100 Best Pitching Books of All Time

We've ranked the best pitching books using expert recommendations, sales data, and millions of reader ratings. At Shortform, we know books. Our book guides are the best in the world. Learn why.

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion book cover1

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Robert B. Cialdini

5.0
Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"—and how to apply these understandings. Dr. Robert Cialdini is the seminal expert in the rapidly expanding field of influence and persuasion. His thirty-five years of rigorous, evidence-based research along with a three-year program of study on what moves people to change behavior has resulted in this highly
How to Win Friends & Influence People book cover2

How to Win Friends & Influence People

Dale Carnegie

5.0
You can go after the job you want—and get it!
You can take the job you have—and improve it!
You can take any situation—and make it work for you!

Dale Carnegie’s rock-solid, time-tested advice has carried countless people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. One of the most groundbreaking and timeless bestsellers of all time, How to Win Friends & Influence People will teach
SPIN Selling: Situation Problem Implication Need-payoff book cover3

SPIN Selling: Situation Problem Implication Need-payoff

Neil Rackham

4.9
The international bestseller that revolutionized high-end selling!

Written by Neil Rackham, former president and founder of Huthwaite corporation, SPIN Selling is essential reading for anyone involved in selling or managing a sales force. Unquestionably the best-documented account of sales success ever collected and the result of the Huthwaite corporation's massive 12-year, $1-million dollar resear
The Psychology of Selling: Increase Your Sales Faster and Easier Than You Ever Thought Possible book cover4

The Psychology of Selling: Increase Your Sales Faster and Easier Than You Ever Thought Possible

Brian Tracy

4.8
Brian Tracy, one of the top professional speakers and sales trainers in the world today, found that his most important breakthrough in selling was the discovery that it is the "Psychology of Selling" that is more important than the techniques and methods of selling.

Tracy's classic audio program, The Psychology of Selling, is the best-selling sales training program in history and is now available i
The Greatest Salesman in the World book cover5

The Greatest Salesman in the World

Og Mandino

4.8
The Greatest Salesman in the World is a bestseller by Og Mandino. His books have sold over 50 million copies. Published in '68, reissued in '83 by Bantam, it's a guide to a philosophy of salesmanship, telling the story of Hafid, a poor camel boy who achieves a life of abundance. A cloth edition was published by Buccaneer Books in 6/93. It takes ten months to read the book. His instructions are to
To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others book cover6

To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

Daniel H. Pink

4.8
From the bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind comes a surprising--and surprisingly useful--new book that explores the power of selling in our lives.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. Every day more than fifteen million people earn their keep by persuading someone else to make a purchase.

But dig deeper and a startling truth emerges:

Ye
Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, Text, and Cold Calling book cover7

Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, Text, and Cold Calling

Jeb Blount

4.8
Ditch the failed sales tactics, fill your pipeline, and crush your number

Fanatical Prospecting gives salespeople, sales leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives a practical, eye-opening guide that clearly explains the why and how behind the most important activity in sales and business development--prospecting.

The brutal fact is the number one reason for failure in sales is an empty pipe and the roo
The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation book cover8

The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation

Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson

4.8
What's the secret to sales success? If you're like most business leaders, you'd say it's fundamentally about relationships-and you'd be wrong. The best salespeople don't just build relationships with customers. They challenge them.

The need to understand what top-performing reps are doing that their average performing colleagues are not drove Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson, and their colleagues at C
Never Split the Difference book cover9

Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss

4.8
A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations—whether in the boardroom or at home.

After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator brought him face-to-face with a range of criminals, including bank robbers and terrorists. Reaching the pinnacl
Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal book cover10

Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal

Oren Klaff

4.8
About the Book:

When it comes to delivering a pitch, Oren Klaff has unparalleled credentials. Over the past 13 years, he has used his one-of-a- kind method to raise more than $400 million--and now, for the first time, he describes his formula to help you deliver a winning pitch in any business situation.

Whether you're selling ideas to investors, pitching a client for new business, or even negotiati
Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness book cover11

Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness

Jeffrey Gitomer

4.7
Ultimate Sales Machine book cover12

Ultimate Sales Machine

Chet Holmes

4.7
New Sales. Simplified.: The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development book cover13

New Sales. Simplified.: The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development

Mike Weinberg

4.7
Packed with examples and anecdotes, New Sales. Simplified. offers a proven formula for prospecting, developing, and closing deals. No matter how much repeat business you get from loyal customers, the lifeblood of your business is a constant flow of new accounts. With refreshing honesty and some much-needed humor, sales expert Mike Weinberg examines the critical mistakes made by most salespeople an
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving in book cover14

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving in

Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton

4.7
The key text on problem-solving negotiation-updated and revised

Getting to Yes has helped millions of people learn a better way to negotiate. One of the primary business texts of the modern era, it is based on the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project, a group that deals with all levels of negotiation and conflict resolution.

