It's Not Your Smarts, It's Your Schmooze: How to Succeed Without Being Brilliant [Paperback]

Ty Freyvogel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 3, 2001

In It's Not Your Smarts, It's Your Schmooze: How to Succeed Without Being Brilliant, Ty Freyvogel explains to the brilliant -- and the not so brilliant -- why schmoozing is the indispensable career and life tool that gives you the connections for success. Schmoozing is building bonds of trust by focusing on others. It’s the stuff of successful people, people who could be more successful, people who will be more successful if they just follow the easy step by step schmoozercises shared by this business leader. Informative, provocative and uproariously funny, It’s Not Your Smarts, It’s Your Schmooze is for everyone in any business.

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About the Author

Thomas “Ty” Freyvogel is an entrepreneur who has founded or transformed more than a dozen small and million-dollar enterprises. As the author of It's Not Your Smarts, It's Your Schmooze: How to Succeed Without Being Brilliant, and Seize the Century! Turnaround Tactics for Success, Ty travels the nation as a public speaker.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Fast Track Press (December 3, 2001)
• ISBN-10: 0971543909
• ISBN-13: 978-0971543904
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,211,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Schmoozin's Great, January 4, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: It's Not Your Smarts, It's Your Schmooze: How to Succeed Without Being Brilliant (Paperback)

With the tremendous emphasis on technology and impersonal internet sales, the concept of the "schmooze" is fascinating. It has wonderful application to both personal and business situations. I think it's part of the more kind and more gentle environment that we live in since 9/11.

While easy to understand the concept of schmoozing, this book makes it simple for people who are not naturally outgoing and interested in others. It is truly amazing how much we can learn by being friendly and listening.

Ty has struck a nerve in everyone that is too busy, in too much of a hurry. If we take the time to interact with those around us, our lives will become enriched, and so will the lives of the people with whom we schmooze. Schmoozing becomes natural and sometimes profitable.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh new perspective. Great context for daily action., April 20, 2002

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George Orwell "laguna10" (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: It's Not Your Smarts, It's Your Schmooze: How to Succeed Without Being Brilliant (Paperback)

Despite the unusual title, this is a very powerful book. I found that an odd word (Schmooze) can speak to a lot of what we do everyday to not only be successful, but also enjoy the process. This book presents that as a lifestyle, a way of living that can then increase the trajectory of success and enjoyment.

There are useful anecdotes and exercises. It is also a fun read. They should probably charge more.

5.0 out of 5 stars A book to live by, February 28, 2008

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I. delatorre "Ignacio "Nacho" de la T... (Tucson, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: It's Not Your Smarts, It's Your Schmooze: How to Succeed Without Being Brilliant (Paperback)

While Mr. Freyvogel is a businessman and not a philosopher, I think his book and the idea of building deeper more meaningful relationships with everybody in our daily life is something is great. Look for his interview on the Get Wisdom Now blog, I heard about his book there and now I own it!