ROI Forecast for Kannon Sales Training

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John Galto

Due to general business conditions, copier sales at Kannon have gone down 30 percent in the last year. As part of an overall expense-reduction strategy, sales management decided to reduce salesforce expenses. Upper management required a business impact study to evaluate... More »

Aggressively Solve Problems

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Maxine Kamin

People who excel at their jobs solve problems. Nothing is more indicative of success in the workforce than solving problems. As Ron Willingham states in Integrity Service, In a real sense, each of us controls our success level by the problems we choose to solve. ... More »

Are You Managing By Activity or Results?

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Training sales managers is often a challenge. Lets face it...theyre jaded, overworked, have lots of responsibility, and often were never trained to do their jobs. In fact, in most cases, sales managers became sales managers because they were top performing salespeople. ... More »

Challenges and Solutions in Sales Training

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The following information was collected in an ASTD Sales Training SIG event in Atlanta, Georgia. In this session conducted by my company, DrawSuccess, participants were asked about barriers to success in sales challenges faced when training salespeople qualities of an e... More »

Improve Customer Service by Recovering From Mistakes Gracefully

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Maxine Kamin

Recovery means making good on a mistake. No matter how hard you try, youor the company you work forcan make an error. Think of a mistake as an opportunity to regain your customers loyalty. In fact, customers who have a problem that gets resolved are actually more loyal ... More »