The Instant Sales Pro: More Than 600 Tips and Techniques to Accelerate Your Sales Success

by Cy Charney

"For the sales professional with more energy than experience and more ambition than knowledge, the fast lane to success can be riddled with potholes. But the last thing these go-getters want to do is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814472141
• ISBN13: 9780814472149
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 17 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Start applying these tips immediately to your own business sales efforts

This book has been more useful to me than the last half dozen sales books I've read. I appreciate that this author doesn't waste the reader's time with fluff and gimmicks. Instead the author gives clear ideas on how to cut through obstacles, get to the person you want to talk to and maximize the precious few moments when you can peak the prospect's interest or screw up the opportunity. Even if you're good at getting your foot in the door, checkout the section about reading body language and dealing with objections. Hope you found this useful.

Insightful!

It's hard to find a book that doesn't emphasize only one phase of the sales process, such as prospecting, at the cost of another phase, such as presentations. Cy Charney's authoritative manual lives up to its name and thoroughly covers all areas. The tips provide a comprehensive compendium of predominant wisdom on how to sell. This is essentially a book of lists - lists of prospecting tips, how to make presentations, how to overcome objections, how to close and more. This handbook is notable more for its breadth than the originality of its ideas, some of which are targeted to beginners. However, it does offer up-to-date coverage of newer technologies, such as Internet searching. The volume's minimalist organizational design actually suits its goal: providing straightforward information to those with a sincere desire to master the art of selling. We very highly recommend this book to those pursuing the noble profession of sales.

Wonderful for getting started, or restarted!

Short, punchy chapters teach you about prospecting, the selling process, getting on the customer's wavelength, dealing with objections, convincing strategies, people issues, closing, partnership selling, technology, career effectiveness, organizational effectiveness, and personal development. The author uses lots of bulleted/numbered lists which supply practical details on how to respond to particular common situations. This is clearly a book for the beginner, but it's another great book to add to your bookshelf!