CONTENTS
Joseph Francis MacGrail
CHAPTER
PAGE
I
The Man Who Can Sell Things
1
II
Training the Salesman
6
III
The Most Important Subjects of Study
14
IV
Making a Favorable Impression
19
V
The Selling Talk or “Presentation”
28
VI
The Approach and Expression
33
VII
The Ability to Talk Well
37
VIII
How to Get Attention
42
IX
Tact as a Friend-Winner and Business-Getter
47
X
Sizing Up the Prospect
62
XI
How Suggestion Helps in Selling
71
XII
The Force of Cheerful Expectancy
79
XIII
The Gentle Art of Persuasion
86
XIV
Helping the Customer to Buy
94
XV
Closing the Deal
105
XVI
The Greatest Salesman—Enthusiasm
112
XVII
The Man at the Other End of the Bargain
119
XVIII
Meeting and Forestalling Objections
125
XIX
Quality as a Salesman
133
XX
A Salesman’s Clothes
139
XXI
Finding Customers
148
XXII
When You Are Discouraged
155
XXIII
The Stimulus of Rebuffs
163
XXIV
Meeting Competition: “Know Your Goods”
177
XXV
The Salesman and the Sales Manager
184
XXVI
Are You a Good Mixer?
189
XXVII
Character Is Capital
207
XXVIII
The Price of Mastership
213
XXIX
Keeping Fit and Salesmanship
226
Appendix—Sales Pointers
250
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