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Summary: Getting Back in Touch
Review: The authors have provided me with a framework/mindset to continue my sales career with renewed drive. PS - I have read a lot of sales books and this one got through.
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Summary: Highly Recommended!
Review: The notion of growing your business like a garden may not seem particularly original, but the direction these authors take their sales advice in is quite fresh. In an unusual and welcome act of focus, they dwell on one aspect of the sales professional's life: how to prolong your career and stick with it, despite the weeds and rocks hurled continually at today's selling professional. Their advice is practical and couched in colorful anecdotes and garden metaphors. Sales advice blooms throughout the story of an imaginary sales professional, Marsha Molloy, who is struggling to get her professional groove back. Since burnout is an epidemic in the sales profession, this book is a valuable addition to the topic. It offers solid advice, or "sales seeds," in a colorful and engaging way. We strongly recommend it to all those who seek to do more than make a sale - and, rather, aim to build a sales career.
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Summary: SPROUTS ! with simple wisdom!
Review: The simplicity of this book is wonderful--it is a small book, an interesting story and useable advice. Once you start reading it you just have to go ahead and finish it in one sitting. The notion that everyone is a sales person, whether it is ideas, products or services, we all follow a simple four step process is so true and such practicable advice. I would recommend this book to anyone who needs to sell anything to anybody!
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Summary: A Good, Quick Read
Review: There's nothing like a clever story to illustrate a point. In 160 pages, Vengel and Wright have managed to transfer some sophisticated business lessons in a practical and engaging way. The gardening concept here is not trite or overly metaphoric -- just a refreshing hook to hang the book's tips on. I liked the simplicity of the planning/seeding/nurturing/harvesting model and the authors' advice ("sales seeds" sprinkled throughout the chapters) is obviously based on many years of real-world sales experience. In my opinion, this book is the perfect "airplane read" for the traveling sales professional.
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Summary: Learn How to Grow and Harvest a Sales Garden
Review: This is an excellent book for any experienced sales person faced with a lull in sales or approaching "burnout"; any sales manager concerned with retaining experienced sales talent; or anyone just starting their career in sales. The "Sales Garden" metaphor is a clever way to introduce the authors easy to follow "big picture" sales process. This book is chocked full of sound advice and helpful hints that should help any sales professional build a rock-solid foundation for sustained sales growth - or just recharge the "sales batteries".
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Summary: Simple but Powerful: SPROUT!
Review: Top sales performers are rare. They consistently exceed plan year after year. The secrets of consistent overachievement are clearly laid out in SPROUT! Having personally nutured some some of the top sales overachievers in the Medical Industry, I see those key success factors in this easy-to-read book. Sometimes the most simple things are the most powerful. SPROUT! is one of those things.
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Summary: Simple but Powerful: SPROUT!
Review: Top sales performers are rare. They consistently exceed plan year after year. The secrets of consistent overachievement are clearly laid out in SPROUT! Having personally nutured some some of the top sales overachievers in the Medical Industry, I see those key success factors in this easy-to-read book. Sometimes the most simple things are the most powerful. SPROUT! is one of those things.
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Summary: Gone to seed
Review: What a welcome relief to read such an inspiring book that relates so well to the personal side of sales. This is one sales book I'll keep. SPROUT! illustrates a simple, but brilliant, sales approach that can make a profound difference with your customers. An added benefit, besides increased sales, is in rediscovering the enthusiasm and passion you used to enjoy in your job. The authors make it easy to recharge your career by using their simple "Sales Garden Model: Planning, Seeding, Nurturing, and Harvesting." The gardening metaphor makes perfect sense and it makes the sales process fun and enjoyable. Suggestion: A great way to start your day is to review and think about just one of the many cleverly packaged Sales Tips displayed throughout SPROUT!
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Summary: A different sales approach
Review: What a welcome relief to read such an inspiring book that relates so well to the personal side of sales. This is one sales book I'll keep. SPROUT! illustrates a simple, but brilliant, sales approach that can make a profound difference with your customers. An added benefit, besides increased sales, is in rediscovering the enthusiasm and passion you used to enjoy in your job. The authors make it easy to recharge your career by using their simple "Sales Garden Model: Planning, Seeding, Nurturing, and Harvesting." The gardening metaphor makes perfect sense and it makes the sales process fun and enjoyable. Suggestion: A great way to start your day is to review and think about just one of the many cleverly packaged Sales Tips displayed throughout SPROUT!
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Summary: Selling Can Be Fun!!
Review: What a wonderful idea - A "Sales Garden" metaphor that can only energize you, increase your sales and your income, and you will have fun at the same time!! Vengel and Wright have created one of the most delightfully new outlooks on sales I have read in a long time. For all those interested in emjoying their sales career, I would highly recommend this book!
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