Secrets of Power Persuasion | 
 enlarge | Author: Roger Dawson
Publisher: Career Press
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 301790
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1564147428
Dewey Decimal Number: 381
EAN: 9781564147424
ASIN: 1564147428
Publication Date: May 20, 2008
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Book Description
Secrets of Power Persuasion for Salespeople, now available in paperback as well as hardcover, is a powerful, easy-to-read book that delivers scores of proven, effective methods and techniques you can use immediately to achieve the power and influence over buyers you desire. This book helps you master the art of persuasion, in turn helping your sales and profits grow. Divided into four sections covering essential topics such as: • Playing the Persuasion Game: the 8 magic keys that control buyers; the 15 ways to make buyers believe you; how to make people decide quickly with the pressure of time; the 8 verbal persuasion ploys to control the buyer. • Analyzing Any Buyer: how to distinguish "matchers" from "mismatchers;" what motivates buyers; and how they decide what they want. • Becoming a Power Persuader: how to develop charisma and the 12 ways to project charisma to everyone you meet; the secrets to remembering names and faces; easy ways to use humor as a way to persuade buyers. • Mastering Persuasion Techniques: the 8 ways to persuade an angry buyer; how to build credibility; the 8 reasons why buyers sometimes won't open up.
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Good Book not for begginers. November 4, 2006
This book goes to the psycologic side of the sales and how to convince tje people to buy from you instead to sale to Them. It's very simple tom understand, has a lot of examples. It's not a how to book. If you are new in sales read something elese.
 Gimicks that may work selling pencils, but... July 15, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
They sure won't work if you are selling big ticket items, such as houses, cars, planes, factory equipment or the like.
If you are looking for a difficult to master but good book, go to Rackham's SPIN selling. It is both research based AND effective. Dawson is just a rehash of every sales gimmick you or he has ever read about.
If you look, you will see I liked his negotiation gimmicks -- but only if tempered with other's work to set tone and style (and more). In sales, unlike negotiation, the gimmicks tend to be instant death.
Where's the bibliography April 22, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I flipped through this book in the book store. It's a great little book. It has all sorts of "tricks" for getting people to do what you want them to do. In fact, a lot of his ideas were paraphrased wholesale from Robert Cialdini. I read a little further. There's some NLP thrown in too. I read a little further, and saw some things that weren't familiar to me.
I really wish the author quoted his sources instead of making it seem like he was telling you all these things from firsthand experience instead of from a handful of books, but as a collection, it's pretty good. I flipped around for footnotes, a bibliography, endnotes, anything to let me know what his sources were, but there were none.
Since I was only familiar with about 60 to 70% of his material, I'd pick it up just to have the complete list, but I'd rather go back to the original sources. Perhaps that's why he didn't include a bibliography? Otherwise he'd be generating sales for someone else.
Anyway, if you're not familiar with these things, get Influence by Cialdini and Frogs into Princes by Bandler & Grinder. If you are, well, this book is a nice summation, and adds some new stuff as well.
 Packed With Knowledge! June 9, 2004
Roger Dawson, a top speaker and writer on negotiation and persuasion, has written, in fact, a very persuasive book. Solid research that identifies effective sales strategies and explains why they work sets Dawson's book apart from many other volumes on sales techniques - even when his advice is repetitive. He warns you away from manipulation, though he doesn't hesitate to use some forms of it, along with psychological insight, time pressure, friendship, subliminal messages and outright emotion to persuade clients to buy. Dawson writes in an easy-to-read, breezy, yet authoritative style and includes tricks, techniques, clever anecdotes and chapter summaries. The book is as well organized as a speech in which Dawson tells you what he is going to say, says it and then tells you what he just said. We recommend this book to people who want to sell better, and who have the starch to use intense powers of persuasion.
Packed with Knowledge! October 15, 2003
Roger Dawson, a top speaker and writer on negotiation and persuasion, has written, in fact, a very persuasive book. Solid research that identifies effective sales strategies and explains why they work sets Dawson's book apart from many other volumes on sales techniques - even when his advice is repetitive. He warns you away from manipulation, though he doesn't hesitate to use some forms of it, along with psychological insight, time pressure, friendship, subliminal messages and outright emotion to persuade clients to buy. Dawson writes in an easy-to-read, breezy, yet authoritative style and includes tricks, techniques, clever anecdotes and chapter summaries. The book is as well organized as a speech in which Dawson tells you what he is going to say, says it and then tells you what he just said. We recommend this book to people who want to sell better, and who have the starch to use intense powers of persuasion.
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