Sales partnerships
Sales Partnerships, Inc. is a professional sales services company of outsourced sales.
History
Sales Partnerships (SPI) began in 1997 in Boulder, CO, later moving its headquarters to Denver, CO. Fred Kessler was the founder and majority equity holder in the corporation. As of 2008, Sales Partnerships had almost 200 employees in 5 US cities with additional cities being added during the 2008-2009 calendar years.
Focus
Sales Partnerships provides virtualized sales services for organizations seeking B2B representation. SPI builds the teams, recruits, trains and manages the sales representitives while closing sales, by using the brand of the client. The SPI sales teams report to the client akin to how a director of sales would report to a VP of sales inclusive of full reporting and documentation of work.
Staff
According to the Company's website, its leadership is composed of:
- Fred Kessler, President & CEO
- Aaron Kullman, COO
- Paul Murphy, Director of Business Development
- Chase Scott, Director of Human Resources
Awards
According to Selling Power magazine and the Stevie awards, Sales Partnerships was recognized in 2007 as the top sales outsourcing company in North America; the only time the award has been given to an American firm with sales operations in the United States exclusively.
Inc Magazine placed Sales Partnerships on the Inc5000 list (in 2007 and 2008) as one of the fastest growing companies in the world.