Do You Have the Right Mindset To Build a Sales Team?
Last week I was speaking with a business owner who told me it’s time to focus on building their sales team. What am I thinking as he says it? That’s great news
Last week I was speaking with a business owner who told me it’s time to focus on building their sales team. What am I thinking as he says it? That’s great news
Your pipeline is looking thin. The sales process is longer than last year. Prospects ghost your sales team. Your business is missing key targets. You’re trying to figure out how to achieve
It’s especially challenging to spot red flags when hiring salespeople. After all, salespeople are trained to sell. And what should they be most skilled at selling? You guessed, it: themselves. While you
It’s not uncommon for successful sales professionals to be offered promotions into sales management jobs. This is especially common when your company is building its revenue generation system and the business owner
Before you grab that overpriced water bottle at the airport on your way to a conference, answer this question: Do you know how to generate leads at events? You might think you
There are 10 critical sales hunting skills every successful hunter possesses. When you are hiring a salesperson to hunt, you want to be sure your candidate has these skills before you hire. If your
Hiring salespeople is hard. You’ve tried and failed multiple times, always falling back on a principal-led sales model. You have one, two or even three salespeople on staff, all missing quota. Even
The most difficult sales position to fill is that of a hunter. A higher percentage of salespeople are cut out for account management, where clients already exist and the job is client
A popular approach to hiring sales reps is to hire fast and fire fast. If you’re going to do that, there are several things you have to take into consideration. Considerations When
Sometimes results aren’t always in your sales rep’s control. But their performance is, and that’s what you should be tracking through the sales cycle. Are they making the calls and are they
Salespeople, as a rule, tend to be bright and outgoing. That’s a good thing! But, managers often make the mistake of hiring the shiniest one, rather than the one who is the
Today I was working with a client setting KPIs (key performance indicators) for a new business development sales rep he wants to hire. We calculated the number of sales they need the
When business owners hire senior sales reps, they often make a dangerous assumption: Because of their previous experience, those reps require minimal training and can simply be turned loose to deliver big
One of the most common questions that I receive from business owners is why seemingly satisfied sales reps occasionally decide to jump ship. If they truly are satisfied with other aspects of
Many sales reps are capable of generating leads and nurturing opportunities, but only the best (and, really, the most valuable) salespeople possess true closing competency. Find out the three techniques for identifying
Most salespeople will tell you they’re effective cold callers. The reality, however, is that very few actually thrive in that role. How can you identify salespeople with proven cold calling track records?
You’ve built it, now how do you get people to attend your training program? You might assume that just because you listed it in the learning management system or an executive said
Every salesperson wants – and, really, needs – to achieve the sales targets that are set for them. But true sales success and greatness is often measured by more than that. In
This is an interesting question, both because there isn’t any single right answer, and because it’s one you only ever find yourself asking when things aren’t going the way you hoped they
Key performance indicators can help set better goals for sales reps Sales managers often rush to judgment if sales reps aren’t meeting their quotas, and automatically assume that they either don’t have
Even with the slow recovery in the job market the competition for seasoned sales and management experts remains high. Translation: Retaining your best employees could become increasingly difficult in the year ahead.
This is a rhetorical question, but if you’ve found yourself on that all too common sales carousel, where you just can’t seem to find the right person to help grow your business,
Nothing is more frustrating than investing the time to identify the need, design, develop, and deliver great sales training and then discover that sellers aren’t implementing what they learned when they get
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