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July 01, 2010 New Investment Partner to help Corporate Visions Expand Leadership Position

Private equity firm, HKW, acquires Corporate Visions as ‘platform’ to enter Sales and Marketing Enablement space.

June 25, 2010 Riverbed Works with Corporate Visions to Keep Competitive Edge

Corporate Visions helps make customer conversations more compelling, memorable and impactful.

June 17, 2010 Thousands of Salespeople to get Free, 30-day Access to New Post-Training Refresher

Power Connection System for Power Messaging;® aimed at improving post-training impact.

April 20, 2010 Corporate Visions Releases Q1 2010 Sales Messaging Report

Survey finds that salespeople want their companies to focus on new value propositions as a top priority 2010 initiative.

April 10, 2010 McGraw-Hill Signs Corporate Visions Experts to a Book Deal

Book for salespeople on how to improve their customer conversations — due out January 2011. The book is tentatively titled "The Power Messaging Sales Solution: How Your Unique Story Wins the Complex Sale."

Top Sales Methodology Training Company 2010
March 23, 2010 TrainingIndustry.com names Corporate Visions as Top 20 Sales Training Firm

The training industry’s leading authority, TrainingIndustry.com, named Corporate Visions Inc. as one of the Top 20 Sales Training Companies.

February 26, 2010 Conference Focuses on Aligning Two Smartest, Most Expensive Operations

Corporate Visions has joined forces with two other thought leading companies, Corporate Executive Board and Accenture, to put together a unique Marketing and Sales executive event taking place October 7-8, 2010 in Lake Tahoe.

January 20, 2010 Corporate Visions Sets New Record for Revenue, Bookings and Profitability in 2009

Company bucks trend in a difficult category that has been rocked by the recession, reporting 20% growth in revenue, 26% increase in bookings and more than 7-times growth in profitability in 2009.

January 06, 2010 Corporate Visions Releases Q4 2009 Sales Messaging Report

Top Sales Methodology Training Companies MedalSurvey finds that going virtual with training means more selling time and salespeople’s confidence in their company message is still weak. Report is free for download.

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November 20, 2009 Zebra Enterprise Solutions Unifies Acquired Companies to Create One Voice in 90 Days

Zebra Enterprise SolutionsWhen Zebra Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: ZBRA) acquired four companies with deeply entrenched but different market leadership positions, the company had to find a way to quickly persuade the different teams of the benefit of creating one voice and combined value proposition in the marketplace...

November 10, 2009 New Skills Training Fills Gap in Marketers’ Professional Development

Teaches approach for translating brand and product messages into sales-ready stories.
There are few options for Marketers to get skills training which helps them continually hone their craft. This is particularly true when it comes to creating more compelling and useful sales messages and materials...

October 20, 2009 Tata Consultancy Services leverages Corporate Visions for employee development program

Tata Consultancy ServicesWhen you solve technology problems and optimize business processes for other companies, you are an essential partner in enabling those companies to operate at peak performance and meet their objectives. However, if you communicate...

October 09, 2009 Aberdeen and Corporate Visions partner on new Sales Training Survey

The AberdeenGroup logoAberdeen recently released its Sales Training Survey results, Translating Tribal Selling Knowledge into Bottom-Line Productivity. The research was sponsored in part by Corporate Visions, the leading marketing and sales messaging firm.

September 01, 2009 Corporate Visions Announces the Release of Power Connection for Power Messaging®

Making Sales Training Sticky — Corporate Visions launches online refresher library and virtual coaching for post-training on-demand sales training support.

Even the best training begins to fade over time.  What if your sales people could get just-in-time, online access to multi-media refresher tutorials that reinforce the concepts they learned in their initial sales training?

 

August 18, 2009 Corporate Visions Releases Q3 2009 Sales Messaging Report

Top Sales Methodology Training Companies MedalSurvey finds that Marketing suffers collateral damage, virtual interactions dominate selling time, and salespeople need coaching on how to differentiate their solution.
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August 05, 2009 Corporate Visions Replaces Live Marketing, Selling and Training Activities with On-Demand Brainshark Delivery

Sales and Marketing consulting leader uses Brainshark presentations to boost webcast views by 256% and improve event response rates by 71%.

July 20, 2009 Corporate Executive Board Selects Corporate Visions as Strategic Alliance for Best Practice Program

CEB’s Integrated Sales Executive Council will Promote Positioning Best Practice to Members.

Corporate Executive Board (CEB), the leading provider of best practice research, decision support tools and executive education announces a strategic alliance with Corporate Visions to deliver a best practices consulting engagement focused on marketing positioning and sales messaging.

June 25, 2009 Partnership Takes Power Messaging® to Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Europe

Corporate Visions® signs partnership with Simitri Group® for international sales and delivery.

Selling and delivering skills training, coaching and consulting on a global basis is always enhanced when you have a team of local professionals that serve in the local markets and operate in the local language. A new partnership with Simitri Group International provides Corporate Visions with instant coverage and credibility in key growth markets in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East; in addition to growth opportunities in Europe.

June 04, 2009 Virtual Version of Award-Winning Sales Skills Training Hits the Mark

86% of participants rate the new Power Messaging® Virtual course better than on-site training.

Responding to market pressures to provide more training virtually, and provide a simple, easy way for participants to refresh their knowledge on an ongoing basis, Corporate Visions launched Power Messaging® Virtual this month.

