As the country starts to open up again, sales teams around the country are tentatively reaching out to customers to test their receptiveness. The art of selling products/services involves building a connection with potential buyers. Whether it’s a salesperson on a shopping floor, or sales executive on the brink…...
5 Ways to Get Great Results from Your Sales Team!
Is your sales team struggling to meet their quotas? While even the best sales pros experience one or two bad months per year, witnessing deteriorating performance month after month should be a cause for concern. Not only is your sales team responsible for selling a brand's products or services,…...
6 Ways to Use a Whiteboard to Track Team Activity and Boost Your Business
With current growth projections among the leading companies in the U.S. becoming increasingly optimistic, developing innovative strategies that keep employees motivated and productive has become imperative in order to be competitive. In today’s candidate driven market, it is essential for a company’s long-term health to be able to not…...
How To Develop Sales Training Programs That Work
Companies spend more money in the quest for customers than on any other aspect of their business. A big chunk of that expense is invested in sales, especially the recruitment, compensation, and training of sales people. When hiring a new salesperson, it makes sense to squeeze as much return on…...
5 Secrets to Building a Motivating Sales Commission Plan
Common sense tells us that the more lucrative the compensation plan, the stronger the candidates you will be able to attract for a sales position. But the best plan one company develops may not work for another firm. What one candidate for a sales job considers lucrative may be unacceptable…...
Benefits from Hiring Sales Leaders from Outside the Industry
When faced with the need to hire a new sales manager, it is natural to consider looking within the industry. However, there is compelling data to suggest that bringing in a sales manager from outside the industry can provide additional benefits. The sales and marketing functions are diverse and decentralized. If…...
Time Invested in Training Tomorrows Sales Leaders, Pays Big Dividends TODAY!
Business executives can be forgiven for not wanting to think about a key, upper sales management employee leaving the firm. They cannot, however, be forgiven for not planning how to deal with such a possibility. Planning for changes in the sales leadership environment will not only pay off when…...
Hiring Strategies to Build the Best Sales Team
The way you organize your sales team and structure their activities plays an integral role in the type of salesperson who will be successful in your firm. To maximize your chance of hiring a great representative, align your company’s organizational structure with its business model, and then hire candidates with…...
Infographic; Key Traits of Successful Salespeople
After recruiting sales professionals for 25 years now, we have learned that beyond charisma and likability, there are very specific skills, as well as distinct characteristics that when combined, result in those unique individuals that excel in sales roles. When you look at someone that has consistently met and exceeded…...
Top 4 Characteristics Of A Competent Paints And Coating Industry Salesperson
Improving customer loyalty, increasing sales, and driving sales gains. These are the top goals within any industry. The million-dollar question is always HOW to attain those goals. The sales skills needed to achieve those goals differ within different industries. Within those industries, there are also different skills required when…...
10 Ways to Motivate Your Sales Team
After being a sales recruiter for 25 years now, there are a few things that I have learned about Sales people. First of all, I have learned that the Paredo Principle is real and that it applies to sales people more than any other group of people we recruit for.…...
Should You Make Your Top Rep Your Sales Manager?
You have an opening for a sales manager. Your rainmaker is vying for the role. He is outstanding in sales and has helped you make the number every year. Should you move him into the managers chair? When considering promoting a star sales performer into management, tread slowly. There…...
Can Sales Success Be Predicted?
Since our inception in 1999, our sales recruiters have been asked thousands of times how to best predict sales success. We used to say that the best indicator of future behavior is past behavior, so would target candidates that had achieved success in prior sales roles. Thanks to dramatic…...
ISC Sales Recruiters Share Tips on Increasing Your Acceptance Rate When Extending SALES Job Offers
High performing Sales professionals are coveted, and rightly so, considering the revenue that an impact player can make on bottom line profitability. Key producers in certain geographic regions and industries are heavily courted in today’s candidate driven market. It is important to keep in mind that there is a…...
3 Tips For Hiring Talented Medical Device Sales Pros
With a deep pool of potential medical sales rep candidates to choose from, one would think that hiring the right individual to share your products with medical providers would be a breeze. Unfortunately, overabundance often results in more confusion, and costs more time as you try to determine which…...
