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The Business Behind the Sale

How Great Businesses Communicate, Connect, and Create Momentum

A customer sees one business. Every promise, conversation and handoff shapes what happens next. Follow the whole story.

85-page illustrated PDFReflowable EPUBEight field guides
CA$19.99 · Both complete reading editions

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15 chaptersFour parts, one connected story
14 diagramsSee how the work connects
8 field guidesPut the ideas to work
PDF + EPUBBoth complete editions included

The Business Behind the Sale · A short film

The Customer Who Disappeared

One inquiry. A busy owner. A customer who needed to be heard.

1 min 41 sec · Narrated by George · English captions

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Fictional illustrative story · Actual product artwork and published previews. About the imagery and narration.

One customer. The whole business.

Aisha wants a new kitchen. The business has a promise to keep.

It starts with an online search, three open tabs and a question. It becomes a conversation, a comparison, a decision and a project someone has to deliver.

Follow Aisha from her first inquiry to the final handoff. Along the way, see what customers are evaluating, why good opportunities disappear, and what happens when the team loses a detail the customer trusted them to remember.

The book connects buyer psychology, communication, sales, marketing, leadership and delivery. It gives those connections a story you can follow and field guides you can return to in your own work.

Aisha and the businesses in her journey are fictional teaching examples.

Actual pages from the complete PDF

See the connection. Keep a tool you can use.

A customer journey, a promise-to-proof diagram and a one-page handoff. These are pages from the book you receive.

Actual page 28 with the connected customer journey diagram and chapter text
The customer journey · page 28
Actual page 42 with the promise-to-proof diagram and explanation
Turn the promise into proof · page 42
Actual field guide page 77 with the printable one-page handoff
The one-page handoff · page 77

Inside the book

From the first impression to the business behind it.

Fifteen chapters, an introduction, an epilogue, a glossary and practical field guides.

Part 01

The human behind the customer

  • The Sale Begins Before Anyone Speaks
  • People Don't Buy What You Think They Buy
  • The Psychology of a Buying Decision
  • The Most Powerful Skill in Business Is Communication

Part 02

The moments that make or break the sale

  • What Happens After Someone Says They're Interested?
  • Why Price Is Never Just a Number
  • Why Good Opportunities Disappear
  • The Promise and the Reality

Part 03

The invisible business

  • Marketing Makes the Promise. The Business Must Keep It.
  • Follow the Customer, Not the Departments
  • When the Business Owner Becomes the Business
  • More Technology Doesn't Mean a Better Business
  • Busy Doesn't Always Mean Successful

Part 04

Connecting everything

  • See Your Entire Business on One Page
  • The 30-Day Business Reset

Put the book to work

Eight guides for the next piece of work.

Trace a real customer journey. Clarify a promise. Prepare a handoff. Find what keeps returning to the owner. Choose one useful improvement and learn from it.

The guides are inside both editions. Use the PDF to print pages for your own use.

  • The Customer's View
  • The Conversation Clarity Check
  • The Promise-to-Proof Worksheet
  • The One-Page Handoff
  • The Owner Dependency Log
  • The Tool-or-System Test
  • A Practical Business Health Review
  • The 30-Day Reset Planner

Start with the whole story

Read it. See the connections. Choose your next improvement.

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Two books. One connected view.

The conversation, and the business around it.

The Golden Sandwich of Selling focuses on guiding a sales conversation. The Business Behind the Sale explores the customer experience and organization around that conversation.

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