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I became a client in 2006 when I was working out of my house by myself. The techniques I learned at Sandler have helped my company grow to 12 people and increase company revenue by almost 500% in that time period. When I first signed up, I thought I take a year of classes, and be done. But the fantastic thing about Joe & Mike's approach is that they adapt as your company grows. Now that I'm managing a sales team instead of doing everything myself, I'm still benefiting & learning!
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Marisa Smith, President Whole Brain Group
It is the mission of Joe Marr, and the Sandler Training Center - Ann Arbor to live abundantly by helping others to live abundantly. This is achieved by a servant leadership approach to business, training and interaction with others, and a love for neighbors with the highest standards of integrity, responsibility, and joy for life.
Innovative training can put the sales people, leaders, and entrepreneurs a step ahead of the competition, and light the path for attaining professional goals. Sandler Training Center - Ann Arbor, an Authorized Franchisee of Sandler Training, is committed to helping clients get courageous and effective selling, through breaking the rules of traditional sales approaches in an ongoing reinforcement training format.
There has never been an institution like the Sandler Training Center - Ann Arbor, a school whose very purpose is to teach selling arts that go against the grain of business tradition. On a national level, the 200-site network of Sandler Training has been named the number one management training program in Entrepreneur Magazine for nearly 10 years.
From our training facility in Ann Arbor, we provide professional coaching and up-front sales and professional development approaches to salespeople, sales managers, owners, CEO's, entrepreneurs and other professionals who must continually build and nurture a selling culture in their companies for their products and services.
We don't know if our programs are right for you, but they may be worth considering, if you are serious about making a real commitment to truly change your selling culture for the better. We know that you'll find that the Sandler Selling System is "180 degrees from traditional sales training", it's that different.
Joe Marr has over 20 years experience organizing, training, coaching and managing sales professionals and sales managers worldwide. In executive sales and training positions in the corporate world, Joe was responsible for the technical and sales fundamentals training of over 1000 sales people worldwide in support of a $110,000,000 business.
A native of Ann Arbor who attended EMU Business School, Joe's mission is to help business people to get as comfortable and effective in selling and sales management, as they are in the rest of their business. Email Joe Marr at joe@marrsales.com
Rich Austin has joined the Ann Arbor Sandler Training Center as a sales associate of Joe Marr. Austin is a native of Flushing, MI. He is a graduate for the University of Michigan. He was formerly a Sales Manager for Improveit! Home Remodeling of Columbus, OH. Ohio’s largest home improvement remodeling firm.
He specializes in unconventional sales training and facilitating new relationships. Austin is an avid University of Michigan athletic supporter and enjoys fishing and playing baseball. Email Rich Austin at rich@marrsales.com
Theresa Hunt is currently the Office Manager at Sandler Training Center in Ann Arbor. She has 13 years experience in the Administrative Field, including Office Management for the past 7 years. Over the course of her career she has received numerous acknowledgements for her achievements; including: Employee of the year in 2008.
Hunt specializes in managing day to day office operations. She also enjoys spending time with her family and friends and event planning. Email Theresa Hunt at theresa@marrsales.com
Sandler Training is a world leader in innovative sales and sales management training. For more than 40 years, Sandler has taught its distinctive, non-traditional selling system and highly effective sales training methodology, which has helped salespeople and sales managers take charge of the process.
Our training is designed to create lasting “performance improvement” rather than the motivational “quick fix” typical of many seminar-based training programs. To help you accomplish your goals, Sandler provides “reinforcement training,” a system that combines quality materials along with access to ongoing training workshops and individual coaching sessions. Through our local training centers, we provide continuing face-to-face support and reinforcement of the world’s most successful selling system.
At Sandler, we understand that business success is directly related to the effectiveness of upper- and mid-level managers within an organization. Sandler’s management solutions help managers at all levels become more effective communicators, better mentors and coaches, and competent managers of change.
Sandler has been awarded the #1 ranking for training programs in Entrepreneur Magazine’s “Franchise 500” nine times since 1994, the most recent being for 2010.