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Summary: Great information
Review: A very interesting slant on giving great customer service. The essential idea in Networking with Millionaires is to provide more than your core product; to go above and beyond the call of duty. Dr Stanley provides a number of examples of this and a number of different approaches to try.
True many examples are similar & that almost gained this CD a 4 star review from me... but then I thought of the value of the information, the fact that I will encourage everyone of my staff in every type of business to listen to this and the fact that I have learnt enough to cover the meagre cost of this CD many times over.
And, after all repetition is the mother of mastery! It is always great to hear stories of success and inspiration, this CD combines these with approaches that will work in any country and industry - truly global advice.
True, it's a little simple in places and the sound bites of various role plays are very cheesy, but overall I cannot give this less than 5 stars - the information is just too valuable.
Enjoy it... but most of all, take action with what you learn & USE IT!
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Summary: Big fan of Tom Stanley but this book was big disappointment
Review: I am a huge fan of Tom Stanley's. The Millionaire Next Door had a profound impact on my consumer behavior and personal finances and my life in general. I have read the Millionaire Mind as well, and its a good book.The information in this book could have been covered in total in the first audio tape (there are 4 tapes in total). I agree with other reviews saying the information in this book is highly repetitive and slanted towards accounting and finance-- almost to the exclusion of other areas of business. The other problem with this book is that its almost completely anecdotal. Stanley strays from his core strength shown in Millionaire Next Door. Stanley became a bestseller in MND because he was able to synthesize and capture data based on research and present it in a beautifully coherent fashion. On the contrary, this book is full of stories and anecdotes and is all over the place in the presentation of material. This book is in an interview format, (Tom Stanley being interviewed by a guy with obviously scripted questions) which I didn't like as much. One major thrust this book holds is that you need to be a complete problem solver for your customers in all aspects of their lives and business enterprise in order to sell your product to them. An example he provides is a CPA who helps a client's kid get into a top college. The problem with this approach (that Stanley doesn't acknowledge or address) is that you completely rely on the benevolence of decisionmakers at a given business when you solve all of their other life problems and not overtly sell them anything. What Stanley proposes is not new to Salespeople like myself. Salespeople like myself have always expanded our job descriptions to help our customers solve all sorts of problems. The problem with Stanley's approach is that it's not as workable as he advocates because there are more takers than givers in the business world. By and large, business decisionmakers in real life don't return favors as the book portrays they do to his "Ace of Aces" examples. Especially when decisionmakers yank you around on price and price alone. Stanley does not have an answer for networking to that type of millionaire. If businesses and business decisionmakers were as benevolent as Stanley suggests they are -- returning favors as they are given out -- personal concierge services would overtake the planet and salespeople would cease to exist.
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Summary: 8 STRATEGIES TO SUCCESS via networking
Review: I have read all of Dr. Stanleys books and/or listended to his work on audio, as I did with this one.Networking with millionaires is as the title indicates a book to show you how to penetrate into the market of the affluent and offer them your services. It is not intended to be a continuation of Stanleys poplular The Millionaire Next Door or The Millionaire Mind.Since I am in financial services and also network marketing, I found this book invaluable to attract clients in both businesses.I first became acquanted with Dr. Stanley's work many years ago when I joined toastmasters and started to rub shoulders with the affluent. Somebody suggested Networking With The Affluent and that book helped me immeasureably. I have since added other books/audio programs by Dr. Stanley.Highly recommend Networking with Millionaires.Good program. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Best information on this subject
Review: I'm a Stanley fan.. loved the "next door" books and learned much.
I heard this title through Audible.com.. half the price for the full unabridged interview. I highly recommend audible.com for many other reasons, but this title makes it worth a trial membership.
The true measure of lasting value for me is how often I refer to it in coaching conversations. I've listened to it multiple times, and believe it's responsible for a paradigm shift in how I look at networking and selling.
If you intend to sell or market to anyone, especaily anyone with enough money or activity to be hard to reach, you MUST get this!
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Summary: Avoid at all costs.................
Review: If your a shoe salesman and you want to sell shoes the rest of your life, this is the book for you! The key message of this book could have been told to you in a simple 3 page essay. After this authors 1st book, it has been all down hill. He should take his own advice to network himself into another career that doesn't involve advice. THATS HOW HE CAN SHOW HIS "LIFE LONG COMMITTMENT" TO HIS READERS AS HE SUGGESTS OTHERS TO DO TO AN INDUSTRY. It was truly unreadable. I can't even sell it used with a clear conscious.
The experience in summary: Imagine, your trying to eat lunch quietly and the banter of two people talking louder than they should be are right next to you. If that is considered a positive experience, than buy multiple copies of this book for your library.
