Top Sales Awards Winners and the Inductees to the Sales Hall of Fame

Yesterday Gerhard Gschwandtner and Jonathan Farrington hosted the first annual Top Sales Awards ceremony.  During the ceremony Gerhard and Jonathan interviewed some of the top sales thinkers in world Such as Jill Konrath, Art Sobczak, Dave Stein, Linda Richardson, and many others. 

But, of course, the heart of the show was announcing the winners of the Top Sales Awards.  There were 10 award categories with a gold, silver and bronze winner in each category.

Thanks to those of you who voted for me, I am pleased and honored to say that I won a gold medal for the Top Sales Article of 2010 and a bronze for third place in the Top Sales Blog category.

Wow, a gold and bronze.  Pretty amazing.

Then to top the week off, this morning my most recent book, Bust Your Slump: A Dozen Slump Busting Strategies to Fill Your Pipeline in 30 Days was named one of the best sales books of 2010 by RainToday.  I’m proud the book was named as one of the 10 finalists for Top Sales Book of 2010 (the winners were Art Sobczak, the silver went to Jill Konrath, and the bronze to Tibor Shanto and Craig Elias for Shift), and thrilled to be named one of the best along with books by such notibles as Tom Peters, Seth Godin, John Jantsch by RainToday.

Three categories in particular should be highlighted:

Top Sales Personality of 2010:  Jill Konrath.  Jill has had an incredible year—one that few could dream of.  Very, very well deserved recognition.  Congratulations, Jill.

Top Sales Star of 2010:  There were six Top Sales Stars in the running.  All tremendous salespeople—and all originally nominees of the AllBusiness Top Sales Pro contest.  The gold went to Ian Moyse; the silver to Jaki Glenn; and the bronze to Joby Pearson.  Congratulations to all three.

Top Sales Hall of Fame:  The first class inducted into the Top Sales Hall of Fame included: 

Bill Brooks
Zig Ziglar
Linda Richardson
Earl Nightingale
Keith Rosen
Jeffrey Gitomer
Neil Rackham
Dr. Tony Alessandra
Brian Tracy
Gerhard Gschwandtner

All are more than deserving of the honor and most are still working with thousands of sellers every year.

If you missed voting for your favorites or attending the internet based ceremony, don’t miss it next year.