Christine Clifford Beckwith

Christine Clifford's 8th book Let's Close a Deal! Turn Contacts into Paying Customers for Your Company, Product, Service or Cause, to be released on April 1st, 2013 solidifies her place as one of the world's leading authorities on the art of sales and negotiation. She's excited about helping your organization make more money and grow your business.

Her experience taught her how to market and sell products, services and herself. Now, Christine Clifford, CSP shares that message with others. Christine Clifford has definitely cracked "the glass ceiling". At age 40, she was Senior Executive Vice President for The SPAR Group, an international merchandising and information services firm in New York.

As the top salesperson in the multi-billion dollar retail services industry for over eight years, Christine was responsible for accounts with Kmart, Toys 'R Us, Walmart, AT&T, Mattel Toys, and Revlon, among others. Taking her company from a million dollar per year loss to over $54 million in sales, Christine signed the largest contract in the history of her industry with Procter & Gamble, doubling the size of her company overnight.

Christine was urged to put her sales success to words and YOU, Inc. The Art of Selling Yourself was released by Warner Books in March 2007. It was named a "Notable Book of 2007" by the Independent Booksellers Association. She is featured in Masters of Sales (2007), along with Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy, Tony Robbins and Jack Canfield among others. On April 1, 2013, Christine's ground-breaking book on sales entitled Let's CLose a Deal! Turn Contacts into Paying Customers for Your Company, Product, Service or Cause will be released by Wiley & Sons.

Diagnosed with breast cancer in December of '94, Christine went on to write eight award-winning humorous portrayals of her story in books entitled Not NowI'm Having A No Hair Day!, Our Family Has Cancer, Too!, Inspiring Breakthrough Secrets to Live Your Dreams, Cancer Has Its Privileges: Stories of Hope & Laughter and Your Guardian Angels Gift.

Christine's newest books include Laugh 'Til It Heals: Notes from the World's Funniest Cancer Mailbox and The Clue Phone's Ringing... It's for You! Healing Humor for Women Divorcing.

That same year ('94) Christine faced a life-changing experience, she began her own company. Today The Cancer Club is the world's largest producer of humorous and helpful products for people with cancer. Christine's philosophies and strategies for becoming your industry's leader are proven theories that have propelled her and the companies she's worked with to the top of their fields. Ideas, action, results...

Christine is also the CEO/President of Divorcing Divas, a company that hosts all-day educational conferences for people facing divorce. As the survivor of domestic violence, Christine speaks out on the "Courage to Leave". She is CEO/President of Christine Clifford Enterprises as well which provides consulting on branding, positioning and sales.