Understanding the Customer: The Art of Selling

Hilary Kenny

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Book
€12.99

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Publication date: 2010

ISBN: 978-1-907535-06-2

Category: Business

Type: Paperback

Price: €12.99

Draws on a wide range of research and good practice and on case studies and interviews to provide easy-to-follow guidelines for genuine, lasting success in selling. When training salespeople became part of Hilary Kenny’s role as a training manager, she looked for a good book on selling. She found little or no material published in Ireland for Irish audiences – lots of US books, some UK books, but nothing specifically Irish. When she trains people who sell services and products for business, she sees how instinctive much of what they do is but the research is clear about what works, and much of the instinctive stuff simply doesn’t.

Selling is a skill as well as an art. Skills can be learned – and perfected – but salespeople need to start with the customer in mind and not their own wonderful product or service. This moves salespeople from mechanical ‘always be closing’ mode to thinking about the real interests and priorities of companies and individuals and seeing themselves as partners in finding long-term solutions.

In Understanding the Customer: The Art of Selling, Hilary draws on a wide range of research and good practice, and on interviews and case studies from some of the top business people in Ireland, to provide easy-to-follow guidelines for success in selling.

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About the author

Hilary Kenny is head of training at the Communications Clinic in Dublin (www.communicationsclinic.ie), where she works with her sister, communications expert Terry Prone. She has been involved in education and training at various levels, including as a trainer with IPPA (Irish Preschool Play Association), helping adults to learn more about children’s development and the practicalities of running a childcare service. She holds a Diploma in Adult and Community Education from NUI Maynooth and a Masters in Educational Management from the University of Dublin, Trinity College. She lives in Rathfarnham, Dublin.