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Summary: Networking with Millionaires
Review: Misleading title! It will not teach you how to LEARN to become a millionaire, it will only teach salesmen how to SELL to millionaires. Too long, (4 cds!) too uninteresting!
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Summary: How to Network Your Way to the Top
Review: Networking with Millionaires is the audio version of Stanley's book "Networking with the Affluent." It is not a "word for word" audio book, but rather a partially scripted interview with Stanley where he covers the same points with same stories he uses in the book.
The basic concept is that successful sales professionals build referral business by offering services beyond their core product(s). Stanley offers some new and creative ways of using the principle of "going the extra mile" for building a network of affluent and influential people who have the ability to help you if they are so inclined. Even though there are some helpful specific suggestions of how to connect with your target group(s), what is most important is having a mindset that thinks outside the box.
One aspect of the recording that I particularly appreciated was providing specific reference materials that can help you learn more about how to identify concentrations of wealth. For example, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, and some directories of trade associations. These references go by very quickly in the recording, so you may need to look at a copy of the book to identify them all. These reference materials are rather obscure, so I doubt I would have ever heard of them had I not listened to/read "Networking with Millionaires."
One reviewer made a valid point that it appears that Stanley is suggesting that we completely rely on the benevolence of the decision makers. While it is true that he does not discuss the downside in the book, I think it is important to use some common sense. There is a risk that you won't directly receive any benefit from helping others. You have to be judicious and not go crazy. There are clues you can look for to identify takers rather than givers. There will be times when you do not appear to receive any specific benefit from the help you provide. If you come across an obvious "taker," simply cut your losses as quickly as possible and move on. The benefits of Stanley's approach FAR outweigh this possible downside. Stanley's objective was to outline a workable approach, so I don't fault him for not including information on the downside. His materials are for professional people who should be able fill in that gap on their own.
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Summary: Do you offer services that require CEO's approval? Read me!
Review: The audience of this book is not the lazy person. This audiobook will make you work very hard for very little, in the beginning. Treat the time spent implementing these 8 techniques as an investment with a compounding return of investment rate of infinity. Let me tell you something, I've read a few other books on personal network building, and this one is by far the best on the subject. This is absolutely not about the concept of MLM (multi-level marketing), which is a topic I choose to avoid. If you would like to buy this book and learn to become a millionaire and think like a wealthy person, this is probably not the best one. I recommend Robert Kiyosaki's books for that purpose. He will in turn recommend The Millionaire Next door, which is how I stumbled upon this book. "Networking With Millionaires" is written for consultants and it is all about working with your top clients and building extremely profitable relationships with previously impossible to reach clients. Spend $0 on advertising and achieve infinite returns on your investment. If you are already a great salesperson, you will still gain a lot of insight to help you breach that elusive barrier of the CXO executive offices. I have never heard this much useful information on a subject that so little is truly written on in such a short period of time. I knew a lot of the information presented herein already, but there was quite a bit of new knowledge and inspiration that gave me a lot of ideas I wouldn't have thought of otherwise. If you are looking for a gift for someone who is a successful self-employed professional, they will be in debt forever to you if you buy them this CD as a gift. This audiobook is highly recommended by me as a representative of its intended target audience.
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Summary: Author is good but is resting on laurels with this one
Review: The author is great, this work is not. He simply sat down, had a conversation, and recorded it. Here is all the book says: Offer your service for free to millionaires in a way that makes you further contacts. An example is a CPA giving a speech to a trade organization on issues that affect them and perhaps specializing in serving that industry. I didn't need to listen for hours to know this. This should have been a magazine article, not a book. He also doesn't cover any downside. Most of the stories are simply of people who networked this way and had great success. I loved The Millionaire Mind and sometimes pass on little tidbits of information gleaned from it. I just told you everything I learned from this book. Every one of dozens of stories was the same lesson with different characters. I listen to a fair amount of audiotapes and this was a rare disappointment.
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Summary: Author is good but is resting on laurels with this one
Review: The author is great, this work is not. He simply sat down, had a conversation, and recorded it. Here is all the book says: Offer your service for free to millionaires in a way that makes you further contacts. An example is a CPA giving a speech to a trade organization on issues that affect them and perhaps specializing in serving that industry. I didn't need to listen for hours to know this. This should have been a magazine article, not a book. He also doesn't cover any downside. Most of the stories are simply of people who networked this way and had great success. I loved The Millionaire Mind and sometimes pass on little tidbits of information gleaned from it. I just told you everything I learned from this book. Every one of dozens of stories was the same lesson with different characters. I listen to a fair amount of audiotapes and this was a rare disappointment.
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