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The Negotiation Sourcebook, 2nd Edition

The Negotiation Sourcebook, Second Edition focuses on the needs of active negotiators&emdash;those people asked daily to negotiate with vendors, government officials, and others. The articles cover a cross section of these negotiations and will help to fill in the gaps for those situations that your negotiators may have only limited experience in addressing. There are also a number of articles that provide a theoretical framework for the process, since more than technique is needed to be an effective negotiator. Because we do not negotiate in a vacuum but within the context of a relationship, each of these articles leans towards the problem-solving or collaborative approach. Unfortunately, not everyone readily accepts this model.

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Sales Training Repros - Binder

Improve your sales force to yield more substantial results with comprehensive training. Sales Training Repros provides practical training on basic skills in the key areas of communications, sales techniques, and the sales process.

The illustrated, reproducible handouts bring your training to life. Plus, all the step-by-step sales force training tips and materials will make preparation simple and training effective.

You get everything you need for instant, effective sales for training:

  • Complete, prewritten lesson plans
  • Reproducible handouts
  • Quizzes
  • Attendance sheets
  • Product/Service summary sheet


Topics covered include:
  • Making the Sale
  • Cold Calling
  • Setting Goals to Reach Success
  • Defining the Steps of your sale
  • What's Your Personal Selling Style

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Sold! - DVD

Produced - 1994

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From the cold call to that first appointment, from asking the right questions, to closing the sale, these videos give practical training in selling techniques that work and show how you can apply these techniques of varying sales situations.

The package is divided into four modules:

  • The Preliminary Research - how to find out what your customer wants and get the appointment
  • The Investigation - how to use questions to uncover the customers needs and clarify requirements
  • The Commitment - how to use different closing techniques and continue the relationship

Program includes: DVD (44 mins), Self study DVD (44 mins), training notes and self study workbook.

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Call to Order - DVD

Produced - 1995

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In this video a cocky telesales executive is quick to complain about the treatment he receives from an evasive car salesman he's been trying to pin down over the telephone. But he is blind to his own errors. It isn't until a 'Twilight Zone'-like dream sequence that he sees the light and discovers where he's been going wrong.

The benefits

  • Teaches staff how to deal with inquiries and develop sales opportunities
  • Practical and easy-to-follow techniques
  • Demonstrates how to close a sale over the phone
  • Suitable for call center and telesales staff - in fact anyone who takes a customer call

Program includes: DVD (20 mins),briefcase booklet and discussion leader's guide.

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Through the Customer's Eyes - DVD

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If looks could kill demonstrates how thoughtless behaviour can create a dissatisfied customer. Its sequel, Through the customer's eyes, takes a different stance. In this amusing story with a sting in the tail, we see that how we believe we are behaving is not necessarily how the customer sees it.

Mrs Porter (Marion Bailey) has reached the end of her tether. Her mounting frustration while shopping in Starmore's department store has driven her to the edge. Inspector Thackeray (Jeremy Clyde) from the Customer Services Squad arrives to investigate her claims of rude behaviour and poor service on the part of a number of the store's sales assistants.

He retraces Mrs Porter's movements and uncovers a number of cases where she was ignored, forgotten or treated badly by staff. For example, she was left waiting while they did other jobs or discussed business with other employees.

Inspector Thackeray then shows how positively Mrs Porter would have reacted had she received the service she expected.

The staff of Starmore's learn to acknowledge waiting customers and apologise for any delay in serving them; understand that non-selling work comes second to serving customers; and discover when to call in a manager to resolve a problem. Finally they learn always to respect the customer's purchase.

When sales staff offer the service that a customer expects, everyone benefits. Friendly behaviour sells. It also creates the perfect environment for selling accessories and services.

The benefits

 

  • Sales staff will understand what effect their behaviour can have on customers
  • They will realise how attentive and friendly service really sells
  • This will improve the results for your organisation in terms of customer satisfaction and sales

Also available for online training - learn more!

 

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The Unorganized Salesperson - DVD

Free Preview - Part I

 

In Part 1, Valuing your customers, a ‘Flash-Harry’ salesman takes every opportunity to show off his expertise. He’s all action - rushing from call to call, trying to satisfy customers’ every whim. But it soon descends into chaos and inevitably he starts missing appointments.

