Oct
24
Top Web site pumps up sales professionals
By BOB MASSEY
Editor
Where would you find the largest online community for sales professionals in the world? New York, perhaps? Los Angeles? London?
Would you believe Cape Coral?
With the trademarked tag line “Sales Professionals Are the Elite Athletes of the Business World,” Sales Gravy (www.salesgravy.com) is the self-proclaimed “portal to all things Sales.” And founder Jeb Blount has worked hard to make it that way.
“I was the head of sales for a large, $13 billion company – I handled sales for the Southeast region – and got tired of flying in airplanes all the time,” he said.
So Blount decided he would take a different tack – he just wasn’t sure what.
“While I was waiting to figure it out, my wife said she would divorce me if I didn’t find something else,” he quipped.
But he already had the answer; he just hadn’t recognized it.
Sep
12
“Nothing stays the same - but there is always opportunity.”
By PENNY DEUTSCH
Business Writer
When Maryann Mize decided to become a banker, she had no idea she would also become a teacher – and an exclusive one at that.
Mize – senior vice president/senior credit officer at Charlotte State Bank and past president of the Charlotte County Chamber of Commerce – is one of only 95 professionals in the world designated as a Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) instructor.
A CCIM is a recognized expert in the disciplines of commercial and investment real estate. While 9,000 professionals currently hold the CCIM designation across North America and more than 30 countries, approximately 10,000 additional professionals are applying for or awaiting CCIM designation – and there is a 15 percent failure rate.
Of the estimated 150,000 commercial real estate practitioners nationwide, only 6 percent hold the CCIM designation.
With 25 years of banking experience in a variety of professional positions, there don’t seem to be any glass ceilings stopping her from achieving the rewards of her dedication to her career.
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