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Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows

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I'll admit when this first came out, I wasn't interested. In my journey to become better at marketing, this book made learning about the importance of the sales process - from the second of the first customer contact to setting your company up for repeat business - fun and easy to understand. From phone scripts to "packaging," you get all of it.

Use your imagination to transfer the sales process Sydney details in her book to your product or service. Your bank account will be glad you did.

Sidney Biddle Barrows was groomed to be a people person all her life and, because of it, took the prostitution biz to the next level. She saw what was wrong with the industry and fixed it, big time. As I read through the descriptions of excellent client relations that her service, Cache, provided; I found myself wishing my name was in the little black book.

In addition to reading about an interesting illegal business (which really shouldn't be), the book also fills the reader with vivid imagery of NYC in the early and mid 1980's.

The best book on the interworkings of the flesh-trade I've ever read.

This book clearly etablishes that prostituion fgr women need not be a degrading profession. As the Madam has suggested women could beenift from being prosituites. They receive a crash course in dealing with the male sex without sacificing their sense of femininity. The book is written without a hint of apology.
Plus this book is brilliant in exploring reasons men use prostitutes. This book is a must for any woman who wants to understand men.

This book is only marginally about prostitution. It is about women in business, about marketing and good employee/employer relationships. As such, it is a real suprize. At the end of the book she had me thinking and questioning my ideas, not only about legalizing prostitution, but also about ethical business practices, women in business, men in our society and organized crime. It was well worth the price.

I read this book after I had read " UNCESORED SALES STRATEGIES" by Sydney. I just had to read it. After reading her previous book, I really wanted to find out about what she had previously done in greater detail. This book was well written & describes alot of great Business principles, that if read fom that perspective, I'm sure you can all get over the fact that she owned & operated a female escort service. I can see now, why colleges have reccomended this book for reading.

I think if more Business owners ran their businesses like Sydney describes, their business would be flourishing. Treating her employees & clients with the utmost respect, its clear how her business thrived!!!

This was such an entertaining book and I couldn't put it down. It was so interesting to read about a life that most will never participate in, but are nonetheless curious about. The book was written while she was still single in the 1980s, and I can't help but wonder if some of Mrs. Barrows' views have changed a bit since she got married (and I assume still is).

Good book. Made me think about prostitution in a whole new light. Lots of cute, fun stories. Laughed out loud.

The Mayflower Madam was a good depiction of the way Sydney ran the business. I was looking for something more graphic and into her experiences, but that was not included in the book. Not something I would read again, but it is a decent book.

this is a great business book for any business. very entertaining, and funny. MUST READ

Great story, and what's more it's true! I loved reading about her and her business. Easy to read, and pleasant.