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Everything About Baseline Selling on One Page

Understanding the Sales Force

Baseline Selling is a proprietary sales process and methodology that Dave Kurlan developed in 2005. On this page you’ll find everything you always wanted to know about how to get Baseline Selling content and training – all in one place.

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Two Selling Strategies That are More Effective Than Facts and Figures

Understanding the Sales Force

In 2005 I took my passion for sales development and my passion for baseball and married them together to write the best-selling book, Baseline Selling - How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know about the Game of Baseball. He's at college now, where as of today, baseball is on hold - again - still - because of COVID-19.

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Sales Assessments, More Like Guitar Manufacturers or Ripped-Off Products?

Understanding the Sales Force

In 2005, GM produced four mini-vans known as the Buick Terraza, Chevrolet Uplander , Pontiac Montana SV6 and Saturn Relay. This is gonna be fun! These four cars were exactly the same, with the brand logos being the only differentiators.

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How to Achieve Sales Mastery - A Collection of Loosely Connected Paths

Understanding the Sales Force

There are lots of reasons for baseball being in the top 5 but in 2005, I wrote my best-selling book, Baseline Selling - How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know about the Game of Baseball. Sales Coaching and its impact on revenue. Baseball and it's ties, connections, similarities and place in sales.

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Zig Ziglar's Legacy to the Sales World

Understanding the Sales Force

The funny thing is that some of what I wrote in my 2005 book, Baseline Selling - How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know about the Game of Baseball , is already outdated! Norman Vincent Peale, W. Clement Stone, and Elmer Wheeler. But Zig is the name that everyone associated with motivation and sales.

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The Rules of the Game for Baseball & Selling

Anthony Cole Training

In 2005, I read Dave Kurlan’s book Baseline Selling. Dave took the fundamentals of effective selling and used the baseball diamond and baseball terminology to explain his sales process. Baseball today is essentially the same game that was formalized in New York around 1840, but we know that selling has changed considerably.

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The Top 8 Requirements for Becoming a Great Salesperson

Understanding the Sales Force

I read one by Seth Godin , became an early subscriber, and in 2005, became one of the very first sales experts to Blog. Most of the people I invited to join my network didn't have LinkedIn accounts yet. You can follow me at linkedin.com/in/davekurlan. Do you remember reading your first Blog article?

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