Steve W. Martin Livres

This is a comprehensive guide for penetrating new accounts, differentiating ones solution during the sales cycle, and closing large deals. Based on extensive interviews with over 1,000 key information technology decision makers and top technology salespeople, the book provides state of the art technology sales strategies and advanced tactics for senior salespeople who want to learn the secrets of top performers. Readers will find advice on how to win over C-level I.T. executives and senior business leaders in finance, operations, manufacturing, human resources, marketing, sales, and engineering; discover how I.T. organisational structure impacts company decision maker: determine how to gain strategic account control based upon the people, process, and politics of selling to complex businesses; and learn to conduct persuasive sales calls with sales linguistics, the study of how the customers mind uses and interprets language, and much more.

From the comic genius of Steve Martin comes a contemporary fable of life an love from the point of view of a shopgirl behind the glove counter at Neiman Marcus. Mirabelle, a semi-glamourous young woman who is making her way through the romantic jungles of Beverly Hills/Los Angeles, is an aspiring artist who prides herself on her clothing aesthetic. Unfortunately, she doesn't always have the best taste in men. When she meets a young Turk named Jeremy, whose idea of a great second date is a visit to the Laundromat, she sees him through a haze of prozac and other anti-depressants, and through the prism of her own poor self-esteem. But then she meets Ray Porter and thinks he could be her Knight in Shining Armor. In fact, he does turn out to be a worldly, rich gentleman who is a kindly and even exciting lover, but he never really takes Mirabelle seriously. Together, Mirabelle, Ray, Jeremy, and a few other suporting characters populate this insightful piece that is sometimes quirky, sometimes comic, and sometimes languid as a summer day.

"Il numero uno sono io" è l'eredità cinematografica di Steve Martin: un libro di memorie sulla sua leggendaria carriera di attore, con storie tratte dai suoi film più famosi impreziosite dalle illustrazioni di Harry Bliss, celebre vignettista del New Yorker. Finora Steve Martin non aveva mai scritto della sua lunga carriera cinematografica. In queste pagine racconta aneddoti esilaranti dai set dei suoi film più amati - Il padre della sposa, Roxanne, Lo straccione, I tre amigos e molti altri - portando i lettori direttamente nel suo mondo. Condivide anche momenti di ispirazione e imprese con personaggi del calibro di Paul McCartney, Diane Keaton, Robin Williams e Chevy Chase. Martin parla dei suoi quarant'anni di carriera nel mondo del cinema, ma anche di stand-up comedy, di banjo, di scrittura e di fumetto, il tutto con la sua impareggiabile arguzia. Con vignette splendidamente illustrate e "divagazioni" a pannello singolo nello stile caratteristico di Steve e Harry, questa autobiografia è inoltre ricca di tanti momenti quotidiani anch'essi parte della vita di una star.