Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Selling and customer service

Books on how to prospect, pitch and close sales, build a sales team, and keep customers through service and loyalty.

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  1. The Loyalty EffectFrederick F. Reichheld, Thomas Teal, 1996
  2. The Trusted AdvisorDavid H. Maister, Charles H. Green, Robert M. Galford, 2000
  3. Selling the DreamGuy Kawasaki, 1991
  4. False ProfitsRobert L. FitzPatrick, Joyce K. Reynolds, 1996
  5. Predictable RevenueAaron Ross, Marylou Tyler, 2011
Frederick F. Reichheld, Thomas Teal · 1996

Keeping customers, employees and investors is what drives profit and growth.

“In his seminal book, The Loyalty Effect, Fred Reichheld shows that a 5 percentage point improvement in retention rate” — Michael Mauboussin

Source: The Economics of Customer Businesses (Legg Mason Capital Management)

Recommended by: Michael Mauboussin

David H. Maister, Charles H. Green, Robert M. Galford · 2000

The trust equation: credibility, reliability and intimacy over self-orientation.

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Robert L. FitzPatrick, Joyce K. Reynolds · 1996

A critical look at the arithmetic behind multi-level marketing pay plans.

Aaron Ross, Marylou Tyler · 2011

The outbound-SDR machine that most SaaS sales teams copied.

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Aaron Ross, Jason Lemkin · 2016

The SaaS growth playbook: niche, funnel, hiring cadence.

Recommended by: David Cancel

Robert Miller, Stephen Heiman · 1985

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Neil Rackham · 1988

Selling through four kinds of question: Situation, Problem, Implication, Need-payoff.

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Sherrill Y. Estes · 1988

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William H. Davidow, Bro Uttal · 1989

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Michael T. Bosworth · 1994

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Robert Spector, Patrick D. McCarthy · 1995
Don Peppers, Martha Rogers · 1996

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Mark Sanborn · 2002

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Linda Kaplan Thaler · 2006

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Linda Kaplan Thaler · 2009

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Grant Cardone · 2011

Big goals call for a fourth degree of action, massive action, beyond normal effort.

Recommended by: David Cancel, Ran Segall

Mark Sanborn · 2013

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Matthew Dicks · 2024

“he breaks it all down in his new book on using stories in a business context. It's called Stories Sell, and you should go check it out.” — Andrew Wilkinson

Source: Newsletter

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

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