Now, more than ever, the ability to communicate your ideas is the critical to succeeding in one's personal and professional lives. The author, a longtime successful marketing and sales executive, gives expert guidance on how anyone can become a professional communicator and succeed at work.

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter

1. Everybody Does It
2. Master Communicators
3. Using Words to Communicate
4. Using Words to Motivate
5. How to Listen
6. How to Be a Winner
7. The Power of Words
8. Body Language: The “Sidekick” to Words
9. Barriers to Communication
10. It’s Been Done Before
11. Wanted: People Who Want to Earn Money and Have Fun, Too
12. How to Jump-Start Your Career . . . and Your Life

FUN Change Your Life: Become a Communicator and Have FUN Doing It

"This is a perfect, uplifting, useful book for all times! Hemmings starts with a invaluable idea: "Everyone sells something. Everyone has to communicate." and then plays it out with a series of entertaining anecdotes and examples that enlighten, educate and inspire. Whether we're a leader or the led, a peon or a potentate, a seller or a buyer, a parent, teacher or student, this book will help you communicate with and influence others more effectively."

Dr. Tony Alessandra
Author of The Platinum Rule, Communicating at Work and
The NEW Art of Managing People

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Robert Hemmings’ book is a must read for any businessperson who is interested in improving their life. You are drawn in by the success stories of master sales professionals and think you are reading about improving one’s abilities at selling and suddenly you realize you are learning to improve the whole of your life.

Who cannot benefit from improving their ability to master the art and the science if communication? This book should be required reading for all undergraduates in almost any field of study and especially for graduate students in MBA programs and those in law schools.

Mr. Hemmings should get a Ph.D. in the science of persuasion. His lifelong study is a significant scholarly achievement. He was forged in the crucible of the Great Depression and his timeless teachings are as relevant now as ever.

I could not put the book down. I have read every word more than once and will read it again. I hope my students read it and I pray my children and grandchildren study this important work.

Buy it for someone whose life you want to improve and they will thank you for it. Read it yourself and you may also become a Master Communicator as is Mr. Hemmings and are his many devoted students.

Duke K. Bristow, Ph.D.
University of Southern California

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“Bob Hemmings has a down-to-earth way of helping you see the value of a positive attitude, strong speaking and listening skills and perseverance. And you don't have to be a salesman to benefit from this book. Well done.”

Larry Earley
Family and Relationship Coach

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What a potent combination—communication tips and selling secrets that can make you a winner! Put this book on the list of things you wish you learned in college. Words can work wonders to change your life, and this book shows you exactly how to do it.

Jim Kobs
Author of Profitable Direct Marketing

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“This book is a masterful job of showing the relationship between selling Bob Hemmings makes owning his book worthwhile within the first two chapters: With studied casualness he points out that people buy from you for two reasons. He then names the reasons, and they're just two of the huge load of usable and practical nuggets he supplies, clearly and with his famous good nature making his message a delight. Lots, lots to benefit from in these pages. Thank you, Bob!"

Herschell Gordon Lewis
Author of On the Art of Writing Copy

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“This book is a masterful job of showing the relationship between selling and a way of living an enjoyable and successful financial life. A ‘must read’ for those who are interested in both.”

Fred W.Mackenbach
Retired President and COO
The Lincoln Electric Company,
Cleveland, Ohio

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“I like books that tell stories. The more the better. Stories teach and Hemmings’ remembrances and stories are worth as much to college grads as to those in the work-force who wonder why they aren’t getting ahead. I like to underline and review the wisdom. In this case I have ten pages of quotes and notes. There are 12 action packed chapters, but Chapter Six, with the 12 Cardinal Rules from the master is the gold. I carry them with me every day.”

James W. Obermayer
CEO
Sales Lead Management Association

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“Throughout my many years in business (from bottom to top) it was suggested to me and confirmed many times that in business as in life the only real problems we face are ‘people problems.’ Bob Hemmings has addressed this fact many times in his book entitled Jump-Start Your Life. However, much more importantly, he offers anecdotes based on personal and researched experiences that would be a blessing to any reader of his text. Always remember, good communication is the key.”

Jon T. Pawley
President (Ret.)
Portland Cement Company

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“This book is chock-full of “Un” Common Sense and State-of-the-Art Wit and Wisdom from a true Master Communicator and Star Salesman. Bob Hemmings has distilled a lifetime (90 years + and counting!) of lessons learned into an inspirational guide to a successful life.”

Walter Rose
Entrepreneur
Business Executive, Community Leader

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“I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It has valuable information I can use in both my personal and professional life. As a Jr. High School teacher, I feel better equipped to communicate with my students and to be a more effective communicator and teacher. I think it would be a beneficial read for all teachers. The stories are entertaining and helped pull it all together - this made the book “Fun to Read.’”

Mrs. Ashley Kaiser Roy
Utah

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What a wise and witty book! Thanks to Bob Hemmings’s decades of honing his natural gifts in persuasive communications, Jump-Start Your Career is a gem of a resource for business people—and not just those at the outset of their careers. I am grateful he took the time to get it all down on paper. And especially that he packed it with entertaining anecdotes about communications strategies we can emulate—and aspire to.

Ruth P. Stevens
President
eMarketing Strategy
Adjunct Professor, Columbia Business School