Books by Anthony Iannarino
Like it or not, sales is often a zero-sum game: Your win is someone else's loss. Most salespeople work in mature, overcrowded industries, your offerings perceived (often unfairly) as commodities. Growth requires taking market share from your competitors, while they try to do the same to you. How else can you grow 12 percent a year in an industry that's only growing by 3 percent?
It's not easy for any salesperson to execute a competitive displacement--or, in other words, "eat their lunch." You might think this requires a bloodthirsty "whatever it takes" attitude, but that's the opposite of what works. If you act like a Mafia don, you only make yourself difficult to trust and impossible to see as a long-term partner. Instead, this book shows you how to find and maintain a long-term competitive advantage by taking steps like:
Your competitors may be tough, but with the strategies you'll discover in this book, you'll soon be eating their lunch.
If you want to succeed in sales, you need to know how to close. Anthony Iannarino, star sales blogger, consultant, speaker, and author of the national bestseller The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need, lays out the new rules of closing.
Why is it that a small number of salespeople are hugely successful, while the rest struggle to win deals? It's not because they sell more popular products or have less demanding clients. It's because these top producers have the right mindset and skills to continuously deliver for their companies and their clients.
Anthony Iannarino built a formidable career in sales from the ground up, then began blogging, consulting, and lecturing to help others understand how to be successful in sales. He gathered everything he's learned about the discipline of sales--from the impact of social selling to how to fill your sales pipeline--and distilled it into an accessible and clear handbook for salespeople.
Sales performance, in Iannarino's experience, can be broken down into 19 distinct strategies, including:
Iannarino's book is as useful for sales rookies who want to get their dream clients as it is for veterans who want to return to the basics to reach new heights. This is the definitive book on sales in the modern era.