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This is courses the image that the media and the entertainment industry have portrayed of self professionals. For the vast majority of people just saying the word sales and steals their spot it makes a hair stand up on the back of their neck and if i had a dollar for every time someone who said to me i don't know how you do it i could never be in sales. Well let's just say that bill gates and i would be good friends. The good news though despite the fact that some people still see sales a necessary evil it as a profession sales reason if you're on in the united states more than forty universities and colleges now offer sales degree programs. And major employers are stepping up to sponsor college sales programs enter flocking to the national quick excel's competition each bring in search of the best self talent in academia who for decades slow down it snows and selling is embracing the profession as never before. There are three key reasons for this change in attitude first private university studies indicate it around seventy percent of college graduates fooling gauge and selling role at least once in their career. Second over the past ten years business schools notice that they're alumni who were in sales were out earning their engineers there in the eighties accountants and marketers well the same time advancing further in faster in their careers another graduates or. And finally the most recent workforce reports indicate that worldwide sales is the most in demand career category. These days a cell profession is a great place to be top tier sales people out or in other professionals in almost every discipline in business in society. Cell professionals have more freedom more flexibility more fun it more career opportunities in the business world the sales people get the rewards the trophies the trips the most lucrative performance and sinister. The reality is that in the twenty first century sell professionals are the elite athletes the business world. So back to my question why is selling so when poured into the world economy. Well in his book a. b. c. selling author deal brackets ask is readers to look around and to see if they can find it anything that has never been sold. Every product every service in every component to every product or service had at some point in this life cycle been sold sometimes over and over again. Now consider board rooms and business meetings politics and even your own family everywhere around the world every day we're selling others on our ideas so that we can get what we want and those ideas when bob by others help shape our lives and our businesses. And if you lied it cos manager business are working a business your knowledge of sales as a direct and important impact on the gross and profitability of your organization. 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