Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ College of Business Administration students emerged as champions at the 2014 International Collegiate Sales Competition (ICSC) hosted in Orlando at the Rosen Centre Hotel, making this the first-ever ICSC championship for our Professional Selling Program.<\/p>\n
The ICSC puts students\u2019 selling skills to the test in a challenge to create a sales solution to improve a given company\u2019s financial situation. The competition is owned and operated by the Florida State University Sales Institute. This year\u2019s company of choice was Tom James custom suits.<\/p>\n
32 teams with 2 students each competed \u2013 meaning a total of 64 competitors. In addition to the team championship, student Dan Berreth emerged as the winner in the individual competition. Teammate Stephanie Pitts was also a finalist. Cyndi Gundy and Bill Steiger, instructors in the Professional Selling Program, served as team coaches for Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom day one we had the mindset that we were competing as a team, not as two alternates and two competitors, and that’s why we were able win the entire competition as well as 1st and 4th individually,\u201d said Catherine Bruno, team captain.<\/p>\n
In the past, Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ teams have participated and received top placement in national sales competitions such as the National Collegiate Sales Competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey continued the legacy of outstanding Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ team performance at national sales competitions. It\u2019s extremely rare for a school to get two students in the final four, but we did it,\u201d said Bill Steiger.<\/p>\n
The Professional Selling Track is a prestigious, specialized program offered by the Department of Marketing in the Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ College of Business Administration. The program accepts no more than 35 outstanding students each year that show potential and promise in sales. The program boasts a 95% after-graduation job placement rate; the remainder go on to graduate school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ College of Business Administration students emerged as champions at the 2014 International Collegiate Sales Competition (ICSC) hosted in Orlando at the Rosen Centre Hotel, making this the first-ever ICSC championship for our Professional Selling Program. The ICSC puts students\u2019 selling skills to the test in a challenge to create a sales solution to improve a given company\u2019s financial situation.…","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":62938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4,31,27],"tags":[7156],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-62937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-college-of-business-administration","category-student-life","tag-professional-selling-program"],"yoast_head":"\n