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    Persuasive Parables
    Persuasive Parables
    Persuasive Parables
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    Persuasive Parables

    By W. Reid Claypoole

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    In Persuasive Parables, a former advertising and marketing executive shares inspiring personal anecdotes, homilies from his beloved grandmother, and significant life lessons in order to help sales professionals navigate more easily and productively through todays challenging world.

    Bill Claypoole, the driving force behind the spectacular growth and dynamic reputation of one of West Texass largest advertising firms, relies on his forty-plus years of hiring, training, and teaching sales and marketing professionals to provide guidance and wisdom to young professionals who want to build and sustain a successful career. While interspersing his grandmothers wisdom and his own personal stories throughout, Claypoole offers sales professionals trusted and proven advice on how to write a personal mission statement; set and attain realistic goals; become a persuasive communicator; increase productivity; create a professional image; achieve and retain a prospects attention; impress an audience with a polished presentation. The expert guidance offered in Persuasive Parables will help young professionals develop a passion for marketing, salesmanship, and the kind of leadership skills that will help propel their career on a path to achieving unlimited success.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateSep 23, 2010
    ISBN9781426940804
    Persuasive Parables
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    W. Reid Claypoole

    W. Reid Claypoole, called Bill, helped build Womack/Claypoole/Griffin Advertising, one of West Texas’s largest advertising firms. After retiring in 1991, Bill taught marketing at Texas A&M University and worked in management for the United States Census Bureau and H&R Block. He currently lives in Texas, where he is active in the community.

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      Book preview

      Persuasive Parables - W. Reid Claypoole

      © Copyright 1994 W. Reid Claypoole.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      Printed in the United States of America.

      isbn: 978-1-4269-4078-1 (sc)

      isbn: 978-1-4269-4080-4 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2010913057

      Our mission is to efficiently provide the world’s finest, most comprehensive book publishing service, enabling every author to experience success. To find out how to publish your book, your way, and have it available worldwide, visit us online at www.trafford.com

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      This book is dedicated to the memory of

      Annie Elizabeth (Bowser) Claypoole

      Granma C.

      1878-1967

      She was the mother of 6 boys and 4 girls.

      She was the grandmother of 19

      and an inspiration to all who knew her.

      Contents

      Persuasive Parables

      Walk In My Mocassins

      Are Persuasive Communicators Made Or Born?

      A Culture Shock

      What Do Good Salespeople Have In Common?

      Ways To Increase Your Productivity

      Creed Of A Good Salesperson

      PERSUASIVE PARABLES

      Parables are stories told to illustrate a point, usually moral or spiritual. The author chose this format to communicate the lessons of life, learned the hard way. Circumstances always appear more clearly as one looks back in retrospect. Perhaps young readers will be creative and not repeat the ill-considered mistakes that I’ve made.

      Forty+ years of interviewing, hiring and training sales/marketing people convinced me that they needed ego boosting. Also as I worked with college juniors and seniors, only a select few aspired to starting their career as a salesperson. Almost to an individual, they saw selling as a low esteem profession. They had developed little regard for the salespeople they encountered on a day-to-day basis. The few exceptions, to this generality, had a mother or father who had been successful in sales. Certainly I have encountered the con-type, hustler or misdirected person who carried the moniker of salesman. So, the conundrum continues: Why am I so proud to call myself a salesman?

      In the process of answering this question to my own satisfaction, I considered the concept of low pressure vs high pressure. Based on decades of working with salespeople, I came to believe that there is no such thing as low pressure/high pressure. Actually the process of selling involves the exertion of pressure. If pressure is lacking, you are a high paid visitor, not a salesperson. The difference has nothing to do with pressure but has everything to do with the attitude and skill with which a decision is sought. The key attitude is based on the premise that I am here to use my knowledge and experience to help you make a decision that is in your best interest. Many times, I was complimented by having a client say, Bill, I like doing business with you because you don’t try to pressure me into buying. The reality was that they perceived that I had their best interest at heart and they trusted me. The pressure was there, it just wasn’t felt. Why?

      The answer to this question resides in my definition of salesmanship: Salesmanship is the effective use of all of your previous knowledge and experience to help someone make a decision which is in their best interest.

      The focus should not be on making a sale. Rather, it should be on helping a client make a good decision. When they can trust you to do that, you are always welcome in their home or place of business. You can walk tall and be proud.

      WALK IN MY MOCASSINS

      Indians have a saying, in order to understand someone else, you need to walk in their moccasins for two moons. Since many of the ideas that I am going to share with you are personal and private, you should find the walk interesting and stimulating. Perhaps, after that, you will relate and make the generational transition better as you hear my persuasive parables. As you peruse and browse through these

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