Next Tuesday – December 16th, you will discover who the twelve finalists are, who will be battling it out for the “Top Sales Article Of The Year” award. However, today, I need to remind you that next Wednesday, we announce the winners of the 2008 Sales Book Awards – you can almost feel the excitement mounting.

How did we conceive this great idea? Here’s a transcript of the press release we issued at the time:

In Search of the Best Sales Books on the Planet

The Sales Book Awards recognize books, authors, and publishers whose work advances sales as a profession.

During one of their regular conversations, two avid readers, writers, and globally recognized sales experts lamented that sales books were often overlooked by book award programs and shunned by many in the publishing industry. 

Jeb Blount, CEO of the sales portal, powerhouse, SalesGravy.com and Jonathan Farrington, Chairman of The Sales Corporation based in London and Paris and CEO of the international sensation, TopTenSalesArticles.com, who share a life-long passion for sales, decided it was time for a book award program just for sales and sales related books, ebooks, and audio books.

Farrington, who has indentified and cataloged the world’s top sales experts on his website TopSalesExperts.com said, “Our ultimate goal is to develop and foster a wide coalition of thought leaders, educators, publishers, authors, and corporations who share our mission to recognize authors and publishers who create outstanding works which contribute to the profession of sales.”

“Advancing sales as a profession is our core mission,” said Blount. “All proceeds from corporate sponsorships and entry fees will be used to create scholarships for deserving students enrolled in University level, sales degree programs.” 

Here are the finalists:

Landslide Sales Book of the Year Finalists:

Reality Sales (Bill Guertin/ Andrew Corbus)

Coaching Salespeople Into Sales Champions -Keith Rosen

Selling Against The Goal -Kendra Lee

Perfect Selling -Linda Richardson

 Soar - Lee Salz

Salesopedia - Clayton Shold

The Real Secrets of the Top 20% -Mike Brooks

Selling To Big Companies - Jill Konrath

Presentations That Change Minds- Josh Gordon

Sales Coaching -Linda Richardson

All Star Sales Book-Billy Cox

The Sales Manager’s Mentor -Jeff Lehman

It is certainly a very strong line-up and I am really looking forward to the announcement.

Tomorrow: It’s JF Uncut and I will finally share with the story of how I really did nearly “fry tonight”

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