Hard Sell

• Author : Jamie Reidy
• Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Release : 14 September 2010

Jamie Reidy is the guy who's been there, done that, and walked away with the insider stories. Inside Hard Sell: Now a Major Motion Picture LOVE and OTHER DRUGS, you'll find yourself rooting for Reidy and shocked by the realities of the world that paid his salary. This comedic expose traces Reidy's experiences from Pfizer training to life as the "V-Man," when Reidy became Pfizer's number-one drug rep during the Viagra craze. With equal parts self-confidence and self-mockery, Reidy takes

• Author : Colin Clark
• Publisher : eBook Partnership
• Release : 01 August 2014

Market pitchers routinely transform a patch of bare ground into a sea of eager purchasers using little more than their 'gift of the gab' and some homespun 'psychology' to convince passers-by to stop and buy their goods. Employing some of the world's most successful selling techniques, in one of the oldest and most difficult of all marketing situations, their rhetoric and social skills have to equal that employed by the most accomplished salespersons, politicians and professional persuaders. Between 1984 and 1994 sociologists

• Author : Peter Ikeler
• Publisher : Cornell University Press
• Release : 02 August 2016

In Hard Sell, Peter Ikeler traces the low-wage, largely nonunion character of U.S. retail through the history and ultimate failure of twentieth-century retail unionism.

• Author : Sean Nixon
• Publisher : Manchester University Press
• Release : 16 May 2016

'This is an impressive piece of sustained research that brings much to the field. It offers real depth in rethinking the post-war boom and there can be little doubt that this will have a real impact across modern British history, consumer history and cultural studies.' Jeremy Black, Professor of History, University of Exeter Focusing on advertising’s relationship to the mass market housewife, Hard sell shows how advertising promoted new standards of material comfort in the selling of a

• Author : Hudson Lin
• Publisher : Harlequin
• Release : 25 May 2021

"One of the brightest new voices in the genre." —Annabeth Albert, author of Conventionally Yours One night wasn’t enough. Danny Yip walks into every boardroom with a plan. His plan for struggling tech company WesTec is to acquire it, shut it down, and squeeze the last remaining revenue out of it for his Jade Harbour Capital portfolio. But he didn’t expect his best friend's younger brother—the hottest one-night stand he ever had—to be there. Tobin Lok

• Author : John Bone
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 02 March 2017

In this work John Bone provides a lively and engaging insight into the social world of direct selling organizations. He investigates these under-researched organizations via a detailed ethnography of two home improvement companies selling products such as fitted kitchens, double glazing and conservatories, as well as developing wider sociological debates on trust and interaction. These organizations tend to be loosely ordered and internally competitive collectives whose sole aim is to maximize short term profits through sales strategies that routinely employ

• Author : Juliana Geran Pilon
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 25 July 2021

Why does America consistently receive such low ratings in opinion polls around the world? The answer, as Pilon explains, lies not just in America's overtly forceful actions but in the construction and presentation of its self-image. Scholars and policymakers alike will find Why America Is Such a Hard Sell both a penetrating analysis of America's current efforts in public diplomacy and a prescription for delivering a more appealing self-portrait to the world.

• Author : William W. Stuart
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 23 November 2016

Naturally human work was more creative, more inspiring, more important than robot drudgery. Naturally it was the most important task in all the world … or was it?

• Author : Sandra L. Bradley
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 July 1990

• Author : Tom Basile
• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• Release : 01 May 2017

"Tough Sell: Fighting the Media War in Iraq" takes readers on the behind-the-scenes rollercoaster ride of Tom Basile's time as a civilian adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq during the War or Terror.

• Author : Robert L. Shook
• Publisher : Piatkus Books
• Release : 25 July 1991

Teaches high pressure sales techniques that are compatible with professionalism and having the customer's best interests at heart. It aims to inspire salespeople to dare to be different, to master the aggressive but subtle approach of hard selling without resorting to intimidation or manipulation.

• Author : Piers Anthony
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 July 1993

Mr. Fisk Centers buys real estate on Mars, where he drives a supersonic car in a suicide race and visits a robot mortician for a sample embalming. Reprint.

• Author : Lauren Layne
• Publisher : Montlake Romance
• Release : 01 September 2018

Brilliantly hot Matt Cannon doesn't mind his ''boy wonder'' nickname. At twenty-eight, he may be the youngest -- and richest -- broker at his firm, but the constant string of women in his bed know he's all man. When Matt's boss insists he clean up his image to land a potential investor, Matt knows just the woman to pose as his girlfriend. Sabrina Cross is Wall Street's go-to ''fixer'' -- a chameleon of a woman who can be anything, to

• Author : Evan Hughes
• Publisher : Doubleday
• Release : 18 January 2022

The blistering inside story of a startup that made millions pushing opioids--until its cutthroat tactics were exposed and its executives put behind bars John Kapoor had amassed a small fortune in pharmaceuticals when he conceived of a new product. It was the 2000s, and opioids were big business. If Kapoor, an immigrant and the billionaire founder of Insys, could find a new way to administer the highly potent fentanyl, he could patent his invention and sell it to those in

• Author : John Koller
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 July 1995

Award-winning salesman and sales trainer John Koller creates a unique resource for salespeople: a true encyclopedia with over 2800 listings covering sales and selling from A to Z.Includes: - Definitions- Quotations- Anecdotes- How-to advice- Biographies of important people in sales- Listings of publications, organizations, and newsletters related to sales- A dash of sales humor, just to keep things lively!Every salesperson needs this book. The perfect gift!