Getting to Yes offers a proven, step-by-step strategy for coming to mut
Sell or Be Sold: How to Get Your Way in Business and in Life book cover15

Sell or Be Sold: How to Get Your Way in Business and in Life

Grant Cardone

4.7
The ability to sell others is as critical to your success as food, water and oxygen is to life. While you may think that an exaggeration, every person on this planet is required to sell others on their ideas to advance themselves and their goals. The skill of selling is a MUST for promoting yourself, your business and your ideas. While many think that if they do a better job and work hard they wil
Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale book cover16

Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale

Zig Ziglar

4.6
Ziglar's ultimate sales guide covers creative closes, reasons people won't buy and ways to overcome them, selling with integrity, and more. Previously available as a direct mail package for $59.95. Unabridged.
Way of the Wolf: Straight Line Selling: Master the Art of Persuasion, Influence, and Success book cover17

Way of the Wolf: Straight Line Selling: Master the Art of Persuasion, Influence, and Success

Jordan Belfort

4.6
Jordan Belfort—immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio in the hit movie The Wolf of Wall Street—reveals the step-by-step sales and persuasion system proven to turn anyone into a sales-closing, money-earning rock star.

For the first time ever, Jordan Belfort opens his playbook and gives you access to his exclusive step-by-step system—the same system he used to create massive wealth for himself, his client
The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea book cover18

The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

John David Mann & Bob Burg

4.6
“Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving. . . . Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.”

The Go-Giver tells the story of an ambitious young man named Joe who yearns for success. Joe is a true go-getter, though sometimes he feels as if the harder and faster he works, the further away his goals seem to be. Desperate to land a k
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The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource

Jeffrey Gitomer

4.6
The Sales Bible softbound - NEW EDITION WITH SOCIAL MEDIA ANSWERS Global sales authority Jeffrey Gitomer's bestselling classic, The Sales Bible, has been updated and appended in this new edition, offering you the ultimate sales methods and strategies that really work -- every day, in real-world selling situations.

With over 200,000 copies of the previous editions sold, The Sales Bible was listed as
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change book cover20

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Stephen R. Covey

4.5
When Stephen Covey first released The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, the book became an instant rage because people suddenly got up and took notice that their lives were headed off in the wrong direction; and more than that, they realized that there were so many simple things they could do in order to navigate their life correctly. This book was wonderful education for people, education
How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in Selling book cover21

How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in Selling

Frank Bettger

4.5
A business classic endorsed by Dale Carnegie, How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling is for anyone whose job it is to sell. Whether you are selling houses or mutual funds, advertisements or ideas—or anything else—this book is for you.

When Frank Bettger was twenty-nine he was a failed insurance salesman. By the time he was forty he owned a country estate and could have retired. What
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers book cover22

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers

Geoffrey A Moore

4.5
The bible for bringing cutting-edge products to larger markets--now revised and updated with new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing

In Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore shows that in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle--which begins with innovators and moves to early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards--there is a vast chasm between the early adopters and the ea
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions book cover23

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Dan Ariely

4.5
Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 50-cent aspirin?

Why does recalling the Ten Commandments reduce our tendency to lie, even when we couldn't possibly be caught?

Why do we splurge on a lavish meal but cut coupons to save twenty-five cents on a can of soup?

Why do we go back for second helpings at the unlimited buffet, even when our stomachs are a
The 10x Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure book cover24

The 10x Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

Grant Cardone

4.5
Achieve "Massive Action" results and accomplish your business dreams! While most people operate with only three degrees of action-no action, retreat, or normal action-if you're after big goals, you don't want to settle for the ordinary. To reach the next level, you must understand the coveted 4th degree of action. This 4th degree, also known as the 10 X Rule, is that level of action that guarantee
How to Master the Art of Selling book cover25

