Book Description
Set a Course for Adventure
The Golden Dragon, conceived as a skyfaring warship, now serves as a symbol of peace among the Five Nations. Even before the luxurious airship embarks on its maiden voyage, nefarious pirates, thieves, and saboteurs conspire to defame, steal, or destroy it. Resourceful adventurers are needed to protect the ship and its passengers, but can they uncover the secret enemy lurking in their midst?
Voyage of the Golden Dragon is a stand-alone adventure for the Dungeons & Dragons® game that immerses your characters in the Eberron™ campaign setting. Designed to challenge 7th-level characters, it takes heroes on a perilous journey from Sharn to Stormreach and also serves as a launching pad for adventures the world over.
For use with these Dungeons & Dragons® core books
Player’s Handbook™ Dungeon Master’s Guide™ Monster Manual™
Eberron Campaign Setting
Customer Reviews:
Solid Adventure Good For an evening.......2007-08-13
This was a good adventure. I don't run eberron, but this adventure can easily be dropped into a different campaign setting. In fact I plan to tweak it and run it in exalted. Solid, entertaining, and a good read. If it had been longer it would have gotten 5 stars.
Good enough.......2007-02-14
This is a decent value for the money. If you are a newbie gm or more experienced there is something that you can use.
Good Adventure.......2007-01-12
We had a great time playing it and it felt very much like an Eberron module should. As the DM, everything was clear to me and it was easy to DM it.
TOO LINEAR AND CONFINING.......2006-08-11
Flying airships? I'm having flashbacks to Spelljammer and they are not good. The Voyage of the Golden Dragon is an Eberron adventure for four 7th level characters and requires the Eberron campaign setting. This module is actually four separate adventures that combine for one large scenario although it's only 32 pages so obviously it's not all that large.
The Golden Dragon is crown jewel of the armada of Breland. A large and fantastic air-faring ship that took years and great magics to build. But the ship is coveted by many others which leads the PC's into the adventure hook. In the first part of the module, the players will find themselves in attendance at the chips christening party which quickly goes awry as saboteurs have come aboard with the intention of blowing up the ship.
In part two, the leader of the saboteurs had paid for passage on the ship's maiden voyage, now even more intent on the ship's destruction. Part three finds the players safely having reached port and now hired by a treasure hunter to accompany him to the ruins of a Giant's citadel. The final part has the players back aboard ship just as the ship and battling a new threat. Hopefully that doesn't give too much away, I don't think it does.
If you have the idea that this adventure is quite linear in scope, you'd be 100% right. You obviously cannot continue on to the next part unless you successfully conclude the one that comes before it. This makes for a rather mundane adventure. There's nothing worse than feeling you are being led around by the nose. On top of that, I don't care for adventures that find the players in such a confined, and claustrophobic place such as a ship, even one as large as the Golden Dragon.
The module includes maps of all the ship's levels and other important locations should you choose to play it. Not one of the better D&D adventures.
Reviewed by Tim Janson
Book Description
With over one million copies sold and now fully revised and updated, HOW TO MASTER THE ART OF SELLING motivates and educates readers to deliver superior sales. After failing during the first six months of his career in sales, Tom Hopkins discovered and applied the very best sales techniques, then earned more than one million dollars in just three years. What turned Tom Hopkins around? The answers are revealed in HOW TO MASTER THE ART OF SELLING, as Tom explains toreaders what the profession of selling is really about and how to succeed beyond their imagination, including:
Customer Reviews:
Great book even outside of sales.......2007-08-13
I am writing this review to share how this book helped me get a new outlook on how I see things. Let me first give you a brief history on me.
I was a music store employee who was making minimum wage, and I never (and I do mean never) made commision. This was 1998, I had long hair, no car, living at home with mom and dad, and I was a college drop-out. The owner of my company paid for me to go to Mr. Hopkins sales class in 1999. I immediately bought his book (which was a lot of money for me at that time), and started applying what I had learned. I increased my sales at the music store, but I still wasn't making enough money to support my family. I used my sales techniques to learn to sell my own abilities to another employer (a hospital). I worked there a few years, and during this time I took pre-nursing classes.
Fast forward to 2004. I got accepted into a nursing program. I had to compete for a scholarship at my hospital which I was awarded using tchniques I learned from Tom and his book. Once I graduated, I used techniques I learned from this book to land my first nursing job (which pays really well for a new graduate nurse).
In closing, I would like to state that my belief in God, and learning/applying what I learned in Tom's book helped me go from living with my parents and broke; to now being comfortably middle class, married, and living the life I always wanted to live. You have to do the work, and you have to be willing to keep your head up when everything doesn't go your way. However, if your diciplined the keys laid out in this book can help you in life; even if you don't stay in sales. After all, are we not selling our own abilities to future employers? This was a good purchase for me, and I hope it will be for you as well.
Average.......2007-03-31
While the book is very well worth the money, some of the concepts are far fetched and much too cheesy for today's selling environment.
