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Все книги издательства John Wiley & Sons LimitedExceptional Selling. How the Best Connect and Win in High Stakes Sales
Praise for Exceptional Selling «Thull's leading-edge thinking makes this book extraordinary. This straightforward guide to communicating across all cultures with credibility and respect will give you a significant competitive advantage in a complex and crowded global marketplace.» —Guenter Lauber, Vice President, Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc., EA Systems «Exceptional Selling may be one of the most important books written on sales and marketing communications for high stakes sales. It shows you how to stand apart from your competition, communicate with great clarity, and position your solution as the most compelling choice for the long term.» —Rob Mancuso, Senior Vice President, Investors Financial Services Corp. «Thull has taken consultative and collaborative sales to new heights. The knowledge in this book is priceless. The trust and respect created by the diagnostic process is a must-have for success here in Asia and around the globe. It enables us to differentiate ourselves early and achieve long-lasting success.» —Tay Chong Siew, Major Customer Director, North Asia, BOC Gases «Having achieved exceptional success by working with Thull and implementing the strategy and process in his first two books, I'm astounded that his leading-edge thinking is captured in yet more detail in another brilliant book. The conversation examples of his powerful diagnostic approach will bring even greater success to our organization. Truly exceptional!» —Alberto Chacin, Director of On Demand Services LAD, Oracle USA «Exceptional Selling is a dramatic departure from the vast majority of sales books. It scares me to see all the ways in which we can self-sabotage our sales opportunities-but that's only chapter one. Throughout the book, Thull describes compelling examples of how to succeed in a cluttered marketplace.» —Steven Rodriguez, Senior Vice President, Ceridian Corporation «Thull has again extended the concepts and thinking he developed in The Prime Solution and Mastering the Complex Sale. This is an essential read for anyone working to understand his customers in a complex world.» —Wayne Hutchinson, Vice President of SalesMarketing and Consulting, Shell Global Solutions International B.V.
Licensed to Profit. By Trading in Financial Markets
Chris Shea (aka the Market Coach) is an educator, counsellor and psychotherapist, who specialises in coaching clients to develop the psychological skills and drive to become independent, disciplined and successful traders and to sustain peak performance. This book is about preparing the reader to obtain a licence to trade, a vital step in the transformation to becoming profitable. The book also deals with some potential hurdles, especially with respect to the trader\'s mindset and ideas, which need to be overcome to allow efficient practice.
Passport to Exotic Real Estate. Buying U.S. And Foreign Property In Breath-Taking, Beautiful, Faraway Lands
An exploration of acquiring real estate outside the continental U.S. Given the costly uncertainties of the domestic real estate market, buying a second home in desirable vacation areas within the United States has become nearly impossible for many. Increasingly, Americans are turning to more affordable regions overseas, some stay close-by in Mexico or Canada, while others are more adventurous, looking to parts of Central America, the Caribbean, and Pacific Islands. In Passport to Exotic Real Estate, real estate expert and travel writer Steve Bergsman offers detailed advice on the benefits and challenges of buying overseas property, including whether or not foreigners can legally own property, tax implications, availability of beachfront land, market trends, investment security, local regulations, and much more. With this book as their guide, readers will be fully prepared to overcome the obstacles of overseas property ownership and discover the benefits of living/vacationing abroad. Steve Bergsman (Mesa, Arizona) is a real estate, financial, and travel writer with more than 20 years' experience. His news stories and travel articles have been published in more than 100 publications around the world and he has appeared on local and national radio and television. Bergsman is also the author of two previous real estate books, Maverick Real Estate Financing (978-0-471-74587-7) and Maverick Real Estate Investing (978-0-471-46879-0).
World Without Secrets. Business, Crime, and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing
The future of computing-the future of business Rapid technological innovation is moving us towards a world of ubiquitous computing-a world in which we are surrounded by smart machines that are always on, always aware, and always monitoring us. These developments will create a world virtually without secrets in which information is widely available and analyzable worldwide. This environment will certainly affect business, government, and the individual alike, dramatically affecting the way organizations and individuals interact. This book explores the implications of the coming world and suggests and explores policy options that can protect individuals and organizations from exploitation and safeguard the implicit contract between employees, businesses, and society itself. World Without Secrets casts an unflinching eye on a future we may not necessarily desire, but will experience.
The Risk Management Process. Business Strategy and Tactics
Integrates essential risk management practices with practical corporate business strategies Focusing on educating readers on how to integrate risk management with corporate business strategy-not just on hedging practices—The Risk Management Process is the first financial risk management book that combines a detailed, big picture discussion of firm-wide risk management with a comprehensive discussion of derivatives-based hedging strategies and tactics. An essential component of any corporate business strategy today, risk management has become a mainstream business process at the highest level of the world's largest financial institutions, corporations, and investment management groups. Addressing the need for a well-balanced book on the subject, respected leader and teacher on the subject Christopher Culp has produced a well-balanced, comprehensive reference text for a broad audience of financial institutions and agents, nonfinancial corporations, and institutional investors.
