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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Impressed - a sudden blazing flash of common sense! A down to earth, common sense method of getting to meet people, buy them a coffee and sell them something big. This book is almost the same as the day of training I received from Andy himself last year. The important points, the 'AFTERS' and how to best invite yourself into a group of people whilst networking - they are all in here and have helped the co. I'm working for to win another sizeable contract. 5-stars.
Great for a beginner like me I read some of the reviews blasting this book, and I felt I needed to counter them. Whether you will like this book or not seems to depend on your level of experience with selling yourself. Some of the reviewers have indicated that the book is basic, but I would argue that the book is not. As someone who works in academia but works as a project-based consultant sometimes, I had never thought much about how I was networking. The chapter on networking was extremely useful, and I have seen plenty of... more info
Too much jelly makes you sick It's ironic that this book is actually jelly itself. OK, probably 5 good points in here, but thrown at you again and again and again and again. I agree with other reviewers that maybe 20 pages would have been enough for these points. Then there is also the self praise of the author on almost every other page on how fantastic he, his clients, friends and his self invented approaches are (i.e. AFTER). It really, really makes you sick after a while. However, some tips are thought provoking, so not just one... more info
Baffled... Bought this book on the basis of the reviews and frankly having read it I'm a bit baffled. We all need to do the simple stuff well - this is the basis of success. But this book is so simplistic it will tell most people nothing more than most already know. And manages to stretch the book to way longer than it need be(admittedly with lots of spacing between paragraphs). This may be fine if the delivery, the writing, was engaging enough to give tried and trusted advice some fresh writing. But ut doesn't. It's... more info
