Stop Selling, Start Partnering: The New Thinking About Finding and Keeping Customers

Stop Selling, Start Partnering: The New Thinking About Finding and Keeping Customers

by Larry Wilson
Stop Selling, Start Partnering: The New Thinking About Finding and Keeping Customers

Stop Selling, Start Partnering: The New Thinking About Finding and Keeping Customers

by Larry Wilson

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Overview

"There's only one Larry Wilson . . . number one when it comes tothe art of selling." —Warren Bennis, University Professor andDistinguished Professor of Business Administration University ofSouthern California

"Stop Selling, Start Partnering will help you take a fresh look atyour selling activities whether you are in the boardroom, face toface with customers, or anywhere in between."—Harvey Mackay,Author of Swim with the Sharks

"Regardless of your position within the company, your task in thesecond half of these unforgiving '90s will be to help your companylearn how to get, how to treat, and how to keep customers. ReadLarry's new book and you will be much better prepared to accomplishthis mission."—Lou Pritchett, Former VP of Sales and CustomerDevelopment, Procter & Gamble

Stop Selling, Start Partnering outlines a fresh approach to findingand keeping customers through powerful, long-lasting partnerships.Drawing on his extensive experience with companies such as Kodak,US West, Saturn, and Baxter Healthcare, Larry Wilson showsmanagers, executives, and salespeople how to design and nurture"customer-keeping" organizations. Filled with smart advice andpractical customer partnering guidelines, Stop Selling, StartPartnering redefines the new success factors for every organizationthat faces the daily challenge of finding and keeping customers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780471147411
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 01/19/1996
Edition description: Revised ed.
Pages: 294
Product dimensions: 5.49(w) x 8.46(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

LARRY WILSON has been in the training and consulting business forover thirty years. He founded Wilson Learning and started PecosRiver Learning Centers in 1982. He is coauthor of two bestsellingbooks, The One Minute Sales Person and Changing the Game: The NewWay to Sell.

HERSCH WILSON is a Senior Vice President and Lead Facilitator withPecos River Learning Centers. Before joining Pecos, he was afreelance writer and also coauthored Changing the Game: The New Wayto Sell.

Table of Contents

PERMANENT WHITE WATER.

"We're Not Going to Just Blow Away." The Death of a SalesForce.

The Customer Has the Gun!

IMAGINING THE FUTURE.

Letting Go of the Trapeze!

Married to the Customer.

The Customer-Keeping Company.

INCREDIBLE RESULTS, MORE EFFECTIVE PEOPLE—THE STRATEGICABILITIES OF THE FUTURE.

Playing to Win.

"I Have to Do It Myself, but I Can't Do It Alone." GrowingPartnerships.

Driving Business Results.

HOW TO CREATE A PARTNERSHIP.

Discovering Partners.

The Strategic Partnering Process.

Preparing for the Weather.

RESOURCE SECTION.

Tools to Play to Win.

Financial Tools.

References.

Index.
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