London success for UK’s first sales training breakfast club

Actions certainly spoke louder than words earlier this month as over thirty small business owners and professionals made their way across London at the crack of dawn to attend a unique breakfast event packed with punch. After outstanding success in the northern region, the UK’s first and only sales training breakfast club is celebrating the sucess of it’s first London event which was hosted by highly acclaimed cold-calling and sales expert Andy Preston.

The much anticipated event was held on the 9th October at The Royal Institute of British Architects, where Preston, a former sales director who has over a decade of experience and success in the sales industry, discussed a range of issues relating to Selling for Small Businesses, a topic which is pertinent to many business stuggling to survive the downturned economy.

 The attendee list included employees from CocoBean Recruitment, Rubber Cheese and Natwest and all were blown away by Preston’s training session, describing the event as ‘a revalation’ and a ‘fantastic injection of confidence, sales skills and vision’. William Buist of Abelard Management Services said “Andy’s breakfast meetings and follow ups are second to none and as a result of attending, I turned a prospect i’d started to ignore into a client and a £28k order”.

Preston believes that the breakfast club fills a much needed gap in the market, providing smaller businesses with access to quaity sales training which is normally only available to larger organisations with big training budgets.

‘Many small businesses are feeling the impact of the credit crunch and this is having a negative effect on their desire and motivation to sell. It is crucial for businesses to keep up the momentum and continue to actively search out new business, as the market is still boyont for those who have confidence and the right attitude to seeking out and closing the deals’, explains Preston.

Launched in Manchester in March 2008, The Sales Training Breakfast Club runs on a monthly basis, delivering a compelling but relaxed programme designed to get its members more proficient at sales skills, winning new business, cold calling, dealing with gatekeepers and closing more deals.

Unlike many business networking events, The Sales Training Breakfast Club doesn’t command a membership fee and involves a full English breakfast and thirty minutes of dynamic and challenging sales training delivered by Preston, director and head trainer at sales performance training company Outstanding Results.

The next London Sales Training Breakfast will be held on Wednesday 3rd December at The Royal Institute of British Architects, Central London starting at 7.30am. For more details or to book a place please contact Andy Preston directly on 07968 481729 or visit http://www.salestrainingbreakfastclub.com. Places are in high demand so early booking is recommended.

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Press Release: Leading sales trainer helps local businesses beat economic slowdown

In the face of recent economic conditions, local businesses are being warned of the importance of defending prices of products and services by leading sales trainer Andy Preston. Speaking to over fifty business owners, consultants and salespeople at a Breakfast event in Stockport, Preston warned that “companies who fail to do this adequately may well not be around in 12-18 months time”.

Speaking at his latest monthly Sales Training Breakfast Club earlier this month at Stockport County Football Club, Preston shared tips on how they could negotiate better and defend their prices in the face of a slowdown in the economy.

The event attracted over fifty local professionals with many describing the event as “very rewarding” and one attendee even commenting, “anyone who can make getting up at 6am so worthwhile has to be impressive!

Currently hosted exclusively in Stockport, The Sales Training Breakfast Club is designed to help small business owners, consultants and salespeople get more sales and more customers every month.  Launched in March of this year by Stockport-based Preston, director of sales performance training company Outstanding Results, The Sales Training Breakfast Club was created specifically to help give back something to local businesses in his hometown.

“After speaking all over the UK, Europe the USA and Canada, I wanted to start something so that local businesses could benefit regular practical advice and tips on how they can grow their business”, explains Preston, who has over a decade of experience and success in the sales industry, working his way from sales representative to sales director in less than twelve years.

“Most people are terrible at negotiating prices for the products and service, preferring to ‘’give away” what they do for fear of losing the business. I felt that is was particularly important for local businesses to gain the skills necessary to survive any impending downturn in the economy to enable them to sell more of what they offer for the prices that they deserve” adds Preston.

The next Sales Training Breakfast will be held on Wednesday 16^th July at Stockport County Football Club, starting at 7.30am. A London event will launch in September and other locations are planned for later in the year. For more details or to book a place please contact Andy Preston directly on 07968 481729 or visit www.outstanding-results.co.uk.  Places are in high demand so early booking is recommended.

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Editors Notes

The Sales Training Breakfast Club is the best value Sales Training event in the UK and the largest regular sales event in the north west. It is held by Stockport based world-renowned sales trainer Andy Preston, who wanted to give something back to the businesspeople in his hometown.

Unlike many business networking events, the club doesn’t command a membership fee and involves a full English breakfast and thirty minutes of dynamic and challenging sales training delivered by Preston, director of sales performance training company Outstanding Results.

Preston has over a decade of experience and success in the sales industry, working his way from sales representative to sales director in less than twelve years.

More information on Andy Preston can be found at www.andy-preston.com along with more information on The Sales Training Breakfast Club. The next event is on Wednesday 16th July at Stockport County Football Club.

For press enquiries please contact Jenna Gould on 01603 283 503 or email jenna@mediajems.co.uk