In contrast, his colleague takes time to research customers and targets those that offer the greatest opportunity. Her approach means fewer calls, even fewer individual sales, but more long-term profit for her organisation.

 

Free Preview - Part II

In Part 2, Valuing yourself, ‘Flash Harry’ learns that by valuing himself and his time he will in turn be valued by customers as someone who can offer them specialist knowledge. He also realises that he has to manage his sales meetings and agendas. The truth eventually dawns that being trustworthy is more important and valuable than making a one-off sale.

The benefits

 

  • Entertaining true-to-life examples brilliantly illustrate how easy it is to be busy without being productive
  • Textbook demonstrations of how to manage a sales territory and call schedule
  • Excellent tuition for trainee salespeople and a valuable reminder to those who have ‘seen it all’

This program production features Harry Enfield, Miranda Richardson, Art Malik and John Cleese. Release date: 1990

 

Verify the Decision-Maker and Ask for the Business - DVD

This DVD is part 2 of the 3-part Business to Business Prospecting Series

Help your sales staff overcome the "resistance mode" often encountered in an initial sales call. This video shows how to determine the needs of a potential client and demonstrate an ability to meet those needs.

  • What to say once you've made contact
  • Setting appointments - quality vs. quantity
  • How to ask for the business

DVD 17 minutes; includes 10 employee handbooks.

  • Verify the Decision-Maker and Ask for the Business - DVD $795.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Verify the Decision-Maker and Ask for the Business: DVD Rental $295.00 [Add to Cart]
Ask for the Order - DVD

Do you remember the old parable: "Give them a fish and they'll eat for a day, teach them how to fish and they'll eat for a lifetime" Well, closing the sale is the same thing. Teach them (your salespeople) the skill of how to improve their closing of sales and you give them and your organization a gift for a lifetime- consistently much higher sales. That's the gift that keeps on giving to everyone.

Research has clearly shown that if you don't ASK FOR THE ORDER, your probability of Closing is less than 20%.

That's why LearnCom and noted sales trainers Arthur R. Bauer and Gerald L. Manning have teamed up to produce this brand new high powered video-based sales training course entitled ASK FOR THE ORDER!

With 11 realistic vignettes in diverse business settings with 43 different actors, this program brings its message to everyone in sales: rookies, veterans, field sales and telemarketing reps. Expert commentary by Art Bauer supplements the demonstrations of right way/wrong way closing techniques and the illustrations of selling skills for objections, buying signals, and closing questions.

AFTO Components

AFTO is a "Sales Training Meeting in a Box" and includes all the training elements needed to run an engaging, informative and fun session:

  • Instructor's Kit
  • 26-minute DVD
  • 38-page Training Leader's Guide
  • CD-ROM with Training Leader's Guide, Participant's Workbook & 22-slide PowerPoint« presentation

Meeting Kit

  • 25 - AFTO participant buttons ("I AFTOàdo you?)
  • 25 - AFTO note pads
  • 25 - AFTO Reminder Cards
  • 25 Certificates of Completion
  • 1 - 12" x 24" 4-color AFTO Poster, suitable for framing

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Complete Hell Series - DVD

Featuring John Cleese

This collection of short humorous ice breakers focus on key business issues or skills and the mishaps and mayhem that can occur when things go wrong. The series features John Cleese and many others. The programs are designed for use as humorous meeting openers, breaks and/or meeting closers.

Bosses From Hell!
There’s an art to being a good boss, but some people have yet to learn the right skills. Some typical examples will raise a smile in this collection of clips from videos such as Can you spare a moment?, The helping hand, The best of motives, Where there’s a will and I’d like a word with you. Free Preview

Colleagues From Hell!
You can rarely choose who you work with, and there are some characters that are a nightmare to deal with day-to-day. They’re typified in these clips in From ‘No’ to ‘yes’, Talking to the team, The paper chase, Straight talking and other programs. Free Preview

Communicators From Hell!
Some people just don’t know how to communicate at work, and need a helpful push through training to get the skills right. This amusing video really gets the message across. Free Preview

Customer service from Hell!
What can go wrong when you don’t have the right service skills? These amusing clips show the types of gaffes that can be avoided. Free Preview

Customers from Hell!
Difficult, demanding and down-right dangerous customers crop up in this collection of light-hearted clips.

