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Employee Management

Five Sales Recruiting Strategies for Finding Top Sales Talent

How well does your business find, recruit, and hire high-performing sales reps and key sales talent? Do your methods lead to reliable hires and replicable success? Or do your sales recruitment efforts too often send you back to “square one” after you’ve invested considerable time, effort, and money on an underperforming sales rep with no “upside?” If your direct sales recruiting process repeatedly falls short, it’s likely your overall sales recruiting strategies are a root cause. With that in mind, here are five critical sales recruiting strategies: Understand Your Current Sales Recruiting Approach Does your company use a strategic method …

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Professionals strategizing to hire top sales talent
Hiring/Onboarding

Hiring a Sales Professional? Use Fresh Strategies to ‘Sell’ Your Organization to Top Talent

Management, leadership and success guru Peter Drucker wrote that “One-third [of staffing decisions] are outright failures. In no other area of management would we put up with such dismal performance.” And yet, even in today’s highly competitive hiring landscape where job seekers increasingly have the upper hand and can set their expectations (and often name their price), organizations continue to recruit sales talent the same old ways. Drucker also provided a mantra for ending this worn-out recruiting and hiring cycle: “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.” With that in mind, here are some fresh ways to change …

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Sales Strategies to Close the Deal
Sales Strategy

Five Emerging Sales Strategies and How to Use Them

Emerging Sales Strategies and How to Use Them to Close the Deal Sales has gone through a rapid and deep evolution in the past 50 years. A few short years ago, it was the norm for salespeople to reach out to potential buyers without knowing anything about them. It was difficult to find the decision makers and get past the gatekeepers, and with very little knowledge about possible buyers, we often struggled with what to say or do to make an impression. Today, a simple search on a company’s website or third-party platform like LinkedIn will provide sales teams with information …

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Hiring sales talent
Competition

How to Secure Sales Talent by Talking Compensation During Recruiting

Over the past 12 to 18 months, changes in sales compensation can be attributed to a combination of factors including the pandemic, rising inflation, continued supply chain issues, and a tight job market due to the “Great Resignation.” These all have created the perfect storm of employers, both small and large, having a greater appreciation for sales and opening markedly more sales positions. In the past, companies would try to apply a lower compensation model for new or replacement roles by offering base salary plus variable commission. Today, if a company is targeting great sales talent, a competitive compensation package is a …

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Corporate Travel
Entrepreneur/Startup

Looking Forward to Endless Hours in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles? Here’s an Alternative…

Chances are that if you’ve had a long career in corporate sales leadership, you can relate to the travails of Neal Page, the character portrayed by Steve Martin in the classic road trip comedy, Plains, Trains and Automobiles. As the film opens, Neal is in New York, pitching an ad campaign to a decidedly indecisive client. His frustration grows and the client ends up putting off the decision until after the Thanksgiving holiday. Suddenly, Neal must scramble to make a flight home – to Chicago – so he can spend the holiday with his family. It’s where he wants to …

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Successful Business Woman
Sales Consulting

True Success is Yours for the Making

“There is only one success: To be able to spend your life in your own way.” These are the words of twentieth-century “lion of literature” Christopher Morley. Do they describe your outlook on success, too? It’s important to understand that Morley did more than merely talk about success; he made it happen – his way. Morley authored more than 100 novels. He wrote volumes of poetry and books of essays. He was an Oxford University-educated Rhodes Scholar, journalist, theatrical producer, and college lecturer. He walked the talk, accomplished remarkable things, and made a difference in the lives of others by …

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