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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. Every day more than 15 million people earn their keep by persuading someone else to make a purchase. But dig deeper and a startling truth emerges: Yes, one in nine Americans works in sales. But so do the other eight. Whether we’re employees pitching colleagues on a new idea, entrepreneurs enticing funders to invest, or parents and teachers cajoling children to study, we spend our days trying to move others.

Why are you struggling to grow your business when everyone else seems to be crushing their goals? If you needed to triple revenue within the next three years, would you know exactly how to do it? Doubling the size of your business, tripling it, even growing 10 times larger isn't about magic. It's not about privileges, luck, or working harder. There's a template that the world's fastest-growing companies follow to achieve and sustain much, much faster growth.

In this new book from the best-selling author of Drive, Dan Pink explores the ways in which we can all improve our sales skills in every area of our lives and identifies the three personal qualities and four essential skills necessary to move people. Relying on science rather than platitudes and analysis instead of exhortation, Dan builds on his own sales experience and on the profiles of some of the world's best salespeople - and makes us look again at our own sales skills.

Seth Godin, one of today's most influential business thinkers, writes best-selling books like Purple Cow and All Marketers Are Liars. And in between those annual books, he delivers a daily stream of ideas on one of the world's most popular blogs.

Direct selling is booming. It's no surprise when you consider the benefits of launching a direct selling business: low startup costs, strong earning potential, and a flexible work schedule. Currently an estimated 15.6 million people are involved in direct selling in the US alone - and more than 100 million worldwide.

If You Want to Get Rich, Build a Power Niche explains in easy-to-understand terms a very simple but effective way to augment the sales and marketing program of almost any individual and company. From startups to larger established companies and firms, this technique can be used by individuals at the beginning of their careers or by sales superstars who want to do even better.

Jeffrey Gitomer's The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way digs deep into the 9.5 elements that make persuasion, and getting your way, happen. By breaking down the elements, the listener will begin to understand, take action, become proficient, and then master the ability to persuade. Because persuasion occurs in so many different areas of life and business, Gitomer leads the listener from mental readiness to the principles of getting your way and the power that persuasion offers.

Now You Know will transform the way you think about sales. Are you a sales achiever? Do you sometimes feel like you haven't quite figured it out? Are you performing at the highest levels in your personal and professional life? If not, get ready, because Now You Know is an audiobook that will move you from an average salesperson to a top 5 percent sales master! You can read and memorize all the pitches, scripts, and closing tips you want, but without applying these seven laws, you are destined for mediocrity at best.

Negotiation is the middle ground between capitulation and stonewalling, a back and forth between two parties trying to reach agreement. If a price or other term is nonnegotiable, there is no give and take, just "take it or leave it". You may think you are negotiating, but if the other side isn't playing, you aren't either. Regardless of the industry, situation, or product, the two most common mistakes negotiators make are: 1. They give ground too easily, and 2. They get nothing in return.

Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest are changing the way consumers make purchasing decisions...and tapping into these online communities has become a necessary part of any integrated sales strategy. Citing enlightening research and real-world examples, this smart, practical guide presents listeners with a detailed methodology for growing sales and expanding their customer base using social media.

To make money on social media, you must view social media as an income stream and not a vague "marketing channel", and you must position yourself and/or your company as selling the solution to your audience's "problem". In this 2-in-1 book collection, you'll learn exactly how to do that. This book includes the two popular books Instagram Income: How Solo Entrepreneurs and Small Companies Can Make Money on IG and Likes and Don't Pay Bills: How to Leverage Social Media to Get Leads and Customers.

Now You Know will transform the way you think about sales. Are you a sales achiever? Do you sometimes feel like you haven’t quite “figured it out”? Are you performing at the highest levels in your personal and professional life? If not, get ready, because Now You Know is an audiobook that will move you from an average salesperson, to a top 5% influential sales master!

Closing Intelligence is for salespeople, decision-makers, and anyone who wants to successfully persuade people.

You've heard of colleagues making lots of money by getting new clients through the Internet. But you've tried Search Engine Optimization (SEO), AdWords, and other techniques, with only a trickle of new business. You want to find ways to reach new customers, but without continuing to make an Internet marketer or your webmaster rich while you reap just a little. Here's how.

What is the difference between agents that succeed and agents that fail? The answer lies in what they know. Most real estate agents do not know what they must do to succeed. It's that simple. Longtime real estate broker, mentor, and trainer Matt Williams has observed the practices of successful, as well as unsuccessful, agents for more than 30 years. In this book, Matt shares the things agents must think, do, and say in order to succeed.

This cutting-edge book shows you step-by-step how to set yourself up for success to win contracts and make more money on these sites—whether you’re a full-time freelancer or want to quit your current job to freelance full-time. Using the strategies outlined in this book, you’ll be able to compete with seasoned freelancers even as a beginner in the freelance space.

This is a quick down-and-dirty, get-you-on-the-street, forget-any-fears, put-money-in-your-pocket start-up guide to selling copiers. You don’t need the complete history and working theory of the printing industry, the evolution of duplicating machines, etc. The information contained within shows you how to create relationships. This skill alone improves every aspect of life. This publication’s intent is to quickly show you how easy it is to help businesses and people by educating them on solutions to improve efficiency and appear more professional.

You don't necessarily need to know a person for a long period of time to get exactly what you want. In the book You Seem Like an Awesome Person, written by Mandi Koger, she explains how to understand human relation and what powers come with respect. She explains that through psychology, you too can close that sale, get that discount, get a contract signed, or maybe get that person at the bar to buy you a drink. You can make the same connection and build the same relationship with someone you've met for two minutes, as if you've know them for years!

What is the single, key ingredient that can mean the difference between closing the sale and hearing your customer say "I'll think about it"? Getting a raise, or not getting a raise? Making people interested in listening to your ideas, or not caring what you have to say? You guessed it - persuasion!

This book is written for those who have thought about dabbling in the rental property market, but who are not sure where to start. The book covers a lot of territory based upon personal experience of this market, which is even more viable in this day and age. With houses becoming cheaper, today's property market is a speculator's dream. However, dreams do not happen on their own. They take homework and planning and that's where the book helps you. It details where you can get loans that will pay for themselves in the long run.