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Sales Assessment Expert - Dave Kurlan

Sales Assessment Expert  - Dave Kurlan
Sales Assessment Expert - Dave Kurlan
Dave Kurlan is the founder and CEO of Objective Management Group, Inc., the industry leader in sales assessments and sales force evaluations, and the CEO of David Kurlan & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in sales force development. Dave has been a top rated speaker at Inc. Magazine's Conference on Growing the Company, the Sales & Marketing Management Conference and the Gazelles Sales & Marketing Summit. He has been featured on radio and TV, including World Business Review with General Norman Schwarzkopf, in Inc. Magazine, Selling Power Magazine, Sales & Marketing Management Magazine and Incentive Magazine. He is the author of Mindless Selling and Baseline Selling – How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know about the Game of Baseball. He created and wrote STAR, a proprietary recruiting process for hiring great salespeople, and he writes Understanding the Sales Force, a popular business Blog and is a contributing author to The Death of 20th Century Selling and 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, Volume 2.

Contact Information

Phone: 800-221-6337

Email: dkurlan@objectivemanagement.com

Website: http://www.omghub.com

Address: 114 Turnpike Rd., Suite 102, Westborough, MA 01581, USA


Sales Assessment Expert Videos
Dave Kurlan on Role Models
Dave Kurlan at Inc. Magazine Conference
Baseline Selling by Dave Kurlan
Dave Kurlan on Turnover
HubSpot Customer Case Study
Dave Kurlan on Pipeline
Dave Kurlan on Margins
Dave Kurlan on Overachievers
Hiring the Right Candidates
 
 

Testimonials
"Excellent presentation very impressed." Thomas J. Hawke, Carpenter Hawke & Co., LLC

"Very informative, especially around topics of recruiting and Top 5 points of great sales management. Excellent!" Jack Courtney, VP Sales, Progressive Gourmet

"I wanted to thank you for the excellent job you did at the Executive Luncheon last Wednesday. Your presentation definitely allowed me to open my eyes and mind into different aspects of selling, recruiting, and even see weaknesses as well as strengths in myself. " Salvatore Migliaccio, Director of Sales, Basket Impressions

"I have NEVER heard such a well-thought out, logical, concise, yet all-inclusive, presentation of how to organize, hire, train, and manage a sales team in my 24+ year career. I definitely want to meet with you and to act on what I've heard." Keith Crownover, CEO, Delta Health Technologies

"That was really useful information and he was clearly one of the best presenters I ever heard." Alice Clark, State College PA.


Sales Assessment Expert Credentials
Sales Assessment Expert - Inc. 5000 OMG was named to the Inc.5000
Sales Assessment Expert -  Business Week Dave Kurlan talks with Savvy Selling columnist and podcast host Michelle Nichols about using what you know about baseball to sell more.
Sales Assessment Expert - SellingPower.com Article Featuring OMG in Selling Power - Hire Right
Sales Assessment Expert - Inc. Magazine Article Featuring Dave Kurlan in Inc. Magazine "Psyched Up or Psyched Out"
Sales Assessment Expert - Sales & Marketing Management Magazine Article Featuring Dave Kurlan in Sales & Marketing Management Magazine "Motivating Matters"

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Dave Kurlan's Books
Sales Assessment Expert - Mindless Selling Mindless Selling is not another book filled with sales methodologies, moves, objection handling techniques, or one-liners. If that’s what you want from a sales book, they are in plentiful supply, easy to locate, and they are all quite wonderful. Mindless Selling looks at many of the reasons that techniques--old and new alike--don’t change results. This book looks at the powerful, hidden weaknesses that get in the way and cause paralysis. Mindless Selling explains why salespeople already know what to do and say but are often unable to execute what they know. Through stories and case histories, the reader will learn exactly what differentiates a sales stud from a sales dud. Not techniques but hidden weaknesses. The reader will learn how, with specific instructions, exercises and additional reading material, to overcome them once and for all. You'll love the stories and especially the rules of the part game, part sport, that will eventually make selling mindless for you. Learn More
Sales Assessment Expert - Baseline Selling Baseline Selling - How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know About the Game of Baseball, will dramatically change the way we approach the sales process, replacing the gratuitous complexity advocated by today's sales "experts" with an elegant and very effective simplicity. Studies have shown that the selling techniques of the last two decades have had very little impact on most of the sales population-less than 75 percent of all salespeople, to be exact. Why? Because of the complexity, learning curve and difficulty in applying the concepts in these systems. In response to the urgent need for a flexible, innovative process that will enable people to grasp the essential skills necessary to close a sale in any situation, Baseline Selling reemphasizes the fundamentals of selling in a fresh, memorable way that modern sales professionals can relate to and utilize, and above all, one that complements and enriches advanced sales methodologies. Salespeople who read this book and put its wisdom to work will succeed at acquiring more opportunities as they learn to get appointments more easily. They will excel at creating opportunities with prospects who are "not interested". They'll sell at higher margins by using the "Rule of Ratios". Their closing percentages will improve dramatically as they implement the simple Inoffensive Close". Salespeople selling commodities, struggling to differentiate themselves, will love "Commodity Busters" and every salesperson will be able to shorten their sell cycle by "Taking a Lead". Quite simply, Baseline Selling introduces a way for salespeople to visualize and touch all the "sales bases" without over-complicating the process. Learn More

