The New Sales. Simplified.: The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development Paperback - 2012

Advance Praise for New Sales. Simplified.

"Mike Weinberg takes the mystery out of prospecting for new business. New Sales. Simplified. provides a powerful, practical, and proven framework to help sales-people successfully convert today's crazy-busy prospects into new customers."

-- Jill Konrath, author of SNAP Selling and Selling to Big Companies

"If you are responsible for new business, either as a manager or sales pro, you must not only read, but USE New Sales. Simplified. This field-tested guidebook shows exactly how to proactively go after and win the sales that you want."

-- Art Sobczak, author of Smart Calling

New Sales. Simplified. will help anyone in sales become more effective at his or her most important responsibility--acquiring new customers. Packed with examples and anecdotes, the book offers an easy-to-follow framework to success-fully develop new business, and takes a blunt, often funny look at what you may be doing wrong when planning and executing your sales attack. You'll learn how to:

Draft a compelling, customer-focused "sales story"

- Identify a strategic, finite, workable list of genuine prospects

- Prepare for and structure a winning sales call

- Overcome--even prevent--every buyer's anti-salesperson reflex

- Use email, voicemail, and social media to your advantage

- Perfect the pro-active telephone call to get face-to-face with more prospects

- Come across as a value creator and problem solver

- Stop presenting and start dialoguing with buyers

- Make time in your calendar for business development activities.

In sales, there's no such thing as forever. You need new customers and new business --all the time. Refreshingly honest, New Sales. Simplified. removes the mystery surrounding prospecting for new business.

MIKE WEINBERG is a top-performing sales hunter, sales executive, and founder and President of The New Sales Coach. He speaks, consults, and coaches on new business development sales strategies. A native New Yorker, Mike Weinberg lives in St. Louis, Missouri.