If You're Not First, You're Last: Sales Strategies to Dominate Your Market and Beat Your Competition 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

This book exactly helped me to clarify why I had trouble selling now i understand how to improve my sales techniques and activities.

Short and to the point. First place is only where you need to be.

How refreshing was it to read this book. Anyone who is successful in sales knows the difference between someone who has been in the fight and someone who wiped up the sweat. Personally, I have always tried to see the world from a different angle. Grant Cardone is a master. Here is the thing. You can only relate to this book if you are in the fight everyday. Most salesmen don't even put on the gloves. You spend more time hugging the water cooler and smoking cigarettes. You know what I am talking about. This book talks about the challenges of volume selling and practical ways to take it to the next level. In a book like this, there are chapters that will literally make you thousands of dollars this week. Pick a chapter and apply it and you will see the difference. I have applied many of these concepts in my daily sales meetings and it has made a tremendous difference. Its amazing how a thirty dollar book can make you hundreds of thousands. Keep it up Grant. You are making a tremendous difference not only my life, but the life of my agents. If you only knew how much I would actually pay for your books, you would charge me more. You hear me my man!!!!

Amazing book. Every home should have one on the coffee table.

This the third book that I have read from Grant Cardone, and I most say that it never seems to disappoint. Every time I read grant's books it makes me want to jump out of my seat and take on life. It open up your eyes to the endless possibility that it is presented to you in your lifetime and which we failed to capitalize on for some form of fear that we neglect or refused to address.The best advice I got from this book is to not conform to the norm, as these are created by individuals that have accomplish anything and are afraid themselves and put their livelihood on the line. If you want to accomplish anything go at it with all your might and even if you fail you would have still accomplish more than someone to afraid to swing.

This book does have a good amount of helpful information and I enjoyed it BUT the title was a bit misleading to me. The book teaches how to thrive when the economy is "contracting" or in a recession. It was written in 2010, obviously more helpful after the 2008 recession. While all of the techniques described in the book could be helpful dominating your market and beating your competition that doesn't seem to be the aim of the book, hence why I think it should have a different title. I still enjoyed it and took many notes but was hoping for a Art of War for businesses.

In this book, which I read in two sittings, Grant Cardone, international sales expert and very good writer, shares his no B.S. viewpoint on creating affluence through production, intelligence and a vigorous work ethic.I found myself using the book as a true workbook; the chapters all wind up with a little quiz and I marked mine all up, and I made pages of ideas of ways I can expand my business and create more opportunities, regardless of "This economy".I recommend this book to absolutely anyone who is willing to be proactive about improving their bottom line, but is confused about how to go about it and proceed in an orderly manner.Good fundamentals are what makes for enduring books on business and enterprise, and this one is full of excellent fundamentals, and how to use them.A million dollar value for $16? That's what it looks like to me. Jump on it.Jim Meskimen

The methods taught in this book are almost like life lessons.Not only does he teach you about sales (which is crutial in life) but he also teaches you basically how to get anything you want through the art of becoming a master of sales.This book isn't just for salesmen this is for anybody who wants to be finically independent and live a good life!He demonstrates examples of almost all the sales lessons he teaches in this book as well which is a rare find in sales books. He gives real world and executable action steps for the reader with a small "quiz" at the end of each chapter as he does with most of his other books.Get the book!