You’ve got a great product. You’ve done your research and identified your customers. Maybe you’ve even had some initial contact or meetings with them. Great work so far. So what comes next? Time to put your feet up and let the sales roll in? Not quite. Even the best products don’t sell themselves, despite what you may have been told. With so many potential deals in the pipeline, it’s going to take some effort to manage them all. Working through that pipeline can be a tricky process. It can make or break a business. If you fail to deliver, consider the impact on your reputation (or worse, your wallet) further down the pipeline with your customers. But it doesn’t need to be hard work. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to: • Follow up on your best leads and drop the dead ones • Assess the needs of your customer • Monitor pipeline metrics • Manage time effectively • Prioritize your prospects • Meet critical targets • Deal with and use CRMs Why take this course? To get ahead in the tough world of sales, you need to have the edge. When you’ve got your pipeline in order, you’ll find the rest comes much more easily. This course is designed to reduce the friction inside that pipeline and give you some useful advice on how to make the sales process smoother for everyone involved. Anyone in sales or marketing will find this course useful. 15 mins | SCORM | Workbook
FAQ
Most frequent questions and answers
Co-operative education is a three-way partnership between the university, students and employers. Students apply their classroom knowledge in a series of four-month work experiences. You, the employer, enhance a student’s education, while reaping the unique benefits of CO-OP employees.
- Year-round access to well-motivated, qualified employees.
- Access to potential full-time staff in a controlled environment, reducing your costs and risks.
- Access to a cost-effective source of temporary employees for peak periods or special projects.
- A say in what students learn by working with the university.
- Promotion of your organization as one that believes in developing the potential of young people.
- Access to a great pool of French-speaking, English-speaking and bilingual students.
Most work terms run at least 15 weeks, or four months. They can be no shorter than 13 weeks. Some master’s students, as well as some science and engineering students, are available for 8 or 12 months’ work terms.
All jobs are reviewed by a CO-OP Program Coordinator, and only those providing students with work experience related to their professional development are approved. Administrative activities involved in a job should be less than 10% of the entire workload.
When you first contact SSC, you are assigned one of our Program Coordinators, depending on your discipline of interest. This person is your main contact in our office. As you move through the recruitment process, you also work with a representative from CO-OP Administrative Services, who assists with job posting and interview scheduling.
Internships offer usually one discipline-specific, supervised, structured paid or unpaid, and for academic credit work experience or practice placement.
Work Experience intersperses one or two work terms (typically full-time) into an academic program, where work terms provide experience in a workplace setting related to the student’s field of study and/or career goals.
Community Service Learning (CSL) integrates meaningful community service with classroom instruction and critical reflection to enrich the learning experience and strengthen communities. In practice, students work in partnership with a community-based organization to apply their disciplinary knowledge to a challenge identified by the community.
Field Placement provides students with an intensive part-time/short term intensive hands-on practical experience in a setting relevant to their subject of study. Field placements may not require supervision of a registered or licensed professional and the completed work experience hours are not required for professional certification. Field placements account for work-integrated educational experiences not encompassed by other forms, such as co-op, clinic, practicum, and internship.
