Product Description

People in all kinds of jobs, in big and small companies career builders, sales people, and aspiring executives will love this edgy, practical, and fun book In the spirit, style, and format of the bestselling Little Red Book of Selling, the country's #1 sales trainer, Jeffrey Gitomer, offers a fresh take on networking and connecting your way to success. The Little Black Book of Connections is based on the power of give value first. It's about how you can climb the ladder without stepping on people's backs. It's about how to earn the respect of a powerful mentor without begging. It's about how to build stronger relationships with customers, bosses, co-workers, vendors, friends, and family. It's about being in the same room with powerful people. It's about how to connect and how to not connect. It's about how to say the right things to the right people in the right circumstances to make the right impression. The book is small. The cover is classic black cloth. The four-color text graphics makes it attractive and easy to read the compelling content is easy to understand and implement.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14483 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 220 pages

About the Author
Jeffrey Gitomer, the leading, world-class authority on selling, is the most-read syndicated "sales" columnist in 95 business newspapers worldwide with 4 million weekly readers. His books, including The Little Red Book of Selling (Bard Press), The Little Red Book of Sales Answers (Prentice Hall), The Sales Bible (Wiley), and Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless (Bard Press) have sold more than 1 million copies. Annually, he presents more than 100 seminars to Fortune 500 companies and public audiences. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Customer Reviews

Networking Your Way To The Obvious....
This is more like a refresher course on things you already know but in a comical sort of way, think about this, at the very beginning of the book that author says "Personally, I can remember numbers from 40 years ago, but I can't remember numbers from yesterday", I immediately knew this thing was going to be of no value what so ever considering the nifty title he gave it. I personally did not find any new useful information here regarding how to connect/network with potential clients and certainly nothing I haven't tried already that came naturally or by applying common sense.

Giving the book the benefit of the doubt, decided to read the entire thing and found mostly, strategically place "Git-Bits" keywords throughout the book constantly leading you to Mr. Gitomer's website for additional info related to that keyword and of course.....you guess it, making you register so you can be pitched more of his questionable products through email newsletters, while also receiving actual pictures of him and his friends like they are family to you personally. They're connecting alright, It's a complete joke....lol. Keep in mind that during the entire time, you still looking to learn something about "connecting". I wouldn't be surprise to learn that these positive reviews are all coming from friends and family to help out, you'll feel very suspicious after reading this book.

As to the topic at hand, the book is actually filled with his personal experiences for the most part, felt like he was regurgitating other notable authors in the process like Dale Cargenie comes to mind, but in realilty, nothing here you haven't heard before, the goal here is to make you feel like it's all a sudden revelation, but in a gimmicky kind of way, not to mention the book looks and reads like a comic book.

Conclusion: Save your money and try reading it in the bookstore, is quite small, not worth adding to your resource library. Good Luck.

Overrated...
As I was reading this book, i kept waiting to get some real value out of it. It just seemed to go on and on with no real direction or purpose. Ironic, since Gitomer says you need to offer value to others in order to connect. The repetition and lack of focus lead you to wonder if you actually learned anything at all after reading it. Actually, I was thinking that as I was reading it. Anyway, the book just keeps repeating itself and doesn't seem to go anywhere. Just read pages 25-31, the "Rules of Connecting", and you're finished. Nice packaging though...

Great networking book!
This book is one of the best networking books on the market! Jeffrey's unique charisma, his trademark style, the excellent graphic and the valuable information, make this book a great networking tool. Recomended!