Filling a sales position means finding a candidate who understands the sales pipeline and their role in managing it. After all, the sales pipeline is an important part in a company’s success, as creating and maintaining it is essential for earning new sales and delighting customers. Sales pipelines help business…...
Tips on Establishing Your Own Sales Hiring Process
Whether it be deciding on the right time to hire salespeople or identifying potential candidates, developing a sales hiring process will certainly help streamline recruitment decisions. A clear and comprehensive sales hiring process can save resources, reduce turnover, and produce an efficient sales team. Devising a thorough process in objective…...
To Succeed in Sales You Need to Throw Out These Misconceptions
To succeed in sales, you have to be an extrovert and a natural at it. That’s straight-up nonsense! Many sales professionals get into the profession because they’ve been told they’re a natural. And sometimes, aspiring salespeople think they’re not cut out for the job because they’re introverts. Both of these assumptions…...
Virtual Sales Team: 8 Tips for Managing a Successful Team
Managing virtual sales teams is becoming a common theme in the workplace. As times change, so does the average worker. Many companies are turning to virtual sales teams to save money on office space and create a flexible working atmosphere. This trend will most likely continue to increase with the…...
The Secrets of a Motivated Sales Team
What motivates us? It’s a question we rarely ask ourselves. You might have read Steve Jobs’ biography four times cover-to-cover or have a motivational sales quote or two on your coffee mug. Beyond that, our motivation often feels like something slightly vague, even to ourselves. Are we sweating toward our…...
What Is Sales Management?
Sales management is how sales managers organize, motivate, and lead their sales reps while tracking — and improving — team performance. This includes hiring top talent, training sales staff, coordinating operations across the sales department, and implementing a cohesive sales strategy that drives business revenues. Think of it like a…...
How to Build a World Class Sales Team
Hiring is never a simple process, and it becomes even more intensive when hiring managerial positions. These are the leaders of your team — the people who inspire and motivate. The procedure of hiring a sales manager is multi-layered because it’s a position that involves many different hats. Depending on…...
Five Ways Collaborative Leaders Can Help Their Teams Succeed
In today’s current market conditions, leaders need to accept that the success of their teams and their companies will rely heavily on striking a collaborative, coordinated balance between creative strategic thinking and effective implementation. The previous model of leadership through top-down, silo-driven ‘command and control’ thinking will no longer suffice.…...
Hiring the Right Salesperson
Hiring the right salesperson for your team can be a hassle. They can have all the right experience, results, and seem like an ideal fit during an interview. But, there are few things worse as a sales leader than investing time, money, and energy in hiring someone only to realize down the…...
What to Expect of Great Sales Leadership
“How do I build a great sales culture at my company?” I get that question often from small business owners. And what I always share is that it starts with your leaders. When hiring for sales leadership roles, you have to think well beyond just promoting an experienced account executive…...
4 Characteristics To Look For When Building A Sales Team
When your business begins to take off, it is necessary to start expanding your team to cover all the important roles. Some of the most crucial roles that help your business succeed belong to the sales team. These staff members are responsible for boosting your company’s sales and ensuring that all…...
What does high-performing teams mean?
What is a team? In nearly every organisation, you will find that work functions require teams. We have sales teams, marketing teams, IT teams, temporary teams, project teams – the list goes on. The group of leaders at the top are usually referred to as the executive or leadership team.…...
Sales Hiring Mistakes to Avoid When Building a Sales Team
In the previous article, we talked about how to hire a phenomenal sales team. However, hiring sales representatives is no piece of cake and mistakes are bound to happen. As a sales honcho, you need to be extremely cautious and prudent while onboarding new sales personnel because wrong hiring decisions can…...
How to Motivate Your Sales Team: 9 Tried-and-True Strategies
Motivation is more than Vince Lombardi quotes and quirky posters on the wall. It’s one of the most important components of sustained sales success over time. As a sales manager or director, you can only influence your team’s sales performance in two dimensions: Their skill set (what they can do)…...
8 strategic tips on how to sustain a high-performing sales team
In sales, you are only as good as your last deal. Every day, week, month, or quarter is a fresh start where, once again, your team needs to gear up and deliver. Great sales leaders are able to push or pull a team whether they are at 120% or at…...
5 Steps for Hiring High-Performing Sales Reps
An article from OpenView Ventures found that north of 25% of sales reps will fail in their role. HubSpot found that it takes 18 or more calls for the average salesperson to connect with the average lead. Further, callback rates are south of 1 percent, and less than one in four sales emails are…...
