In Lead Upwards: How Startup Joiners Can Impact New Ventures, Build Amazing Careers, and Inspire Great Teams, startup marketing leader Sarah E. Brown delivers an illuminating and accessible guide to maximizing your impact and delivering results in a startup leadership role. The author draws on over a decade of experience scaling SaaS companies as she explains how to prepare for, earn, and succeed in an executive role at a startup company.The book describes every step on th...

Learning Lessons From Furry Friends will introduce you to Mama Kitty, Blackie, Smudge, Tiree, Puff, Shasta, and many of the Browns' other furry friends.Join the Brown family as they raise litters of kittens and puppies, experience hardships and losses, and turn every situation into a chance to learn valuable lessons about life and God. This book will teach you how to prepare for a litter of kittens, how to deal with the loss of a pet, how to train an unruly puppy, and much ...

In today’s lightning-fast technology world, good product management is critical to maintaining a competitive advantage. Yet, managing human beings and navigating complex product roadmaps is no easy task, and it’s rare to find a product leader who can steward a digital product from concept to launch without a couple of major hiccups. Why do some product leaders succeed while others don’t?This insightful book presents interviews with nearly 100 leading product managers from all over ...

The fast and easy way to learn how to manage people, projects, and teamsBeing a manager can be an intimidating and challenging task. Managing involves teaching new skills to employees, helping land a new customer, accomplishing an important assignment, increasing performance, and much more. The process of management can be very challenging at times, but it can also bring you a sense of fulfillment that you never imagined possible.Managing For Dummies, 3...

Develop and cultivate the kind of robust, long-term customer relationships that power companies like Nike, Spotify, LinkedIn, and TargetMore and more companies are concluding that the potential rewards of subscription-based products and services are worth the risk of radically changing their business models. They’re correct. The Membership Economy is here and it’s here to stay—and if you want to compete for the long run, you need to join it.Strategy consult...

When the world’s biggest brands want to sharpen their digital marketing strategy, they call Neil Hoyne – Google’s Chief Measurement Strategist and Senior Fellow at the Wharton School. In his first book, he offers a simple, research-backed playbook that anyone can use to find their best customers and develop relationships that last.Under pressure for quick results and facing fierce marketplace competition, too many marketers are boxed into spaghetti-to-the-wall form...

"Virtual Selling more than fulfills my high expectations. It is research-based, sound, practical, and nuanced. Another example of why the team at RAIN Group are the leading thinkers in the world of sales strategy and training." —Charles H. Green, Author, The Trusted AdvisorFrom bestselling authors of Rainmaking Conversations and Insight Selling.Do you want to connect with buyers and win more sales in the new world of virtu...

THE RIGHT PHRASE FOR EVERY SITUATION . . . EVERY TIME DON'T MISS THESE OTHER BOOKS IN THE PERFECT PHRASES SERIESHow do you get face time with someone who doesn't accept sales calls? What is the best way to present the value of your offering? How do you handle price objections? Answer: You need to speak the right language.This fully revised second edition of the popular Perfect Phrases for the Sales Call provides an arsenal of persuasive language and word-for-word...

Organizations want--and need--to track the changes in their overall performance. And the divisions, units, teams, and individuals within these organizations engage in similar success measurement. Performance Measurement explains the importance of regularly monitoring your group's performance and introduces formal measurement practices. You'll learn to Apply a disciplined process to performance measurement Set targets and communicate data effectively Use performance management as a coaching...

How to capture customers by learning to think the way they doThe most common complaint Bill Stinnett hears from his corporate clients is that would-be vendors and suppliers "just don't understand our business." In Think Like Your Customer, Stinnett explains why the key to landing corporate customers is to learn to think about the things executives and business owners think about and understand how they make complex buying decisions.Drawing upon his...

THE BESTSELLING GUIDE TO WRITING COVER LETTERS THAT MAKE YOU STAND OUT FROM THE COMPETITIONWith hundreds of ready-to-download letters--updated with strategies for networking online, social media, and responding to Internet job postings."Wow, wow, and wow! Letters like these are what I want to see; they help me get to know the person immediately and create a very positive impression." -- Melissa Burke, co-owner, Blue Plate Minds Creative Staffing Agency

A concrete framework for engaging today's buyer and building relationshipsSocial Selling Mastery provides a key resource for sales and marketing professionals seeking a better way to connect with today's customer. Author Jamie Shanks has personally built Social Selling solutions in nearly every industry, and in this book, he shows you how to capture the mindshare of business leadership and turn relationships into sales. The key is to reach the buyer where ...