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Summary
Summary
When Kathy Aaronson was eight years old, she set up a small roadside stand next to her family's farm and began selling vegetables that weren't up to supermarket standards (too small or too misshaped). Her entrepreneurial drive was sparked by a need to connect with people, and in the process of learning to sell successfully she learned about how to find and provide value to any type of customer. In The Golden Apple, Aaronson uses the lessons learned at her produce stand and applied later in executive sales to illustrate nine lessons that can help readers turn their careers and lives around. Using humor and practical, step-by-step guidance, this book will teach readers how to: get the attention of busy, distracted client prospects; how to do business confidently and well with anybody - even rude, crude client prospects; how to use stories to successfully sell products, services or ideas, and how to develop business relationships that will protect their careers in any economy. With the Golden Apple as their guide, readers will be confident they have the tools to make success easier than failure, in business and in life.
Kathy Aaronson, originally from New Hampshire, is the founder and CEO of the executive recruitment and sales training firm, The Sales Athlete, Inc., with offices in Los Angeles and New York City. A nationally recognized expert on executive sales, Kathy helps companies increase revenue and market share, and, for 30 years, assisting individuals in finding career happiness and wealth.
Author Notes
KATHY AARONSON is the founder and CEO of the executive recruitment and sales training firm, The Sales Athlete, Inc., with offices in Los Angeles and New York City. A nationally recognized expert on executive sales, she has been consulting with major companies for three decades to increase revenue and market share and coaching individuals to find career happiness and wealth. Aaronson has won numerous awards and accolades, has been inducted into the National Association of WomenBusiness Owners Millennium Hall of Fame (2000),and has also been featured in the PBS documentary,The People's Century.
Visit www.salesathlete.com/goldenapple
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Part 1 Bringing Out the Value Within | |
1 Finding Worth, Providing Value | p. 11 |
Checklist: What Is Value? | p. 14 |
Nothing Happens Until You Sell Yourself | p. 22 |
2 Slowing Down the Traffic | p. 29 |
Creating Prospects | p. 36 |
The Five-Touch Technique | p. 37 |
3 Why We Buy, and How | p. 49 |
The Four Universal Types of Customers | p. 53 |
Building Loyalty with Every Sale | p. 60 |
Part 2 Turning Cold Calls into Warm Relationships | |
4 Communicating with All the People, All the Time | p. 65 |
Six Possible Responses to Your Approach | p. 69 |
5 The Well-Polished Presenter | p. 83 |
The 24-Hour Professional | p. 87 |
Packaging Counts | p. 96 |
6 Storytelling Selling | p. 99 |
New Ideas: How to Show, Tell, and Sell | p. 103 |
A Seven-Point Presentation Structure for Selling Anything | p. 112 |
Rules for Storytelling Selling | p. 115 |
Part 3 Giving Something Extra | |
7 An Apple for the Road | p. 125 |
Ten "Something Extra" Ideas | p. 133 |
Replenish-So You'll Have Something Extra to Give | p. 140 |
8 An Apple for the Teacher | p. 141 |
How to Find a Mentor | p. 144 |
How to Keep a Mentor | p. 150 |
9 It's All about the People | p. 153 |
How to Choose a Career You'll Love | p. 156 |
Career Security through Thick and Thin | p. 164 |
Epilogue: The Most Important People | p. 165 |
Appendix The Golden Apple Action Plan | p. 169 |
About the Author | p. 183 |
Index | p. 185 |