Free Preview Employees From Hell!
Being a manager can feel like the hardest job in the world, especially when you’re dealing with Employees from Hell! This collection comes from titles including The dreaded appraisal, Managing problem people and Oh what the hell. Free Preview

Interviewers From Hell!
A light-hearted 10-minute look at interview gaffes and nightmares, featuring clips from classic John Cleese programs. Suitable as an ice-breaker, meeting break or to reinforce key interview skills learning points. Free Preview

Public Services from Hell!
Dealing with the public is a responsible position - but the service from some of those in authority leaves a lot to be desired in this selection of blunders.

Salespeople from Hell!
A collection of clips from award-winning Video Arts titles that confirm your worst fears about the sort of salespeople that give you hell. Free Preview

Teams from Hell!
A light-hearted look at what happens when teams aren't performing up to expectations, featuring clips from Talking To The Team, Meetings, Bloody Meetings and From 'No' To 'Yes'Free Preview

The series includes the following programs: Bosses from hell! Colleagues from hell! Communicators from hell! Customers services from hell! Customers from hell! Employees from hell! Interviewers from hell! Public service from hell! Salespeople from hell! and Teams from hell!

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How to Lose Customers Without Really Trying - DVD

Featuring Johne Cleese, Produced - 1989

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This program clearly demonstrates that the same guidelines for keeping customers satisfied apply in different situations, from sales to service to a retail checkout or reception desk.

Customers can be trying; not all customers are pleasant. It's easy to put customers off; just be aggressive, or defensive. But it is vital to treat them all as personal guests, making them welcome and indulging their whims.

In various realistic scenarios, staff resort to attacking behavior - by being patronizing or superior - or defensive behavior, where they ignore the customer altogether or fail to accept responsibility. The humorous sketches lay the foundations for customer care and provide a concrete set of behavioral rules to make customers happy and keep coming back.

They provide a memorable demonstration of the do's and don'ts of customer care, which include finding a real need behind a request, agreeing a solution with a customer, and seeing things through to a successful conclusion.

The benefits

 

  • Suitable for front-line staff in any organization
  • Humorous scenarios based upon real life
  • Key learning points suitable for role play or discussion
  • Rules are valid for any customer care exercise

A Video Arts production featuring Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and John Cleese. Produced in 1998

Length: 32 minutes

Also available for online training, learn more!

 

  • How to Lose Customers Without Really Trying - DVD $999.00 [Add to Cart]
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How To Really Achieve Your Goals - DVD

Nearly all companies and individuals say goals are important. Whether they are sales goals, production goals, personal finance goals, or weight loss goals they are deemed important. Yet many times we set our goals without much real thought. "Our new sales goal is to increase last year's sales by 10%." Why? Maybe it should be 20%. But without any real thought no one is really sure.

In this new DVD training program you'll learn:

  • Why it's important to set accurate goals
  • How to set goals so they mean something
  • The GRASP IT goals achievement system
  • Why planning is critical to both your business and personal life
  • The six key elements to change

"Decide upon your goals and then set your mind, body and world into motion. As a worthwhile being, you deserve success. Demand it. Require it. Insist upon it," says Blackman.

Divided into segments, this DVD is perfect for group training or may be used for individual instruction. This how-to training program comes with a DVD, CD audio and goals-setting booklet. It is a must for any individual and organization. (Length: 35 minutes)

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Selling with INSIGHT Trainer's Kit

Trainers Guide

Improve your selling skills by better understanding yourself and others using the INSIGHT Inventory.

This new selling system uses the INSIGHT Inventory to help increase sales effectiveness. It will help participants to understand themselves and others better and to use this understanding to improve interpersonal relationships with customers. This makes it possible for salespeople to reduce the interpersonal tension that often develops from style differences between themselves and their customers and to create open, honest dialogue. Sales representatives will be able to uncover customer needs and accurately match them with the most appropriate products and services.

