Top Sales books curated by experts

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Fundamentals of Sales

Understanding the concepts of Sales starts with understanding the fundamentals. On your way to mastery, it's crucial for you to understand how certain concepts were derived, and why things work like they do. Starting with these resources is the best way to do so.

SNAP Selling: Speed Up Sales and Win More Business with Today's Frazzled Customers

SNAP Selling: Speed Up Sales and Win More Business with Today's Frazzled Customers

Internationally recognized sales strategist Jill Konrath shows how to overcome customer hesitation to get more appointments, speed up decisions, and win sales. Drawing on her years of selling experience, as well as the stories of other successful sellers, she offers four SNAP rules: • Keep It Si…

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Demonstrating To WIN!

Demonstrating To WIN!

The demonstration or presentation of complex products like technology or medical devices is like leading a person over a treacherous ravine. Throughout a demo or presentation, your prospect wants to run back to the relative safety of their existing world.

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

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

New Sales. Simplified. It's a book of fundamentals and timeless truths, with proven, real-world strategies that produce sales results every time they are employed. Most of all, it's a book for those with the courage to do what is necessary to win new business.

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The Sales Development Playbook: Build Repeatable Pipeline and Accelerate Growth with Inside Sales

The Sales Development Playbook: Build Repeatable Pipeline and Accelerate Growth with Inside Sales

Raise your hand if your company needs more new customers.I suspect your hand is (figuratively) up. This book is about not just growth, but high-growth, explosive-growth, the kind of growth that weather satellites can see from space.The success of any business-to-business company is directly link…

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

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

This book is effectively an operating manual for the sales force. It identifies the 5 fundamental sales processes that can be managed to create desired business outcomes, and it helps readers choose which of the processes are needed to achieve their own strategic objectives.

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The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies

The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies

Every single day 3,076 businesses shut their doors. But what if you could create the finest, most profitable and best-run version of your business without wasting precious dollars on a thousand different strategies? When The Ultimate Sales Machine first published in 2007, legendary sales expert …

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Additional Sales Reading

These books are not required for you to learn Sales, but they are highly recommended for you to deepen your knowledge.

The Sales Engineer Manager's Handbook

The Sales Engineer Manager's Handbook

A simple framework designed for everyone - from SEs thinking about moving into management to the newest of new SE Managers to a Global SE Vice President.

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

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

Fanatical Prospecting is filled with the high-powered strategies, techniques, and tools you need to fill your pipeline with high quality opportunities. In the most comprehensive book ever written about sales prospecting, Jeb Blount reveals the real secret to improving sales productivity and grow…

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

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

I took home more in a year than the CEOs of McDonald's, IKEA, Ford, Motorola, and Yahoo combined as a kid in my 20s using the $100M Offers method. It works. And it will work for you.
Not that long ago, though, my business had gotten so bad that I literally couldn’t even give my services away …

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$100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No (Acquisition.com $100M Series)

$100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No (Acquisition.com $100M Series)

Not that long ago though, my business had gotten so bad that I literally couldn’t even give my services away for free. At the end of each month, I would look at my bank account hoping to see progress (but there wasn’t). I knew something had to change...but what?

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The New Rules of Sales and Service

The New Rules of Sales and Service

The New Rules of Sales and Service demystifies the new digital commercial landscape and shows you how to stay ahead of the pack. Companies large and small are revolutionizing the way business gets done, and this book takes you inside the new methods and strategies that are critical to success in…

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A Simple Guide to Technical Sales and Field Application Engineering

A Simple Guide to Technical Sales and Field Application Engineering

Thinking about launching a new career or progressing in your existing career as a field application engineer or a technical sales professional? Do you dream of a career visiting and helping engineers in multiple industries, international travel, and a great salary earned using your ever-increasi…

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