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(46) BEAT YOUR COMPETITION through Modern Sales, Service & Customer Management

 

                                                   SINGAPORE    l 1-2 August 2007

                                                      K LUMPUR    l 15-16 August 2007

                                                   SINGAPORE    l 28-29 November 2007

In today’s fast paced business environment, it is important for us to pay attention to new and innovative products, services and brands. In the past, brand management focused on achieving preference on the basis of benefits, differentiation and customer satisfaction, within a set of brands.

However, today this scenario has changed considerably. In order to advertise your brand, you need to be very definite about how you exactly want it to be. Enlist the key points of your business operations that you would like to be recognized by - you should establish whether you are selling products or services. There needs to be certain distinct operation procedures that will distinguish you from your competitors.

Study the market and observe what the customers are looking for. Customers always look for originality and authenticity. They will choose your products instead of others if it fulfills their specific needs. Selling involves feedback and hence you should find out how your customers feel and what more they want. You can even commission an expert to create a market ‘persona’ for you. This involves creating the profile of a customer that you would sell to, in general. This profile is very important in the process of defining and establishing your brand. It should have all aspects of the customer’s lifestyle. Make a variety of personas if required. The strategy will not only make you known to customers, but you can also beat your competitors with minimum effort!

HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT

  • Develop leadership and team-building skills
  • Recruit and train a higher caliber of sales professional
  • Improve your sales team's productivity
  • Keep your team accomplishments in the spotlight
  • Generate increased profits with fewer resources
  • Understand the internal motivators of your sales force
  • Become a more effective communicator and decision-maker
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
  • Seasoned Sales and Marketing Managers who want to refine sales planning techniques, build leadership skills and become more powerful decision makers, motivators, communicators, coaches and counselors
  • Sales and Marketing Professionals, Account Executives, Contract Negotiators and anyone involved in the negotiating process

KEY TOPICS TO BE COVERED

  • How to Go About It?

  • Identify the Unique Selling Point

  • Identify the Overlap

  • Why Do I Need an Auto-responder?

  • Customer Essentials

  • What Restructuring Involves

  • Communication

  • Concentration

  • Cutting Costs

  • Cash Flow Management

  • Everything Online

  • Everything Wireless

  • Establishment of Expectations

  • Conduct Customer Interviews

  • Know How to Say NO

  • Keep in Touch

  • Key to Successful Sales Meetings

  • Time management

  • How to Start the Meeting

YOUR EXPERT COURSE LEADER

Dr. Clifford (Cliff) R. Kettemborough’s professional background spans 30 years.  His business and management experience includes: developing centers of business and organizational excellence, IT and technology-based strategy development, strategic global marketing, business process re-engineering, strategic global business management, continuous quality/process improvement, achieving process and operational excellence, total quality management, systems and software engineering, and technical and organizational leadership.

 

Dr. Kettemborough’s knowledge, experiences and superior presentation skills makes him very much in demand with numerous training and development organizations as a seminar/workshop leader, as a professor to numerous colleges and universities, or as a quest speaker at professional conferences.  In addition, he is sought by companies wishing to understand how to benefit from knowledge based economy, by helping them to improve knowledge processes, increase intellectual capital value, importance of benchmarking and lead major business changes.

Dr. Kettemborough functioned in professional positions, including senior management for several large organizations such as: Boeing, NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Rockwell International (now Boeing Corp.), Xerox Corp., IBM Corp. (Europe), Maxicare Health Plans, Inc., Transamerica Financial Services, Corp., and Software Analysis & Management, Inc.  In addition, Dr. Kettemborough is the Founder, President and Owner of a high-tech organization established to help companies with successful solutions to their technology, management and business challenges, and an education and corporate training provider that connects industry organizations with various educational and training institutions to satisfy growing training needs of their employees.

Dr. Kettemborough has worked with prestigious consulting firms, such as Ernst & Young, PriceWaterhouse and McKensie & Assoc. on technology and business assessment and strategic planning projects.

Dr. Kettemborough has been invited as a guest speaker to numerous seminars and has conducted numerous workshops and corporate training around the world.  He has extensive intercultural experiences teaching numerous MBA, EMBA, IMBA, DBA courses overseas (over 60).  His industry consulting expertise has been appreciated by numerous companies in several countries.  Dr. Kettemborough’s teaching, seminars, workshops, guest speaker, and international consulting experience includes numerous organizations across all types of industries in The United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Austria, Korea, Japan, P. R. China, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, The Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Mongolia and Romania.  In addition, Dr. Kettemborough has traveled to over 100 countries, thus being well versed in many cultures and customs, both personal and for business purposes.

In addition to his professional career with several large business organizations, Dr. Kettemborough is an accomplished professor with outstanding evaluations from undergraduate, graduate, and executive students, as well as administrators.  He has extensive teaching and training experience at close to 30 different institutions ranging from high-school to vocational college and to college and university graduate level on three continents.  He has taught over 600 and a variety of courses (live) including over 100 on-line using Blackboard, Convene, eCollege, Embanet, eCompanion) in Computer Science, Management of Information Systems, Computer Information Systems, Mathematics, Business Administration, and Technology Management.

Dr. Kettemborough is also listed in "Who's Who in California, West, America, World, Emerging Leaders in America, Science and Engineering, Information Technology, International Who’s Who of Professionals, World Who’s Who Hall of Fame", “International Cultural Diploma of Honor” publications in U.S. and U.K.  1996, 1998 Man of the Year,” “1997 Platinum Record for Exceptional Performance,” and Gold Record of Achievement for 1999" awards from American Biographical Institute, "2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th Century," and “Top 100 Communicators – 2006” and "International Man of the Year" from International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, U.K.  Member of Research Board of Advisors - American Biographical Institute.  He also is a member of several Professional organizations such as: ACM, AIAA, AMA, AMS, DECUS, ICCP, IEEE, ISACA, MAA, NMA, QAI.  Military service: major-lieutenant, in reserve, special operations. 

Dr. Kettemborough has also received the following awards: NASA/JPL Leadership Award for Y2K Project Successful Completion, ahead of schedule and he has been Nominated Member in “Alfred Whitehead Leadership Society” - 1996.  Finally, Dr. Kettemborough is sought by numerous world class publishing companies as a consultant and textbook reviewer, such as: Addison-Wesley, McGraw-Hill, Pearson/Prentice-Hall, Thomson/Course Technology.

Dr. Kettemborough’s formal educational background spans over 30 years of undergraduate, graduate and post –graduate work.  He holds numerous formal degrees, as follows: Doctor of Education, Specialty: Computer Technology in Education, Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration, Specialty: Technology Management with “Honors”, Doctor of Philosophy in Computer & Information Sciences with “Honors”, Master in Education, Specialty: Education Leadership, Master of Business Administration, Master of Management Information Systems, Master of Science in Computer Science, Studies in Cybernetics, Licentiate/Diplomat (Bachelor of Science with Thesis) in  Mathematics/Informatics/Operations Research.

COURSE FEES

Singapore - S$995 per person

K Lumpur  - RM1,895 per person

 

TEAM DISCOUNT (For organisations sending 3 or more participants)

Singapore - S$845 per person

K Lumpur  - RM1,695 per person

 

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