Values, Prosperity, and the Talmud. Business Lessons from the Ancient Rabbis
This insightful book offers business advice that has endured for thousands of years. While business fads come and go, the ancient lessons of the Talmud are timeless, profound, ethical, and practical–and they’re for everyone. Values, Prosperity, and the Talmud is a concise guide to this proven philosophy of business. Beyond basic money-related matters, it includes the Talmud’s advice on complex issues of employer/employee relationships, partnerships, competition, and much more. Here, you will learn how to run a successful business, negotiate with style, earn the loyalty of your employees, sell products successfully, advertise effectively, and make higher profits, all within an ethical and moral framework. Buy it today!
Power of An Hour. Business and Life Mastery in One Hour A Week
Praise for The Power of an Hour «The master at getting what you want from others now tells us how to get what we want from ourselves! This is really a great book, and I recommend it highly-for you, for your team, and for your children.» -Bob Burg, author, Endless Referrals «If you want to make predictable, systematic change in your life or your business, buy this book. Each chapter is a stand-alone system that results in powerful change . . . fast.» -David Hancock, The Entrepreneurial Publisher, CEO, Morgan James Publishing «Dave's methods helped me take my business from $0 to $10 million in sales.If you're a creative business owner who wants total focus and massive success, run, don't walk, and get this book!» -Stephanie Frank, author, The Accidental Millionaire «The Power of an Hour is a mighty powerful way to sort out your financesby first sorting out yourself!» -Mark Joyner, #1 bestselling author, The Irresistible Offer «The disease of the twenty-first century, no matter who you are or what you do,is Time Deficit Disorder. Dave Lakhani offers a brilliant solution in this book.Get it and take the cure-you'll be surprised how much better you feel!» -David Garfinkel, author, Customers on Demand
Results Through Relationships. Building Trust, Performance, and Profit Through People
A career guide to more significant business results in a shorter period of time Results Through Relationships shows professionals how to establish break-through relationships with new prospects and their existing networks, including colleagues, bosses, customers, clients, vendors, and others. Many people assume that only new contacts will help them achieve their goals, but in reality, many breakthroughs happen within existing networks. This handy career guide focuses on the bottom-line behaviors that expedite trust, improve workplace performance, and increase profit. Author Joe Takash presents a nine-step process that anyone can master, and his formula proves that we're all in the relationship business first.
Avon. Building The World's Premier Company For Women
A Winning Formula for Selling to Women Around the World Avon has come a long way since handing out its first perfume sample back in 1886. The company, long famous for ringing customer doorbells, is now the world's largest direct sales organization—with almost five million representatives in more than 140 countries. AVON: Building the World's Premier Company for Women is the first book ever to show how this cosmetics juggernaut achieved such incredible success, while revealing secrets any business can use to effectively market products of all kinds—especially to women. Through this entertaining journey, you'll not only learn the colorful Avon story, but also see how every company, big or small, can benefit from its unique approach to sales and product development. «By providing women with an unlimited opportunity for career success, Avon harnessed the power of a committed sales force to win customers and grow the business. The company's success story is testimony to the importance of focusing on your core business while recognizing the changes taking place with your customers and the environment.» —Mary Sammons, President and CEO, Rite Aid Corporation «The book is an excellent primer on how to successfully make alternative forms of distribution work.» —Allen Burke, Director of Merchandising, QVC, Inc. «The author's incisive revelations . . . capture the extraordinary personalities and entrepreneurial strategies of one of America's most spellbinding success stories.» —Annette Green, President Emeritus, The Fragrance Foundation
Mining eBay Web Services. Building Applications with the eBay API
Improved Speed, Accuracy, and Convenience—Yours for the Taking eBay is continuously improving the features it offers buyers and sellers. Now, the biggest improvements are ones you can build for yourself. Mining eBay Web Services teaches you to create custom applications that automate buying and selling tasks and make searches more precise. Do you have dozens of items to sell? You can prepare complete descriptions and terms and submit them all with one click. Are you searching for an item with special purchasing or shipping conditions? You can't do this manually, but your custom application can. Would you benefit from charting your buying and selling trends? This book shows you how to mine and organize information that simply isn't available otherwise. All by itself, the improvement in speed will dwarf anything you've experienced—especially if you connect to eBay via dial-up. But speed is just one piece of an entirely new way of navigating the eBay marketplace. Here's a little of what you'll find covered inside: Creating new listings in bulk and automatically submitting them Getting all the facts you need about an item in one step Performing searches based on shipping or payment terms Completing tasks more quickly by working with locally stored eBay data Working with eBay's new authentication and authorization technology Ensuring the accuracy of your listings Quickly accessing buyer and seller information Using the new Java and SOAP interfaces Using calls to perform tasks not supported by the manual interface Charting trends in your buying and selling habits Tracking eBay listings with mobile devices Developing secure applications Automatically submitting feedback in batches You'll learn to do all of this and more using the language of your choice: JavaScript, VBA, Visual Basic 6, Visual C++ 6, Visual Basic .NET, C#, PHP, or Java. You also get all the details on participating in various eBay developer programs, where everything you need as an individual is completely free.