Sales Hacker

JUNE 10, 2021

There’s one thing recruiters are unanimous about. It’s that sales representatives are one of the toughest positions to hire for. The demand for sales reps is one of the highest of any job. Our recruitment team at EASI has gotten really good at this. The organization now employs about 50 salespeople. Positivity.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 12, 2020

And that means to keep up with today’s empowered buyer, the sales process needs to transform too. Whether your sales process relies on inbound leads or targeted outreach, whether you’re a big company or small, whether your sale is complex or simple; inbound sales is relevant. What is inbound sales?

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Steven Rosen

JUNE 20, 2019

Second line sales managers (SLM) don’t coach their FLMs on their coaching. The role of the frontline manager (FLM) is to recruit, develop, and retain top sales performers. By doing these basics well you will consistently crush your sales objectives. Your company has rolled out sales manager coaching training.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 9, 2023

If you’re looking to get into sales, not having a college degree can feel like a huge barrier to your career. But what if I told you that a degree isn't always required for a sales job? In this guide, we’ll explore how you can get into sales without a degree. Table of Contents What does it mean to work in sales?

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. This is Part 2. The Sales Recruiting and Selection Articles. Sales Selection and Recruiting remain a crucial function in improving sales performance. After all, don''t most of the sales performance problems just go away when you get hiring right?

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan There are more sales experts, self-professed and otherwise, than ever before. There is more free content on sales and selling than anyone could have imagined. There are categories of sales tools and CRM applications where none existed a few years ago. It seems to have worsened!

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Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

The success of your business depends on the success of your sales hiring process. The best companies always look for top talent and understand how hiring salespeople impacts their revenue growth. But, you need to focus on the perfect hiring profile and teach your sales managers how to nail it from the beginning. .

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Vengreso

MARCH 22, 2022

The success of your business depends on the success of your sales hiring process. The best companies always look for top talent and understand how hiring salespeople impacts their revenue growth. But, you need to focus on the perfect hiring profile and teach your sales managers how to nail it from the beginning. .

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Careers quickly stalled for those required to care for children or ailing parents, causing about 2 million women in the U.S. Sales teams, in particular, can greatly benefit from recruiting and retaining women. While sales remains a male-dominated industry, women in B2B sales roles tend to outperform their male counterparts.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Serving organizations ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 500 companies in the public sector, healthcare, education and commercial sectors, we needed to recruit sales professionals. “We Originally, Wright brought on Tellwise to mature their sales process, increase engagement and streamline processes and drive efficiency.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 24, 2021

Exceptional sales reps — the ones who are prepared to both dedicate and deliver — don't grow on trees. When you're interviewing for a sales role, you're bound to run into both kinds of candidates, so the question becomes, "How do I tell them apart?". Let's take a look! They don't demonstrate any evidence of a growth mindset.

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

“Our numbers are off substantially,” he said over lunch some time ago, “but our individual salespeople are making quota for the most part. What is killing us is turnover in salespeople. Territory turnover for this new sales manager isn’t unusual, but the solution can be evasive, expensive and humbling. The Situation.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 22, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The NY Times posted a story on June 20 about Google, their recruiting efforts, and big data. The story really doesn''t reveal that much but there is an interesting quote (that I will get to shortly) that is relevent to hiring salespeople. Sourcing - see my explanation for #2.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 17, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan One of the first emails I came across this morning was a LinkedIn update telling me that 16% of my network had started new jobs. 2 of them left my company, a bunch of them left clients, and another bunch took jobs with clients. That''s one of every 6.25 people I am connected to.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Now, it’s time to talk about people and that means talking about recruiting. Here are the big ideas about recruiting: You don’t have to like it; you just have to do it. Companies hiring salespeople do not hire talent intending for that talent to be average. Last year, you won 2. You must be excellent at it.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Eliot Burdett, CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting, explains why in this month’s guest post. Have B2B sales reps gone the way of CD players, the Rolodex, and analog radio—replaced by technology that gets the job done faster and better? Not so long ago clients looked to salespeople for information about our companies and products.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 11, 2019

Author: David Bernard The organization of a sales team is always relevant no matter what size a business is, whether a start-up, an SME or a Fortune 500 company. As teams add salespeople to increase their depth of talent, it is important for them to take into account the overall team structure. The size of the sales team.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 13, 2018

Whether companies operate as innovators in their respective technology fields who drive the marketplace (technology leaders) or focus and develop in a specific niche market (focused players), tech organizations can get bogged down by these advantages without having defined sales processes, leading to struggles with conversion.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Author: George Kriza, CEO, MTCPerformance Your organization wants to drive sales with an incentive program. That’s a great start, because great salespeople are money motivated and also crave recognition for their outstanding efforts. Know your audience: Profile the people in your sales audience. What is their demographic makeup?

