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The Four Kinds of Sales People: Your Personal Path to Breakthrough Achievement [Paperback]

Chuck Mache (Author)
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May 2006
The Four Kinds of Sales People is a gripping parable that identifies exactly how and why sales people excel - or don't. Told as a fictional account of four people, each of whom epitomizes the characteristics of a particular style, it provides a graphic description of how each type goes about selling, what their strengths and weaknesses are--and what exactly insights each type requires in order to break through to the next level. Identifying which type a person most resembles is essential to developing a strategy that turns a routine sales job into a life of breakthrough achievement.

In the tradition of great business storytellers like Spencer Johnson (Who Moved My Cheese?), Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad), and Og Mandino (The Greatest Salesman in the World), Mache uses larger-than-life fictional characters to make a powerful statement. With the vibrant, funny, inspirational characterizations provided in The Four Kinds of Sales People, as well as its detailed lists of prescriptions, this book provides Sales People - and those who manage them - with a set of powerful tools for lasting transformation.


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  • Paperback: 171 pages
  • Publisher: Elite Books (May 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1600700098
  • ISBN-13: 978-1600700095
  • Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,387,535 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Can Sales Success be Correlated with Personality Type? Yes!, July 5, 2006
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Chuck Mache has taken a different tact in trying to correlate success in sales ability with personality. Unlike the usual cookbook texts with graphs, steps for achieving success, and outlines, Chuck goes a little deeper. To make it easier for the reader he's not specified specific sales such as an auto dealer, a real estate sales person or a medical device or pharmaceutical sales person. Instead he's carved out "generic sales people" and assigned four different personality types. He analyzes these individuals bringing in his perceptions of sales over the years, correlating these personality types to success, failure and response to variations in corporate challenges.

He has generalized sales personality types into "The Performer, The Professional, The Caretaker, and the Searcher." The Searcher is essentially someone dabbeling in a sales job while they are trying to find out who they are or what they want to become. As you might expect, as Mache lays out the opportunities and challenges, The Searcher is a personality type that needs to "fish or cut bait." No sense in wasting your time or a company's if you aren't able to commit to the job.

Regardless of what you sell, this book can be of interest. It was fun to read the characterizations and try to figure out where I might be classified. It will focus the reader on applying the strengths and weaknesses of these various types to your own sales experience - provided you have the honest introspection to take a hard look at yourself.
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5.0 out of 5 stars "Bullseye", July 12, 2006
This review is from: The Four Kinds of Sales People: Your Personal Path to Breakthrough Achievement (Paperback)
Mache hits the "triple red bull" with this book. He scores big in spotlighting that challenges are just that, designed to push us to breakthrough in areas of our "sales life" that we are not at all comfortable with. "The Four Kinds of Sales People" clearly illuminates the path to conquering these challenges and gives insight on what lies ahead for us upon breaking through to the next level, to grow profitably as sales people and move on to the next challenge in life, being able to face it head on!

The Performer
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4.0 out of 5 stars You Might Be a Combination of Sales Types!, September 10, 2009
This review is from: The Four Kinds of Sales People: Your Personal Path to Breakthrough Achievement (Paperback)
This book will help you understand why you sell things the way that you do and why you might not be selling anything at all! Once you understand your sales persona, it'll be easier for you to get results.

There are four salesperson profiles listed in the book:

1. Parker the Performer - Lives for recognition and awards. This type of person is very competitive and likes to be on Top.

2. Paula the Perfessional - Is all about keeping things in order, on time, and on budget. Someone who's really concerned about reputation and service.

3. Craig the Caretaker - Really concerned about the wellbeing of others. Wants to make sure that everyone is happy and becomes a satisfied customer.

4. Sarah the Searcher - Someone who might not be cut out for sales at all. Maybe needs to be doing something else.

I'm a combination of Craig and Sarah. I like to take care of people and provide a great service, but don't want to be in a direct salesperson situation. I prefer to just be myself, talk about what I'm doing, and if people are interested then I keep talking.

In conclusion, read this book if you are in sales or even if you aren't. You'll learn a lot about human communication if anything else.
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