In my personal opinion, the consumers today are too savvy and some of the techniques in this book will scream at them 'USED-CAR SALESMAN'. However, there are some very good tips in the book, and as with any book, if you can get one good idea out of it it is very well worth the money spent.
Good Fundamentals. A little disjointed........2007-03-16
I am brand new to selling, so I appreciate this book for what it is; a really good overview of the selling process. It's also a great reference that I've often gone back and thumbed through. However, it seems most targeted toward consumer sales areas such as automobiles, insurance, or retail. A couple of the methods, such as asking customers to call their friends and family right there on the spot for a referral, seem kind of old school and tacky, and not applicable to corporate sales. The book also jumps around a bit. Hopkins will advise using a technique or mention a term which he then says will be covered in a later chapter. It's kind of disorienting. Otherwise, it's a solid primer.
The bible of basic selling principles.......2007-01-05
I first read this book in the 1980s, and reread it in the past year. Salespeople so often disdain sales training as not helpful, but the more experience you garner, the more you realize the power of sales process and how it can influence your sales success. Every sales concept discussed in this book can be applied in every sales career, I believe. The power of effective communication in the context of creating clients can only be learned through the adoption of a system of which there are many variants but which all include the principles mapped out here. For the neophyte just starting to the grizzled veteran (and I read this book at both junctures of my career), this book is as good as any.
I order it but i havent got it yet.?.......2006-11-11
I havent get the book yet???? back order it is been like almost 2 months?
Book Description
Have you ever asked yourself the question, "How can I sell more cars and make more money?" Whether you're considering a career in automobile sales, are new to the car business, or have been on the sales floor for decades, From Zero to Hero: How to Master the Art of Selling Cars will answer your questions.
Author Jeffrey F. Knott draws on more than twenty years of experience in the automotive sales business, and shares his proven techniques for becoming a successful salesperson. From Zero to Hero will teach you the following skills:
- Understand the influences governing your customers' actions, and respond to them effectively
- Recognize the difference between an "avoidance" and a true objection, and proceed correctly when confronted with each situation
- Adjust your own attitude, level of enthusiasm, and actions at the negotiating table in order to achieve success
From Zero to Hero gives you the tools necessary to avoid living "from paycheck to paycheck" and to transform your job into a prosperous, stable career as an automotive sales professional.
Jeffrey Knott has taken decades of experience, training, and knowledge and condensed them into a very well-written and easily read book. A
must read for any salesperson wanting to succeed in the car business. It's about time somebody wrote a real book on this profession.
-Merle Simpson
Next Level Marketing / Teambuilders, USA
Customer Reviews:
a blueprint.......2007-05-13
read this book if you sell cars. it sounds lame but i'm serious. it won't hurt and if you can't afford to lose twenty bucks buying it and you sell cars you really need to read it!!! now go make some money
I enjoyed this book.......2007-02-21
I enjoyed the 3rd section more than the rest. It is a good basic understanding of a process that must work for the author. Everyone in the business has their own ideas and this point of view is as valid as any other. I wouldn't stop here. I'd buy others as well. I like mainstream trainers/motivators like Ziglar, Hopkins, Ziegler, Verde, etc.
Buy this one and the others and decide for yourself. Take pieces of all of them and make it happen.
From Zero to Hero.......2007-02-15
Excellent book! Mr. Knott has created a very well written and easy to read book about a career in the automotive sales business. The book details real world scenarios that are right on the money. Anyone who is considering a career in automotive sales, or, who is currently working in automotive sales should read this book. The reader will definitely benefit from the information presented. Highly recommended reading.
Excellent book.......2007-02-10
I think this book is great, it is easy to read and provides a lot of good, useful information.
I have not yet started my career in Auto Sales, but I now feel a lot more confident in doing so with the knowledge I have aquired from this book. I recommend it for anyone, especially those who are getting into, or are thinking about getting into the Car Sales business like myself.
Also, I think it is great that Mr. Jeffrey Knott has placed his e-mail address in the back of the book, which he has already responded to one of my questions in a timely manner!
Wow, This book is great!.......2006-11-16
I expected just another book that says the same things I have heard over and over in sales meetings for the past five years, but that is not the case. This book really delivers. I wish I had gotten it when I started selling cars. It sure would have saved me alot of grief and aggrivation and would have made me even more money. I actaully read this book twice. Once for all of the information I got out of it and twice for all of the information I missed. This book will stay in my desk as long as I am selling cars.
Customer Reviews:
The 1950s were different.......2004-11-01
This is my second read of this book, three years and some 300 sales & marketing books down stream. My goodness, but the advice is inappropriate for Realtors, at least those on either coast.
The "techniques" advocated were, and perhaps still are, used in selling paring knives, potato peelers and perhaps larger items like vacuum cleaners. Those techniques, if used more than very sparingly, tend to put off potential clients.
