"TESTED SENTENCES THAT SELL"

by Elmer Wheeler

 

A FORWARD TO THE READER

THE STORY BEHIND TESTED SELLING

THE FIVE WHEELERPOINTS

Chapter 1:                     Don't Sell the Steak -- Sell the Sizzle!    

Chapter 2:                    "Don't Write -- Telegraph!"

Chapter 3:                     "Say It with Flowers"

Chapter 4:                    "Don't ask if--  Ask Which!"

Chapter 5:                    Watch Your Bark!

 

THREE OTHER WHEELER PRINCIPLES

 

Chapter 6:                    Three Little Words That Sold Millions of Square Clothespins

Chapter 7:                    Two Words That Turned Nickels into Dimes

Chapter 8:                    They Sold Brooklyn Bridge Again Last Week

 

PERTINENT EXAMPLES OF WHEELERPOINTS,
RULES, PRINCIPLES AND FORMULAS

Chapter 9:                    Your First Ten Words are More Important Than Your Next Ten Thousand

Chapter 10:                  The Farmer's Daughter Moves to town

Chapter 11:                  The Best-Looking Dotted Line Won't Sign Itself

Chapter 12:                  How to Take the Temperature of the Prospect

Chapter 13:                  Sentences That Tell You the Other Person Is Sold

Chapter 14:                  Tested Sentences That Make the Other Person Say Yes

Chapter 15:                  Making ‘Em Hit the Sawdust Trail for You

Chapter 16:                  Don't Sell the Wine -- Sell the Bubbles in the Glass

Chapter 17:                  Don't Sell the Sardines -- Sell the Somersault

Chapter 18:                  Five Little Words That Sold Million Gallons of Gasoline

Chapter 19:                  Don't Use Words That Are Shiny in the Seat

Chapter 20:                  Avoid Words That Wrinkle the Other Person's Brow

Chapter 21:                  How to Make Tested Sentences Sell In Door-To-Door Selling

Chapter 22:                  How to Make Complete Sales Presentations Out Of Tested Sentences

Chapter 23:                  How to Sell The Man Shopping for His Wife or Sweetheart

Chapter 24:                  A Lesson in Salesmanship at the Seashore

Chapter 25:                  The Word Miss Versus the Word Mrs.

Chapter 26:                  Old Man Johnston Finds Six Words That Sell Pipe Tobacco

Chapter 27:                  Selling-Sentence Oddities That Have Made People Respond

Chapter 28:                  A Cigarette Girl Changes an Expression and Increases Her Business

Chapter 29:                  Eight Little Words That Foiled Souvenir Hunters

Chapter 30:                  Tested Ways to Hire -- Or Be Hired

Chapter 31:                  The Cigar-Store Indian Never Made a Sale

Chapter 32:                  Summary of the Five Wheelerpoints