How to Master the Art of Selling

Tom Hopkins

4.4
Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com book cover26

Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com

Aaron Ross, Marylou Tyler

4.4
Called "The Sales Bible of Silicon Valley"...discover the sales specialization system and outbound sales process that, in just a few years, helped add $100 million in recurring revenue to Salesforce.com, almost doubling their enterprise growth...with zero cold calls. This is NOT just another book about how to cold call or close deals. This is an entirely new kind of sales system for CEOs, entrepre
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The $0 to $100 Million Sales Formula: How to Use Inbound Selling to Increase Your Sales and Build a Legendary Sales Team

Mark Roberge

4.4
This book is about the metrics-driven, scientific approach that Mark Roberge used to scale sales at a software company, HubSpot, from $0 to $100 Million in annualized revenue. "The $0 to $100 Million Sales Formula "is for the millions of small business owners, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and sales leaders that strive to build that next $100 million business. The biggest challenge standing in their way is
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die book cover28

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Chip Heath, Dan Heath

4.4
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The instant classic about why some ideas thrive, why others die, and how to improve your idea's chances--essential reading in the "fake news" era.

Mark Twain once observed, "A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on." His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus news stories circulate effortlessly. Mean
Think and Grow Rich book cover29

Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill

4.4
One of the most popular personal development and self-improvement books of all time, Think and Grow Rich has sold over 100 million copies worldwide since its first publication during the Great Depression. In this hardcover edition, Napoleon Hill presents a "Philosophy of Achievement" in 13 principles drawn from the success stories of such greats as Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and o
Thinking, Fast and Slow book cover30

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Kahneman

4.4
Major New York Times bestseller
Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012
Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 2011
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011
2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient

In the internatio
Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen book cover31

Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

Donald Miller

4.4
New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller uses the seven universal elements of powerful stories to teach readers how to dramatically improve how they connect with customers and grow their businesses.

Donald Miller’s StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their businesses. This revolutionary method for connecting with customers provides
Sales Management. Simplified.: The Straight Truth About Getting Exceptional Results from Your Sales Team book cover32

Sales Management. Simplified.: The Straight Truth About Getting Exceptional Results from Your Sales Team

Mike Weinberg

4.4

Why do sales organizations fall short? Every day, expert consultants like Mike Weinberg are called on by companies large and small to find the answer—and it’s one that may surprise you. Typically, the issue lies not with the sales team—but with how it is being led. Through their attitude and actions, senior executives and sales managers unknowingly undermine performance.

In Sales Management. Simpli

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action book cover33

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Simon Sinek

4.4
Why do you do what you do?

Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over?

People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers might have little in common, but they a
Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade book cover34

Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

Robert B. Cialdini

4.3
The author of the legendary bestseller Influence, social psychologist Robert Cialdini shines a light on effective persuasion and reveals that the secret doesn’t lie in the message itself, but in the key moment before that message is delivered.

What separates effective communicators from truly successful persuaders? Using the same combination of rigorous scientific research and accessibility that ma
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High book cover35

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler

4.3
Crucial Conversations: Tools For Talking When Stakes Are High is a guide to hone your conversation skills, and prepare you for the most important or trying times of your life and career. The book discusses how talking in the right way can help people achieve what they want. People are often tongue-tied when it comes to interacting with someone, especially when there is a lot of tension in the air.
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us book cover36

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Daniel H. Pink

4.3
The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation

Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret t
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The Ultimate Sales Letter: Attract New Customers. Boost Your Sales

Dan S Kennedy

4.3
Write Well to Sell Big!

In the age of e-mail and instant communication, great sales copy is indispensable to closing a deal. But too many sales letters end up in the junk file or the wastebasket. In this new edition of his top-selling book, author Dan Kennedy explains why some sales letters work and most don't. And he shows how to write copy that any business can use.

Among other things, he provides
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference book cover38

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Malcolm Gladwell

4.3
An alternate cover edition exists here.

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller,
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products book cover39

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal

4.3
How do successful companies create products people can’t put down?

Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us?
Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the Hook Model—a four-step process embedded into the products of many successful com
Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact book cover40

Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact

Phil M Jones

4.3
Often the decision between a customer choosing you over someone like you is your ability to know exactly what to say, when to say it, and how to make it count. Phil M. Jones has trained more than two million people across five continents and over fifty countries in the lost art of spoken communication. In Exactly What to Say, he delivers the tactics you need to get more of what you want.

Best-selli
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The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need

Anthony Iannarino, Mike Weinberg

4.2
The USA Today bestseller by the star sales speaker and author of The Sales Blog that reveals how all salespeople can attain huge sales success through strategies backed by extensive research and experience.

