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Success Is in Your Sphere: Leverage the Power of Relationships to Achieve Your Business Goals Hardcover – Illustrated, May 15, 2019
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Our professional relationships are the most important asset we have when it comes to growing our careers and our businesses. Most people think of this as “networking.” But in today’s hyperconnected market, the most cost-effective and high-return route to new, repeat, and referral business is through our existing networks, not through adding more social media “friends” and “connections.” This transformative guide from relationship marketing expert Zvi Band shows you how to deepen your personal connections to achieve your professional goals―using the CAPITAL strategy of relationship-building techniques:
• Consistency: develop good habits to form stronger relationships
• Aggregate: build a personal database of professional contacts
• Prioritize: order your network based on who can help
• Investigate: collect intelligence on the people who are most important to you
• Timely Engagement: create a steady cadence in your outreach
• Adding Value: offer more than a simple follow-up
• Leverage: execute more effectively
The basic idea behind these powerful tools is simple: Effective relationship building is not about acquiring new contacts. It’s about strengthening your connections with the key people who will help you drive your business forward. Through a combination of personal research, best practices, and case studies, Band provides a prescriptive strategy you can customize and follow every day. You’ll find cost-effective, high-yield tools that can be implemented via social media and other digital platforms. You’ll discover the best-kept secrets of the most popular companies in the world―and time-saving techniques for achieving similar results with your own customers. Most important, you can make the most of what you already have: the simple human connections that make everything worthwhile.
In business, as in life, it all comes down to the quality of your relationships. When the right people are on your side, Success Is in Your Sphere.
- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMcGraw Hill
- Publication dateMay 15, 2019
- Dimensions6.1 x 1.3 x 9.1 inches
- ISBN-101260452832
- ISBN-13978-1260452839
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"What happens after you meet is the most overlooked part of building strong relationships. Zvi is a great resource for best approaches when it comes to deepening existing relationships." --Derek Coburn, author of Networking Is Not Working
"In Success Is in Your Sphere, Zvi offers an easy-to-follow system built on the most important truth about networking: It isn't about collecting names. It's about building relationships--and when it comes to that, Zvi is one of the best." --Patrick Ewers, founder and CEO of Mindmaven
"One of the most (if not the most) valuable assets a person can have is relationship capital. Only a few understand this, practice on a daily basis, and use it to build their success. Zvi is definitely one of them. His book draws on real stories and provides cogent advice, suggesting concrete steps readers can take to build their CAPITAL." --Itzik Amiel, author of The Attention Switch
"Zvi and Contactually have devised a clear process for helping pros keep their most valuable relationships strong, in a way that I have not seen before." --Dorie Clark, bestselling author of Stand Out, Entrepreneurial You, and Reinventing You
"Zvi and his team have built a proven approach to growing your relationship-driven business and dominating the market and he's giving it to you in this book!" --Tom Ferry, host of The Tom Ferry Show and author of Life! By Design
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- Publisher : McGraw Hill; 1st edition (May 15, 2019)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1260452832
- ISBN-13 : 978-1260452839
- Item Weight : 1.08 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.1 x 1.3 x 9.1 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #344,013 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #239 in Customer Relations (Books)
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Zvi Band is the co-founder & CEO of Contactually, the top CRM which empowers professionals in real estate, consulting, and other professional industries to build authentic relationships. Having founded Contactually in 2011, Zvi has led Contactually to $12M in venture backing, 75 employees, and tens of thousands of customers, including 8 of the top 20 real estate brokerages in the country. An engineer, a seasoned entrepreneur, developer, strategist and startup advisor, with unique both technical and non-technical operations. Thrice named a Washingtonian Tech Titan, featured in the New York Times, The Washington Post, and Washington City Paper, Zvi was also a finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Zvi is a passionate speaker and author whose writing has appeared in Forbes, Inc, Inman News, and many other outlets. His first book, a study of relationship marketing, will be coming out with McGraw Hill next year. He also hosts the Real Relationships podcast and has interviewed hundreds of leaders on how they built the relationships that moved their careers and businesses to the next level.
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I implemented what I am calling the "basketball follow up" last week, and it was incredible well received. If you are looking for tangible actions you can take to increase your business, this is the book for you.
Zvi Band, author of Success is in Your Sphere, has written a comprehensive guide to help you achieve your business goals using the power of relationships.
The book is based largely on his personal journey but he also shares the success stories of many other companies which have used the same process to build their business.
The book is easy to read, straightforward and gives valuable, actionable steps to help the reader implement the ideas shared in this book.
The author created a consulting company and software to help businesses develop, maintain and strengthen relationships. He frequently cites how valuable this has been to him and his clients.
Well written, well organized, with plenty of real world examples.
I was provided a review copy of this book.
A great read for anyone who depends on relationships to build their career (which is increasingly all of us).
Pick up a copy of Success is in Your Sphere and follow the ideas, instructions, and inspiration inside and you're sure to have more success earning the trust needed from your sphere of influence to close more deals and capture more referrals.

