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20 Best Sales Books

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Sales 2.0 for Dummies

by David Thompson with Elaine Marmel


As part of the first Sales 2.0 conference held in October 2007, Genius.com CEO David Thompson wrote a quick guide for integrating social media with the sales process, Sales 2.0 for Dummies. With the proliferation of online communities like Facebook, Thompson shows you what Sales 2.0 is (and can be) and offers 10 ways to boost your 2.0 abilities.

Cold calling might be going the way of the dinosaurs. Social networks can provide a warmer way to cultivate prospects and a potentially more rewarding one. Thompson shows how web conference, social networking, and prospect tracking can lead to big sales gains. But you have to know the techniques…

Excerpt: A great source of new business is your current customer base. Effectively maintaining and cultivating your existing customers is an enormous Sales 2.0 opportunity for any company. You must have an excellent Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution to manage those relationships… Just as important, you need a marketing system.

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    kdaven

    about 1 month ago

    2 comments

    I Would make "The Closer" By Ben Gay and 'How to Sell Yourself' by Joe Girard in my Top Ten.

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    YYing

    4 months ago

    2 comments

    Very great book list, very attractive only read the title, hehe,
    but I do not see the <> by KeithM. Eades. It seemed popular in IT coroperation.

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    tammiegonzales

    5 months ago

    2 comments

    The list is great I just got done reading the magic of thinking big . It is another good one. by John Swartz. .

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    Boykin

    5 months ago

    2 comments

    Great list! ...make it 21 and add: You Can't Teach A Kid to Ride A Bike At A Seminar by David H. Sandler

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    jillkonrath

    5 months ago

    2 comments

    Thanks for including my book, Selling to Big Companies, on your 20 Best Sales Books list. I am honored to be included.

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    rich34232

    5 months ago

    888 comments

    I have 15 of these exceptional books great list

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    SkipAnderson

    5 months ago

    2 comments

    These are all great books. My only argument is that some of them aren't sales books. "Selling the Invisible" would be on my personal list of 20 top business books, or top 10 marketing books, but it isn't about selling!

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    rjp

    5 months ago

    108 comments

    an instant library of reference material.....

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    jdoubleel

    5 months ago

    4 comments

    Wow, I really feel like a professional Salesperson today. You guys have suggested 9 books that I already have in my sales library. And guess what? If you read the material and apply it, you will became a better salesperson.

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    HarrietAlison

    5 months ago

    470 comments

    It is nice to have a put together list of sales books. I certainly would have no idea which ones would be considered the best. thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

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    jackpariseau

    5 months ago

    92 comments

    Good list. Perhaps missing a few on the notivational side but if I had to choose 20 (hard choice) these would all compete.

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    LeslieNewYork2

    5 months ago

    8 comments

    Thank You! I was at a NYC bookstore yesterday in the business section of Sales, and there was hundreds of books on the topic. How ironic that I pulled half of the books from this list to peruse.
    I am so ecstatic, today you listed the Top 20 must have for Sales. Excellent Choice!

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