How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients - Hardcover

Jeffrey J Fox is the bestselling author of How to Become CEO, a Harvard MBA and founder of Fox and Co. Inc a premier marketing consulting company in Connecticut. Fox is the subject of Harvard case study that is rated one of the top 100 case studies, and it thought to be one of the most widely taught marketing case studies in the world.

This is an afternoon read, pure and simple. And chances are good that once readers accept Fox's hard-hitting yet commonsense approaches, they'll accept his sales process, which applies, by the way, to selling widgets, promoting intangible services, or selling yourself. Every one of the author's 50 two-page to four-page chapters contains just one nugget of information more than the preceding section, enough to keep the momentum and the attention. A sad story about the hazards of drinking coffee (it spilled--and the prospect was then distracted by a second crisis) is followed by a notice not to eat a major meal during a sales lunch, which is promptly followed by "no pen in the shirt pocket" advice. Fox's seemingly disparate hints and tips, in short, comprise a very logical and memorable way of rainmaking, and a short tome that will show anyone the how-tos. Barbara Jacobs
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