Showing results by author "Tony Alessandra" in All Categories

Your ability to understand nonverbal communications is apparently not related to IQ, the ability to take tests, or the grades one makes in school. Practice tends to improve the ability to understand body language. People tested for body language comprehension generally score higher on second and subsequent tests than on their first tries.

What is the cost of losing a customer? In today's competitive environment, it is a cost no business can afford. It costs you up to 4 times more to get a new customer than it does to retain an existing one. However, That does not even take into account the fact that an unhappy customer will tell an average of 20 customers about their bad experiences, while a satisfied customer will only tell 10 people about their good experiences. This means you have to make twice as many customers happy as unhappy ...

This 2-part program gives you guidelines on preparing for an effective meeting - determining the purpose for the meeting, preparing an agenda, inviting the attendees, setting an appropriate time and place as well as the skills needed to be an effective meeting leader.

Stop being a passive listener and start being an active listener, using a dynamic program called CARESS. These 6 steps to effective listening were created by acclaimed lecturer and author Tony Alessandra. Alessandra is a marketing strategist, an applied behavioral scientist, and an expert in building business relationships guaranteed to last a lifetime.

Dr. Alessandra teaches you six easy steps help you increase your sales, get more referrals, and earn higher commissions. It contains strategies and techniques that ensure you team up with your prospects.

Are you a salesperson who is constantly jumping from job to job, industry to industry? Are you always in hot pursuit of new customers - because the old ones aren't coming back for more services, or offering any referrals? Learn how collaborative selling will keep your customers coming back for seconds, thirds...and a lifetime of patronage!

Listening is just as important as speaking. Good listening draws people to you. Poor listening causes them to drift away. This program offers a powerful set of tools to help you build your listening skills up to maximum effectiveness. Jumpstart your way to better listening today!

Thom Winninger covers tactical maneuvers to win customers over competitors in price wars by selling value and not lowering your product quality and your price. Thom emphasizes finding out what the customer values and working your presentation around that value. You must identify and define your customer’s highest need.

In this audiobook, Dr. Tony Alessandra covers the 5 positive flexibility traits. Flexibility is your willingness to engage in a range of behaviors not necessarily characteristic of your usual ways of behaving in order to be more effective in a situation or in a relationship.

This program by Dr. Tony Alessandra covers how to have conflict-free relationships in your working environment and in your personal life.

Selling can be fun. In fact, it should be. If you're not having fun or making the money you know you can, do yourself a favor and get this program! With Non-Manipulative Selling, you become partners with your customers and build a foundation. You really learn who they are and what they need. In the end, you'll have more business than you can handle.

Turn your customers into business apostles who "preach the gospel" according to your company. Dr. Alessandra focuses on how everyone in your organization can become more customer-driven and less operations-driven; how to turn moments of misery into moments of magic for your customers; and how to create customer intimacy, customer retention, and customer satisfaction, which leads to customer loyalty.

Active listening is a skill so important that anyone who lacks it is sure to have problems at home and at work. What they didn't teach you in school - but what you'll learn in this program - could be the key to becoming closer to your friends and family as well as becoming a better, stronger leader.

Charisma is not based on genetics, I.Q., social position, or luck. Charisma is a skill - one of the most valuable skills in the world that you can learn and master with the right information and tools delivered by Dr. Tony Alessandra in this program.

Goals, when earnestly pursued, give people reasons to do some things and to avoid other things. This program shows you how to identify your goals and map out the steps that will help you achieve them.

If customer-driven service isn't already one of your organization's goals, it should be. In this program, Tony Alessandra, an expert on building business relationships, outlines some sure-fire strategies for consistently "wowing" your customers. You'll learn how to identify and exceed their expectations, build long-term relationships, and create what Alessandra calls "moments of magic."

What do you feel passionately about? What do you care really deeply about? Whatever your objective - whether it's ending world hunger or ensuring better care for stray animals - you'll never influence anyone to change their ideas or take action if you don't feel strongly about it yourself. This program covers how to expand your vision and ideas.

This program covers the five positive versatility traits of being resilient, having vision, being attentive, being competent, and knowing how to self-correct. Versatility is your ability to engage in a range of behaviors, not necessarily characteristic of your usual ways of behaving, in order to be more effective in a situation or in a relationship.

Learn to communicate like a Boardroom Warrior! If you have ever felt like your lack of communication finesse was causing you to be misunderstood or simply ignored in your organization, the solution is Mastering Your Message.

If you believe in fundamentals, like how to confirm a sale versus closing a sale, learning what to do when you get a "yes", and how to lose a sale, but maintain the relationship, you will want to add this classic sales program to your library.