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NSANZ 2007-2008 PRESIDENT'S AWARD

Bill James is known internationally as ‘The Referral Craftsman’ and is indeed a master of his trade – known for his catch phrase “Let’s get crafty!”

Bill has been training for 17 years and founded the Inspired Learning Systems brand. A national sales manager of a recognised insurance company at 26, he has a huge reservoir of experience and achievements to bring to the table. Having negotiated multinational multimillion dollar contracts right down to selling a dining club door to door, his techniques and ideas have been proven time and again in all walks of sales life.

An internationally recognised prize winning speaker (and current President of the National Speakers Association for Auckland) and facilitator, Bill has proven his referral marketing ideas across a wide range of industries while specialising in the service industries, especially finance as an insurance. He now speaks, trains and facilitates to a variety of companies, assisting in innovative and incredibly effective new business generation tools and systems.

He is known as ‘The Referral Craftsman’ and has an enviable sales track record of his own:

Winner of many nationally recognised sales awards

Consistently beating all sales targets, sometimes by as much as 430%

Quadrupling the size of a bank branch in 4 years and achieving an annual target within 53 days

Increasing clients new business generation results by over 300%

Bill’s experience now sees him in demand within the training industry, often being asked to consult and deliver to sales training organisations, replacing their existing delivery with his in a bid to increase the quality of their delivery to clients.