Never Ask for the Sale, Sue Heilbronner
Never Ask for the Sale, Sue Heilbronner
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Never Ask for the Sale
Supercharge Your Business with the Power of Passionate Ambivalence

Author: Sue Heilbronner

Narrator: Sue Heilbronner

Unabridged: 8 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Balance

Published: 09/09/2025


Synopsis

A tech leader and executive coach's actionable guide for anyone looking to supercharge their selling prowess and close the deal with authenticity and integrity. 

Sue Heilbronner launched an executive coaching, facilitation, and speaking solo entrepreneurial venture which grew from zero to $1 million in annual revenue in six years. Now, she offers her insight into salespersonship in an irreverent, direct, and actionable guide to success in sales.

Never Ask For The Sale goes beyond simple tips, and influences the reader’s overall understanding of selling. Sue Heilbronner shares decades of experience, stories, tools, and exercises to coach people to be more successful at achieving their goals by aligning their work with their greatest strengths, and marketing that cohesive story with a winning sales strategy: passionate ambivalence. Heilbronner introduces this concept as the strategic yet honest practice of presenting oneself as selective in the work they take on while enthusiastic about their area of expertise.

At the heart of the book is the notion that any successful seller, in any context, is fantastic at selling themself—whether that is within services in a solopreneur business, an early-stage startup, a college application, or a nonprofit mission. Never Ask For The Sale prompts deep self-awareness admixed with highly pragmatic calls to action at the intersection of coaching, personal growth, conscious leadership, and sales.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate on September 10, 2025

I’m sold! A North Star for anyone navigating the modern attention economy. Never Ask for the Sale begins with two core insights: whether we are advancing a product, policy or mission, we are invariably selling ourselves, and successful selling requires aligning our motivations, passions and gifts wi......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on September 14, 2025

This is a great read—my copy is already full of highlights and page markers so I can use it as a handbook to coach myself and the biz dev folks on my team. Part personal branding guide (including deeply personal desires, limiting beliefs and zone of genius as well as shaping an external brand positi......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on September 11, 2025

I loved this refreshing take on sales. Sue's clear writing style and years of experience as a coach make it both easy and fun to apply "passionate ambivalence" to your life. The read feels more like a personal coaching session than reading a business book. The wisdom in Never Ask for the Sale is not......more

Goodreads review by Leah on September 10, 2025

This book is nothing like any Sales book / course / lesson I've heard before. The author is deliciously candid about the sensitive topic of selling, in way that lets us behind the curtain of a women who used authenticity to create a thriving career. Unlike many "sales" techniques which feel like the......more

Goodreads review by Micah on September 10, 2025

This is the perfect book for someone like me who has always had the ick for a transactional "hard-sale" and "never thought I'd be good at sales". I have found selling "something" was always easier than "selling yourself" (as a consultant, solopreneur, etc.) and something I'm still learning and workin......more