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Professional Sales

Attract & enroll top-tier business-focused students with a Professional Sales program

Rize’s Professional Sales program is designed in collaboration with key members of the nationally recognized WKU Center for Professional Selling, one of only 20 Fully Certified Sales Programs in the United States. Students who complete this program will receive up to 4 different HubSpot certifications, including Sales Management Training and Sales Software.

Join the growing consortium of innovative institutions that are offering this Professional Sales program to meet the growing demand in this field.

12%
increase in Professional Sales undergraduate enrollment1
<80
colleges have a Sales Education Department on campus1
47%
of colleges conferring Professional Sales degrees last year were powered by Rize1
Courses and curriculum

Professional Sales course descriptions

You can launch this Professional Sales program by adding 4 Rize courses to your existing catalog, enabling you to market a Professional Sales degree to prospective students in as little as one semester. Expand below to read the course descriptions.

PS I - Relationship Driven Professional Sales

This course will not just teach you about selling, it will teach you how to sell. This experiential learning-based course will provide you with best practice models of selling. It will cover selling from prospecting through relationship building, and through the use of role-plays and other experiential activities, it will equip the student with the fundamental knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to succeed in a professional selling position. This online class has optional live sessions.

PS II - Negotiation in Business and Sales

You may not realize it, but negotiations are a constant part of life. In business, negotiations are key parts of a corporation’s strategy. In your personal life, negotiations play the same role - you negotiate which movie to watch with your friends or what apartment to rent with your partner. This course will introduce you to the concepts behind negotiation and provide opportunities to practice and develop your own negotiating style. This online class has optional live sessions.

DMC II - Email Marketing

Email marketing is vital to modern businesses and a primary tool in any skilled marketer’s toolkit. In this course, you’ll learn how to craft successful email marketing campaigns for sales, engagement, and activation. By the end of this course, you’ll know how to write emails that drive customers to take desired actions and how to structure campaigns for maximum effect. You’ll also build your own marketing campaign. This online class has optional live sessions.

PS III - Sales Leadership

Effective sales leadership requires a mastery of the “hard” analytical skills as well as the “soft” skills for effective management and coaching. This course will explore key sales and management concepts, and give you the opportunity to put them into practice. By the end of this course, you will be able to coach salespeople and excel as a sales leader. This online class has optional live sessions.

PS IV - Advanced Relationship-Driven Professional Selling

You've already learned the fundamentals of effective selling. This course will help you hone your sales skills and take them to the next level by teaching you how to think through the sales process as a master planner, listener, negotiator, and partner. By the end of this course, you will have mastered the skills necessary to be a compelling and credible salesperson. This online class has optional live sessions.

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ACADEMIC ADVISORS

Rize programs leverage the courses you already have:

Our Academic Partners will work directly with you to build a unique program leveraging and integrating courses you already have in your catalog.
A potential Professional Sales major could look like this:
Example courses from your institution
Accounting/Finance
Business Law
Business Communication
Marketing
Business Management/Leadership
Statistics
Micro/Macroeconomics
Courses from Rize
Relationship-Driven Professional Sales
Negotiation in Business & Sales
Sales Leadership
Advanced Relationship-Driven Professional Sales

Real-World Courses Taught by Qualified Professional & Academic Experts in the Sales Field

Each Rize program has a dedicated curriculum committee comprised of faculty & industry experts in the program's subject area.

These experts understand the needs of hiring managers in related industries to ensure courses are current and professionally relevant.

Students love their Rize courses

“The projects we had to do were very motivating… It sparked interest in me, got the light going in my brain - I loved doing the projects!”
Cole B.
Walsh University
“Rize has given me an opportunity to add something to my degree. Something that I wanted to find at my school but wasn’t there.”
Chisunta C.
Albertus Magnus College
“Class experience is amazing!”
Mary D.
Mary Baldwin University
“It’s helped me know what I want to do in my career because of how immersive the assignments are.”
Jacob J.
Lasell University
“Even though everything was online… it still felt like the same kind of small classroom that I really enjoy, and that’s why I chose my college - so I kinda got that same experience even thru the computer.”
Summer R.
Lasell University
"One of the things I liked about [it] was getting to meet new people from different colleges and getting to hear new experiences and opinions."
Kara B.
Lasell University

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References

1 Gray Decision Intelligence Program Evaluation System

1 Gray Decision Intelligence Program Evaluation System
https://www.graydi.us/