Sales generators

Been looking around for a while now for another 'right person' to come on board at Print Hut! Plenty of print for Everyone! However, we seem as a nation / industry to have forgotton what a sales role is. Too many are not predatory sales generators, but wishy washy account management people and none have been professionally trained as a salesman or woman. Where has the skill set of 'human engineering' gone. It was once said that the ability to effect someones decision at the piont of purchase was as great a valuable comodity as coffee, sugar or petrol. Is there actually a course in the UK for print sales training. Judging by the general rhetoric I see amongst fellow operators in this industry I would say not, but will stand corrected.