Looking for new ways to have fun and make more money? Searching for innovative new ventures or ways to accelerate your current business?Based on more than three decades of experience, Bill Bishop takes you on a hilarious and insightful adventure across an often weird but wonderful business landscape. Learn the special technique Bishop used to win a waitering contest by selling more than 1,400 lobsters. Discover how to get a new venture started by overcoming First Member Trap, and how to sell more and increase your profit margins by using The Three Boxes. Learn how to develop stronger business relationships and discover how to develop The Big Idea, which will get more people interested in your company.From entrepreneurs looking for inspiration to business people looking to kick-start new ideas, How to Sell a Lobster will change the way you think about business.
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By Christina
Format:Paperback
I love this book because it's easy to follow, easy ideas to implement into the business and gives success stories of businesses using the ideas. It's short, to the point, funny not intimidating. I've already implemented a few ideas and plan to do more. Anyone looking for logical, easy ways to increase business should have this book.
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By Tom Cremins
Format:Paperback
In his first job, Bill Bishop learned a valuable lesson that helped him win a waitering contest by selling 1,400 lobsters.
A couple of decades later, the renowned marketing guru shares this and other lessons he has learned in his long and varied career. How to Sell a Lobster: The Money-Making Secrets of a Street-Wise Entrepreneur is a primer for the entrepreneur or anyone starting out in business for that matter. Mr Bishop''s approach is to use carefully conceived analogies to get across a number of fundamental sales and marketing lessons.
Each chapter begins with a client who faces a specific problem with their business. They want to grow but have come up against an obstacle, or they are having problems keeping their head above water. After explaining their predicament, the author refers their case to a fictional character called 'Marketing Mike.'
Marketing Mike clearly has a wealth of experience in business. He is able to illustrate the dilemma facing Mr. Bishop's clients clearly with a story as well as provide a solution that is right on the money every time.
None of the lessons here are particularly innovative or new. Where Mr. Bishop succeeds is in his ability to help the reader see issues in anecdotal terms. If they can understand the problem then they will feel they have control over the outcome, giving them the courage to take the right steps.
How to Sell a Lobster is a quick and often humourous read that dispenses with theory and gets to the point quickly. Time starved business owners who are looking for a no-nonsense, intuitive approach to marketing their company will find what they want here.
A couple of decades later, the renowned marketing guru shares this and other lessons he has learned in his long and varied career. How to Sell a Lobster: The Money-Making Secrets of a Street-Wise Entrepreneur is a primer for the entrepreneur or anyone starting out in business for that matter. Mr Bishop''s approach is to use carefully conceived analogies to get across a number of fundamental sales and marketing lessons.
Each chapter begins with a client who faces a specific problem with their business. They want to grow but have come up against an obstacle, or they are having problems keeping their head above water. After explaining their predicament, the author refers their case to a fictional character called 'Marketing Mike.'
Marketing Mike clearly has a wealth of experience in business. He is able to illustrate the dilemma facing Mr. Bishop's clients clearly with a story as well as provide a solution that is right on the money every time.
None of the lessons here are particularly innovative or new. Where Mr. Bishop succeeds is in his ability to help the reader see issues in anecdotal terms. If they can understand the problem then they will feel they have control over the outcome, giving them the courage to take the right steps.
How to Sell a Lobster is a quick and often humourous read that dispenses with theory and gets to the point quickly. Time starved business owners who are looking for a no-nonsense, intuitive approach to marketing their company will find what they want here.
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Very "out of the box"
Jan 29 2006
By John Grounds
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
I had the pleasure of reading this book prior to hearing Mr. Bishop speak at a recent conference. I must say he has some very interesting methods of sales.
While this isn't a "how to" book, it gives several very interesting stories of how outside the box thinking can propel a product or service forward toward success. Everytime I pass a nightclub with a line, I think "I wonder if they read this book?"
If you are a small business owner, I would recommend this book. If you are a salesman that has little control over how to market and present your product or service, then I would skip this and go toward something a little more technical.
While this isn't a "how to" book, it gives several very interesting stories of how outside the box thinking can propel a product or service forward toward success. Everytime I pass a nightclub with a line, I think "I wonder if they read this book?"
If you are a small business owner, I would recommend this book. If you are a salesman that has little control over how to market and present your product or service, then I would skip this and go toward something a little more technical.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Short, Concise, Accessible
Jan 10 2013
By Karen L. Jett, CMA
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
As a small business person with an accounting background, I have read numerous sales and marketing books. None of them had the impact on me that this book had. While none of the marketing approaches that are presented are new or unique, there is something about the stories and simplification that generated two new marketing ideas for my business. And I believe that a re-read will most likely spur more ideas.
I strongly recommend this book to small business owners that do no have a marketing background. It's a great introduction to sales and marketing that is accessible and easy to understand and apply.
A second great book for small business owners that would complement the information in How to Sell A Lobster is Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling by Michael Port. The combination of these two books will provide a great marketing and sales primer for any small business person.
Have an excellent day!
Karen L.Jett, CMA, author Grow Your People, Grow Your Business
and creator and facilitator of Strategic Plan-ting(TM) Workshops
I strongly recommend this book to small business owners that do no have a marketing background. It's a great introduction to sales and marketing that is accessible and easy to understand and apply.
A second great book for small business owners that would complement the information in How to Sell A Lobster is Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling by Michael Port. The combination of these two books will provide a great marketing and sales primer for any small business person.
Have an excellent day!
Karen L.Jett, CMA, author Grow Your People, Grow Your Business
and creator and facilitator of Strategic Plan-ting(TM) Workshops
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Might work for you, might not.
Feb 10 2010
By Ron Davis
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I found this to be an easy read but the advice is better done in other earlier books by other authors. That said you might get a morsel out of it. To me the book had the feel of an informercial.
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