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

Konrath, Jill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591847915 ISBN 13: 9781591847915

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2015

Synopsis

Being an agile seller virtually guarantees a prosperous career. 

When salespeople are promoted, switch jobs, or face new business conditions, they need to learn lots of new information and skills quickly. It's a daunting task, compounded by the fact that they're under intense pressure to deliver immediate results.

What Jill Konrath calls agile selling is the ability to quickly learn all this new info and then leverage it for maximum impact. Having an agile mindset, one that keeps you going through challenging times, is the crucial starting point. You also need a rapid-learning plan that helps you establish situational credibility with your targeted or existing customers in just thirty days.

In Agile Selling, you'll discover numerous strategies to help you become an overnight sales expert, slashing your path to proficiency. Jill Konrath's fresh sales strategies, provocative insights, and practical advice help sellers win business with today's crazy-busy prospects.

About this title

About the Author

JILL KONRATH is a sales strategist and speaker whose clients include IBM, Microsoft, Accenture, Staples, and Hilton. Her previous books include Selling to Big Companies (one of Fortune’s “Must Reads” for sellers) and SNAP Selling.

Review

"Chapters on how to absorb new information at a fast pace are worth the price of the   book...Showcasing tools and techniques that can shift sales thinking and results, Konrath highlights the path to sales success." 
—Publishers Weekly

“Any author who presents a dedication that reads ‘may you live an abundant life’ is clearly someone to listen to. Multibook author...speaker, and sales consultant Konrath addresses a subject that impacts everyone in business. Hers is commonsense advice, made much more valuable through real-life stories and highly simplified procedures.”
—Booklist

“Loaded with tactics, tips, and new habits, Jill’s book is a game changer for any salesperson who wants to thrive in the new connection economy.”

—SETH GODIN, author of The Icarus Deception

“Always be learning: that’s the message of Jill Konrath’s comprehensive new book on the art and science of sales. She not only gets sales fundamentals right, she also understands that the world of selling has changed profoundly—that, in fact, the new sales environment is all about change. If you want to be quicker on your feet when it comes to sales, you need this book.”

—DANIEL H. PINK, author of To Sell Is Human and Drive

“Agile Selling shows you how to become an overnight expert, capable of bringing a continuous string of sales-inducing ideas to your clients. Get it to develop superpowers your competitors will envy.”

—GENEVIEVE BOS, CEO, IdeaString

“Agile Selling is for sales reps and companies who want to go big. Mastering these strategies is the key to a sustainable competitive advantage in an everchanging world.”
—BRIAN HALLIGAN, CEO, HubSpot

“If change is all around you and your customers are rushing ahead of you, fasten your seat belt and snap up a copy of Jill’s new book, Agile Selling. It’s lean and she means business.”

—LINDA RICHARDSON, founder and chairwoman, Richardson; author of Changing the Sales Conversation 
 

“The buying process today has fundamentally changed due to the forces of digital, social, and mobile. Agile Selling is a must-read for sales professionals who want to be prepared to succeed in this new world, where learning how to learn becomes a competitive advantage. Konrath has provided the reader with countless practical tips and a call to action to embrace an agile mind-set.”

—MIKE DEREZIN, vice president, Sales Solutions, LinkedIn

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1591847915
• ISBN 13: 9781591847915
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272