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The Eight Competencies of Relationship Selling: How to Reach the Top 1% in Just 15 Extra Minutes a Day [Hardcover]

Jim Cathcart (Author)
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October 28, 2002
From the author of the original "Relationship Selling", this is the updated edition with two decades of results learned from the first edition. If you were to spend just 15 minutes each day gaining one new sales idea or sharpening a skill, within just a few years you could become an industry leader. RELATIONSHIP SELLING gives you the simple essential skills for your self-directed performance improvement. As you grow your knowledge base, you will gain self-mastery. This competency based book involves the incorporation of "emotional intelligence" into your sales career as well as the profit-focused "hard-skills."

Jim Cathcart’'s sales philosophy is quite simple – Business should be practiced as an act of friendship, rather than merely as a process of negotiation. It is about connecting with people profitably, not merely persuading them to buy.



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About the Author

Jim Cathcart is one of the top professional sales trainers in the world. He wrote the first Relationship Selling book back in 1985 and this edition in 2002. He serves on advisory boards for two major universities and the faculty of iLearningGlobal.tv. He has researched and field-tested his methods through three decades of speaking and training. His previous bestseller Relationship Selling edition has been translated into multiple languages and is considered one of the premiere books on business and human development. Now this one has also been translated and placed into use around the world.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Leading Authorities Press (October 28, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0971007810
  • ISBN-13: 979-0971007818
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #100,128 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Jim Cathcart is the author of 15 books including the international bestsellers: The Acorn Principle (St. Martin's Press) and Relationship Selling (Leading Authorities Press, Macmillan, Advantage Quest).
Mr. Cathcart was inducted into the Professional Speakers Hall of Fame and has delivered over 2.700 professional speeches around the world. His most recent presentations have included: Caracas, VZ; Macau, China; Santiago, Chile; and Warsaw, Poland.
He is also a popular Rock & Roll guitarist/singer and performs regularly in night clubs and at conventions.

 

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A Loose Compendium of Sales Techniques and Cliches, September 27, 2007
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This review is from: The Eight Competencies of Relationship Selling: How to Reach the Top 1% in Just 15 Extra Minutes a Day (Hardcover)
It is clear this book is the product of years of sales training seminars for two reasons: (1) Cathcart discusses selling from a multiplicity of angles, and (2) the text reads like a loosely compiled sales handbook; failing to articulate and sustain a main argument throughout. In the author's defense, he warns the reader of this much in the introduction and opening chapter. Nevertheless, the book would benefit only those looking to reference and sharpen certain aspects of the selling technique. Even then, the book strays too often from giving technical insight into giving a pep talk. The work also suffers from an inordinate number of lists, which leads one to feel he is reading the minutes from a brainstorming session. For this reason it does not deserve the high ratings it has been given by other reviewers thus far.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Read, then go forth and sell!, December 4, 2002
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This review is from: The Eight Competencies of Relationship Selling: How to Reach the Top 1% in Just 15 Extra Minutes a Day (Hardcover)
There could not be a better time for a sales force to soak in all that Sales GURU Jim Cathcart has to say. Relationships are built in tough economic periods. This book details the basic steps each sales person should follow, and offers sound (not soft) motivation for reaching the top. Every sales rep n our firm has a copy.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Not much here, May 24, 2011
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I have read a lot of books on sales and find this one to not have much that is helpful. The approaches are all consistent with the best values in consultative selling, but none of it is brought to life. It is is full of much "what to do" but I never felt I got any clear "how to do". I doubt anyone reading this will achieve the promise in the sub-title "reaching the top 1 % in 15 extra minutes a day
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