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The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes — WisdomDeck honest review
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The Ultimate Sales Machine

by Chet Holmes

Twelve strategies for turbocharging a business, built on 'pigheaded discipline and determination': time management, training, the Dream 100 (relentless pursuit of your best possible clients), education-based marketing and follow-up. Holmes was a practitioner, and the Dream 100 chapter alone justifies the book.

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Read it if…

you run or lead sales and want a system for landing the biggest accounts.

Skip it if…

you sell low-ticket to consumers; the Dream 100 logic does not fit.

Three things you will actually use

  1. Mastery is doing twelve things four thousand times, not four thousand things once.
  2. Target the best buyers with relentless, polite persistence.
  3. Educate the market and the sale follows.

Do this first

List your hundred ideal clients and plan a monthly touch for each for a year.

Our verdict

The Dream 100, and discipline.

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