Center for Professional Selling Supports Next Generation of Sales Scholars
[6/18/2013]
Baylor University's Center for Professional Selling takes an active role in preparing the next generation of sales professionals for successful careers in sales. This summer, the Center is taking an active role in supporting the next generation of sales scholars, as well...
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Rodriguez Hired to Drive Center for Professional Selling Corporate Relations
[6/3/2013]
Baylor's Center for Professional Selling has hired Amanda Rodriguez to serve the Center's corporate clients. Rodriguez will manage and expand the Center's corporate footprint by engaging with Corporate Partners and Sponsors, Fortune 500 companies, Ambassadors, Advisory Board Members, and Alumni for mutual benefit...
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Class of 2013 Celebrates Graduation
[5/28/2013]
On Saturday, May 18, 2013, the Spring 2013 class of Professional Selling Majors celebrated graduation at Baylor University...
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Center for Professional Selling Recognized as a 2013 SEF Top University Sales Program
[4/30/2013]
The Sales Education Foundation (SEF) has recognized Baylor University's Center for Professional Selling as one of the Top University Sales Programs for 2013...
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Simeon Brown wins the Paul J. Meyer Leadership in Business Scholarship
[4/29/2013]
The Paul J. Meyer Christian Leadership in Business Scholarship is awarded to a student who integrates his/her faith into leadership opportunities in business. Junior Simeon Brown of St. Louis, MO, a Professional Selling major was this year's recipient...
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Dixon, AMA Academic Council Featured in April Issue of Marketing News
[4/29/2013]
The American Marketing Association's 2013 Academic Council was featured in the April issue of Marketing News. Andrea Dixon, Executive Director of the Center for Professional Selling, is a member of the Academic Council and is recognized in the article...
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Rising Tuition Prices Affecting Students' College Choices
[4/26/2013]
Baylor ProSales student Taylor Dixon highlights rising college tuition prices and the effect they have on students' college choices in a recent article in the Baylor Lariat...
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BU, Students Work to Make College Affordable
[4/26/2013]
Baylor ProSales student Jimmy Oltman discusses reasons for rising college tuition costs in the Baylor Lariat...
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Baylor Alumna Wins Rookie of the Year at 3M
[4/23/2013]
Sara Thompson, a 2011 Baylor alumna, knocked her first year with 3M clear out of the ballpark to win the Rookie of the Year title. Thompson received this title at 3M's National Sales Meeting in St. Paul, Minn., for her work as a...
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Developing Professionals, One Event At A Time
[4/12/2013]
For the past 3 years, the Marketing and Professional Selling Professional Development Program (PDP) has provided Baylor business students with valuable information as they prepare to make their transition from student to business professional...
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Model UN and ProSales Synergies in New York City
[4/5/2013]
When Tyler Kopas arrived in New York last week for the National Model United Nations Conference in New York City, he knew he had a step up on the competition...
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Professionals Discuss Do's, Don'ts of Market Research
[4/4/2013]
Whether you know it or not, you play a vital role in market research almost every day of your life. Professionals from two marketing research firms, Decision Analyst and Research Now, discussed their understanding of marketing research as well as how to get a...
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Market Research Panel to Jumpstart April in Hankamer
[3/28/2013]
This month's First Wednesday presented by the Marketing Department features a panel of speakers knowledgeable about the market research field. The event, sponsored by CASRO, the leading market research professional association, will be held on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 in Cashion 510...
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Fifield Honored for Teaching Methods
[3/26/2013]
We've all heard of teachers who go the extra mile, but not very many who would travel from Waco to Atlanta, Ga., just to help their students compete in a professional selling competition. Charles "Chuck" Fifield, senior lecturer of marketing, was presented with the 2013 Academy of Marketing Science's Outstanding Marketing Teacher Award in a ceremony on...
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Baylor's Center for Professional Selling Named One of Constant Contact's 2012 All Stars
[3/12/2013]
Baylor University's Center for Professional Selling has received the 2012 All Star Award from Constant Contact®, Inc., the trusted marketing advisor to more than half a million small organizations worldwide...
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Baylor MBA Students Take 2nd Place at National Collegiate Sales Competition
[3/7/2013]
Baylor MBA students Curtis Schroeder (Waco, TX) and Mark Tarro (Pawtucket, RI) represented Baylor at the 15th Annual National Collegiate Sales Competition (NCSC) at Kennesaw State University on March 1-4, 2013 and walked away with individual accolades and a 2nd place team finish...
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Baylor Well Represented at Chicago-area Sales Competition
[3/1/2013]
Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois) hosted its third annual World Collegiate Sales Open (WCSO) this past weekend and Baylor University was again well represented among the finalists...