April 09, 2009 NEW Training Course Teaches Marketers How to Create Field-Ready Content

Power Positioning Training helps marketers align messages and tools with selling activities.

March 12, 2009 Corporate Visions’ Survey Proves "Collateral Damage" in Marketing and Sales Communications

Marketing departments still struggle for control over what Sales people communicate to clients.

March 03, 2009 Blended Learning Option Responds to Travel Budget Challenges

New Power Messaging® Online provides virtual access to award-winning training.

A survey by the American Society for Training and Development found that 50% of companies are lowering their travel budgets in 2009, and many are at least temporarily grounding all non-client related travel. Meanwhile, the business environment has become no less competitive and it is more important than ever for sales people to have compelling and credible conversations with their customers.

February 23, 2009 New VP of Finance and Operations Added to Executive Team

As part of its aggressive growth plans, Corporate Visions Inc. has added Lisa de Roulet as the company’s Vice President of Finance and Operations. She brings a strong and diverse background in financial planning and analysis and operations management.

February 19, 2009 Corporate Visions Announces Record Revenue in 2008

Expanded offerings fuel increase in difficult market.

During challenging market conditions, some companies retract while others decide it’s time to aggressively invest and drive growth opportunities. That’s what Corporate Visions, the leading sales messaging company did in 2008. And, it paid off with record revenues in Q4 and FY08...

February 09, 2009 Corporate Visions Launches Executive Advisory Board as Part of Growth Strategy

New members bring domain expertise and long list of business-building experiences.

February 05, 2009 Student Loan Guarantor Chooses Corporate Visions to Develop Customer Messages

American Student Assistance (ASA) Launches an Integrated Marketing and Sales Initiative

Distinguishing your product from lower-cost competitors and alternative approaches is a major challenge. Convincing your prospects that your solution provides a superior outcome worthy of the premium price further compounds the challenge. That’s the selling situation American Student Assistance (ASA) faces as one of the leading student loan guarantors in the nation.

February 03, 2009 Corporate Visions named among the Top 20 Sales Methodology Training companies by Training Industry, Inc.'s Sales Training Community.

The Top 20 list recognizes the leading Sales Training companies for their high quality of services, comprehensive capabilities and successful and proven training deployments.

January 16, 2009 Corporate Visions Acquires G2G Sales Communications to Expand Content Services

Messages, tools and training products and services drive differentiated sales conversations

December 23, 2008 New Positioning Approach Takes Brand Messages to the Street Level

Power Positioning™ 2.0 translates your brand messages into field-ready messages. You've spent thousands of dollars on outside agencies, voice-of-the-customer segmentation research and offsite meetings to create your company's brand message. Now what?

December 19, 2008 New Online, Just-In-Time Coaching And Training Solution Delivers Blended Learning

Corporate Visions chooses Brainshark Inc. as its platform for delivering PowerPlays™. Moving marketing messages and sales training content from headquarters to the frontline is critical for making sure your messages and tools are used in the heat of selling situations and having the desired impact on customer buying cycles.

November 26, 2008 Selling Power Magazine Features Corporate Visions' Expert Advice

Leading industry trade magazine for sales management features Corporate Visions' insights on field messaging versus brand messaging and how companies make their sales story more effective.

November 18, 2008 New Executive Forum Dedicated to Creating Best Practices for Marketing and Sales Alignment

As companies struggle to differentiate themselves from their competitors, the area being targeted for improvement is Marketing and Sales alignment. The objective is to improve integration between these two operations and create a competitive advantage in the go-to-market process; thus providing a differentiated customer experience. Senior executives from GE, Xerox, MasterCard, Oracle, IBM, CA, AmerisourceBergen and Millipore have enlisted in this customer advisory board.

November 17, 2008 Company Builds on Corporate Initiative for Non-Profit Organizations

The need for effective messaging is everywhere, including the non-profit environment. To support the non-profit industry and their efforts to successfully get their messages across to the community, Corporate Visions Inc. will continue donating two seats to every open training session.

November 05, 2008 Riesterer to Speak at Marketing and Sales Enablement Conference

Marketing and sales enablement is a growing hot topic. One of the leading technology providers in this market, SAVO Group, has invited Corporate Visions' executive, Tim Riesterer to be a featured speaker at their second annual executive summit - Sharpening Your Competitive Edge for 2009.

September 22, 2008 GE Healthcare Chooses Corporate Visions for Commercial Transformation Project

One of the first clients to apply the Corporate Visions integrated solution is GE Healthcare, the multi-billion dollar manufacturer of medical technologies and services, which is undergoing a Commercial Transformation Project.

August 15, 2008 AMA Training Program for Integrating Marketing & Sales to feature Corporate Visions' Expert

The American Marketing Association (AMA) has tapped Corporate Visions' executive Diane Emo as the instructor for its Marketing and Sales Alignment training and educational series. The 2-day workshop will be held in Chicago, San Francisco and Boston and is designed specifically for marketing executives looking to increase their impact on sales effectiveness.

August 01, 2008 Corporate Visions Inc. Acquires Customer Message Management, LLC (CMM Group)

Corporate Visions, the leading sales messaging consulting and training firm, announced today that it has acquired CMM Group, the leading provider of marketing messaging and communication services. Together, the two organizations will create the industry's first combined marketing and sales messaging, consulting and training company. The move comes at a time when companies are aggressively seeking better alignment between their Marketing and Sales departments in order to improve business performance.

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