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Heavy Hitter Selling: How Successful Salespeople Use Language and Intuition to Persuade Customers to Buy
By Steve W. Martin ( Wiley )
Release Date: 2006-04-07
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What separates ordinary salespeople from Heavy Hitters?

The best salespeople are those "Heavy Hitters" who are able to use human nature, language, and intuition to build trusting relationships with customers and persuade them to buy. Based on his proven and effective sales program, author Steve Martin's Heavy Hitter Selling explains how you too can achieve and maintain that high level of sales success. Using real-world case studies, examples, and exercises, Martin provides the psychological, physical, and language-based tactics you need to turn yourself into a Heavy Hitter.

Inside, you'll find proven guidance and expert tips on:

  • Understanding how people think and communicate
  • Finding the right words at the right time
  • Predicting a customer's behavior and influencing his thoughts
  • Building customer rapport and understanding their motivations
  • Persuading both the customer's rational mind and his emotional subconscious side

"Like other sales books published recently, this one stresses the importance of human behavior. But unlike the others, it puts an emphasis on language. Salespeople could well benefit by exploring scientific models of language. Practical exercises make the book useful for everyone."
—Harvard Business School Review

"This well-written, insightful book will give you ideas and strategies you can use to influence and persuade customers in any market."
—Brian Tracy, author, Million Dollar Habits

"Traditional selling focuses on product, price, and competition and misses the most important reason people buy-people and emotion. Heavy Hitter Selling offers a different perspective that is valuable in understanding how to win."
—Jay Fulcher, President and COO, Agile Software

"Heavy Hitter Selling is different-[a book that] will help you make lots of money."
—Gerald D. Cohen, CEO, Information Builders, Inc.

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Product Reviews:
  Heavy Hitter Selling 
I have been in sales for over ten years and been the best of the best. This book helped me become even better!
  A compleat manual on salesmanship ( narcicheng )
This is by far one of the most compleat salesmanship book I ever read. Helpful, especically those parts on the use of words. It really stands the test of time, as I just found that the first version might have been published by Wiley as early as in 1980. In short, recommended!

p.s. Below please find some of my favorite passages for your reference.

The words we speak truly define who we are. However, since we are talking all the time, we underestimate the complexity of communication and take the process for granted. pg 1

You can think of the customers's personality as being much like the ocean. Without the aid of diving equipment, your view is limited to the surface. pg 273


  Excellent no nonsense book ( sohoman )
The book is to the point and direct. Either we belong to the Heavy Hitter Club and have to have a certain mindset, or we don't. It's that simple. I've enjoyed every page of the book.
  Heavy Hitter Hits the Mark 
All successful sales people, it seems, are constantly looking at "how to" books to improve what they do. Heavy Hitter Selling takes the "how to" to the next level by analyzing clients and customers and then providing practical ways to deal with lots of personalities. Steve Martin also deals with other practical issue like prioritizing deals and eliminating losers early in the process and providing more time to deal with the winning deals. I found it faciinating and worth a second to pick up what I missed the first time around
  Heavy Hitter Selling 
This book was interesting and easy to read (for those of you that may be intimidated by the 350 pages). I'll be trying out Mr. Martin's techniques on my upcoming sales calls. If you are in sales this book should give you a refreshing boost and a new way to look at the relationships you are building with your customers and why. Steve is also a great public speaker to have for your upcoming sales training. He tailors his message and works hard to interact directly with as many people as possible.