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The 5 Great Rules of Selling: The Revised and Enlarged Edition [Hardcover]

Percy H. Whiting (Author)
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Here's the book that shows how you can easily increase your sales, whether you're a beginer or a veteran salesperson. Thse are the methods used by top salespeople - methods by which you can obtain more interviews, make more successful closings, secure more signatures on the dotted line! Out of the hundreds upon hundreds of selling ideas tested by Percy H. Whiting in his thirty-five years of training thousands of people for top selling positions, he has condensed the most effective into five simple, proven rules. Mr. Whiting promises that salespeople who learn these rules and apply them will increase their sales volume. And here are the five great rules, clearly explained and profusely illustrated by a wealth of everyday examples. The book not only tells you what to do to make a sale - it shows you also how to do it. Percy H. Whiting guides you every step of the way. He gives detailed methods for planning your sales talk and testing it. He shows you how to get in to see your prospects, how to get their attention and hold their interest, how to make them want your product, how to convince them of its value and how to close the sale. This revised and enlarged edition contains hundreds of new selling ideas and techniques, such as: (1) How to tie a buyers benefit to every fact about yoru product, (2) The miracle of understatement - and how to put it to work to make sales for your, and (3) The two-step closing technique - a vast improvement over old methods. Put this book to work for you now. Let it show you how to build up your enthusiasm in yourself, how to add showmanship to your selling, how to use examples in every step of your sales presentation, how to know when your prospect is ready to buy, how to answer objections - and a host of other down-to-earth sales assets that can benefit you long before you finish reading this book!

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 331 pages
  • Publisher: Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc.; Rev. ed. edition (1978)
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00005VA8T
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #686,094 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Learn How to Sell Anything, December 8, 2002
By "rkrumins" (Topeka, KS United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The 5 Great Rules of Selling: The Revised and Enlarged Edition (Hardcover)
This is a great book for anyone who wants to learn how to sell. If you're a veteran salesman, this is a great review of everything you're supposed to know, and more. Whiting's ideas in this book are the basis for The Dale Carnegie Sales Course (also highly recommended). The discussion ranges from how to get favorable attention of your prospect, through the close of the sale. Includes information on overcoming objections, pre-approach, goal setting, showmanship, and time management. Great book!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Increase Your Sales with this Classic!, February 27, 2006
By R. Peter Valentine (Riverside, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The 5 Great Rules of Selling: The Revised and Enlarged Edition (Hardcover)
This is a timeless classic written in 1947. Mr. Whiting has not only a handle on selling, he has a handle on life. Since this book is out of print I will give you the five great rules. Find and buy the book to expand on these:

1) Get your prospects attention by talking to him briefly about something which he is interested.

2) Arouse your prospects interest by telling him what your goods or services will do to benefit or serve him.

3) Give your prospects enough facts, and no more, about your product and how it will benefit him, to convince him that he is justified buying.

4) To arouse desire:
A. Remind your prospect that he lacks the benefits your product will give him and get his agreement.
B. Remind him your product will supply that lack.
C. Paint word-pictures of your prospect using your product, enjoying it and benefitting from it.

5) Get a decision in you favor by weighing the ideas opposed to buying against those in favor of buying.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Greatest sales techniques ever developed, February 24, 2009
By D. J. Greenbury (Queensland Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The 5 Great Rules of Selling: The Revised and Enlarged Edition (Hardcover)
Percy Whiting and his Dale Carnegie friend Willie Gayle (Power Selling) developed two of the best books ever written on selling. This particular book first published in 1947 by Percy Whiting is the foundation of video training programs delivered over recent decades by The Fortune Training Group (W. Steven Brown) and Lee DuBois in USA. As a sales trainer in Australia during the 80's and 90's I developed my own training around Steve Brown's program. But having heard about these books I decided to go back and find the roots so-to-speak.

Now I am re-learning these marvelous and powerful sales methods and using them every day my two telemarketing organizations (Yes, they work on the phone as well as face-to-face). They work like magic. Start with Percy Whiting's book, then read Power Selling by Willie Gayle (also from Amazon) and you literally have the best sales techniques ever developed. The true foundation of selling successfully.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A classic. Great lessons, albeit dated
Percy Whiting is still regarding as "the man" around the sales industry. Many argue that Dale Carnegie would not be the success he was if not for the natural sales expertise of... Read more
Published 19 months ago by J. C. Flynn

5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic. The best book on selling, ever!
This is the book they used at Dale Carnegie and at the IBM training programs, a few years ago. Is the best book on sales I ever read.
Published on June 24, 2008 by Pablo R. Vitaver

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This is the best book written on selling. It has also had the most copies sold. What else can you say it was the text book for a sales class.
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