Anthony Iannarino never set out to become a salesman, let alone a sales manager, speaker, coach, or writer of the most prominent blog about the art and science of great selling. He fell into hi
Strategic Selling: Secrets of the Complex Sale book cover42

Strategic Selling: Secrets of the Complex Sale

Robert B. Miller

4.2
Go-Givers Sell More book cover43

Go-Givers Sell More

Bob Burg

4.2
from Go-Givers Sell More:

The great upside-down misconception about sales is that it's an effort to get something from others. The truth is that sales at its best-at its most effective-is precisely the opposite: it is about giving. Giving time, attention, counsel, education, empathy, and value. In fact, the word sell comes from the Old English word sellan, which means-you guessed it-to give. And cu
The Art of War book cover44
For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has stood as a cornerstone of Chinese culture-a lucid epigrammatic text that reveals as much about human psychology, politics, and economics as it does about battlefield strategy. The influence of Sun-tzu's text has grown tremendously in the West in recent years, with military leaders, politicians, and corporate executives alike finding valuable ins
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World book cover45

Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World

Gary Vaynerchuk

4.2
The New York Times bestselling author and social media expert returns with hard-won advice on how to connect with customers and beat the competition by mastering social media marketing

When managers and marketers outline their social media strategies, they often plan for the "right hook"-their next highly anticipated sale or campaign that's going to put the competition out for the count. Even compa
Go for No! Yes is the Destination, No is How You Get There book cover46

Go for No! Yes is the Destination, No is How You Get There

Richard Fenton

4.2
In a world inundated with sales books on getting to yes, this book recommends just the opposite, focusing on how increasing your failure rate can greatly accelerate your movement toward ultimate success. Go for No! chronicles four days in the life of fictional character Eric Bratton, a call reluctant copier salesman who wakes up one morning to find himself in a strange house with no idea of how he
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The Sales Development Playbook: Build Repeatable Pipeline and Accelerate Growth with Inside Sales

Trish Bertuzzi

4.2
Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time book cover48

Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz

4.2
Do you want to get ahead in life?

Climb the ladder to personal success?

The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi claims, is in reaching out to other people. As Ferrazzi discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else is the way they use the power of relationships—so that everyone wins.

In Never Eat Alone, Ferrazzi lays out the specific steps—and inner min
Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing book cover49

Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing

Harry Beckwith

4.2
A treasury of hundreds of quick, practical, and easy-to-read strategies - few are more than a page long - Selling the Invisible will open your eyes to new ideas in this crucial branch of marketing including why focus groups, value-price positioning, discount pricing, and being the best usually fail; the critical emotion that most influences your prospects - and how to deal with it; the vital role
Magic of Thinking Big book cover50

Magic of Thinking Big

David J. Schwartz

4.2
The Magic of Thinking Big gives you useful methods, not empty promises. Dr. Schwartz presents a carefully designed program for getting the most out of your job, your marriage and family life, and your community. He proves that you don't need to be an intellectual or have innate talent to attain great success and satisfaction, but you do need to learn and understand the habit of thinking and behavi
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Selling to Big Companies

Jill Konrath

4.2
Struggling to Get Your Foot in the Door of Big Companies?

Setting up meetings with corporate decision makers has never been harder. It's almost impossible to get them to pick up the phone. They never return your calls. And if you do happen to catch them, they blow you off right away.

It's time to stop making endless cold calls or waiting for the phone to ring. In today's crazy marketplace, new sale
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If You're Not First, You're Last: Sales Strategies to Dominate Your Market and Beat Your Competition

Grant Cardone

4.2

International sales expert Grant Cardone presents his proven strategies for boosting sales, increasing margins, and creating new opportunities regardless of how bad the economy is.

RUNNING TIME ➼ 7hrs. and 47mins.

©2010 Grant Cardone (P)2012 Tantor

Dotcom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online book cover53

Dotcom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online

Russell Brunson

4.2
If you are currently struggling with getting traffic to your website, or converting that traffic when it shows up, you may think you ve got a traffic or conversion problem. In Russell Brunson's experience, after working with thousands of businesses, he has found that s rarely the case. Low traffic and weak conversion numbers are just symptoms of a much greater problem, a problem that s a little ha
The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results book cover54

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

Gary Keller and Jay Papasa

4.2
The One Thing explains the success habit to overcome the six lies that block our success, beat the seven thieves that steal time, and leverage the laws of purpose, priority, and productivity.
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk book cover55

