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NEW The New Marketing Mix: Where will you meet your customers?
NEW The Seven Strategies of the Highly Effective Salesperson
NEW Twenty-Two Do’s and Don’ts That Make a Definite Difference in Business
NEW Making Marketing Work––For a Change
NEW A Guide to Marketing and Sales Success in 2008
Why Salespeople Don’t Make More Sales
(and how to turn it around)
The Internet and the arrival of the citizen marketer
Eighteen Ways to Make Sure You Lose the Sale
The iPod as Business Model
What does the iPod have to do with business?
Just about everything.
Demystifying Marketing
Or
What makes it work?
When the Sales Mentality Meets the Buyer Mindset
Sending customers their message
You May Reach Out But Will You Touch Someone?
“Do it my way or die”
Making the Sale to Your Only Customer
How to Profit from Customer Buying-Cycle Basics
Getting the CEO to Get Marketing
Why would any company use direct mail today?
Where’s the target?
Opening new markets
How to Get More Than You Expect in 2006
How to Do Referrals the Right Way
Dealing with the New World of Sales
The story of Desperate Salespeople
Marketing and Sales Strategy
Seven Ways to Differentiate Your Product or Company That Make a Difference––to the Customer
Six Momentous Marketing and Sales Opportunities
The Seven Deadly Sins of Marketing
It does make a difference …
Is it sales and marketing or marketing and sales?
Sixteen Ways to Increase Your Sales
Practical, put-‘em-to-work-now ideas for building sales
The High Cost of Failing to Market
How to shoot straight but miss the target
“We’d like to do business with you but you don’t have
experience in our industry.”
It’s a continuous flow of leads that produces sales
Constructing a Prospect Pipeline
Powerful Marketing Strategies That Produce Sales
It's easier than you think
How to get it wrong in business
Getting ahead in the head game
How mental images shape sales performance
Ask the right questions before taking any sales job
Twelve ways to make a better presentation than anyone else
Bogus business ideas
Popular ideas that raise havoc
Sixteen ways to win big at botching marketing and sales
Ten ways to push your company forward—by doing it backwards
How to make sure you have a continuous supply
It's time to stop wasting customers
It's changed the way we think and behave
Who do we thank (and curse) for email?
Eight ways to evaluate results
What should a customer expect from its marketing program?
Whether we like it or not, the facts don't count
First impressions are the last thing a company wants to forget
Getting it wrong is easy
How to get marketing right
"We can turn it around—or can we?"
Mistakes companies make when hitting a hurdle
Thirteen great ways to kill your company's marketing
Getting ahead
It's what you don't do that will make the difference
The marketing challenge
Making sales by making customers
Is it surprising that so many marketing and sales initiatives fail?
The sales career cycle
Staying on top of the game
Marketing-driven fits the times
Sales-driven just doesn't do it anymore
How to sell more when others are selling less
Marketing and sales
Ten danger signs of short-term thinking
Words that betray our true motives
Talking our way out of sales
A profile of behaviors
How to recognize the right salesperson
Think like a customer—or lose the sale
The tired company syndrome
Making marketing, sales and management work
How to get your company where you want it
Making a winning presentation or how to think like a listener
What we say can determine our destiny
The future of your job may be in a word
Essentials of marketing
Ten Reasons Why Marketing Fails
Outsourcing a Company’s Marketing
A better way to meet competitive challenges