Corporate Strategies provides consulting for a full range of sales, sales management, training, customer service, and profitability issues. Currently, we are working with distributors on:   Redesigning their selling systems. Creating more effective sales management systems. Improving customer service. Cash planning and improving profitability. Designing comprehensive company-wide training programs. For examples of CS/Consulting projects and our effectiveness   CLICK HERE.   Consultants Chuck Holmes is president of Corporate Strategies, Inc., and is the author of several technical and professional selling publications for distribution-related associations and publications, including the widely-used inside sales training program New Directions in Inside Sales. Chuck is a faculty member at the University of Industrial Distribution, the University of Electrical Distribution and the PHCP Institute of Distribution Management. He has appeared as a speaker and seminar leader for a number of distribution associations including the Industrial Distribution Association, the Safety Equipment Distributors Association, the National Association of Hose and Accessory Distributors, the Independent Sealing Distributors, the Southern Wholesalers Association, National Electronic Distributors Association, the National Automotive Parts Association, and the International Sanitary Supply Association. Bill Goldberg consults with companies on operational and profitability issues. Over the last seventeen years, Goldberg has completed more than four dozen business sales, acquisition, mergers, and refinancings; analyzed and appraised, or prepared and implemented business plans for dozens of companies; directed the turnaround of a $4,000,000 manufacturing and distribution company from imminent bankruptcy to profitability within fifteen months; and worked with a number of companies in dealing with partnership problems, creditor and lender difficulties, and difficulties with vendors. Terry Carnes, Vice President, CS/Training, is a recognized and respected leader in training and performance improvement. He has more than 20 years experience in the field. In addition to owning his own consulting company, he has helped build training units in a variety of organizations — Fujitsu/DMR, Home Depot, Security First Technologies — including, most recently, a Fortune 500 international distributor of office machines and services, IKON Office Solutions.

New from Corporate Strategies     Online Inside Sales Training   Inside Sales for the New Century, an online, selp-paced course for new and experienced inside salespeople is now open for enrollment at the Center for Distribution Education. For details on the course, Click Here     Corporate Strategies Launches Training Management Practice   Contending that dollars spent on training should be returned multiplied to the bottom line, Corporate Strategies, Inc. has launched a consulting practice that will manage training for distributors. Dubbed "ROI Training," the methodology used by CSI builds and manages a curriculum-based training plan for clients and provides evaluations in terms of behaviors, direct results and bottom line results. To learn more about ROI Training, Click Here