Most salespeople now have laptop computers, but rarely receive training in how to use them effectively to make a sales presentation. How to Sell with a Laptop is the first book that tells sales people: How to use a laptop computer strategically on each sales call; What to do and what not to do when delivering a laptop-based sales presentation; How to use the Web to access information during a sales call, and; Tips for making easy PowerPoint presentations - customized for each client.

Businesses today face many obstacles, but one major hurdle is optimizing sales performance and achieving peak levels of execution. In recent years, there has been a significant decline in sales performance among businesses internationally. Many professionals attribute this disparity to the lack of attention towards certain business techniques including “Sales Peak Performance” and “Business to Business.” Strategies like this lack empirical validity and further investigation on the implementation of these approaches could significantly impact the business world. Achieving Peak Sales Performance for Optimal Business Value and Sustainability is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of various elements that influence sales peak performance including personal, organizational, and symbiotic determinants. While highlighting topics including emotional intelligence, personal branding, and customer relationship management, this book is ideally designed for sales professionals, directors, advertisers, managers, researchers, students, and academicians seeking current research on insights and advancements of business sustainability and sales peak performance.

The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.

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A collection of best practices for creating slide presentations. It changes your approach, process and expectations for developing visual aides. It makes the difference between a good presentation and a great one.