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk

Al Ries

4.2
World-renowned marketing consultants and bestselling authors Al Ries and Jack Trout reveal 22 laws of marketing, with hundreds of examples that illustrate their success, in this innovative and sensible guide to marketing. Each law is described in detail and backed up by numerous examples of what worked and what didn't in the international marketplace.
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Sales Eq: The 5 Questions That Matter Most to Closing the Deal

Jeb Blount

4.2
Sales EQ arms salespeople and sales leaders with the tools to identify their most important emotional intelligence developmental and learning needs and strategies for developing their Sales EQ. Readers learn how to leverage Sales EQ to improve the buying experience and close more deals faster and gain easy to understand and deploy frameworks for human to human interaction developed around the 5 Mo
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From Impossible to Inevitable: How Hyper-Growth Companies Create Predictable Revenue

Aaron Ross, Jason Lemkin

4.2
Impossible Goals, Inevitable Successes

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 ten times larger isn't about magic. It's not about privileges, luck, or working harder. There's a templa
Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind book cover58

Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

Al Ries, Jack Trout

4.2
A dynamic new cover heralds the reissue of this bestselling business classic, which Spencer Johnson, M.D., co-author of The One Minute Manager praised as "One of the most important communication books I've ever read. I recommend it highly!"
Ca$hvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone book cover59

Ca$hvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone

Drew Eric Whitman

4.2
Barely one in a hundred businesspeople knows these facts about creating powerful advertising. Do You?

FACT! Sixty percent of people read only headlines. Your headline must stop them or your advertising will likely fail.
FACT! Captions under photos get 200 percent greater readership than non-headline copy.
FACT! Ads with sale prices draw 20 percent more attention.
FACT! Half-page ads pull about 70 perc
Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable--Includes new bonus chapter book cover60

Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable--Includes new bonus chapter

Seth Godin

4.2
You're either a Purple Cow or you're not. You're either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice.

What do Starbucks and JetBlue and KrispyKreme and Apple and DutchBoy and Kensington and Zespri and Hard Candy have that you don't? How do they continue to confound critics and achieve spectacular growth, leaving behind former tried-and true brands to gasp their last?

Face it, the checklist of tired '
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The Lost Art of Closing: Winning the Ten Commitments That Drive Sales

Anthony Iannarino

4.2
"Always be closing!" --Glengarry Glen Ross, 1992
"Never Be Closing!" --a sales book title, 2014
" " --salespeople everywhere, 2017

For decades, sales managers, coaches, and authors talked about closing as the most essential, most difficult phase of selling. They invented pushy tricks for the final ask, from the "take delivery" close to the "now or never" close.

But these tactics often alienated cust
Ogilvy on Advertising book cover62

Ogilvy on Advertising

David Ogilvy

4.2
A candid and indispensable primer on all aspects of advertising from the man Time has called "the most sought after wizard in the business". 223 photos.
The Challenger Customer: Selling to the Hidden Influencer Who Can Multiply Your Results book cover63

The Challenger Customer: Selling to the Hidden Influencer Who Can Multiply Your Results

Nick Toman Pat Spenner

4.1
What’s the secret to executing complex sales today? As the bestseller The Challenger Sale proved, challenging the customer is the key to success. But it turns out that’s only half the story. It’s not just that you challenge but who you challenge that really matters. To win today, you need a Challenger inside the customer organization.

Picture your ideal customer: collegial, eager to meet with you,
The Science of Selling: Proven Strategies to Make Your Pitch, Influence Decisions, and Close the Deal book cover64

The Science of Selling: Proven Strategies to Make Your Pitch, Influence Decisions, and Close the Deal

David Hoffeld

4.1
The Revolutionary Sales Approach Scientifically Proven to Dramatically Improve Your Sales and Business Success

Blending cutting-edge research in social psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics, The Science of Selling shows you how to align the way you sell with how our brains naturally form buying decisions, dramatically increasing your ability to earn more sales. Unlike other sales book
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SNAP Selling: Speed Up Sales and Win More Business with Today's Frazzled Customers

Jill Konrath

4.1
Selling is tougher than ever before. Potential customers are under extreme pressure to do more with less money, less time, and fewer resources, and they're wary of anyone who tries to get them to buy or change anything. Under such extreme conditions, yesterday's sales strategies no longer work. No matter how great your offering, you face the daunting task of making yourself appear credible, releva
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Mastering the Complex Sale: How to Compete and Win When the Stakes Are High!

