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Sales Is Not Rocket Science, But a Simple Art.

The salespeople who consistently exceed their target, build the biggest commissions and become the ones everyone else is compared to are not more talented.

They follow a complete process.
This is that process.

One salesperson trained on this process exceeded 150% of target. The commission was enough to buy a house.

Sales Is Not Rocket Science Stephan Lahn
Why This Book

Most sales books teach you one part of the process. This one covers all of it.

Your prospect has heard every pitch before. They know your competitors. They have a procurement process and a budget freeze and three other priorities. None of that changes with better motivation or a shinier deck.

What changes it is process. Honest, complete, consistently followed. This book is that process.

Written by a salesperson who has been in the room. Teams built from London to New York to Bangalore to Shanghai.

The salespeople who build the biggest numbers are not the most talented in the room. They are the most disciplined. They follow a process when it is easy and when it is not. They do the small things nobody else bothers to do.

That is a learnable skill. This book teaches it.

// No fluff. No padding. No yacht.
In Their Own Words

"When Stephan first assessed my sales skills, he told me my role play was the worst he had ever seen. I still remember that moment. I had always believed I could persuade people. I trusted my instinct and my personality. What I did not have was structure or guidance in how I executed.

From that point everything changed. I followed the process properly and consistently, which also meant confronting my biggest weakness head on. I talked too much and listened too little. I went on to lead in revenue and exceed one hundred and fifty percent of my target. The commission I earned that year was enough to buy a house.

The one thing I told every team Stephan introduced me to: follow the process to the T. The moment I got overconfident and started cutting corners, I lost deals. Every time without exception."

Geo B., Sales Professional
Table of Contents

The complete process. Nothing missing.

CH. 01
The Foundation: 12 Principles of a Great Salesperson
The proprietary foundation. Consistency, discipline, confidence, probability thinking, honesty. Get them wrong and nothing that follows will save you.
CH. 02
The Psychology of Selling
What is happening in your prospect's mind and in your own. The human game behind the commercial one.
CH. 03
Prospecting
How to fill your pipeline with qualified opportunities. Cold calling, cadences, LinkedIn, exhibitions and conferences.
CH. 04
Sales Meetings: Setting the Stage
Preparation, discovery, demonstration. And why most salespeople never get past stage two.
CH. 05
Sales Meetings: Closing It Out
Buying process, firm next step, best practice. The stages most salespeople skip.
CH. 06
Proposals
Pricing options, validity dates, the proposal call. Never send by email. Never present just one price.
CH. 07
No Conditions, No Trial
How to structure a trial that converts and why most drift into free access with no outcome.
CH. 08
Objection Handling
Every common objection handled. Seventy to eighty percent are created by the salesperson, not the prospect.
CH. 09
Negotiations
Variables, walkaway points, procurement, anchoring, silence. The negotiation starts when you write the proposal.
CH. 10
Kill Criteria
When a deal is genuinely dead and why dead deals stay in pipelines. The sunk cost fallacy in sales.
CH. 11
Pipeline, Ratios and the Business Plan
Ratios, the 25-opportunity rule, and the Private Goals Workshop. The tool that connects your sales target to what you actually want from your life.
CH. 12
Time Management and Remote Working
Prioritisation, protecting selling time, the home office mindset and setting up your workspace.
CH. 13
Sales Leadership
Running effective 1-2-1s, the sales support plan, hiring and building a high-performance culture.
CH. 14
The Handover
Why the handover matters and what a good one looks like. Your reputation travels with the client, not the contract.
CH. 15
The Close
The final honest challenge. The gap between knowing and doing is where most salespeople live permanently.
What You Will Take Away

After reading this book you will know how to:

If you work with SPIN Selling, MEDDPICC, the Challenger Sale or any established sales methodology, this book completes the picture.

About the Author

"Sell to sell well. The money will be a by-product."

Stephan Lahn

Stephan Lahn started playing ice hockey at five years old, represented junior national teams after the Berlin Wall came down, and played professionally for seven years. He brought the same discipline and pattern recognition into sales, building and scaling teams across global markets.

Over two hundred and fifty salespeople. In some of the most competitive B2B markets in the world. The ones who followed his process consistently outperformed everyone around them.

Stephan Lahn
20+
Years in B2B Sales
1→25
Team Built
4
Sub-Continents
250+
Salespeople Trained
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