Achieve Sales Excellence: The 7 Customer Rules for Becoming the New Sales Professional

Howard Stevens · Theodore Kinni

Nov 2006 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Increase your business’s sales with these seven essential practices salespeople and organizations must embrace to thrive in today’s competitive marketplace.

Companies today are struggling to find the one thing that matters in today’s competitive marketplace. Price? Quality? Innovative product features?

While all of the above factors certainly influence a customer’s buying decision, none of them is the most influential factor. What is? The employee who has the most power to make or break your company’s bottom line and influence its customers—the salesperson.

Achieve Sales Excellence examines the paradigm of business-to- business sales. This book is based on the results of a fourteen-year study, which asked business customers—the key constituent group of professional salespeople—to define the qualities of world-class salespeople and organizations. It offers unmatched insights into sales performance issues and the practices sales professionals and organizations must embrace to become world-class sales forces.

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About the author

Howard Stevens is the chairman and CEO of the HR Chally Group—a leading talent management and sales development firm. Mr. Stevens is the author of The Quadrant Solution and Selling the Wheel and is a frequent speaker and expert source on radio and television. Chally’s World-Class Sales Benchmarks program has been presented over 500 times across thirty countries for corporations, trade associations, government agencies, and universities. He is a frequent contributor to Selling Power magazine and other sales, business, and trade publications. He has been a guest on CNN, Bloomberg, National Public Radio, and other business-based programs. He also presents the World-Class Sales Benchmarks annually at university graduate schools of business and serves as chairman of the sales advisory board for Ohio University and the foundation board of Wright State University.

Theodore Kinni is a business author and journalist. He has written books for consultants, ESS speakers, and Fortune 500 companies, including Be Our Guest for the Disney Company, as well as more than 100 articles and numerous reviews for Business 2.0, Selling Power, Across the Board, and many others.