2007 Sales Training Tips From the Real World

It is widely known in MBA circles that a highly trained sales force is up to five times as effect is as a sales force which is not properly trained. Sometimes the sales profession is given a bad name, but in reality a highly trained and sales professional gives their company and its products or services a good reputation. A good sales professional develops a dialogue with the customer and a relationship as he takes the clients or prospect through the sales process. If this is done properly everyone is happy and everything works great and if not the company is wasting time and efficiency and tarnishing its image, its brand name and the integrity of the organization.

Much of this article is written not from an MBA textbook standpoint, but rather an entrepreneurial spirit, as I started out in a very small company and built it up into a multi-state franchise operation servicing 450 cities, 110 markets and 23 states. I learned very quickly that sales are often a moving target and consistency in the sales process is almost as important as consistency in the brand name of her franchise company.

My techniques in training started out by allowing our new salespeople to shadow me, as I made sales. Usually I would hire someone with sales experience and they would also teach me things along the way. As crazy as this sounds it actually worked and although I learned my sales training techniques and got my sales education this way; the hard way, I think I probably learned it better than most franchising company founders. Yes we made lots of mistakes in the process, but in the end we were able to develop a perfect sales training process. You should consider this and make a strategy and break it down into a list of things to do. Perhaps this article is of interest to propel thought in 2007?

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Lance Winslow, a retired entrepreneur, adventurer, modern day philosopher and perpetual tourist.

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