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ProSales Students Prepare for WCSO Finals
[2/4/2013]
When the first round of the World Collegiate Sales Open (WCSO) began in the early Fall of 2012, there were over 300 students from around the world competing for 20 spots in the finals at Northern Illinois University in late February...
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Progression of an IFC President
[1/29/2013]
Like many students, junior Sean Fulton of Lubbock, TX joined a Greek organization as a freshman - not knowing what the next few years had in store. A short time after pledging, he overheard two seniors in the fraternity talking about their major...
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Leaders in Professional Selling
[1/15/2013]
Throughout Baylor's campus, there is no short supply of students leading an organization, team or group of students, working toward improving campus life, an organization, or a larger community. While leaders might be scattered across the Baylor campus, the discipline of Professional Selling is densely populated with leaders...
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A Pipeline of New Talent
[12/12/2012]
Corporations today are going to be entering into a very tight talent war.
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Students Make an Impact in MN
[12/11/2012]
Students from Baylor's Sales for Social Impact (SSI) class recently returned from 3M's headquarters in Minnesota where they shared their recommended sales and marketing plan for the bottom-of-the-pyramid markets.
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Baylor Study Uncovers Insights About the Next Generation of Sales Professionals
[12/6/2012]
In fall 2012, Baylor University's Center for Professional Selling conducted a study to uncover important insights about the rising generation of sales professionals. The study, completed in partnership with the University Sales Center Alliance, generated responses from over 330 current juniors/seniors from university sales programs and over 225 responses from recent graduates of sales programs.
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Smiles All Around After BBSO
[12/4/2012]
Baylor's Center for Professional Selling hosted its annual Baylor Business Sell-Off (BBSO) last month, which was sponsored by dental equipment provider Henry Schein.
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Selling to the United Nations
[11/28/2012]
Last week, a number of Baylor students traveled to Chicago, IL to join over 1,000 other students from across the country for the American Model United Nations Conference. Junior Professional Selling major, Tyler Kopas, was one of the students representing Baylor at the conference and was part of the...
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Sales Students Show Off Sharp Shooting
[11/26/2012]
The weekend before Thanksgiving is usually filled with activities that involve traveling home, buying food and getting excited about seeing loved ones. Every so often we have that weekend free and did it ever pay off for Professional Selling majors Colby Mann, James Paulsen, Eric Prevatte and Blaze Wrobleske.
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Business Career Fair Fills Cashion
[11/16/2012]
Baylor's fall marketing and professional selling career fair featured roughly 30 companies Wednesday, in the Blume Conference Center in the Hankamer School of Business.
The event, sponsored by Automatic Data Processing (ADP), gave students the opportunity to network with corporate representatives from around the country looking to fill job and internship positions in marketing and sales. Students gained exposure to top companies, including 11 in the Fortune 500 and two in the Fortune 100.
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Sales Executive Shares Insights at 'First Wednesday' Event
[11/9/2012]
Paul Nelson, Sales Executive for IBM and Baylor Center for Professional Selling Advisory Board Member, addressed students in Kayser Auditorium about the importance of leadership in business and sales for the Professional Development Program's "First Wednesday" event on November 7.
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ProSales Students Hit the Competition Circuit
[11/7/2012]
At Baylor University, the fall signals the clashing of helmets on the gridiron, cooler weather in the air and for ProSales students, the launch of sales competition season.
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3M Ad Features ProSales Seniors
[9/11/2012]
Students in Baylor's Professional Selling Program are making an impact in Fortune 500 companies - even before they graduate. Senior ProSales majors Madeline Giering and Bryan Baker interned in 3M's Frontline Sales program in the summer of 2012...
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Students do poverty simulation for 3M presentation
[8/31/2012]
For the first time, students from Baylor and the University of Houston who are attending the same class, Sales for Social Impact, at different schools will participate together in the Mission Waco/Mission World poverty simulation this weekend...
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Center for Professional Selling Hires Adamson to Expand Corporate Relations
[8/20/2012]
Baylor's Center for Professional Selling has appointed Amber Adamson to serve the Center's corporate clients. Adamson will manage and expand the Center's corporate footprint by engaging with advisory board members, corporate partners, Fortune 500 companies and alumni for mutual benefit.
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ProSales Students and Alumni Hang with the Giraffes
[7/24/2012]
Sharing a meal with friends is a rather common occasion. Sharing a meal with a giraffe? Now that's a horse (or giraffe) of a different color.
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Students Majoring in Professional Selling Have "Eyes Opened" Through Summer Internship
[7/10/2012]
Earlier this spring, ProSales senior Joanna Murrieta was selected to participate in 3M's prestigious Frontline Sales summer internship program. One of only 28 students chosen for this national program ...
