Top Sales books recommended 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.

Never Split the Difference

Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz is a negotiation guide that teaches readers effective communication skills to reach mutually beneficial agreements. The authors share real-life examples and tactics used in high-pressure situations, helping readers become more successful negotiators.

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Inbound Selling: How to Change the Way You Sell to Match How People Buy

Inbound Selling is an authentic and insightful look at how modern sales is done. Written from experience with both selling and sales management Brian Signorelli outlines the skills, the mindset, and the process for succeeding with modern buyers.

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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

Book 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 behind that success is self-promotion. This book shows you how to pro…

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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-increasing technical knowledge? If so, then this is the audiobook for you.

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To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

"To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others" by Daniel H. Pink is an insightful book that sheds light on the transformative evolution of sales and selling. Pink argues that the digital age's landscape has shifted our economy into a new era where everyone is essentially in sales.

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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 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 growing your income fast.

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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 Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea (Go-Giver, Book 1

This expanded edition of The Go-Giver includes the text of the original business parable, together with a foreword by Arianna Huffington, a new intro

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Pitch Anything

Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff is a guide to mastering the art of sales pitches, focusing on grabbing the attention of investors and closing big deals. It offers a fresh perspective on traditional pitch tactics for a more effective approach.

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Look Me In the Eye

Way back in early 2020 you needed a Zoom account, a camera, and a bit of privacy – and you were good to go for virtual meetings. Yes, it all still seems remote, tiring, and unemotional. Julie Hansen’s Look Me In The Eye can help you change all that.

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Agile Selling: Get Up to Speed Quickly in Today's Ever-Changing Sales World

AGILE SELLING helps you quickly get up to speed whenever you need to learn new info or skills. It's filled with rapid learning strategies and productivity tips to help you work smarter, not harder. SNAP SELLING helps you capture and keep the attention of today's crazy-busy decision makers.

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The Psychology of Selling

Understanding the "psychology of selling" is more important than the techniques and methods of selling. Mastering it is a promise of prosperity that sales trainer and professional speaker Brian Tracy has seen fulfilled again and again.

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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

Gap Selling is a game-changing book designed to raise the sales IQ of selling organizations around the world. In his unapologetic and irreverent style, Keenan breaks down the tired old sales myths causing today's frustrating sales issues, to highlight a deceptively powerful new way to connect with buyers.

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