Seminars

“Ann, I just want to say ‘THANK YOU’ for partnering with Carefree to provide your outstanding sales training through your e-class services.   As a small business owner that wears many ‘hats’, the process of developing sales people has admittedly been challenging for me over the years (and very expensive when my efforts have failed!).   Your personal teaching and coaching approach with Michael, our most recent hire has given him (and me) confidence that he has the tools to do the job of growing customer revenues.   Your years of experience in our specific industry was one of the reasons I engaged you, but the results you have provided will keep me coming back to you as our company grows.”

- Chris Jones, President, Carefree Office Technology, Inc., Fairfax, Virginia

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“Working with Ann has been nothing short of a pleasure!  Cold calling was new to me, and Ann provided me some excellent suggestions from getting through to the gatekeeper, to getting my voice-mails returned all the way to how to market an email or a letter to ensure I grab the customer’s attention.  Since completing her workshop my confidence has increase greatly and I’m having much better results in all of these areas. Thanks so much for all of your help Ann!”

- Rebecca MacMillan, Rogers Communications Inc., Nepean, Ontario, Canada

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“I have used Ann Barr’s training for over 15 years. She provides the best sales training in our industry!”

- Carl Little,
VP Dealer Sales Channel,
InkCycle, Inc., Lenexa, Kansas

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“Ann Barr’s course has helped me focus on what I need to be doing:  Using customer-focused words to get better results, getting rid of words that cause prospects to put up a wall.  Putting things into writing is helping me with developing my web site with an emphasis on the customer’s point of view.”

- William Hanenburg, LaserRite, Walker, Michigan

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“The owner of my company ‘Volunteered’ me to take over our $5,000,000 a year supply sales department. I did not have a clue. I remembered going to an Ann Barr sales seminar many years ago. I bought her book. I saved my job, increased supply sales revenue by 7%; more than doubled our profit margins. Ann Barr provides real life, instantly useful, hands on information.If you are new to selling or an old pro, her information will pay for itself the first day you use it.  Thanks Ann.”

- Ronelle Ingram, Vice President Technical Service at Steven Enterprises, Inc,
Orange County, California – Author, Service with a Smile

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“I participated in Ann Barr’s online sales training seminar and would highly recommend it to anyone that is looking for valuable sales tips and strategies that can be used on a daily basis. In addition to helping boost sales, Ann’s ideas and suggestions are effective tools in handling every day situations and the topics covered are hot points of discussion that are of extreme interest and that every sales person encounters at one time or another. It’s how you handle the situation that matters and Ann paves the way to understanding how to respond and reinforces the importance of maintaining a good rapport with customers as well as how to gain their respect. I have my own library of Ann’s sales books that I utilize and refer to all the time.”

- Donna M. Bothner, Sales Consultant,
Diversified Computer Supplies,
Ann Arbor, Michigan

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ONLINE SEMINARS

Did you know you can get your foot in the door on the telephone just by changing a few words in your sales presentation? Ann Barr’s Private Online Sales Seminar will provide specific, tangible techniques you can apply on a daily basis! Learn from a sales trainer with more than 25 years experience in sales and marketing. If you would like more information, contact us. To learn more about this exclusive, private online seminar click here.

How It Works

This private, online seminar is a four-week e-class that consists of four different workbooks (one for each week) and it is conducted by e-mail and telephone and the Internet.

The first week you get the Week One workbook e-mailed to you. It contains 33 pages with seven worksheets (assignment pages) that you complete at your own pace and e-mail back to me.

After I review your completed assignment pages, I will call to give you my comments, ideas and suggestions and answer any questions you may have. Then I will e-mail the second week’s workbook to you, and so on, for each week.

At the end of the four weeks, I will send you a fill-in-the-blanks open book review with key points and highlights of each week of the entire seminar.

This e-class is limited to 10 people for an intensive 4-week marketing and sales online seminar. If you want to join the class, please call (757) 463-0924. I’m accepting applications now for this 4-week e-class, so we can lock in the seats.

What You Will Learn

• Discover opening statements that get attention instead of resistance!
• Find out what to do when a customer’s objection takes you by surprise!
• Learn how to avoid six costly mistakes that can reduce profit!
• Discover three ways to get through screeners, and …
• Seven ways to answer objections, and …
• 10 ways to ask for the order!
• Find out which voice mail messages will get your call returned!
• Learn the secrets of closing more sales than ever before!

ONSITE SEMINARS

If you are looking for new and effective ways to SKYROCKET telephone sales, Ann Barr’s Sales Seminar will provided specific, tangible techniques you can apply on a daily basis! Learn from a sales trainer with more than 25 years experience in sales and marketing.

Key Benefits

• Your entire department can be trained together.
• Minimize time away from the office.
• Flexible scheduling: you choose dates to fit your schedule.
• Customized course content to meet your specific needs.
• On-site consultant can answer your day-to-day challenges.

From a recent report released by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) “Companies that invest the most in workplace learning enjoy higher net sales per employee and higher gross profits per employee, compared with companies that invest less in workplace learning.”

To find out more information about On-Site Seminars, contact Ann Barr using the contact form.

“Ann, thank you for the opportunity to learn in an open-minded environment.  It was priceless!”

Tamara Laskey, Aztec Technologies, Middletown, Connecticut

“I had the opportunity of attending Ann Barr’s sales two years in a row. I can unequivocally say that this is THE course to take. Ann customized her presentation to the industry I am in and the selling tips I learned from those two courses, I use every day! I have been to other courses but I feel that they pale in comparison. This training is invaluable and I have become very successful with Ann Barr’s methods.”

Shelley Sterling, Inside Sales Account Manager, Densigraphix,
Burlington, Ontario

“I have achieved an IMMEDIATE ROI leveraging Ann Barr’s best practices in the following areas:  Prospecting, telephone and email marketing blasts.  How to identify all opportunities within an existing account, differentiating my solution vs. the competition in a concise manner. She is as good as it gets… the best resource in the Industry!”

Chris Gallagher, Founder and Managing Partner at Cartridge World,
Chicago, ILL