The Selling with INSIGHT System includes:

  • One INSIGHT Inventory for the user to complete
  • Seven pages of interpretation information for the INSIGHT Inventory
  • Four skill-building activities
  • One action planning worksheet

Participants will learn

  • Their primary style preferences and how these affect their behavior
  • How they may behave when under stress and how selling situations can bring out this altered behavior
  • How their styles impact their communications and sales approach with their customers
  • How they are likely to be perceived by their customers, both positively and negatively
  • How to flex their styles to sell more effectively to customers with similar styles
  • How to flex their styles to sell more effectively to customers with different styles
  • Strategies for dealing with difficult customers
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Sales Effectiveness Profile-180 Online

This 84 item, online assessment provides an objective process for a sales person and their supervisor to identify the salespersons weaknesses in order to improve the skills and competencies they need to be successful. The detailed individual feedback report displays both the salespersons and their supervisors ratings of 7 competencies.

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The Art of Selling - DVD

New Release - 2007

 

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The best thing about dealing with a good salesperson is you don't feel like you're being sold to. As far as you're concerned you're just receiving good service.

The art of selling is designed to equip your staff with all the skills and techniques they need to approach sales opportunities with confidence.

To make this program as relevant as possible it looks at many different scenes in which all sales staff can relate to such as: department store, DIY store, bank services such as mortgages, overdrafts, loans and insurance, shoe shop and many more.

The art of selling uses humorous right and wrong way scenarios to teach new skills in a memorable way. It covers the four key stages of selling, in both retail and financial situations:

 

  • Winning the customer's confidence: how your actions can affect customers
  • Discovering their need: the importance of listening to your customers
  • The importance of product knowledge: how knowing your products inside out will help you offer your customers what they want, and in turn build your conference
  • Closing the sale: why silence could be your new best friend

Included in the program are specific DVD extras for both the retail and financial sales. These cover everything from handling complaints to dealing with obnoxious customer.

The benefits

 

  • Suitable for all levels of staff who deal with customers
  • Amusing and realistic scenarios make lessons very clear and easy to follow
  • Small bit sized clips to allow flexibility in facilitating a training course
  • Immediately actionable and accessible

Program includes: DVD (28mins), DVD extras (10mins), Course leader's guide with fully resource training program, Group training workbook, Self-study workbook, PowerPoint presentation slides. All materials is customisable and provided on disc

Also available for online training, learn more!

 

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Butkus And Smith On Sales - Video

Put your sales people in a receptive mood for learning with this classic business "music video" starring former pro football players Dick Butkus and Bubba Smith. This hilariously funny award-winning short will kick off and unify your next sales meeting, shattering any remnants of "new class" tension.

Length: 9 minutes

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Competitive Edge - DVD

Whether conducting an orientation session for new sales reps or a kick-off refresher for veteran staff, The Competitive Edge will put your reps in their customer's shoes, enabling them to sell as they would want to be sold. The results? More sales and greater profits.

Particpants will learn:

  • Precall planning - know your customer, be prepared.
  • Build a relationship - create a level of comfort, a basis for trust.
  • Conduct a needs analysis - establish dialog that will draw out your customer's real needs. Remember: you are really looking for a solution for your customer, not a sale.
  • Listen - active listening allows you to gather critical information, often by hearing what your customer doesn't say.
  • Presentation - provide your customer with hard data about how their firm will benefit from your product or service.
  • Overcome objections - every objection contains the key to a solution. Find it.
  • Ask for the sale - close the deal with a signature or deposit. If you have succeeded with the prior steps, this will be a natural conclusion to your meeting.

Program Contents: A 17 minute VHS or DVD, Leaders Guide, Overhead Masters, Pocket Reminder Cards, Video Meeting Closer, 10 Handbooks for Participants

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Improve Your Sales Force!

Improve your sales force to yield more substantial results with comprehensive training. Sales Training Repros provides practical training on basic skills in the key areas of communications, sales techniques, and the sales process.

The illustrated, reproducible handouts bring your training to life. Plus, all the step-by-step sales force training tips and materials will make preparation simple and training effective.