The "How to List" routine is to knock on doors. This may have been a great approach in the 1950s when 95% (or more) of the houses were inhabited by stay-at-home moms, but now that a huge fraction of the homes (80% maybe??) are inhabited by two earner families, the cost/benefit ratio of walking your neighborhood is poor, to say the least. More gimickery is offered, especially where FSBOs are concerned, rather than looking for a way to give value to the client.
Hopkins does offer some reasonable advice on tracking your personal business statistics. Maybe I should up my rating to two stars. However, if you carefully (or not so carefully) keep track of the hours spent following his other advice, I think you'll find your return per hour below a living wage.
Hopkins may be a great motivator -- I wouldn't know. But you definitely want to look at marketing books to learn about marketing yourself, which is what listing is about. This book will waste your time and your money, and, worst of all, teach habits that you will later need to unlearn.
Unbelievable!.......2004-10-01
This is a fantastic book, especially for a new agent. I know Tom personally, and I love his approach to selling real estate. He is a very sincere individual and has such a good heart. I recommend this book to anyone who likes to use a more sincere approach at selling rather than pushy and aggressive. Definitely money well spent.
Classic Book For All Realtors.......2004-03-05
A must read for any new Real Estate Agents. The material is older, but there are timeless techniques that any Realtor can benefit from. There is an abundance of information and inspiration. Highly recommended.
Slightly outdated but many useful ideas.......2003-04-13
The book itself is slightly outdated with verbiage and action plans that are better suited to the 80s. However, it is still a good read. There are numerous ideas, scripts, and sample documents that can help any agent add a little something different to their business.
The author is reknown in our business and offers another point of view in handling difficult customer situations - I thoroughly enjoyed it and found it very informative.
Reads like a car salesman.......2003-03-28
Its an okay book. My only problem is the author provides a lot of scripts and selling techniques that use lies to manipulate people. For example he recommends pretending you may want to buy a home as a personal investment when calling of FSBOs who advertise "no brokers". Its also a very old book and some of the stuff that worked in the 80s doesnt work any more.
Book Description
THE ART OF CLOSING ANY DEAL takes readers into the trenches of the psychological war called selling-and who better than sales guru James W. Pickens to give them the hard-hitting ammunition for every type of customer out there. From the 'I'm just looking' to the 'Know-it-all' to the 'I don't care' and the 'yes-man', Pickens takes aim at them all. Readers will learn to control buyers since the author's simulated conversations will arm them with winning and positive comebacks for every negative customer reply. Closing secrets include: deadly closing tips to make people buy; unbeatable closer responses to the most common objectives; how to read the customer's emotions and use perfect timing to nail the lid on the final close; and more. Readers will ultimately learn how to conquer buyers, as Pickens' take-no-prisoners techniques show them how to move in for the final attack.
Customer Reviews:
The Art of Manipulation.......2007-04-07
This book is a cleverly repackaged version of "The Closers" written many years ago by Ben Gay III. While there is some powerful sales technique in this book the book centers itself around manipulating a prospect into the buying decision and encourages the use of hi-pressure. A salesman may gain some great insights into sales but must guard against losing some of their ethical balance in the process.
One of the very, very best sales books........2007-01-09
I'm a high ticket salesman and devour sales books looking for the nuggets of gold within them. Even the most shallow of sales books have one or two things in them that you can learn, adapt, and use. Then there are books that have whole veins of gold running through them. This is one of them.
For what it's worth, here's my take on the book: If you need any help on closing, then this book is a masterpiece.
The best book for selling.......2006-11-25
This is by far the best I've ever read. Gives details on how to sell and close customers. Detailed information includes customer excuses for not wanting to buy and response to those excuses.
the art of closing any deal, how to be a master closer.......2006-03-20
exactly what you need if you consider your self weak in closing like I did. I was selling timeshare and now I'm selling real estate and insurance and I learned a lot from the book and I recommend it to anyone who needs to harden up and sell!
The Art of Closing Any Deal.......2005-12-11
This the worst book I have ever read on the Profession of selling. One can picture this bust out in white shoes, a white belt, oily hair, and checks and plaid.
This is clearly a book to read on WHAT NOT TO DO. Very smarmy....
Would have given 0 star, but you don't offer that ranking.
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The Action Selling Sales Training and Selling Skills Book Series includes:
- Action Selling: How to sell like a professional, even if you think you are one.
-Selling Your Price: How to escape the race to the bargain basement
- Questions: The Answer to Sales
- Masters of Loyalty: How to turn your sales force into a loyalty force
The Action Selling Book Series will dramatically improve the sales behavior of your sales force.
Action Selling: Are your salespeople "Winging It" during calls? With Action Selling, they`ll learn the Five Critical Sales Skills that really matter and how to follow a proven process that has helped over 300,000 become top selling producers.
Selling Your Price: Do your salespeople rely on old habits, manipulative tricks or price concessions to close the sale? With Selling Your Price, salespeople learn how to sell value and protect margins while winning more business.
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Masters of Loyalty: Do your salespeople sell loyalty? With Masters, they`ll learn how to create real loyalty; loyalty that makes customers stop shopping and be forever deaf to competitor`s appeals.
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