Author Archive for Dan Seidman
DAN SEIDMAN IS ONE OF AMERICA'S TOP COACHES ON INFLUENCE. He is the author of #1 business best-seller, Sales Autopsy (Kaplan Publishing). Therein Dan reveals the top seven traits that distinguish world class sales professionals from the rest of the selling world. Dan is a World Master’s athlete who has two gold medals playing on the U.S. basketball team. He has served as a board member of the United Professional Sales Association (www.upsa-intl.org) and is a volunteer sales & marketing strategist for the Willow Creek Association. Dan has been selected as one of the “Top 12 Sales Coaches in America” in Ultimate Selling Power and runs the award-winning website SalesAutopsy.com. Selling Power Magazine selected the Sales Autopsy Training Experience as a finalist in its 2006 Sales Excellence Awards. Sales & Marketing Management Magazine has called his website of selling blunders a “cult hit among sales folks.” Dan has collected over 600 of these sales horror stories during his selling, management and training career. The American Marketing Association recently featured SalesAutopsy.com on their magazine cover as one of “Marketing’s BEST Web Sites.” Dan is a professional speaker and trainer who positions his humor and teaching as “unique and useful” for sales audiences. His columns reach over 1.5 million readers a month, both online at Monster.com and ProducersWeb.com and in print at Agent Sales Journal, Independent Agent, Advantages and more. Dan has produced some unusual products including; • The Sales Comic Book: There is nothing like it on this planet, possibly any planet! • Revenge of the Reps – a high-quality video game • Sales Horror Stories – a CD and mp3 download, and • Custom-designed and/or upgraded sales training programs Dan Seidman lives in Barrington, IL with his Princess Bride, Wendy and son Joshua. Twin girls were recently discovered at his residence. They’re being called Abigail and Rebekah. For a unique and useful program at your corporate event (and don’t forget to ask that he include the “confession session”), contact Dan at 1-847-359-7860 or Dan@SalesAutopsy.com.
Confessions of a Sales Trainer
Yesterday I’m with a financial services client and partway through the morning’s sales training I do a “confession session” where reps share their most embarrassing moment. It’s a very funny time.
This slide (pictured here) is up on the screen and during the break a woman walks up.
“I’m very offended by that image.”