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Prestigious marketing program has Baylor student on Madison Avenue
[6/18/2012]
Taylor Dixon, a rising junior and double major in Marketing and Professional Selling, was recently selected to participate in the Direct Marketing Education Foundation's (DMEF) 2012 Interactive Marketing Immersion Xperience (I-MIX). This prestigious program, which selects only 30 students from an international pool of applicants, is designed to ...
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Baylor's Center for Professional Selling Co-Hosts Global Sales Conference in Finland
[6/7/2012]
Each year, scholars and industry leaders from around the world gather at the annual Global Sales Science Institute (GSSI) Conference to collaborate on leading issues and topics from the global sales landscape. This year's conference, co-chaired and co-sponsored by Baylor University's Center for Professional Selling and Turku University of Applied Sciences, takes place in Turku, Finland on June 13-15, 2012 ...
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Sales for Social Impact Course Prepares Baylor Grad for Global Impact
[5/22/2012]
Baylor's Hankamer School of Business integrates classroom and hands-on learning opportunities in the context of values-based decision-making to prepare students to make a global impact. Just days after graduating from Baylor, Austin Barnes is getting his chance to make an impact ...
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Dixon Named to American Marketing Association Academic Council
[5/10/2012]
Andrea Dixon, Ph.D., associate professor and the Frank M. and Floy Smith Holloway Professor of marketing at Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business, has been named to serve on the Academic Council for the American Marketing Association (AMA). Dixon, who also is executive director of Baylor's Keller Center for Research and the Center for Professional Selling, will join 12 of her peers to represent ...
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Professional Selling Students and Graduates Celebrate 100% Placement
[5/9/2012]
Classes have ended on Baylor's campus and summer is near. As students prepare to make the college-to-work transition or seek-out summer internship opportunities, many are still struggling to finalize their plans in the midst of final exams. Students in Baylor's Professional Selling Program, though, have reason to celebrate as all graduating seniors and rising juniors know exactly where they are headed as school lets out for the summer ...
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More Waco College Seniors Landing Jobs Before Graduation
[4/24/2012]
Article about college seniors landing jobs before officially graduating that quotes Kevin Nall, associate director of career services in the Paul L. Foster Success Center at Baylor, Ken Buckley, the Cox-Hawkins Director of Career Management in Baylor's Hankamer School of Business; and Hannah Kroening, who will graduate from Baylor in May with a degree in professional selling ...
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Baylor We Are: Student-Focused
[4/5/2012]
For generations, Baylor has been known as a place where students are names and faces, not numbers, and where most classes are taught by professors with experience, not TA's or grad assistants. University leaders have long recognized that accessibility to professors - in the classroom and through open office hours - is an important part of the education experience ...
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Baylor Faculty Facilitate Excellence in Sales and Service
[3/20/2012]
Dr. Andrea L. Dixon, executive director of the Keller Center for Research and the Center for Professional Selling and an associate professor in the Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University, has joined the advisory council of Service 360 Partners. As an advisor, Professor Dixon will ensure that the company relies on the latest insights into how to effectively manage client relationships and service excellence ...
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Baylor and 3M Team-Up To Host Annual Sales Conference
[3/14/2012]
Each year, 3M executives, university professors and college students from across the country gather for the annual Frontline Sales Conference. This year's conference, co-hosted by 3M and Baylor University's Center for Professional Selling, focuses on Reshaping Sales and Sales Leadership and takes place from April 14-17, 2012 in Waco, Texas ...
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Landmark Sales Effectiveness Study Invites Your Participation
[3/12/2012]
For the past 10 years, a UK-based management consulting and training firm named Silent Edge has been refining an approach for driving sales growth in boom and bust cycles. Their methodology places sales managers at the center of the equation by equipping them to objectively observe what their salespeople actually do during customer-facing calls. If you'd like to experience a dramatic upswing in revenue this year, we extend an invitation for your company to secure its place in this landmark project ...
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ProSales Senior Recognized in Baylor Lariat
[2/22/2012]
Childhood career aspirations rarely pan out, but for some students, childhood dreams can be a good indication of career skills. Fort Collins, Colo., senior Hannah Kroening has rediscovered the passion for business she had as a child and has found a way to make it a career through the professional sales program at Baylor ...
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Global Recognition for Baylor Alumna
[1/30/2012]
Baylor University's Center for Professional Selling announced that Baylor alumna DeAnn Draper Bartlett was recently named Global Sales Manager of the Year for the Americas region at HP, where she has worked since 1993. Bartlett is one of three Global Sales Managers from HP's global field sales team to be honored for their 2011 accomplishments and contributions ...
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