Jeff Thull

4.1
Praise for Mastering the Complex Sale "Jeff Thull's process plays a key role in helping companies and their customers cross the chasm with disruptive innovations and succeed with game-changing initiatives."
--Geoffrey A. Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm and Dealing with Darwin

"This is the first book that lays out a solid method for selling cross-company, cross-border, even cross-culturally wher
Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You book cover67

Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You

John Warrillow

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According to John Warrillow, the number one mistake entrepreneurs make is to build a business that relies too heavily on them. Thus, when the time comes to sell, buyers aren't confident that the company-even if it's profitable-can stand on its own. To illustrate this, Warrillow introduces us to a fictional small business owner named Alex who is struggling to sell his advertising agency. Alex turns
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Selling 101: What Every Successful Sales Professional Needs to Know

Zig Ziglar

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Here in a short, compact and concise format is the basics of how to persuade more people more effectively, more ethically, and more often. Ziglar draws from his fundamental selling experiences and shows that while the fundamentals of selling may remain constant, sales people must continue learning, living, and looking: learning from the past without living there; living in the present by seizing e
80/20 Sales and Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More book cover69

80/20 Sales and Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More

Perry Marshall

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Guided by famed marketing consultant and best-selling author Perry Marshall, sales and marketing professionals save 80 percent of their time and money by zeroing in on the right 20 percent of their market — then apply 80/202 and 80/203 to gain 10X, even 100X the success. With a powerful 80/20 software tool (online, included with the book), sellers and marketers uncover how to slash time-wasters; a
Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers book cover70

Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers

Seth Godin

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The man Business Week calls "the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age" explains "Permission Marketing"—the groundbreaking concept that enables marketers to shape their message so that consumers will willingly accept it.

Whether it is the TV commercial that breaks into our favorite program, or the telemarketing phone call that disrupts a family dinner, traditional advertising is based on th
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most book cover71

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen

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The 10th-anniversary edition of the New York Times business bestseller-now updated with "Answers to Ten Questions People Ask"

We attempt or avoid difficult conversations every day-whether dealing with an underperforming employee, disagreeing with a spouse, or negotiating with a client. From the Harvard Negotiation Project, the organization that brought you Getting to Yes, Difficult Conversations
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Smart Calling: Eliminate the Fear, Failure, and Rejection from Cold Calling

Art Sobczak

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Praise for SMART CALLING "Finally, a sales book that makes sense! As a master sales trainer, Art nailed--no, obliterated--the number one fear of selling in this great book: cold calling! Let him teach you to stop cold calling and start Smart Calling!"--LARRY WINGET, television personality and New York Times bestselling author

"Smart Calling is the benchmark as the highest professional standard for
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Advanced Selling Strategies: The Proven System of Sales Ideas, Methods, and Techniques Used by Top Salespeople

Brian Tracy

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The most powerful system for sales success—from the author of the bestselling audiobook, The Psychology of Selling.

Strategy, tactics, and mental preparedness separate superior salespeople from the average—and with technological advances evening the competition, the selling edge is now more important than ever. Drawing on his own successful sales career and on his extensive experience as a sales co
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Secrets of Question-Based Selling

Freese

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Question Based Selling ( QBS??) is a commonsense approach to sales, based on the theory that ?what? salespeople ask-and ?how? they ask-is more important than anything they will ever say. This technique makes sense because in order to present solutions, you first must learn your customer's needs.
How do you uncover a prospect's needs? By asking questions. But not just any questions. You must ask th
How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients book cover75

How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients

Jeffrey J. Fox

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Now Updated and with New Success Tips! Rainmakers are not born. They are made. And Jeffrey Fox's powerful HOW TO BECOME A RAINMAKER will get you there. Filled with smart tips given in the Fox signature style, counter-intuitive, controversial, and practiced, this hard-hitting collection of sales advice shows readers how to woo, pursue, and finally win any customer. In witty, succinct chapters, Fo
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High-Profit Prospecting: Powerful Strategies to Find the Best Leads and Drive Breakthrough Sales Results

Mark Hunter CSP

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As a salesperson, your pipeline is the key to your success. No matter what changes, that remains the same. Top producers prospect—and they do it ALL THE TIME. “But how?” you ask, “In the age of the Internet, isn’t cold-calling dead?”