Sales Assessment Expert Blog
Sales Assessment Expert Blog Objective Management Group, Inc. is the pioneer and industry leader in sales force evaluations and sales candidate screening. Spearheaded by leading sales industry expert, Dave Kurlan, Objective Management Group, Inc. can help you assess sales effectiveness, execution and potential. Click to read the blog.

Sales Assessment Expert White Paper

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Sales Assessment Expert Articles
Directors Want Better Boards And Rightly So
5th of the 10 Kurlan Sales Competencies That are Key to Building a Sales Culture
6th of the 10 Kurlan Sales Competencies that are Key to Building a Sales Culture
7th of the 10 Kurlan Sales Competencies that are Key to Building a Sales Culture
Your Sales Force Who is Playing on Your Team
Your Salespeople Call on the Wrong People and Expect Them to Buy
Your Boring Presentations Selling It
You Have an 82 Chance of Making a Hiring Mistake When
Will Your Salespeople Change Behaviors to Improve Their Effectiveness
Will Salespeople Take a Straight Commission Job
Will Gifts Get Prospects to Return Calls from your Salespeople
Who Makes a Better Salesperson Men or Women
Why Salespeople Fail and How You Could Have Predicted It
Why Salespeople Have Trouble Closing
Who Should Your Sales Force Call On
Why is Selling So Difficult
Why Corporate Sales Training Often Fails to Deliver Results
Why Most Sales Training Doesnt Work
When You Dont Find Compelling Reasons to Buy
What to Do When Your Prospect Goes into Hiding
When Salespeople Perform Poorly on OMGs Sales Assessment
Where Should Salespeople Spend TheirTime
What Really Creates Sales Excellence
What it Takes to Get More Appointments
When the Sales Processing Doesnt Support Sales Competencies
What Should You be Telling your Salespeople in this Economy
What we Think About Sales Motivation is All Wrong
What Have Your Salespeople Been Listening To
What Can a Trip to Italy Teach You About Managing Your Salespeople
What Does Sales Improvement Have to Do With Sleep Apnea
What Causes Your Salespeople to Fail in this Economy
What Happens When You Try to Hard To Sell
Turning Order Takers into Salespeople
Tom Peters Sales Excellence
Top 5 Reasons Why the OMG Sales Assessment is More Predictive
Top 10 Differences Between Sales Winners and Losers
Top 10 Keys to Getting Through and Getting Heard
Ultimatums for the Sales Force Do They Work
Topgrading Pros Cons and Sales Assessments
Top Producer Top Salesperson or Good Account Manager
The Sales Management Equivalent to Baseballs Pitch Count
The Sales Force with Over Achievers Who Dont
The Secret Ancient Scrolls and Their Impact on the Sales Force
The Importance of Practice
The Former Car Salesperson That Didnt Know Why He Failed
Ten Ways to Drive Sales
The Essence of Sales Effectiveness
The Impact of Unhealthy Relationships on Your Salsepeople
Survival of the Fittest on the Sales Force
Tale of Two Assessments Comparing the Value
Surprising Statistics from the Sales Force Grader
The CEO Who Needed to Hire Salespeople
The Difference Between Provocative Selling and Baseline Selling
Teaching Sales in School is Like Learning to Golf on the Wii
The Enemy in Sales
The 4th of the 10 Kurlan Sales Competencies That are Key to Building a Sales Culture
Short Window of Opportunity with Senior Executives
Signs That The Economy Will Soon Improve
Should Social Networking Support the Sales Effort
Seth Godin Reinforces the Proper Sales Process
Scare Yourself Successful
Selling to Larger Accounts Find the Chauffeur
Sales Resistance and the Recession 7 Steps to Turn Prospects Around
Salespeople are Like Children
Salespeople Arent Made of Glass
Sales Statistics That Reveal Sales Effectiveness
Salespeople and Their Fantasies
Salespeople and the Momentum Factor
Selling in the Recession
