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"After you listen to this powerful series and take my advice, people will instantly notice your transformation. They'll start coming to you for guidance because you will have become a leader in their eyes. When conflicts arise, you'll notice how quickly you're able to bring arguments to a halt. By being able to build rapport with anyone you choose, your ability to communicate will get the results you want in any business situation, no matter if you are closing a sale or motivating your team." (Dr. Tony Alessandra)

This program identifies the key elements of a first impression, and offers some skill-building tips on how to maximize yours. Topics covered include the five different aspects of who you are - your "Image Rainbow" - and how they impact your image, as well as how to jumpstart your way to a better overall image.

This 2-part program will give you a guide to developing a more thorough understanding of nonverbal communication techniques. By increasing your awareness of nonverbal behavior, you can read the emotions and attitudes of fellow employees, supervisors, customers, and others you interact with inside and outside your organization. As a result, you will have a greater feeling for and awareness of all your interpersonal transactions.

Tony Parinello covers how to get around getting rejected by gatekeepers by working WITH gatekeepers. He also discusses how to get appointments with the right people at the top - the very important top officers - who are the ultimate decision makers.

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.

Shep Hyken believes that if you just work to satisfy customers, you are just average and in danger of losing your customers. Shep discusses the importance of speed in customer service; it's the difference between good service and incredibly great service. Consistency of your customer service effort is crucial to creating moments of magic for your customers.

Scott discusses how to match your marketing messages to the wants, needs, and interests of every recipient. He talks about his system for profiling every single customer and prospect so marketing can tailor messages specifically around each and every customer’s needs. Scott says that consistent, individualized follow-up with prospects and customers is the key to sales and marketing success.

The Platinum Rule is Dr. Tony Alessandra’s system for achieving instant rapport and chemistry with almost anyone. It teaches you how to "read" people by their words and actions in order to determine their behavioral style. Then you learn how to adapt your behavioral style to meet them halfway. The result is an unmistakable and unbreakable bond based on 39+ years of Dr. Alessandra’s behavioral research in the area of human relationships.

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.

Joe explains that successful failures do what others want them to do rather than what they really want to do, because of their high need for social acceptance. He covers career builders versus career busters. Joe also says that to move to the top 3%, we must study the masters and use them as role models.

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.

Pete Johnson covers how to follow the correct process to successfully complete a strategic plan for your business. He covers the four phases of doing a strategic plan - focus, analysis, proposed plan overview and implementation. Pete also clarifies the difference between a company's vision and mission.

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

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.

Steve discusses how to convert trade show leads into long-term customers. He also covers how to have your trade show marketing pay dividends long after the trade show ends. He describes that trade shows are three-act plays, and how we must master all three acts - what you do before the trade show, what you do at the trade show, and what you do after the trade show.

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.

In this interview, Tony and Mark discuss the very important topic of leadership. Mark describes the difference between "management" and "leadership" and the difference between "organizational leadership" and "personal leadership". Mark discusses his six key tips to becoming a better leader, both professionally and personally.