Mark Marone & Seleste Lunsford
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© 2005 by Mark Marone and Seleste Lunsford
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Marone, Mark D.
Strategies that win sales : best practices of the world’s leading organizations / Mark Marone and Seleste Lunsford.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7931-8860-1
1. Sales management. 2. Selling. 3. Customer relations.
4. Communication in marketing. I. Lunsford, Seleste E. II. Title. HF5438.4.M37 2005
658.8 02—dc22
2004019868
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