Sales and business development academy
Spurt Academy teaches the revenue skills you are usually expected to learn under pressure: prospecting, customer conversations, relationship management, negotiation, closing, upselling, and performance tracking.
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Companies that implement a formalized, structured sales process experience an 18% increase in total revenue.Harvard Business Review
Meet your facilitators
John is a GIZ and GOPA-certified trainer, facilitator, and coach in entrepreneurship and employability. He has trained thousands of professionals and founders in business growth, communication, branding, organizational development, and sales readiness.
David brings more than two decades of experience across banking operations, product marketing, customer acquisition, relationship management, and business development. He now helps organizations adopt digital financial solutions that improve efficiency and profitability.
Tinah is a certified master trainer, facilitator, and coach who has trained more than 20,000 people across Nigeria. Her work spans sales, business development, strategic management, access to finance, communication, and private-sector development.
Onyeka is an EdTech leader, gender policy advisor, and global communications expert. Through ALI GLOBAL and DBD GLOBAL, she builds leadership infrastructure, facilitates high-stakes conversations, and turns strategy into practical programs.
Define the right customer profile, source better leads, and build outreach rhythms that keep conversations moving.
Build trust, read buyer priorities, handle pressure calmly, and make each next step clear.
Use pipeline data, conversion rates, and deal reviews to see what is working and where revenue is leaking.
Why Spurt exists
Sales is often treated like confidence, charisma, or luck. Spurt treats it like a system: know the buyer, create a pipeline, run better conversations, manage relationships, close with discipline, and use data to improve.
The revenue pathway
Understand sales as value exchange, problem-solving, and structured communication.
Find the right people, reach them effectively, and start useful conversations.
Turn interest into commitment while protecting value and expanding opportunities.
Keep customers, grow accounts, and build longer-term revenue value.
Use conversion rates, sales cycle data, forecasting, and dashboards to improve results.
What you practice
Learn how to define target buyers, source leads, and build outreach systems that do not run dry.
Build trust, leverage empathy, validate emotions, listen actively, and demonstrate competence.
Use metrics, dashboards, and pipeline analysis to refine sales activity over time.
Run discovery, handle objections, negotiate value, close confidently, and identify upsell opportunities.
Read sales metrics, find bottlenecks, forecast outcomes, and turn data into better decisions.
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Enrollment, learning access, and the academy community are hosted on VarsityScape.
