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November 2005 |
What a
thoroughly practical book. I have just stormed through Sharon Drew Morgan's
‘Sales on the Line’. I was in a rush to start with. After a few pages, I found my
pace was more down to Sharon's writing style.
Buying
Facilitation is her more recent book. ‘Sales on the Line’ was first published in
1993. Sometimes it takes me a while to get around to the good stuff.
While much
of the material is not new, certainly not now anyway, Sharon makes it exciting
and easy to comprehend. She gives much credit to NLP trainers. While some of the
ideas are speckled with NLP jargon, the material it is brilliantly presented.
Every idea is supported by telephone call excerpts. The blow by blow examples
throughout the book, help bring it to life.
At the end
of each chapter, Sharon provides a set of principles or exercises imploring the
reader to study the finer points of their own everyday communications. Following
the instructions is bound to increase one's 'sensory acuity', to use some NLP
jargon myself. In other words (perhaps inadequate ones) if you practise listening
to the spoken and the separate underlying messages - carried by tone, tempo, and
pitch - you get better at hearing and interpreting them. The more you notice, the
more you will be able to notice.
Throughout
Sharon makes reference to buying facilitation. She makes the point that a sale
can't happen without a buyer and that the seller’s role is to help people work
out if they are buyers. The neat trick is persuading your telephone partner that
he or she should even consider the question. Sharon includes some powerful
phrases that I am definitely going to try out at the next opportunity.
The book
is broken into three sections. The Whys, The Hows, and The Application. It
facilitates jumping around to focus on what grabs your attention. I enjoyed it so
much that I pressed on in linear fashion.
ISBN
1-55552-047-2
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Book Review
by Clive Miller
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