Secrets of Great Rainmakers: The Keys to Success and Wealth - Hardcover

Fox, Jeffrey J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1401301576 ISBN 13: 9781401301576

Publisher: Hachette Books, 2006

Synopsis

In Secrets of Great Rainmakers, you'll learn how to outsmart the competition and set yourself apart from the pack. In over 50 interviews with industry leaders from a wide variety of fields, bestselling author Jeffrey J. Fox will share the proven techniques and hard-won wisdom that have helped great rainmakers get ahead, along with his trademark brand of counterintuitive insight and commentary that have made his books so popular.

About this title

About the Author:

JEFFREY J. FOX is the founder of Fox & Co., Inc., a premier marketing consulting company, serving over sixty companies in sixty industries. Prior to starting Fox & Co., Mr. Fox. was VP of Marketing and Corporate VP of Loctite Corporation. He was also director of marketing for the wine division of Pillsbury, and held various senior marketing posts at Heublein, Inc., including Director of New Products. Fox is the winner of Sales and Marketing Management magazine's Outstanding Marketer Award; and the National Industrial Distributors Award as the Nation's Best Industrial Marketer. He is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study that is rated one of the top 100 case studies, and is thought to be the most widely taught marketing case in the world. Fox has been a guest lecturer at The Harvard Business School (from which he has an MBA), The Amos Tuck School, The Conference Board, and numerous other organizations. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Business Marketing, and numerous other publications, and he is a member of the Board of Trustees at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He works in Avon, CT, and lives in New Hampshire.

From AudioFile:

With principles that tower above most offerings, this is a sophisticated and stimulating lesson on sales. Fox's ideas are at once classy and down-to-earth, assertive and humble, and, above all, energizing. They speak for themselves with such clarity and practical authority that most listeners will want to use them right away. Along with the expected tips on developing mental focus and fine-tuning the sales encounter, Fox overturns conventional wisdom in a number of areas such as the value of long-term sales relationships and pricing gimmicks. Keep the focus on what customers need and want, and on getting the order today. The author's reading of this material is youthful, balanced, and credible. T.W. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1401301576
• ISBN 13: 9781401301576
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208