ABSTRACT

This book is not about selling products -- it is about selling yourself, your ideas, and your services. This book explains an innovative dialogue sales process, and the relationship sales principles that underpin it. In every sales situation, there is both a seller and a buyer and, at different times, either the buyer or the seller may take the lead. The dance they perform may or may not lead to a deal, but it will leave them knowing a little more about each other’s strengths and weaknesses. These two dancers are "connected" and follow the same steps -- The five steps they follow are to plan, connect, dialogue, record, and follow up. The five steps are the basis of the dialogue process.

In addition, this book provides easy-to-follow guidance for three groups of people: 1. Professionals wanting to sell their services and improve their business development; 2. Thought leaders, change agents, innovators, entrepreneurs, senior public servants, and advocates wanting to sell their ideas to others; 3. Mid-career job seekers and recent graduates aiming to sell themselves into a dream job role either full or part-time.

chapter Chapter 1|20 pages

What Are You Selling?

chapter Chapter 2|52 pages

The Dialogue Selling Process

chapter Chapter 3|16 pages

Relationship Selling Principles

chapter Chapter 4|6 pages

A Business Developer’s Workday

chapter Chapter 5|14 pages

Other Important Sales Topics

chapter Chapter 6|3 pages

Conclusion