But they were looking for good telephone sales people who wanted to make the move into financial sales.
And he estimates he's put in 60 hours a week to hit the kind of sales he's wanted.
Instead, consider why you bought it in the first place: Maybe you expected a certain percentage growth in sales, or you wanted to get into a market sector you thought was going to heat up, or you heard about a company bringing out a compelling new product or that some other catalyst would increase its value?
Marketing wanted to ride-along on sales calls to better understand what they were facing, they wanted to review past interactions and dig deep into the account plan.
The snackmaker was experimenting with branded machines carrying only its products and wanted to track sales to learn what machines and locations were most effective.
But despite the side effect, patients with severe MS wanted Tysabri, and sales were growing at a double-digit clip.
One of my department managers decided he wanted to be in sales.
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Siri drove iPhone 4S sales even when consumers were expected and wanted a new form factor.
But reams of sales data weren't what Roberts wanted when customers were upset with lousy food, slow service, sloppy stores and surly employees.
He had a client who worked in sales at a traditional financial institution and wanted to become an analyst for a hedge fund.
Marlin Coffee, who is in charge of sales, had read about the museum and wanted to contribute two lids to Mr. Smith's collection.
Babycenter.com wanted to add keywords to help build sales to new and expectant parents.
We told them that over the next few weeks, which tended to be rife with after Christmas inventory clearing sales, they could spend it on whatever they wanted.
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Most of their newspapers have re-branded their help-wanted sections as CareerBuilder and now the sales force is up-selling recruiters and employers by offering package deals of online and newspaper ads.
Stuart Wetherell, sales director at Wicksteed Leisure, said its construction firm wanted to branch out into new markets to maintain relevance.
For years, the renewables business has wanted to reach the point where, as sales volumes grew, prices dropped, making renewables more attractive, and stimulating demand.
In the past, sales reps designed products and services based on what the customer wanted, without consulting the technicians who were going to do the work.
The manufacturing industry, by contrast, wanted software that integrated purchasing, inventory, production and sales.
They wanted to know more details on how we would drive sales.
In late 2010, GM talked of selling 45, 000 Volts in 2012, with hints that it wanted to triple that figure for its overall electric car sales by 2015.
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In particular my father-in-law wanted to me to evaluate the claim that a national sales tax would solve the problem of large portions of the country paying no income tax.
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This meant that clearance sales might be muted this year, with many of the items that stores wanted to shift already having been sold.
RadioShack seemed to play its cards incorrectly during negotiations with Verizon in late 2005, when the provider wanted a bigger cut of the revenues from phone and calling plan sales.
On that basis, if you wanted to and still want to participate in the recovery of auto sales and forget about picking whether it will be Ford, General Motors, BMW or Mercedes-Benz that will have the best cars on offer this year.
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Michael Dell, who founded Dell out of his college dorm room in 1984, retook the CEO job in 2007 after sales faltered as rivals including Hewlett-Packard figured out sooner that computer users wanted stylized notebooks instead of the lost-cost, utilarian machines Dell was churning out.
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For instead of simply accelerating future purchases, moving them from the future to today (this was a time of severe recession in the UK so that could have been a decent tactic), or transferring sales from competitors to Hoover, what was actually happening was that people who wanted to visit the US bought a sucking machine.
Rojas wanted the job because it involved systems and data analysis, rather than sales.
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Stern got a platform where he could say anything he wanted to and Karmazin had a high-profile star to help boost sales.
In April, two sales Mr. Koh was negotiating on behalf of foreign sellers stalled when one Argentine buyer wanted to pay with gold bars and another offered a studio apartment as partial payment.
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Again, I think if we were talking about robust auto sales, my guess is the second questioner might not have posed whether or not we wanted to see GM restructured in or out of bankruptcy.
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