. Visit his Web site at www.BreathingSpace.com....

In today's sales environment, upselling is more than a "nice extra"-it's an integral part of your sales pitch and possibly built into your quotas. So how can you do your best to maximize this important area of your job?

In Upselling Techniques (That Really Work!), America's # 1 corporate sales trainer Stephan Schiffman gives you a complete system for developing and executing successful upselling plans for new and existing accounts-without pushing the envelope too far. This must-have guide includes time-tested strategies that will help you:

Increase the size of your average sale

Develop a unique strategic plan for important customers

Position yourself as an irreplaceable business ally

Fend off the competition, hold on to the account . . . and expand its value over time!

Upselling Techniques (That Really Work!) is the only book you need to boost sales, build relationships, and increase your bottom line....

Sales Guru Stephan Schiffman shows you how to give your presentation the ultimate "wow" factor. In a business world moving at the speed of Blackberries and Bluetooth, Sales Presentation Techniques teaches you how to get and keep your audience's attention. You will be ready to tackle the toughest boardrooms and conference halls after learning . . .

• The dos and don'ts of PowerPoint
• How to properly prepare the day of your presentation
• Strategic differences between presenting to an individual versus a group
• The correct way to handle distractions
• How to maintain and grow client relations
• And much more

Regarded as America's #1 Salesperson, Schiffman promises to make your presentations sharper and more effective. Thereby making your sales-and commissions-much greater.

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Times are tough all over. Wall Street is shivering and consumer confidence is dropping like a rock. Yet it’s possible for the enterprising salesperson to still gain prospects, sign new clients, and close the deal. All it takes is persistence, energy, some new thinking, and the advice of Stephan Schiffman, American’s top corporate sales trainer. Schiffman shows you how to:

• Treat customers individually
  
• Make life easier for customers in bad times
  
• Show that bad times won’t last forever
  
• Reorient their thinking now to prepare for the future
  

Across America, the sales landscape is changing swiftly. But even in an economic downturn, salespeople can survive—and thrive! The key to success is to learn how to sell when no one is buying....