Now, in his new book, sales expert Mark Hunter shatters costly prospecting myths and eliminates confusion about what works today. Merging new strategies with proven pr
All Marketers Are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works - and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All book cover77

All Marketers Are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works - and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All

Seth Godin

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Seth Godin’s three essential questions for every marketer:
“What’s your story?”
“Will the people who need to hear this story believe it?”
“Is it true?”


All marketers tell stories. And if they do it right, we believe them. We believe that wine tastes better in a $20 glass than a $1 glass. We believe that an $80,000 Porsche is vastly superior to a $36,000 Volkswagen that’s virtually the same car. We
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Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even If You Hate Marketing and Selling

Michael Port

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Kick off the cycle of success with serious self-promotion that worksBook Yourself Solid is a handbook for self-promotion that translates into results. We tend to think of "busy" as the equivalent of "successful"--but that's not always the case. The key lies in what you're busy doing. Success means spending your time doing work that gets you closer to your goals, and the critical driving force behi
Trump: The Art of the Deal book cover79

Trump: The Art of the Deal

Donald Trump

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From the Impresario of NBC’s hit show The Apprentice

TRUMP ON TRUMP: “I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.”

And here’s how he does it: the art of the deal.

Beginning with a week in Trump’s high-stakes life, Trump: The Art of the Deal gives us Trump in action. We see just how he operates day to day—how he runs h
Objections: The Ultimate Guide for Mastering the Art and Science of Getting Past No book cover80

Objections: The Ultimate Guide for Mastering the Art and Science of Getting Past No

Jeb Blount

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There are few one-size-fits-all solutions in sales. Context matters. Complex sales are different from one-call closes. B2B is different than B2C. Prospects, territories, products, industries, companies, and sales processes are all different. There is little black and white in the sales profession.

Except for objections. There is democracy in objections. Every salesperson must endure many NOs in ord

Gap Selling: Getting the Customer to Yes: How Problem-Centric Selling Increases Sales by Changing Everything You Know About Relationships, Overcoming Objections, Closing and Price book cover81

Gap Selling: Getting the Customer to Yes: How Problem-Centric Selling Increases Sales by Changing Everything You Know About Relationships, Overcoming Objections, Closing and Price

Keenan

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Ziglar on Selling

Zig Ziglar

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Drawing on his more than 40 years of sales experience, master motivator Zig Ziglar now provides a wealth of inspirational and practical information for making it in today's fast-paced selling world. He discusses: where, when, and how to find prospects;
how to deal with rude, angry, and disgruntled people, why 70% of sales are made betweeen 7:00 A.M. and 1:00 P.M., and so much more.
This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See book cover83

This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See

Seth Godin

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Real marketing isn't about racking up clicks and tweets; it's about connection, empathy, and making a difference.

Over the past quarter century, Seth Godin has taught and inspired millions of entrepreneurs, marketers, leaders, and fans from all walks of life, via his blog, online courses, lectures, and bestselling books. He is the inventor of countless ideas and phrases that have made their way i
Cracking the Sales Management Code: The Secrets to Measuring and Managing Sales Performance book cover84

Cracking the Sales Management Code: The Secrets to Measuring and Managing Sales Performance

Jason Jordan, Michelle Vazzana

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Boost sales results by zeroing in on the metrics that matter most

"Sales may be an art, but sales management is a science. Cracking the Sales Management Code reveals that science and gives practical steps to identify the metrics you must measure to manage toward success."
--Arthur Dorfman, National Vice President, SAP

"Cracking the Sales Management Code is a must-read for anyone who wants to bring hi
Coaching Salespeople Into Sales Champions: A Tactical Playbook for Managers and Executives book cover85

Coaching Salespeople Into Sales Champions: A Tactical Playbook for Managers and Executives

Keith Rosen

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Sales training doesn't develop sales champions. Managers do.

The secret to developing a team of high performers isn't more training but better coaching. When managers effectively coach their people around best practices, core competencies and the inner game of coaching that develops the champion attitude, it makes your training stick. With Keith Rosen's coaching methodology and proven L.E.A.D.S. Co
The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you book cover86

The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

Rob Fitzpatrick

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The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak.

They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone if your business is a good idea. It's a bad question and everyone will lie to you at least a little . As a matter of fa
The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand out From The Crowd book cover87

The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand out From The Crowd

Allan Dib

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WARNING: Do Not Read This Book If You Hate Money

To build a successful business, you need to stop doing random acts of marketing and start following a reliable plan for rapid business growth. Traditionally, creating a marketing plan has been a difficult and time-consuming process, which is why it often doesn't get done.

