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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In this film, RealChange CEO Sadhana Smiles explains the key ingredients for a business developing sales people. She explains how to hire the right people, including use of a work test, and advises hiring for attitude. A company must set a strong path for a new employee from day one, arranging a personal business plan. Top salespeople develop relationships. Smiles provides advice on managing different skill levels. Regular training is crucial. Smiles...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ben Walkenhorst explains how to get ahead and impress with your elevator pitch. In this Seven Dimmensions film, learn the meaning of an elevator pitch and how to deliver it for a career change. Tips include: engaging in genuine conversation; researching your audience; leading into how you benefit customers; providing examples; getting audience attention; setting the flow of your pitch with pace, language, and style; and giving a positive impression....
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This Christmas, Emily Merkle (aka Mrs. Miracle) is working in the toy department at Finley's. Her boss is Jake Finley, the owner's son, who needs a miracle to keep the business afloat. Holly Larson needs a miracle, too. Her widowed brother who is in the army won't be home for the holidays. For Christmas her nephew wants the toy robot he saw at Finley's, and she plans to get it for him. Fortunately, it's Mrs. Miracle to the rescue. Next to making children...
6) Flywheel
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A dishonest used car salesman turns his life around, after he is caught deceiving customers and must return their money.
7) Black buck
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A "satirical debut novel about a young black man who accidentally impresses a CEO while serving his Starbucks order, catapulting him into the opportunity of a lifetime: a shot at stardom as the lone black salesman at an eccentric, mysterious, and wildly successful startup where, he will soon learn, nothing is as it seems"--
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman. His wife worked double shifts to support the family including their young son, Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time career. Even when his wife leaves him because of this choice, Chris clings to this dream. The odds become more daunting by the day. Together, father...
12) Harlem shuffle
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"'Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked' ... To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Ed Edwards is in the used car business, a business built on adjusted odometers, extra-fine print, and the belief that 'buyers better beware.' Burdened by an aging, alcoholic mother constantly on his case to do something worthier of his lighter skin tone and dreaming of a brighter future for himself and his plucky little sister, Ed is ready to get out of the game. When Dave, his lazy, grease-stained boss at the eponymous dealership Smiling Dave's sends...
14) Shopgirl
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Ray Porter is a buttoned-down 50-something executive who reaches out to a much younger woman as his Los Angeles playmate. Mirabelle, a 20-something with a pile of promises, debt, and depression, fades away in a slow corner of Saks, while trying to sell unneeded formal gloves. She's a wisp of a person, with a cat who doesn't love her, and when she finds a suitor, it's Jeremy, a scruffy artist who babbles on about speakers. When the gentlemanly Porter...
15) Jack of spies
Author
Series
Jack McColl novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"It is 1913, and those who follow the news closely can see the world is teetering on the brink of war. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman with an uncanny ear for languages, has always hoped to make a job for himself as a spy. As his sales calls take him from city to great city--Hong Kong to Shanghai to San Francisco to New York--he moonlights collecting intelligence for His Majesty's Navy, but British espionage is in its infancy and Jack has nothing...
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