Sales VPs and Marketing VPs Should the Roles be Combined
Salespeople Should be More Like Children
Sales Prospecting on Steroids
Sales Process What Have You Gotten Away From
Sales Appointments to Sell Free Services
Sales Force Motivation Learn from the Red Sox Miraculous Comeback
Sales Pipeline Gives Sight to Blind Executives
Sales Competencies and Your Competition
Sales Best Practices Not
Sales Coaching The Big Differentiator
Right Salespeople in the Right Roles and the Right Seats
Sales Assessments vs Personality Assessments Episode III The PHDs Strike Back
Sales and Customer Service are Just Like Steriod Use in Baseball
Revising the Forbes Message of the Day for the Sales Force
Sales is an Obstacle Course
Sales are Up and Mediocrity is Up Too
Sales Calls are Like the 1978 AL Playoff Game
Sales Force Alignment with Market Strategies
Sales Experts Disagree on the Right Way to Train Salespeople
Sales are Probably Down if You Are Doing These Three Things
Sales Cycles and Time Is it Running Out
Sales Assessment Says Hes Weak but He Made Presidents Club
Rules of Sales Engagement for the Recession
Sales and Sales Leadership Lessons from Lou Piniella and the Umpire
Sales Management Requires a Different Mindset Than Sales
Sales Force Lessons from Gates Crowley and Obama
Sales Assessment Comparison Objective Management Group vs Devine
Prospects Are Like Children
Recruiters Fear Sales Assessments
Reference Requests for Salespeople
Put on Your Helmet 3 Tips for Selling in this Economy
Public Speaking Simplified
Putting for an Eagle Closing the Unlikely Sale
Quote 85 Less Close 300 More
Pick Yourself Up and Dust Yourself Off
Practice Makes Permanent
Prioritizing Your Week
Present Like a Rock Star
Panic on the Sales Force and What to Do About It
Personality Assessments for Sales The Definitive Case Study
Personality Assessments They Still Dont Get it
Overcoming No Response and Negative Response
Over Achievers on the Sales Force We Have it All Wrong
Overcoming the Dysfunction in Sales Organizations
Obama and McCain The Sales Analogy
Obama and Friends On Stage Implications for the Sales Force
New Metrics for the Sales Force Unusual Thoughts for Unusual Times
My Sales Force Needs a Make Over
One Suprising Key to Selling Value
More on Compelling Reasons
Most Frequently Requested Help
More Than Half of All Sales Managers Should Consider
Misleading Statistics and Hiring the Wrong Salespeople
Media is to Fuel as Recession is to Fire
MLB AllStar Game Unveils a Sales Prodigy
Managing Distractions A Key to Sales Success
Managements Guide to the Top 10 Differences Between Sales Winners and Losers
Many Recruiters Fear Sales Assessments
Mall Cop The Sales Example
Making it Easier for Your Salespeople to Succeed
Make Sales the Culture of Your Company
Leads for the Sales Force Not
Latest Fiction for the Sales Force No More HuntersFarmers
Kurlans Law of Increased Sales Effectiveness
Jim Collins Fortune Interview Translated for the Sales Force
Just How Important is Preparation to Sales
Is Your Sales Model Effective Know Your Salesforce ABCs
Improve Sales Effectiveness at the Salespersons Hall of Fame
Improve Sales Performance with More Effective Pipeline Management
If Your Salespeople Can Spell They Can Sell
How to Sharpen Your Edge Using Fear
Identify the Perfect Salesperson for your Sales Force
How to Turn Around Flat or Declining Sales Revenue
How to Go From Dud to Stud in 30 Days
How to RampUp New Salespeople in 90 Days
How to Sell More Effectively in a Recession
How to Hold The Sales Team Accountable Under the New Rules of Sales Engagement
How to Lose Customers Under Contract
How to Find the Compelling Reasons Behind Seth Godins Intangibles
How to Find More Sales Opportuntities without Cold Calling
How to Get the Entire Sales Force to Change Now
How to be More Effective Selecting Sales Candidates
