Sales presentation skills and salesperson job performance

Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 311-319

  Johlke, Mark C ^a  

^a BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Personal selling; Presentations; Sales; Sales management; Sales training; Skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747505067     PISSN: 08858624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/08858620610681614     Document Type: Article

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