You get everything you need for instant, effective sales for training:

  • Complete, prewritten lesson plans
  • Reproducible handouts
  • Quizzes
  • Attendance sheets
  • Product/Service summary sheet


Topics covered include:
  • Making the Sale
  • Cold Calling
  • Setting Goals to Reach Success
  • Defining the Steps of your sale
  • What's Your Personal Selling Style

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Branded: Personal Identity Through Consumer Products - DVD

This program updates the philosophy of branding, a practice that has evolved to define personal identity through a product line, a lifestyle, or simply a concept. Cultural anthropologist Ted Polhemus explains the theory of branding and its evolution in the global marketplace. Nicolas Hayek, CEO of Swatch, uses his company’s success story to discuss the emotional nature of buying—and buying into—a brand. The indie skateboard entrepreneurs of Girl & Chocolate describe their brand as representative of a lifestyle. And the advertising duo who created "do," a brand with a lot of attitude but no products, look at brands as a form of personal statement that replaces worn-out cultural identity tags such as political affiliation. (42 minutes)

Produced - 1998

  • Branded: Personal Identity Through Consumer Products - DVD $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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The Believe in Yourself Blues: An Animated Meeting Opener - DVD

Sales Meeting Opener

This one shows our heroic salesman being rejected by everyone. Since theme is perseverance, he refuses to take no for an answer and we see him transformed into a positive, upbeat achiever. Along the way we see Norman Schwarzkopf and a guest appearance by Elvis.

  • The Believe in Yourself Blues: An Animated Meeting Opener - DVD $295.00 [Add to Cart]
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Teamwork Is Ducky: An Animated Meeting Opener - DVD

Featuring a saleperson accepting a "Salesperson of the Year" award from the Rubber Duck Co. He then gets a swollen head taking all the credit for his success, and not recognizing other team members. The company mascot "pops" some sense into his head. The key point is that there is no "I" in the word team.

Includes: DVD Only / Length: 2 minutes

  • Teamwork Is Ducky: An Animated Meeting Opener - DVD $295.00 [Add to Cart]
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Push Marketing Techniques - DVD

Push marketing, the essence of traditional advertising, easily translates to the Internet. This program explores a smorgasbord of online push marketing options, from staples including search engine optimization, banner ads, and interstitials to delicacies such as promotions, affiliations, sponsorships, and even rich media. The difference between directory- and spidering-based search engines is spelled out, and the value of reinforcing an online presence with offline advertising and guerilla marketing is also considered. (22 minutes)

Produced - 2000

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Little Things Mean Everything: An Animated Meeting Opener - DVD

This piece shows our intrepid salesperson finding the key to success by remembering the little things. His "bear" of a customer turns into a gentleman and gives our hero more orders and other goodies.

Includes: DVD Only / Length: 2 minutes

  • Little Things Mean Everything: An Animated Meeting Opener - DVD $295.00 [Add to Cart]
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Three Cornerstones of Customer Service and Selling - DVD

Free Online Preview

Inferior customer service doesn’t always mean that you have a nasty attitude or treat customers badly. Sometimes it comes as a result of not having the skills to close a sale. Teach your staff how to ask the questions that will lead to a sale, and how to listen to customers so that they leave with exactly what they want. Also, see how to up-sell by adding items that compliment the customers’ original purchase (for example, a jacket with a tie). In capable hands, good service can be mutually beneficial for both customer and employee.

$149.99 [Add to Cart]

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Expanding Personal Influence & Negotiation Skills: Facilitation Kit

Understand Which Strategies To Use When

To succeed in a world of rapid change, strategic alliances, and cross-functional work teams, leaders must possess more than one personal management style. In difficult situations especially those where responsibilities surpass authority and powerful interpersonal skills can make all the difference. In Expanding Personal Influence And Negotiation Skills, participants learn how to build their personal influence and apply negotiation techniques appropriately and effectively.

Skill-Based Program Content

  • Assessing your influence base
  • Choosing influence-gaining actions
  • Identifying ways to enhance your influence
  • Comparing and contrasting influence and negotiation
  • Understanding which influence strategy to use
  • Using position- and person-related approaches
  • Planning for a negotiation
  • Conducting a negotiation
  • Managing negotiation counters
  • Closing the negotiation

Facilitator Kit:
The Expanding Personal Influence And Negotiation Skills Facilitator Kit includes materials listed below and must be purchased to order Participant Kits:

  • Facilitator Guide
  • PowerPoint Presentation
  • Online Tools
  • Participant Kit (See below)

Participant Kit:
Participant materials required to support the training program are available. Each Expanding Personal Influence And Negotiation Skills Participant Kit includes materials listed below:

  • Participant Workbook
  • Expanding Personal Influence & Negotiation Skills: Facilitation Kit $499.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Expanding Personal Influence And Negotiation Skills: Participant Kit $49.99 [Add to Cart]