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As Good as Your Last Successful Hire - 10 Tips for Consistency

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. Most executives struggle at maintaining any kind of successful momentum when it comes to consistently hiring salespeople that actually succeed. It''s easy to hire a great salesperson who, when all is said and done, sucks. Back to sales. Just ask Ben Cherington! (c)

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Do you want to be a miner?

Sales 2.0

Sales has come a long way in the last decade when we started playing around with the concept of “social selling” and deploying “sales 2.0” When I first started writing about sales in 2007 my main angle was that we should “bring science to selling”. Everything seemed to be left up to the individual sales person.

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Factory worker or owner?

Sales 2.0

When I first started writing about sales in 2007 my main angle was that we should “bring science to selling”. As an engineer, I could not understand how we had applied virtually no science to how we sold. Everything seemed to be left up to the individual sales person. But what about sales people? SDRs have landed.

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From AE to CEO: Entrepreneurial Life Lessons with Asad Zaman

Sales Hacker

In the 200th episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Asad Zaman , CEO of Sales Talent Agency (STA), where he rose through the ranks from AE to CEO, earning recognition as Toronto’s Young Professional of the Year (2019). There are over 40K more sales jobs openings than salespeople. How COVID has affected sales salaries.

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Two Years Later, 10 Lessons From Taking ZoomInfo Public

Zoominfo

My co-founder and I maxed out our credit cards to start this business in 2007, and we didn’t have the insulation to run the company without regard for every cent. Did you hire the right people? It’s easy to hire the wrong person — it happens all the time. I was crazy vigilant about talent in sales. Trust your team.

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Do you want to be a miner?

Sales 2.0

Sales has come a long way in the last decade when we started playing around with the concept of “social selling” and deploying “sales 2.0” When I first started writing about sales in 2007 my main angle was that we should “bring science to selling”. Everything seemed to be left up to the individual sales person.

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BEYOND IT: The Breadth of DiscoverOrg’s Sales & Marketing Intelligence

DiscoverOrg Sales

Back when DiscoverOrg was founded in 2007, our goal was to provide sales and marketing professionals with accurate intelligence on IT decision-makers. However, another one is that in 2007 IT spending was hotter than it’s ever been. However, another one is that in 2007 IT spending was hotter than it’s ever been.