In The 1-Page Marketing Plan, serial entrepreneur and rebellious marketer Alla
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Major Account Sales Strategy

Neil Rackham

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An Arsenal of Shrewd Tactics and Winning Strategies to Make You a Major Account Sales Success

Knowing how to get to the decision maker, deal with the competition, understand buyer psychology, and service the client--these are the keys to success when you need to nail down major accounts. Now, for the first time, here's a book of practical, proven-effective strategies and tactics for the entire majo
The (7L) The Seven Levels of Communication: Go From Relationships to Referrals book cover89

The (7L) The Seven Levels of Communication: Go From Relationships to Referrals

Michael J. Maher

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How many of your clients would attend your funeral? One of the top real estate professionals in the country has written a book that details how he became "America's Most Referred Real Estate Professional". In (7L) The Seven Levels of Communication, Michael J. Maher tells the inspiring story of real estate agent Rick Masters who is suffering through a down market when he meets a mortgage profession
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are book cover90

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

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Foreword by Steven Pinker

Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our world—provided we ask the right questions.

By the end of an average day in the early twenty-first century, human bei
The Spin Selling Fieldbook: Practical Tools, Methods, Exercises and Resources book cover91

The Spin Selling Fieldbook: Practical Tools, Methods, Exercises and Resources

Neil Rackham

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Put into practice today's winning strategy for achieving success in high-end sales!

The SPIN Selling Fieldbook is your guide to the method that has revolutionized big-ticket sales in the United States and globally. It's the method being used by one-half of all Fortune 500 companies to train their sales forces, and here's the interactive, hands-on field book that provides the practical tools you nee
Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service book cover92

Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service

Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles

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"Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans." This, in a nutshell, is the advice given to a new Area Manager on his first day--in an extraordinary business book that will help everyone, in every kind o
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The Closer's Survival Guide

Grant Cardone

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The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story

Og Mandino

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This is a sequel to Mandino's 1967 bestselling book, published in 1988 and set back forty years later the first part; the main character Hafid is in a sad state, mourning the loss of his wife, Lisha. The story starts years into Hafid’s seclusion, when a dream convinces him to see a stranger that turns up on his doorstep and pulls Hafid out of retirement to embarke on a new adventure: a speaking to
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Cold Calling Techniques That Really Work

Stephan Schiffman

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Cold Calling techniques is a guide to creating new sales. This edition features the same basic message - if you want to increase your sales, you must become good at cold calling to get the face to face appointments you need. It has been reworked to reflect the latest innovations in sales training as well as to cover new technologies.
What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People book cover96

What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People

Joe Navarro and Marvin Karlins

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He says that's his best offer. Is it?

She says she agrees. Does she?

The interview went great—or did it?

He said he'd never do it again. But he did.

Read this book and send your nonverbal intelligence soaring. Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains how to "speed-read" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls,
Stories That Stick: How Storytelling Can Captivate Customers, Influence Audiences, and Transform Your Business book cover97

Stories That Stick: How Storytelling Can Captivate Customers, Influence Audiences, and Transform Your Business

Kindra Hall

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The moment you take control of your stories, you take control of your business and your life.

You keep hearing how story is the latest-and-greatest business tool, and that storytelling can do everything—from helping leaders better communicate to motivating sales teams and winning customers away from competitors.

But what stories do you need to tell? And how do you tell them?

In Stories That Stick,

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Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play: Transforming the Buyer/Seller Relationship

Mahan Khalsa

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The new way to transform a sales culture with clarity, authenticity, and emotional intelligence.

Too often, the sales process is all about fear.

Customers are afraid that they will be talked into making a mistake; salespeople dread being unable to close the deal and make their quotas. No one is happy.

Mahan Khalsa and Randy Illig offer a better way. Salespeople, they argue, do best when they focus 10
Sell It Like Serhant: How to Sell More, Earn More, and Become the Ultimate Sales Machine book cover99

Sell It Like Serhant: How to Sell More, Earn More, and Become the Ultimate Sales Machine

Ryan Serhant

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER USA Today Bestseller Los Angeles Times Bestseller ** Wall Street Journal Bestseller

A lively and practical guide on how to sell anything and achieve long-term success in business

Ryan Serhant was a shy, jobless hand model when he entered the real estate business in 2008 at a time the country was on the verge of economic collapse. Just nine years later, he has emerged as one of
$100M Offers: How to Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No book cover100

$100M Offers: How to Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No

Alex Hormozi

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