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980 Lake Susan Hills Drive
Chanhassen, MN  55317
Phone: 1.612.605.5252
Fax: 1.612.677.3934

 
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MedSuds Executive Briefing Series
May 25 - Recruiting for Increased ROI
September 14 - Coaching & Motivating for High-Performance Results
November 9 - Accountability as a Sales Asset

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Hiring the wrong sales person is costly.  Lost productivity, lost clients, lost opportunities, plus additional recruiting and training expenses.  Mis-hiring can deplete the financial resources and market share of any sized company!  Learn how to (1) recognize the characteristics of people who CAN AND WILL improve revenues and margins, (2) identify THE four elements that every top performer must have, (3) identify THE four elements that every top performer must have and (4) identify THE four major weaknesses that WILL undermine sales initiatives.  See below for more details.

Wednesday, May 25, 2005, 7:30 am - 10:00 am
Rolling Green Country Club,
400 Evergreen Road, Medina
$199* on or before May 16, $299 afterwards*
$525* for 3-part series (May 25, September 14, November 9)*

Seating Is Limited.  Register Early.

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Program

Workshop Content

  • Recognize the characteristics of people who CAN and Will improve revenues and margins
  • Screen out difficult-to-manage excuse makers
  • Identify salespeople who will clog the pipeline with opportunities that never close
  • The most important criteria when answering the question, “If the job could talk, what would it say?”
  • Identify the FOUR elements that the Top 20% of salespeople have that sets them apart from the remaining 80%
  • Calculate the cost of your Sales “Ghosts”
  • Determine if a candidate’s past success will translate into success or failure in your company
  • Quickly disqualify candidate’s that could otherwise eat up valuable interviewing time
  • Identify the FOUR major weakness  that can undermine an otherwise strong sales candidate

Sales Growth Specialists President Danita Bye is offering affordable access to professional, proven techniques for shortening the sales cycle, reducing sales costs, increasing margins and revenue, and enabling sales teams to compete more effectively. 


Who should attend?

If you’re responsible for revenues associated with products requiring a complex, business-to-business sale or a start-up entrepreneur with more technical savvy than sales or sales management expertise, this three-part series of executive briefings is for you!


Complimentary copy of Corporate Recruiting CD
( a $100 value)

 

A 133 page manual on CD walks you through the entire process of recruiting great salespeople. 
   Helps you identify the perfect candidates for your business;
   Provides many alternative sources for those candidates;
   Helps you create an ad to attract the perfect candidate;
   Reviews EEOC guidelines;  
   Introduces a fail-proof system for completing the interviewing
             process in half the time it once took;
   Instructions for quickly screening the candidates by phone;
   Illustrates the correct use of a pre-employment sales test;
   Shows how to hire people that you didn't think you could afford;
   Provides pointers for conducting an effective interview;
   Includes instructions for getting meaningful information
             from references;
   Includes suggestions on compensation

 

Testimonials


“Danita’s fresh insights are infectious. She challenges attendees to think “outside the box”; to avoid doing the same old/same old when dealing with long-standing sales hiring & performance issues.”

Sherman G. Lord, President
National Association Of Special Equipment Distributors

 


"Our task is especially challenging.  We're transforming a team of experienced transactional salespeople into a team that can successfully sell in a consultative manner to top management and deliver increased margins.  Danita's track record and extensive sales management success  translates into incredible insights to ensuring we have a high performance team.”

Pete Sloan
Independent Stationers University

 


“Accessing Danita’s expertise in recruiting and hiring high performance sales people has been a key growth strategy.”

Barb Gurstelle, Principal
The Willow Group
 


"Through a highly engaging and interactive style, Danita quickly captures credibility because of her expertise in understanding what’s required of sales people in a complex sales process.”

Bob Verhey, President
Harvey Vogel Manufacturing
 


Implementing the recommendations presented in the “Recruiting for Increased   ROI” seminar will deliver concrete results that last.

Larry Hagen, President
Micro-Tech

Instructor

Danita Bye, President, Sales Growth Specialists, is one of the Twin Cities’ most well-known sales force development experts, having carved a track record in building and inspiring high-performance sales organizations that achieve bottom-line results.  After a decade of award winning sales performance at Xerox Corporation, Danita became an equity partner and national sales manager of a turnaround management team for a Minneapolis-based medical company (Micro-Tech Hearing Instruments), where she grew annual revenues from $300,000 to $15 million in just seven years. Her unique Fortune100-turned-entrepreneurial perspective enables Danita to help CEOs and presidents take their local, regional, national and international businesses to the next level by increasing sales, boosting profitability and creating predictable revenue streams while reducing sales costs.  In addition, Danita is often a guest lecturer at the University of St. Thomas, University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management and Metro State University.


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