University of
San Diego
The University of San Diego is answering the demand for high-impact sales training that can be immediately implemented to achieve the bottom-line results you envision as a high-achieving professional, entrepreneur, or business leader.
Short, high-impact, apprentice-like sales programs ensure business owners their employees have the skills they need to grow their business, and that job seekers have the tools they need to find good jobs. Certified instructors engage and mentor trainees in real-world case studies, role plays, and assignments. Graduates are armed with relevant, transferable, digitally badged competencies.
2021 Professional Sales Programs at USD
Stackable, affordable, apprentice-like programs are designed to empower students to realize life-changing opportunities. Certified instructors engage trainees in real-world case studies, role plays, and assignments. Graduates are armed with immediately transferable, digitally badged competencies that, according to the Sales Education Foundation, position them to receive more job offers with higher average starting salaries than non-trained counterparts. These educated sales professionals will ramp up faster, exhibit superior performance, and have higher job satisfaction than those without similar sales education.
PROFESSIONAL SALES READY
ENROLL NOW IN FALL 1 SESSION
CLASS STARTS SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
FALL 2: OCTOBER 25 | WINTER 1: NOVEMBER 15 | WINTER 2: DECEMBER 13
Explore 18 professional sales roles and learn sales skill applications through real-world, role-play simulations, group activities, guest speakers, and individual assignments.
Master Virtanza's 4-Step Sales Cycle, including prospecting and marketing outreach, needs assessment, solution presentation, and creating ROI.
Explore real-world sales technology, sales enablement tools, and sales planning activities.
Earn FIVE Salesforce.com Lightning for Trailhead Badges
Assess your sales aptitude and position your strengths to land a professional sales role and career pathway in which you can develop to high-level sales consulting, sales management, and executive sales roles.
TUITION: $5,600.00
SCHEDULE/HOURS: 12-14 Modules, 7-8 Weeks, 2x/wk
SALES FOR ENTREPRENEURS
ENROLL NOW IN FALL 1 SESSION
CLASS STARTS SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
FALL 2: OCTOBER 265 | WINTER 1: NOVEMBER 16
Master Virtanza's 4-Step Sales Cycle, including prospecting and marketing outreach, needs assessment, solution presentation, and creating ROI.
Learn how to create a strategic sales plan, your competitive differentiation, and the value proposition you offer to your customer
Create an organization to accelerate sales
Create a customer pitch deck, and value prop
Participate in role-plays and group discussion with other Entrepreneurs and guest speakers
TUITION: $1,800.00
SCHEDULE/HOURS: Eight (8) modules; each virtual class for 2 hours, and additional time is spent outside of class on assignments.
SALES MANAGEMENT ONE
ENROLL NOW IN FALL 1 SESSION
CLASS STARTS SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
FALL 2: OCTOBER 26 | WINTER 1: NOVEMBER 16 | WINTER 2: DECEMBER 14
Research and develop a comprehensive go-to-market plan.
Analyze market, solution fit, revenue model, and organizational factors to design a sales territory plan.
Communicate sales, performance, and compensation-related information effectively.
Describe the benefits of CRM technology to develop and encourage acceptance and adoption by sellers.
Deploy best practices in staffing and recruitment.
Perform sales compensation planning and develop revenue goals from the individual to the organization level.
TUITION: $4,500.00
WHAT TO EXPECT: Twelve (12) weeks, twelve (12) modules; each virtual class meets 2x per week for 90 minutes, and additional time is spent outside of class on assignments.
SALES MANAGEMENT TWO
ENROLL NOW IN FALL. 1SESSION
CLASS STARTS SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
FALL 2: OCTOBER 28 | WINTER 1: NOVEMBER 18 | WINTER 2: DECEMBER 16
Build on skills and lessons from Sales Management One
Capitalize on sales cycles and use data to forecast and communicate revenue and identify upcoming challenges
Develop an ‘executive voice’ for managing and communicating with various audiences
TUITION: $4,500.00
WHAT TO EXPECT: Twelve (12) weeks, twelve (12) modules; each virtual class meets 2x per week for 90 minutes, and additional time is spent outside of class on assignments.
“Honestly, this class helped build my confidence in levels I never knew I had. I told Bernice this, but this class was able to help me land a career in sales prior to having ZERO field experience. So it’s honestly worth the time and money.”
The Sales Education Stack at USD
is eligible for tuition payment plans through trusted partners.
Virtanza strives to provide high-quality, secure, and diverse financing options for adult students of all types who cannot immediately afford to enroll in a sales program. These options are above and beyond what an individual school may offer through local, government or other financial workforce development support.
Virtanza Courses = Transferrable Credits Towards a Degree
The American Council on Education’s College Credit Recommendation Service (ACE CREDIT®) has evaluated and recommended college credit in the lower-division baccalaureate/associate degree category, 4 semester hours in business communications, sales, or marketing of the Virtanza Sales Training and Certification course. Founded in 1918, ACE is the major coordinating body for all the nation’s higher education institutions. For more information, visit the ACE CREDIT website.
The ACE CREDIT logo is a federally registered trademark of the American Council on Education and cannot be reproduced without express written permission of the American Council on Education.
Raise Your Expectations.
High-Impact
Experiential Learning
Highly Qualified, Individualized Instruction
Deep Dives Into Sales Technology & Enablement
Immediately Transferable
Skills + digital badge
COMING SOON!
Build and Present
Your Sales Profile
to Hiring Employers.
Virtanza has established and continues to build a network of potential employers as resources. Employers provide sales role plays for curriculum, sponsor sales internship programs, and offer sales position placement opportunities for program graduates. In Spring 2021, Virtanza’s Employer Portal will allow program graduates to personally introduce themselves to hiring managers with a Professional Sales Profile.