How to Be Memorable Things to Do When You are Selling Yourself
How Long Does it Take for Salespeople to Get it
How Many Salespeople Shouldnt Be in Sales
Hiring Former Fortune 1000 Employees
Helping New Salespeople Succeed
Highly Successful Salespeople Cant Remember What They Say
Having Good Sales Calls
Hiring Salespeople is Like Baseball Expansion
Hire the Best Salespeople on the Planet
Hit More Fairways and Close More Sales
Handling Economic Objections
Getting Your Calls Returned
Good News About the Economy Positively Impacts the Sales Force
Half of All Sales Managers Should Consider
Happy Ears or an Empty Pipeline
Get Prospects to Make Decisions
Getting Customers to Flock Back to Your Salespeople
Getting Excited About Sales Metrics
Get Out of the Way and 8 Tips for Sales Success
FREE Salesforce Grader Tool
Free Sales Hiring Mistake Calculator
Free Sales Content Use at Your Own Risk
Former IBM Pro Lashes Out Over Sales Assessment
Frankie Valli and Jersey Boys Good Metaphor for Recession Worn Companies
Focus on Revenue
Filling the Sales Pipeline Whos to Blame
Five Lessons Learned from the 8 Figure Sale
Finding a Way to Succeed
Fact Based Reasons Why New Salespeople Fail
Experts Provide Sales Management Help for 2009
Exposed Personality Tests Disguised as Sales Assessments
Enough Leads for the Sales Force How to Convert More of Them More Quickly
Enough Leads for the Sales Force How to Convert Them More Quickly
Does Changing Compensation Increase Sales
Dont Make Assumptions About Sales Candidates
Data Points Tell a Story Prospects Buy Happy Endings
Dell The Economy Their Sales Force and You
Cultural Differences with Sales Force Evaluation
Differentiating Pricing Strategy From Selling Strategy
Dell Resorts to Questionable Sales Tactics to Drive Revenue
Creating a Sales Culture
Do Your Salespeople Build or Lose Credibility
Do You Need Your Salespeople to Love and Respect You
Closing Sales Get the Freaking Proposal Right
Can Sales Assessments Actually Predict On the Job Sales Success
Change Ready Companies Experience Faster Success in Sales Development
Chinese Salespeople May be the Next Group to Outsell Your Salespeople
Celebrities and the Sales Force
Bringing a Sales Opportunity Back From The Dead
Bench Strength and a Hard Driving Sales Force
Bad Apples on the Sales Force Sales or Sanity
Are Your Salespeople Selling Value Like Nordstroms or Price Like Sams Club
Are You an Eagle or a Vulture
Avoid Mistakes Take Action Overcome Resistance
Are Sales Tools the Solution
A Call to Action for the Sales Force
A Toasted Bagel and Five Minutes to Understand the Impact of Sales Training
A Career in Sales is No Place for a
8 Ways to Translate Tiger Woods Experiences into Sales Success
5 Ways to Motivate Your Salespeople
A Forgotten Secret of Sales Success
10 Types of Sales Advisers and How to Choose the One Thats Best For You
10 Steps to Create More of a Sales Culture
10 Steps for Your Sales Force to Survive and Thrive in the Recession
10 Steps to Make 2009 Your Most Successful Year Ever
3 Ways to Feel Better About the Economy
5 Things Your Sales Force Can Do to Thrive in this Economy
180 and 360 Degree Assessments for the Sales Force
10 Steps to Record Breaking Revenue
10 Lessons from the Sales Candidate Who Smelled Like He Peed on Himself
2 Things Race Car Driving Has in Common with Selling
5 Steps to Coaching Your Salespeople Beyond Happy Ears
10 Kurlan Sales Competencies That are Key to Building a Sales Culture
1st of the 10 Kurlan Sales Competencies that are Key to Building a Sales Culture
2nd of the 10 Kurlan Sales Competencies that are Key to Building a Sales Culture
3rd of the 10 Kurlan Sales Competencies that are Key to Building a Sales Culture
4th of the 10 Kurlan Sales Competencies that are Key to Building a Sales Culture

 
 
 
 
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