Roar! Get Heard in the Sales and Marketing Jungle: A Business Fable [Hardcover]

Kevin Daum (Author), Daniel A. Turner (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 19, 2010

Don't just get your message out. ROAR it out!

In this captivating parable, you'll follow Ryan Miller, an executive struggling with reduced sales in a challenging economy. Ryan is mentored by his old Livingston, New Jersey high school friend, Lenny Bernstein, now a Hasidic Jew in Brooklyn having great success in his packaging business. Over a series of lunches around New York City, Lenny shares the key insights that have driven his sales through the roof, while allowing him to run his business efficiently-and still have plenty of time for family. Lenny explains the simple mnemonic R-O-A-R

• Recognize the four types of buyers
• Observe from the buyer's perspective, and adapt your message
• Acknowledge the buyer's special wants and needs
• Resolve the buyer's issues

Praised by renowned money manager Ken Fisher, Roar! gives you a 3,500-year-old sales secret that has never before been articulated in a business context, one you can use to recharge your sales operation and revitalize both your business and your life. It may be a jungle out there, but it's a little less scary once you know how to ROAR!

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From the Inside Flap

Business had changed. For years, as VP of Sales and Marketing at Wolfson Furniture, Ryan Miller easily created steady growth and success. Then the economy tanked. Sales dwindled. Marketing efforts flopped. Wolfson Furniture was suddenly on the ropes. Ryan's future, once golden, seemed dim. But life is mysterious. Just when all seems lost, serendipity lends a hand.

For Ryan, fate takes the persona of Lenny, an old high school friend. Having found happiness in Hasidic Judaism, Lenny now runs a packaging company in Brooklyn. "Business is booming, even in the down economy!" he tells Ryan excitedly. So what's Lenny's secret?

Roar! gives you a seat at the table as these two friends reconnect, and Ryan discovers how to revitalize his sales and marketing approach. Lenny's sales and marketing process is 3,500 years old and is beautifully simple, yet goes ignored by most companies.

As the story unfolds in real-life kosher restaurants all over New York City, you'll discover the step-by-step R-O-A-R system you can use to boost your results. You'll get practical tools and tips, including a template to help you reframe your Value Proposition, detailed discussions of the four types of buyers and strategies for selling to each, plus interview questions you can customize.

Warmhearted and entertaining, Roar! is an inspiring story for anyone looking to add a secret ingredient to their sales mix. Its many tools and resources will enable you to deliver a compelling message and strengthen your business in any economy. Take it from Lenny, it's a sales jungle out there, but it's much less scary when you know how to ROAR!

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Praise for Roar!

"Kevin Daum's Roar! is a charming new set of insights destined to help you in all your personal interactions whether in sales or otherwise. Everyone should have an old friend like Lenny."
—Ken Fisher, founder and CEO, Fisher Investments, and columnist, Forbes' "Portfolio Strategy"

"This is one of the most entertaining business books I've read, offering up some of the most essential steps you can take right now to better communicate your idea and win."
—Jennifer Openshaw, columnist, Dow Jones' MarketWatch

"Nothing is more important than knowing how to specifically communicate your message to customers. Kevin Daum has cracked open an ancient code that has been under our nose for thousands of years—providing a twenty-first-century application of these timeless principles."
—Verne Harnish, "Growth Guy"founder, Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO)author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, CEO, Gazelles

"Daum has nailed the keys to effective selling. Imagine an easy way to learn this, traveling through a fun story and, at the end, walking away with some highly recommended restaurants as a value add. You will truly 'ROAR' once you finish this book!"
—Jack Daly, CEO, Professional Sales Coach, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 211 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 19, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470598794
• ISBN-13: 978-0470598795
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 0.8 x 7.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #641,315 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A rare find--A sales and marketing book that works April 9, 2010

By Robert W. Jacobs

Format:Hardcover

There are SO MANY sales and marketing books out there touting their virtues....ROAR! is the only one I've ever found that delivers on its own promise. Clear, helpful and very actionable. With an entertaining back drop of some of NYC's best restaurants, follow Lenny's advice and you'll find yourself soon with more customers, the right customers, and the ability to deliver on your promise to them. A definite "must read" for anyone in business -- large or small.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Fable Me This: great spin on marketing book April 9, 2010

By Natasha Miller

Format:Hardcover

This is a fresh approach by an enthusiastic and thoughtful author. The story is interesting, entertaining and accessible to those who've read many books on marketing, as well as those who can't seem to crack open any of the 10 or so books on marketing stacked up on their bedside table. It's a great message "hidden" in a wonderfully written fable. Heart, soul, experience, and success are obvious in this book. How could you not want to read it?

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Short and insightful April 29, 2010

By Bill Liao VINE™ VOICE

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

Roar makes a thoroughly enjoyable read in style reminiscent of the wonderful The One Minute Manager

I really could not put it down and read it cover to cover in a single morning.

The insights are powerful and relevant and easily digested. The identification and classification of the different buyer types is a must read for anyone who needs to sell and let's face it everyone needs to sell.

The number of times I have encountered the "wise" buyer in my work had me completely resonating with the message and the simple identification of these different buying personalities has already helped me close a new 5 figure deal because it helped me figure our how I was selling in a way that best suited only my own buying style.

I have put Roar on my highly recommended list because it's methods and message proved to be very powerful.

So by now your asking why only three stars? Well the reason is twofold one reason for each star.

Firstly the book and the promotion of it are frankly a bit cheesy so Camus it isn't and I would have had to have docked it a star for that.

Secondly if you have read this far and need more success in you life / work / business then buy Roar because you dear reader are very probably a "wise" buyer, as I am, who likes to read the negative reviews first and you are described in the book and it will likely make a difference to you in your selling style as it did for me despite the hype and hype is always going to cost a book a star.

Kevin may never forgive me for three stars and I hope that you and he will see that a good recommendation on a genuine three star review means I believe in this book for the value it contains and having not been swept up in the hype around it recommend it on what it has provided for me which is better sales.