“I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and your staff for working with me to put together a fantastic selling skills course...This has been an immense help to our sales staff, and has given us a step above our competition. All of the students that have taken the course have gained insight into the selling process....”

Bill M. Endicott 
Sales Coordinator
Computalog USA
Houston, Texas

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Welcome to the Sales Training Institute, a custom sales training and development company offering public sales training seminars and custom in-house sales training.

Sales Training Seminars in Iowa
Our sales training seminars are available in an open enrollment public format across the US and Canada.

We also offer unique private, fully customizable sales training tailored to the needs of the client organization and delivered on-site at the time and location of our clients choice. Major cities in Iowa include Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Sioux City, and Davenport. If you don't see your city listed in our upcoming seminars please contact us to see if one can be arranged.

We will help you to accomplish your goals by aiding you in building a Strategic Sales Organization Training Plan while integrating and strengthening your identification of strategic sales management opportunities and directing those insights into an in depth analysis of your sales forces alignment with your customer’s procurement process.

For free, no obligation information on how we can help you please contact us today.

 

Sales Training Tips

Successful Sales Budgeting

Businesses have many ways to calculate their advertising budget. Advertising budgets are most often based on any or all of the following:

• Industry averages
• Last year’s advertising budget
• Competitor’s advertising budget
• Previous advertising budget
• Percentage of sales minus overhead
• Friends or relatives’ recommendations

All of the above methods are ineffective for realistically planning a long-term advertising budget. Furthermore, they leave out essential marketing tools, such as sales projections, market analysis, pricing, and product changes.

A successful formula for establishing an advertising budget is to float a percent of sales based on profit margin. This formula is very simple and effective. The higher the profit margins, the higher percent of the sales can be spent on advertising.

The formula has two steps:

1. Determine sales projections for the next six months.

2. Determine the average Gross Margin of Profit (GMP)

Click Here for the complete "Successful Sales Budgeting" Article
Our training seminars, workshops, courses and programs include:

• Custom sales training seminars

• Open enrollment sales skills seminars

• Sales presentation training

• Sales negotiation training

• Sales Management Training

• Consultative selling skills

• Phone sales training

• Value selling skills

Sales force training, industries include:

• real estate sales training

• pharmaceutical sales training

• automotive sales training

• retail sales training

• insurance sales training

• hotel sales training

• IT sales training

• sales representative training

• executive sales training

Major cities in Iowa include Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Sioux City, and Davenport. If you don't see your city listed in our upcoming seminars please contact us to see if one can be arranged.

Des Moines

Des Moines is renowned for the world-class Living History Farms and, in summer, the Iowa State Fair, America's classic state fair and Iowa's largest tourism event. For family activities, go to the beautifully landscaped zoological park, Blank Park Zoo, or visit the Iowa Historical Building and learn about the history of Iowa.
http://www.wdmchamber.org/

Cedar Rapids

In the early 1980s, recognizing that a sound strategy for economic growth would be a catalyst for development in the area, business leaders and the Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce launched a full scale economic development program focused on creating economic expansion and diversity.
http://www.cedarrapids.org/

Monticello

Monticello is unique in that it has an innovative and energetic business and financial community, a low crime rate, and residents who keep our community beautiful. Our greatest treasure is our people. Coming from every economic level, they are well-read, articulate, down-to-earth and possess a strong work ethic.
http://www.monticello.ia.us/

 

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