You're an experienced sales professional on constant lookout for new skills or a fresh perspective. Or perhaps you're new to sales and looking to become proficient as possible as quickly as possible. Sales Craft is a collection of tips, practices and ideas to draw from and add to your sales repertoire. Sales Craft is a no nonsense, straightforward set of proven techniques that you can add to your current sales process. Based on years of experience, and with anecdotes and real-world examples, this book is for any salesperson looking to add another skill or reinforce the key techniques they need to set themselves apart from the crowd.
This national bestseller is "a significant contribution to discussions of the art of fiction and a necessary challenge to received views about whose stories are told, how they are told and for whom they are intended" (Laila Lalami, The New York Times Book Review). The traditional writing workshop was established with white male writers in mind; what we call craft is informed by their cultural values. In this bold and original examination of elements of writing—including plot, character, conflict, structure, and believability—and aspects of workshop—including the silenced writer and the imagined reader—Matthew Salesses asks questions to invigorate these familiar concepts. He upends Western notions of how a story must progress. How can we rethink craft, and the teaching of it, to better reach writers with diverse backgrounds? How can we invite diverse storytelling traditions into literary spaces? Drawing from examples including One Thousand and One Nights, Curious George, Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea, and the Asian American classic No-No Boy, Salesses asks us to reimagine craft and the workshop. In the pages of exercises included here, teachers will find suggestions for building syllabi, grading, and introducing new methods to the classroom; students will find revision and editing guidance, as well as a new lens for reading their work. Salesses shows that we need to interrogate the lack of diversity at the core of published fiction: how we teach and write it. After all, as he reminds us, "When we write fiction, we write the world."
"Sell Your Crafts Online" provides a roadmap to the best Internet places for makers of handmade crafts to sell, promote and get reviewed from. Discover over 500 promotion ideas. Get 21 ways to inspire trust on your site pages. Learn how to boost your craft site's search engine traffic with 24 Search Engine Optimization tips. Get the 12 best practices for getting link love from other sites. Find 85 places (including Etsy and eBay) to sell handmade crafts from. Learn where to sell your crafts to stores online from 10 wholesale sites. Promote your indie designed art and crafts from 42 online communities. Get reviews of your craft products on 51 shopping community and blog sites that seek unique products to write about. Syndicate your handmade crafts images, blogs, videos, and articles from 36 networks and discover 16 ideas for getting free publicity in magazines and on TV. Thought about starting your own t-shirt business? "Sell Your Crafts Online" covers 16 sites like Cafepress that let you sell your art and designs via on-demand products like t-shirts, mugs, caps and hundreds of other products. Save yourself weeks of research. Get ahead by accessing undiscovered but popular places for selling crafts online from. Author and craft artist, James Dillehay has written nine books and operates more than fifty Web sites. "James was a guest speaker on our Guerrilla Marketing conference call and he blew me away with what he knows about selling on the Internet," said Jay Conrad Levinson, author of the Guerrilla Marketing series, over 15 million copies sold. "Sell Your Crafts Online" is a completely updated edition of Dillehay's book "The Basic Guide to Selling Crafts on the Internet," of which Lapidary Journal said "An astonishing amount of usable information, crammed into so few pages! James Dillehay has an amazing talent for getting right to the point, with a minimum of "geekese." Of the entire list of computer instructional manuals I have read, this one would top the list. I would not hesitate to recommend it . . . even to my mom."
This practical book is written for experienced artisans as well as new vendors who want to improve their sales at craft shows and fairs. Focused on ways to increase profits, it discusses pricing strategies, sales targets, and new technologies.
With over 400,000 sellers on Etsy, how can you make YOUR shop stand out and increase your sales? This is a key question for many crafters and artists who are selling online these days. Now here are all the answers and much more from author and Etsy seller Derrick Sutton. Based on Sutton's self-published guide, and drawn from his practical experience, you will learn how to boost your Etsy sales, attract more customers, and expand your online presence. He shares his proven online sales and marketing knowledge in an easily accessible format, complete with simple actions steps at the end of each chapter. Learn how to completely optimize your Etsy shop, website, or blog, and much more. Some of the topics covered include: -How to design a catchy Etsy banner -How to gain an instant analysis of your shop and where you need to focus your efforts -A crash course on photographing your items and key mistakes to avoid class -Fail-safe copywriting secrets -How to take advantage of Etsy's forums, Treasury, and more -The effective way to use Facebook and Twitter, and why so many people get it wrong A perfect gift for entrepreneurial artists, How to Sell Your Crafts Online offers crafters practical internet marketing techniques from an experienced Etsy seller that will pave the way for a profitable online business! Praise for Derrick Sutton's e-Guide Crafting Success: "This is really a great guide through the mind-boggling thicket of internet selling. It's so easy to follow and straight forward..." --- Etsy seller jenniferwhitmer "I definitely saw a difference in my sales after doing many of the things suggested." --- Etsy seller mishmishmarket "A true wealth of useful information." --- Etsy seller helixelemental "[The steps are] easily presented, so making changes to your shop can be done instantly as you are reading." -- Licky Drake, HappyGoLicky Custom Silver Jewelry "A tremendous amount of information. I learned more from [this book] than from anything I have purchased in five years." --- Etsy seller HandpaintedGifts
"The Recipe" is not intended to reinvent the wheel of automotive sales however was written simply to guide and navigate you through the processes and best habits to mastering your craft. It walks you through a detailed step by step methodology, sharing with it tips, tricks and scripts that will help you advance to that next level in your career. It will not only increase your success to selling more vehicles while maintaining higher gross profits, it will also provide the recipe of how to perform your best with ease giving you daily routines and sharing best places to look for the business. The Recipe to Mastering Your Craft in Auto Sales was created though my twenty years of experience in the automotive industry traveling most of Canada making stops in nearly all of the automotive brands along the way. Allow me to share with you my adopted best practices as we travel through the do's and don'ts taught to me through my many mentors and other leaders of the industry. I have utilized these teachings to coach, train, and mentor some of the best salespeople in Canada, helping each individual rise to their maximum potential. Removing roadblocks to your sale and giving you hints on objection handling to further increase your closing percentages and success is all part of your journey with this book. The Recipe will provide and aid you along the way to reach your best whether that be achieving that number one sales spot, bringing home the big commissions or obtain that promotion to the next level of your career. Not only have I been extremely successful in my career at a young age, but I have helped many others reach their greatest potential soaring them to greater heights. Providing them, and now you, the education to be forever successful in your career is my motivation and ambition. Education in my opinion is worth more than any paycheck I could help you obtain. Once read, I look forward to hearing the many success stories that are guaranteed to follow.
