No. 197
Phong Cách Bán Hàng Zig Ziglar (Ziglar on Selling, Vietnamese edition)
Zig Ziglar
Phong Cách Bán Hàng Zig Ziglar is the Vietnamese translation of Ziglar on Selling, one of Zig Ziglar's core sales-focused books, published in Vietnam by Alpha Books in partnership with ITD Vietnam alongside a companion translation of his broader life-philosophy book, Over the Top (translated as Chinh Phục Đỉnh Cao). Where that companion book addresses life philosophy and personal fulfillment broadly, this one narrows in specifically on the craft and mindset of professional selling, consolidating decades of Ziglar's sales training material into a single volume.
Ziglar's foundational reframe, carried through the whole book, is that selling is not a manipulative or purely transactional profession but, in his words, "a way of life" — an extension of genuinely wanting to improve a customer's situation, applied not only to paying customers but to family members, colleagues, and anyone the salesperson interacts with. This ethical framing sits underneath everything more tactical in the book: he's explicit that customers can sense insincerity, and that techniques deployed without genuine care for the customer's actual needs tend to fail even when executed correctly.
On the tactical side, the book lays out what several Vietnamese reviews describe as a four-step sales formula: analyzing the customer's needs, building the customer's awareness of those needs, presenting the solution, and confirming the customer's satisfaction with it — a structure that positions selling as a needs-diagnosis process first and a persuasion process second. Around this core formula, the book covers prospecting, objection handling, closing techniques, and the discipline of using notes and follow-up systematically to track relationships over time rather than treating each sale as a one-off interaction.
Ziglar's style throughout is warm, folksy, and heavily anecdotal, built from decades of his own sales career and speaking engagements, which makes the book easy and motivating to read but also means some of its specific tactics and cultural references reflect an earlier era of American retail and door-to-door selling. Vietnamese readers and reviewers have noted this dating directly — some of Ziglar's specific approaches read as old-fashioned by contemporary standards — while still finding real, durable value in the book's underlying emphasis on organization, customer focus, and treating selling as a relationship discipline rather than a one-time persuasion event.
Who This Is For
Salespeople and small-business owners, particularly those in relationship-driven or face-to-face sales contexts, looking for a values-first foundation in sales technique.
When To Read This
Good for someone early in a sales career building foundational habits, or an experienced salesperson looking to reconnect with a more relationship-centered, less purely transactional approach.