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"Big company" professional sales training for individuals, start-ups, and small sales teams

Are you a small-business person? Starting up a new venture? Going out on your own? Free agent? Independent contractor? Consultant? In career transition?

Or are you an experienced professional sales person, looking for new ideas and approaches?

Whichever fits you, here you will find sales training articles, sales tutorials, and books on how to sell for people who are new to selling . . . or who never gained the benefits of the kind of selling skills training programs provided within top marketing firms.

You will find links to our most recent articles and tutorials at the bottom of this page. Or check the navigation bar at the left. (As this site is undergoing renovation, that navigation bar will be gradually filling.

Sales manager, sales instructor, employment counselor?

This website also provides the kind of tools you're looking for if, you are . . .

  • a sales manager or sales trainer looking for the kinds of professional sales training materials used in the "sales universities" of America's top marketing firms, OR,
  • helping people undergoing career transition, perhaps as an employment counselor, instructor, or outplacement consultant.


Links to some of our recent articles.

We're in the process of revising this site, as well as most of the contents. At this point, many of the original articles are being revised.

As they are updated, links will be added here, before being permanently posted.

Prospecting top-down. What if you are convinced that an organization is prime for what you offer, but you can't locate the Decision Maker who has the authority, need or dollars to buy?

Overcoming core objections part 1

Overcoming core objections part 2

When and when not to begin with Purchasing Managers

Telephone sales skills-- an overview

Telephone selling skills, part 1

Telephone selling skills, part 2

Sales Demonstrations are proof sources, and should be used for that purpose.

If you encounter the Prospect's voice mail; how to use it to your sales advantage.

Common objections and how to respond to them.

Phantom_objections: what they are, and how to cope with them.

Buying signals that you may pick up from the gatekeeper or screen, what they tell you, and how to respond.

Decision influencers, who they are, and how to work with them.

Non-verbal communication in selling: Give yourself a "screen-test."

Sales techniques --- using questions as selling tools.

Work in progress

We are in the process of updating this site. The pages will be changing to a more spacious format. Please bear with us if you find some of the old page links are gone, as we are bringing in new materials. Check back and watch the site re-growing.


Our sales training book series:
Selling Skills Step-by-Step

Selling Skills Step-by-Step:books




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