Book description
Practical and straightforward solutions to everyday sales challenges In The Innovative Seller: Keeping Pace In An AI and Customer-Centric World, veteran sales leader and trainer Jake Dunlap delivers an expert playbook for sales that offers out-of-the-box and creative answers for the problems and questions that salespeople face every day. Fun and motivational, the book walks you through effective strategies for dealing with common challenges, like LinkedIn prospecting, sales transparency, cold calling, and others. The author has included a comprehensive tactical appendix, so you can easily identify and locate the exact solution you need when you encounter a specific problem. You'll also find: Proven, grounded, and actionable techniques you can apply immediately to improve your sales performance Instructive stories and anecdotes drawn from Dunlap's decades of sales and sales training experience Insightful discussions of how the typical sales process and model has changed over the years and how to adapt to the new realities of the discipline An engaging and eye-opening resource for early- and mid-career sales professionals, as well as business development and customer success practitioners, The Innovative Seller will also prove invaluable to managers and executives at quickly growing companies who seek to optimize their firms' sales processes and results.
About the Author
JAKE DUNLAP is the CEO and Founder of Skaled, a consultancy focused on helping global 2000 companies and start-ups grow by optimizing their sales process, people, and technology with customized, repeatable and sustainable strategies. Prior to Skaled, Jake headed Sales & Customer Success for Chartbeat. Within the first nine months of his tenure, he grew annual bookings by more than 300 percent year-over-year and nearly doubled monthly recurring revenue. Before that, Jake was the VP of Sales at Glassdoor, where he expanded the department from one to 40 employees and grew employer-direct revenue from $0 to nearly $1 million in monthly recurring revenue. Since launching Skaled in 2013, Jake has been a sought-after industry thought leader, quoted by Forbes, Inc., The New York Times, and Huffington Post.
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience