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Top 50 Sales & Marketing Influencers for 2012

Your Sales Management Guru

Top Sales Magazine Names Consultant to Cisco and Microsoft Partner Programs a Top 50 Sales/Marketing Influencer. **revised Posting. He is also speaking at his 10 th Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in July. KNOXVILLE , Tenn., KNOXVILLE , Tenn., Full details appear in this month’s downloadable Top Sales magazine.

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Top 50 Sales & Marketing Influencers for 2012

Your Sales Management Guru

Top Sales Magazine Names Consultant to Cisco and Microsoft Partner Programs a Top 50 Sales/Marketing Influencer. Reviews like these made Thoreson an ideal choice for being chosen as a keynote speaker at the first major online conference for small business IT consultants, Managing for Success 2012 , in June, hosted by Small Biz Thoughts.

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When Competitors Become Collaborators

Score More Sales

Anyone who attended the recent Microsoft Convergence 2013 conference may have noticed an exhibitor with a 3 letter acronym. The conference is the annual event for Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM. So what was IBM doing at a Microsoft Dynamics event? The exhibitor with a 3 letter acronym was none other than IBM.

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10 Sales Competencies of Steve Jobs

Understanding the Sales Force

But he prepared just as much for sales calls, like convincing Bill Gates of Microsoft to create Word and Excel for the first Mac. Determination - Jobs probably didn't receive any formal sales training, but he was so determined to get his way, make the sale and seal the deal that he nearly always found a way.

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Sales presentations – the art of presenting engaging PowerPoint presentations

Sales Training Connection

But for those who are involved in giving presentations the real big event was May 22, 1990 – the date that Microsoft officially launched PowerPoint. So, given that half of the challenge has been addressed by our friends at Microsoft, what does the presenter need to do to make a presentation engaging – answer: engage?

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Sales Leadership: Work Out Time

Your Sales Management Guru

May 9 & 10, 2012. Microsoft Education Center. Hiring & training strategies to build high performance. Building your own sales training program. Workbook, training materials, case studies (Priceless!). Start toning up your 2012 sales team now. Your Sales Leadership Workout. Atlanta, GA.

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Sales Management Guru blog rated top 50 for 20121

Your Sales Management Guru

12, 2012—Top 50 Sales/Marketing Influencer Ken Thoreson , author of articles and book series for sales leaders, renowned consultant, columnist and speaker, and Acumen Management Group Principal has earned a spot on Top Sales Magazine’s list of “Top 50 Sales & Marketing Blogs 2012” for his Your Sales Management Guru blog.