Good in a Room, Stephanie Palmer
Good in a Room, Stephanie Palmer
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Good in a Room
How to Sell Yourself (and Your Ideas) and Win Over Any Audience

Author: Stephanie Palmer

Narrator: Judith Brackley

Unabridged: 6 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/28/2008


Synopsis

Business consultant and former MGM director of creative affairs Stephanie Palmer reveals the techniques used by Hollywood's top writers, producers, and directors to get financing for their projects and explains how you can apply these techniques to be more successful in your own high-stakes meetings. Because, as Palmer has found, the strategies used to sell yourself and your ideas in Hollywood not only work in other businesses, they often work better.

Whether you are a manager or executive with an innovative proposal, a professional with a hot concept, a salesperson selling to a potential client or investor, or an entrepreneur with a business plan, Good in a Room shows you how to:

—Master the five stages of the face-to-face meeting

—Avoid the secret deal breakers of the first ninety seconds

—Be confident in high-pressure situations

—Present yourself better and more effectively than you ever have before

Whether you want to ask for a raise, grow your client list, launch a new business, or find financing for a creative project, you must not only present your ideas in a compelling way—you must also sell yourself. Good in a Room shows you how to construct a winning presentation and deliver the kind of performance that will get your project greenlighted, whatever industry you are in.

About Stephanie Palmer

Stephanie Palmer coaches business leaders and creative professionals in a wide range of industries to help them get their ideas the attention and financing they deserve. As part of MGM's executive team for six years, she supervised twenty films with multimillion-dollar budgets, including the international success Legally Blond. Stephanie has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Variety, and on NPR. She lives in Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on January 05, 2014

This is a good book for a business person, especially an entrepreneurial one. While it's not at the top of my list. I would recommend it to anyone that expects to have to "pitch" their ideas. Business today is acting more and more like Hollywood in one important way. More and more businesses today a......more

Goodreads review by Jay on November 26, 2013

*Good in a Room* is one of those books that you read once and refer to many times. Read it the first time to pick up some valuable ideas. Keep it on your shelf for reference as you prepare for and attend those big meetings that can change your life or build your career. In his book *The Success Princ......more

Goodreads review by Craig on May 15, 2020

This is all great advice for people not just in screenwriting, but in anything in which you're presenting ideas to others. And it's all stuff that we often overlook. But getting good at it is an enormous advantage in pretty much everything.......more

Goodreads review by Emily Parkany on April 22, 2024

Listened to this. Slightly fascinating because she was a Hollywood studio exec but all of us should be better at “selling” our ideas. Great details about reading the room, whether to go to networking events, how to utlize your network, how to follow up. And not to be the smartest in the room and how......more

Goodreads review by Stacy on October 31, 2010

This book is well-known among screenwriters (and if it isn't, it should be), but it's also great for other business situations. In fact, the principles would probably work better in business situations outside of Hollywood because typically, no matter how competitive an industry might be, it's proba......more