Flirting for Success: The Art of Building Rapport [Paperback]

Jill Spiegel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 1995

Includes surefire tips for business and personal success, in a concise, easy-to-follow, down-to-earth guide. Spiegel, an award-winning motivational speaker and consultant, reveals how to gain immediate trust, keep confidence high, give and receive compliments to gain power and much more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; Warner Books ed edition (May 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446671800
• ISBN-13: 978-0446671804
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,227,168 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jill Spiegel's bio:
As the great great granddaughter of Spiegel Catalog founder, Joseph Spiegel, Jill Spiegel was encouraged to value her talent for building rapport. Early on, she felt a mission to help others develop their connection skills. After graduating from The University of Michigan with honors, Jill began her career breaking sales records as a door-to-door cutlery salesperson. Soon she was promoted to district manager where she motivated her sales force to increase theirs sales by 200%. In 1990, Jill founded Goal Getters, a motivational firm where she spreads her message through her hit seminars and speeches to fortune 500 companies, organizations and community centers across the country.

"We were enamored with your enthusiasm and your message."
Claire DaRe, Client, Gift Mart

Combining spontaneity, comedy and inspiration, Jill is a captivating, award-winning speaker and media favorite. She appears on hundreds of radio and television shows internationally including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, England's This Morning, Canada's Fox FM, and The Today Show where she performed her special coaching as The Modern Day Cyrano for a top-rated series featuring her first book, Flirting For Success. For five years she hosted her popular radio show, "The Jill Spiegel Show!!!" on an ABC affiliate. She had her own advice feature as "Dear Jill" on a nationally syndicated television show, hosted a series on America Online, was the spokesperson for L'eggs "Singles" media campaign and has been featured in People Magazine, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, USA Today and so much more!

"Jill is infectiously charming and energetic." People Magazine

Along with her husband and business partner, Joe Brozic, Jill has authored four motivational CDs and five books including her newly released, "Jill Spiegel's How To Talk To Anyone About Anything! The Secrets to Connecting." Jill says, "There is magic in communication!"

"Jill could sell ice to Eskimos." Matt Lauer, The Today Show

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My top recommendation as a dating & relationship coach, May 3, 1999

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This review is from: Flirting for Success: The Art of Building Rapport (Paperback)

Spiegel does the enormous service of taking flirting out of the scary realm of romance and putting it where it belongs: as a communication art. I coach singles on the art of dating and flirting, and this is the book I recommend the most, because of her definition of flirting: "Building your self esteem, and the self-esteem in others, by creating a warm, honest and sincere rapport." Once people begin to understand that you don't have to be witty or clever, you don't have to bat your eyelashes, that flirting is a matter of being sincerely interested in the other person and communicating that interest through honest compliments, the rest is easy.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this book, its informative and useful, February 12, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Flirting for Success: The Art of Building Rapport (Paperback)

Of the many books I've read about communications, this one stands out. It describes straightforward, easy to use techniques for reaching more people and reaching people more deeply. The techniques described can be used by anyone and they work. This book is making an impact on my life which is the best testimonial I can give to a self-help book.

12 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, April 4, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Flirting for Success: The Art of Building Rapport (Paperback)

Seduced by the hype and Spiegel's gorgeous face adorning the book's cover, I purchased this book. It wasn't worthless, but its substantive content was very disappointing. I kept thinking, "Sans her famous name (remember the Spiegel catalog?) and sans the good looks she was born with, could she still have achieved what she has?" Jill Spiegel is such a dynamo that when I saw a video of her giving a seminar I wondered if she naturally has such a high level of energy or if she achieved it through pharmacologic manipulation. Frankly, most of us aren't so incandescent . . . so, back to my original question. Minus the famous name, minus the natural beauty, and minus the unfathomable energy level, could the rest of us substantially benefit from her techniques as presented in the book? I don't think so.