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Zoominfo

APRIL 19, 2023

Coaching salespeople is not a new idea. It’s true that most sales professionals improve with experience, but if you can provide feedback and personalized goals, it’s possible to accelerate the learning process and get your sellers engaging with prospects faster. This is the time-tested practice of sales coaching.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 24, 2019

Selecting sales personnel is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, challenge for any organization. Failure to achieve revenue targets, manage customer relations, and deliver service can be traced directly to hiring salespeople unequipped to carry out their assigned roles. How to Build a Sales Team. Define the Ideal Profile.

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Pipeliner

MAY 17, 2019

Mark Gundlach, co-founder of Build Staffing Group, discusses why recruiting for sales can seem more difficult on the surface and what companies should be looking for when recruiting salespeople. This Sales Expert Interview covers: How to attract top salespeople. So you should really be constantly recruiting.

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criteria for success

APRIL 12, 2021

Happy Monday, Let's Talk Sales listeners! Charles has over 20 years of experience in direct sales, sales management, recruiting and training. The concept of a Sales Growth Team and shared accountability. Part 2: Utilizing Operating States for Effective Leadership. Listen & Subscribe to Let's Talk Sales.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 15, 2018

Many salespeople believe they won’t sound good if they read from a sales script. While I agree you should never read from a script when selling , a sales script can greatly improve your results by preparing you with the best questions and lines to say and ask. First, let’s walk through the sales script creation process.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 11, 2023

Your sales team plays an essential role in driving revenue and reaching goals that stretch across the organization. If any of your top salespeople leave your company, you may fall behind. So should you be worried about churn in your sales department? Sales teams have higher-than-average turnover rates than other business units.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The InMail feature is only available to Premium and Sales Navigator users. Depending on your plan, you get 3 (Career) to 30 (Recruiter Lite) InMail credits per month. If you don’t have a Premium, Recruiter, or Sales Navigator plan, clicking this button will prompt you to upgrade. Recruiting InMail Examples and Template.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 22, 2021

There are a million reasons why personalized content is widely promoted as a sales and marketing best practice, one of them being that it’s more effective than any kind of ‘spray and pray’ method. You can learn a lot about your existing customers through surveys, and sales and CRM data. That’s where personalized content comes in.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Author: Charlotte Powell You don’t need a big sales team to make a lot of money. Small sales teams can perform incredibly well if you get the right balance of skills, motivation, and resources. How can you inspire your sales team to go above and beyond? Even small sales teams need a sales toolkit.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The podcast shares stories of salespeople — from CEOs to financial planners to actresses — about how they landed some of the biggest deals of their career. But he drives home the importance of building a sales platform, showing prospects that the value of ZoomInfo is more than just the sum of its parts.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. See Part 2 here. While the majority of the 1,200 articles that I have written and posted on this blog in the past 8 years are about the sales force, sales management, sales leadership and sales recruiting, I write about selling more than I ever expected to.

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Vengreso

JUNE 6, 2023

Top earners in sales use top sales strategies to attain their success. Brown , the CEO of CEO Sales Strategies and a Sales Revenue and Profit Growth Expert. Brown , the CEO of CEO Sales Strategies and a Sales Revenue and Profit Growth Expert. For this week’s episode, I am joined by Doug C.

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Braveheart Sales

JUNE 29, 2021

It seems sales hiring is heating up and that means we are having more and more conversations about compensation. While I am a staunch believer in calculating salespeople ROI on the sales and profit they need to produce as a multiple of what it costs you to have them on the team, I am not a believer in the one-size-fits-all approach.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 1, 2022

As interest rates rise by 75 basis points for the first time in almost 30 years, experienced sales reps and newcomers alike are facing the prospect of selling during a recession. Sales is tough enough as it is, and prolonged economic uncertainties make the job even harder. Budgets are reduced or eliminated. So how do you do that?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 11, 2017

2) Those who are unwilling to take an active stance on gender equality will suffer economic consequences. So why is the sales profession still so far behind the curve when it comes to gender? In sales, women make up : 25% of salespeople in tech companies. 12% of sales leadership. Sales wasn’t sexy, it was skeezy.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan One of the comments on my article, The Validiation of the Sales Assessment Validation , mentioned the reluctance of CEOs and Presidents to redeploy or terminate ineffective sales managers. Lack of overall sales performance is an easily recognized problem.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Author: Matthew Sunshine If you’re a sales manager, you know this to be true: Having that tough conversation with a salesperson who isn’t meeting goals is never fun. As a sales manager, see whether this sounds familiar: You sit down with an underperforming salesperson and open with a statement like, “You’re not hitting your numbers.”

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

With just the click of a mouse and a quick Google search, today’s sales reps have a whole host of resources right at their fingertips—resources that help them streamline and simplify activities like prospect research, sales outreach, and professional development. Today, we do the same for sales reps. 2. Sales Hacker.

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