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2) Black Buck
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. A chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, CEO of Sumwun, NYC's hottest tech startup, results in an exclusive invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team on the thirty-sixth floor. As the only Black person in the company, Darren reimagines...
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""Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a...
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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Accelerate your sales career with this how-to book from an expert in sales In Elite Sales Strategies, expert sales leader Anthony Iannarino offers his philosophy about becoming a commercial success. This guidebook offers unique insights into how to approach every sale by serving your clients from a position of authority and expertise. As Iannarino himself notes, this technique speaks to an ethical obligation towards your client, ideally combining...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"In Secondhand, journalist Adam Minter takes us on an unexpected adventure into the often-hidden, multibillion-dollar industry of reuse: thrift stores in the American Southwest to vintage shops in Tokyo, flea markets in Southeast Asia to used-goods enterprises in Ghana, and more. Along the way, Minter meets the fascinating people who handle-and profit from-our rising tide of discarded stuff, and asks a pressing question: In a world that craves shiny...
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English
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"Overcome the biggest hurdles in coaching a sales team to peak performance Next Level Sales Coaching offers insights to sales executives, customer service managers, business owners, and other professional managers on strategies to overcome common challenges in building a "best in class" sales team. Sales performance can impact a company's revenue, profits, market share, and employee retention. The question is, how do you positively impact those goals?...
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Jack McColl novels volume 1
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English
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"It is 1913, and those who follow the news closely can see the world is teetering on the brink of war. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman with an uncanny ear for languages, has always hoped to make a job for himself as a spy. As his sales calls take him from city to great city--Hong Kong to Shanghai to San Francisco to New York--he moonlights collecting intelligence for His Majesty's Navy, but British espionage is in its infancy and Jack has nothing...
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Publisher
Pearson
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Jeremy Cassell has worked as a freelance trainer for 12 years. Before that he was National Training Manager for L'Oreal and National Sales Training Manager for Walker's, part of Pepsi. Before entering the business world, he gained experience in teaching English and history. He has worked as a TEFL teacher and is an NLP Master Practitioner and trainer. Tom Bird's business career stretches over 20 years and spans sales and sales management as well as...
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Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"A business fable about the power of integrity The Sale follows Matt Williams, a sales representative for an aviation technology company. For years, Matt has chased financial success at the expense of his family and those he loves. He knows he needs to change but is overwhelmed by where to start. One day, Matt receives a life-changing call: the opportunity to make a sale that will transform his company and his life, but requires him to make a morally...
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Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Mr. Al Foxword is one persistent salesman! He will do just about anything to sell you this book. Al tries every trick of the trade. But just when you're ready to close the book on him, he comes up with a clever tactic you simply can't refuse!
12) Free and easy
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FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
中文(繁體)
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When a traveling soap salesman arrives in a desolate Chinese town, a crime occurs and sets the strange residents against each other with tragicomic results.
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English
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Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where "Anything-Can-Happen." Meanwhile, his creator, in a midlife crisis, has...
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English
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"In this fresh take on love and trouble in the American heartland, Brock Hobson, an insurance salesman and Sunday-school teacher, finds his equilibrium disturbed by the results of a blood test. Baxter, a master storyteller, brings us a gradually building rollercoaster narrative, and a protagonist who is impertinent, searching, and hilariously relatable. From his good-as-gold, gentle girlfriend to the excessively macho subcontractor guy his ex-wife...
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Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"Paul Rainey, the hapless antihero at the center of this "compulsively readable" (Independent on Sunday) story works, miserably, in ad sales. He sells space in magazines that hardly exist, and through a fog of booze and drugs dimly perceives that he is dissatisfied with his life--professionally, sexually, recreationally, the whole nine yards. If only there were something he could do about it--and "something" seems to fall into his lap when a meeting...
17) Sneaky Beak
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Publisher
Little Tiger
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Is your bath bubbly enough? Is your bed bouncy enough? Is your cereal crunchy enough? Don't delay - call Sneaky Beak today for deals beyond your wildest dreams!" When Bear sees a commercial advertising the Snores-Galore Mega Bed, the 'bounciest bed ever,' he decides that he wants one. The salesbird, Sneaky Beak, shows up and convinces Bear that he needs the Super-Whirl Turbo Tub and the Crunch-O-Matic Granola Maker, too -- not to mention a trip in...
18) Salesman
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A landmark documentary that captures in vivid detail the bygone era of the door-to-door salesman. While laboring to sell a gold-embossed version of the Bible, Paul Brennan and his colleagues target the beleaguered masses, then face the demands of quotas and the frustrations of life on the road. Following Brennan on his daily rounds, the Maysles discover a real-life Willy Loman, walking the line from hype to despair.
19) Paris
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Samuel French, an imprint of Concord Theatricals Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Emmie is one of the only Black people living in Paris, Vermont, and she desperately needs a job. When she is hired at Berry's, a store off the interstate selling everything from baby carrots to lawnmowers, she begins to understand a new kind of isolation. Paris is a play about invisibility, being underpaid, and how it feels to work on your feet for ten hours a day. --
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Elmwood springs novel volume 2
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English
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Good news! Fannie's back in town--and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel. Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic...
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