Proten Sales Development Ltd

10/05/2024

I have the house to myself this evening so making the most of the evening sunshine, a cheeky red and the newly installed outside speaker system. 😎

28/09/2022

Unbelievably proud to have won the Best Business Sales & Strategy Coaching category in the Corporate Vision Awards 2022!

Thank you to all my clients who validated the hard work and effort that's gone into the last four years.

30/05/2022

The Leaders Council of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is currently in the process of talking to leadership figures from across the nation in an attempt to understand this universal trait and what it means in Britain and Northern Ireland today.

Recently I was invited onto an episode of the podcast. Host Scott Challinor asked a series of questions about leadership and the role it has played in my career to date.

As Scott says, “hosting a show like this, where you speak to genuine leaders who have been there and done it, either on a national stage or within a crucial industry sector, is an absolute honour”.

Lord Blunkett, former minister and now chairman of The Leaders Council of Great Britain and Northern Ireland says, “I think the most informative element of each episode is the first part, where Scott Challinor is able to sit down with someone who really gets how their industry works and knows how to make their organisation tick. Someone who’s there day in day out working hard and inspiring others. That’s what leadership is all about.
If you’d like to listen to the podcast, there’s a link below.

02/11/2021

We’re back at live events!!

After 18 months of online meetings, we’re finally getting back to meeting people face to face.

Join us at The Business Show at Excel London on 24th and 25th of November where we’ll be showcasing our range of sales training and coaching services including :

EPIC Selling – our online, on demand sales skills training programme
Sales Skills for Small Business interactive workshops
1-2-1 or Group sales coaching programme
Sales Mastermind Groups

There’ll be special offers that are only available for attendees.

It’s free to attend and you can get your free tickets here : Get your free tickets here :
https://www.greatbritishbusinessshow.co.uk/registration

15/09/2021

The last two years have shone a light on what’s important.

Now is the time to redefine success for you, for your business, and for you.

Join us on Thursday 14th October for this free webinar, “Redefining Success” when we will show you practical and proven ways to increase your profit and cashflow while maintaining a healthy workplace balance and culture.

We’ll explain how you can:

• Discover new ways of defining success
• Learn how to calculate your minimum viable sales
• Identify strategies to grow profit and cashflow
• Understand how to create a smart and healthy business
• Learn how to develop a plan for sustainable business success

What does success mean to you?

Book your place here : www.protensd.co.uk

Proten Sales Development provides expertise and advice to clients of businesses who need to improve the effectiveness of their selling activities.

20/08/2021

Are you ready to be challenged?

Many of you will know that I’m a big fan of group coaching or mastermind groups.

Working with a group of like-minded peers is a great way of sharing ideas and solving whatever challenges we’re facing using the power of the collective knowledge and experience.

As a facilitator, nothing gives me greater pleasure than to see those “light bulb moments” when group members get clarity of the steps they need to take to achieve whatever results they’re looking for …. It’s precisely why I do what I do.

I’ll be starting a brand new Sales Mastermind Group soon for B2B business owners and sales people.

We’ll meet (online) each month and start by discussing our individual goals for the coming months and then agree the specific actions we need to take to move us closer to our goals. In subsequent months the group then hold each other accountable for completing the tasks we’ve agreed to. It’s fun, it’s challenging, we have a few laughs along the way but above all, we achieve results!

Each month, they’ll also be a short training session where we’ll cover a specific aspect of effective selling.

Each member also gets free access to our EPIC Selling online training programme.

What’s not to love?

You can learn more here :

Meet like-minded business owners every three months to explore what sales techniques are proving successful and which are not. Delegates of these sessions will be taught how to improve their sales skills and be set challenging tasks that they must complete before the next session.

30/06/2021

Did last night's football result give you a renewed sense of optimism?

I've been seeing increased optimism for the last few months.... Business owners are starting to reinvest in their business which means there are increasing numbers of opportunities for those who are prepared to put in the efforts to find new customers and win new business.

If you’re one of those positive thinkers who are determined to make the most of the increasing number of opportunities, then now is the time to invest in your and your team’s sales skills.

Join us on Thursday 8th July for our half day workshop… “Sales Skills for Small Business.

We’ll show you the techniques and skills you can use to find new customers and make the most of every conversation.

You know it makes sense!

What are you doing to make the most of the new opportunities ahead?

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22/05/2021

I didn’t set out to write a book.

When I set up Proten Sales Development, whilst I was waiting for the web site to be designed and launched, I used my time to write a series of blog posts that could then be drip fed onto the site over time.

Once I had around 25 articles written, it became pretty obvious that they actually formed the basis of a pretty useful introduction to selling skills for people who perhaps didn’t have any formal sales background or who’d never undergone any training.

So with some careful editing and adding more detail, example scenarios and snippets from my career “It’s All About The Value” was born.

I’m incredibly proud of it, not just because of the achievement of writing it, but also because of the feedback that readers have sent me.

https://protensd.co.uk/the-book

12/03/2021

Selling can be daunting to many business owners and yet learning a few simple techniques can make it less uncomfortable and more effective.

Our online, on demand programme EPIC Selling gives you all of the tools and techniques you need to improve how you promote your value, find new customers, engage with them, find opportunities to help them, handle objections, negotiate the best terms and close the sale.

We even look at how to work out how much selling activity you need to generate the results you want.

Prices are due to increase from April 1st 2021, so if you'd like to see better results, don't miss out.

EPIC Selling is an online, on demand sales skills training programme that provides you with a structured approach that will help you find customers.