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22 Keys to Sales Success

How to Make It Big in Financial Services
Series: Bloomberg
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22 Keys to Sales Success offers practical guidance for selling financial products and services in a challenging, evolving market. Drawing on extensive experience, the authors present 22 essential principles covering everything from qualifying clients to mastering presentations and overcoming objections. This clear, focused guide aims to help both new and seasoned financial advisers and insurance professionals enhance their sales skills and thrive despite sceptical consumers and bear-market pressures.
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Ideal for financial services professionals, insurance agents, and anyone involved in selling complex financial products who seeks to improve their sales techniques and build lasting client relationships.

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Includes 22 keys that help financial professionals make more money, work less, and maximize their potential. This title covers five guidelines for qualifying prospects more effectively. It includes sixty-five ways to snap a sales slump. It contains ten ways to get your clients to say 'yes'.

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The art of selling financial products and services is a challenging process, requiring new skills and continuous learning to thrive in a constantly changing environment. With skeptical, bear-market bruised consumers demanding more for less, a solid, practical guideline is needed for both new and experienced salespeople to follow.

Each chapter in this guide addresses a fundamental issue in selling, representing the best practices of high-producing financial advisers and insurance professionals in the industry. The authors draw on their many years of personal experience in selling financial services to help salespeople improve their skill sets and fundamental abilities.

22 Keys to Sales Success zeroes in on key issuesβ€”from qualifying clients to perfecting the sales presentation to overcoming objectionsβ€”which financial services professionals need to master the art of selling.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781576601495

Publisher: Bloomberg Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 April 2004

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomberg Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 160.0mm

Height: 239.0mm

Weight: 526g

Pages: 224

About the Author

james m. benson is president and chief executive officer of john hancock life insurance company, a division of manulife financial corporation. overseeing insurance and annuity sales, marketing, and distribution operations, he is responsible for all of the company's distribution channels. prior to joining hancock, he was president of metlife's individual business unit and was also chairman and chief executive officer of new england financial, as well as chairman, president, and chief executive officer of genamerica financial corporation. before joining new england financial and metlife, jim held the dual position of president and chief operating officer of equitable companies, inc. and was chief executive officer of its flagship life insurance operation, equitable life assurance society. from 1968 to 1984, he held a variety of positions in sales, marketing, and product development with pacific mutual life insurance company. paul karasik is the president of the business institute, a sales and management training and consulting company. he has devoted eighteen years to helping america's financial industry professionals achieve their goals. paul is the author of six business classics, including sweet persuasion, how to make it big in the seminar business, and seminar selling: the ultimate resource guide for marketing financial services. he is the founder of the american seminar leaders association and a popular presenter at professional conferences and seminars throughout north america.

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