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    There's No Business Without the Show!: Using Showbiz Skills to Get Blockbuster Sales!
    There's No Business Without the Show!: Using Showbiz Skills to Get Blockbuster Sales!
    There's No Business Without the Show!: Using Showbiz Skills to Get Blockbuster Sales!
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    There's No Business Without the Show!: Using Showbiz Skills to Get Blockbuster Sales!

    By Tom Becka

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    There's No Business Without the Show will help you improve your sales performance instantly. No matter where you are in your sales career, this book can help you get more from your efforts. The best thing about blending showmanship with salesmanship is that clients will be more loyal because they like you, and they’ll actually enjoy dealing with you even though you're after their money).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTom Becka
    Release dateMar 30, 2010
    ISBN9780981546131
    There's No Business Without the Show!: Using Showbiz Skills to Get Blockbuster Sales!

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      There's No Business Without the Show! - Tom Becka

      Acknowledgments

      Special thanks to my Mom, Joan, Michael, Renie, Tom, Andy, Michael Andrew, William, Matt, Jenny, Paul and Patty, McGraw, Katie, David C, Olivia, Giff, Gary, everyone at KFAB, The Dundee Dell, Jeff and Stacy, Bill, Dutch and Stacy, and Sarah.

      A very special thanks to everyone who has told me no, tried to discourage me, or stand in my way. You’ve been great motivation and inspiration.

      Foreword

      As a stand-up comedian, Tom Becka spent his early days in the laugh industry driving down lonely, two-lane roads, hopping from one sleepy college campus to another. He’d wind up telling jokes to rowdy drunks in smoky small-town bars and paid his dues on the humor circuit by appearing in out-of-the-way supper clubs.

      As a sales guy, Tom sold radio advertising, fertilizer, stereos, and even apple pies.

      Tom realized—no matter the venue or the product—he was really selling himself. It was all about show business.

      Eventually, Tom made it to the bigtime in both sales and stand-up. His stand-up comedy career took off. He headlined big-city clubs and opened for superstars. Then Tom parlayed his comedic work into a highly successful career as a talk radio host.

      His influential radio show on KFAB in Omaha entertains tens of thousands of loyal listeners every weekday during the prime evening drive time. Together, Tom and I share a love for our surprisingly vibrant hometown of Omaha and a sense that the sales business is indeed the entertainment business.

      The promo for Tom’s radio show offers listeners a hearty dose of honesty, integrity, and a sense of humor. That’s Tom. This book offers the same smart talk.

      Tom personifies the best of business and the best of sales. He combines them to create his own blend of talk and entertainment. He has an uncanny sense of curiosity, an unexpected sensitivity for the human condition, and a gift for saying the right things at the right time.

      In this book, you’ll find nuggets of insight you can use to be successful in your own world of sales. And you’ll benefit from Tom’s wit and wisdom. Most of all, you’ll realize that sales and entertainment really are one and the same, with or without a microphone in your hand.

      In this book, Tom shares his secrets to selling yourself because it’s all about the show. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s showtime!

      —Jeff Beals

      Self Marketing Power: Branding Yourself as a Business of One

      Overture:

      Another Opening, Another Show

      This is not your typical how to sales book. I won’t just be focusing on basic fundamentals of sales principles. I assume that most people reading this book already have some experience and success in sales.

      I won’t be dealing with the nuts and bolts of a sales call. In fact many of the ideas that are going to be presented will fly in the face of some of the time-honored sales traditions. At times this book is going to challenge many of the beliefs of sales manager and salesperson alike.

      But that’s a good thing. If you don’t challenge yourself, you don’t grow.

      Insanity is defined as doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. Sales can be that way. You make a sales call and expect buyers to bite. They don’t. You try it again. Still no bites. Something’s wrong here. So what you are about to read is a cure for insanity.

      There’s No Business Without the Show is designed to be an idea starter. It’s designed to get you thinking about sales in a different light. It’s designed to motivate you, to inspire you, and to get you to question what you are doing and the way you are doing it.

      If this book were a Hollywood movie, the preview would start with dramatic music and then the announcer would read in a big booming voice:

      If you read only one book on sales this year, this is the book to read. In a world where the mundane is accepted, and the routine is routine, There’s No Business Without the Show dares to challenge the status quo. It dares to go where no other book on sales has gone before. Get on board now or be left behind. This is the start of the sales revolution.

      If I can get you to look at the sales process in a different light, you’ll be a step ahead of your competition.

      If you are new in the world of sales, you will benefit from this fresh approach. It will give you a perspective few beginning sales reps have. If you are a veteran, you will benefit from the insight these concepts provide.

      In today’s competitive world, everything is show business. For example, teachers can’t teach without entertaining the class. Lawyers have to put on a show in front of a jury. Politicians are just as likely to get elected because they look good on TV and know how to inspire an audience than to win on their policies and platforms.

      I believe that everything in life is show business, and that’s what this book is about.

      When performers go on stage, they have to convince the audience that they are the characters they are portraying. They have to sell their act to their customers—the audience. Is that really any different than what you do every day as a salesperson?

      Every day you have to get before your audience. Many times you say the same things you said the day before. Just like the actor in a play or a stand-up comedian in a club has to repeat the same lines, yet make the act seem fresh, as if it’s being said for the very first time.

      When you go see a show, you not only give the performers your money, you give them something much more valuable. You give them your time. Can you imagine going to that performance and the actors just mechanically delivering their performance?

      They may say every line as it’s written, but without the passion, without the freshness, without the acting, you have wasted both your time and money.

      With this book you will learn about standing out in a crowded field. You will learn about everything from overcoming stage fright to dealing with rejection to using props in your presentation, to coming back for the encore.

      One of the problems with people who are in sales is that people think they are in sales. They’re not in sales. They’re in show business.

      Let me repeat it one more time so it sinks in:

      You are not in sales. You are in show business.

      To get your message across, you have to be entertaining. You have to grab the attention of your audience, manipulate their emotions, leave a lasting impression, and get them to respond.

      Your job is no different than that of an actor, a singer, a dancer, a comedian, a radio talk show host, or a mime.

      You’ll be amazed how much you can learn from successful Hollywood types.

      When you deal with a customer (who from time to time will be referred to as your audience), there are times you have to act. There are times you have to tell jokes. There are times you have to be quiet. And yes there are even times when you have to do the old

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