For every sports sales professional managing a staff, listening to account rep phone calls can be a nightmare of storage and selection. Steve Richard of ExecVision thinks he can help, offering a digital organization training tool that fosters overall account rep growth, through a coaching interaction mechanism. Richard talks about some of the issues surrounding phone coaching, whether he feels the phone call is dying or dead, and how to engage in sales conversations. Twitter: @srichardv

Included in this premium episode are three interviews done for the Yahoo! Sports Radio side of things that include: Tony Iliakostas from Law & Batting Order discussing NFL Black Monday coaches firing picks, as well as the 2014 sports law scene and what to expect in 2015; Fightnomics Reed Kuhn breaking down UFC 182 and some of the different issues surrounding the sport of MMA; Forbes contributor Mark Burns shares his 85+ sourced article on where sports business professionals feel that the industry will be in 2015.

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