Smooth Sale

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: How to Save A Failing Business Does your business give you a sinking feeling? Taking steps to save a failing business today versus delaying will help you increase the odds of improving the company’s bottom line and continue forward.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 2, 2023

Some businesses struggle to manage a sales team. Sales operations aren’t for everyone. In this piece, we’ll explore what sales outsourcing is and if it’s right for your business. What Is Sales Outsourcing? Outsourcing is hiring an external company to handle your operations. Why Do Companies Outsource?

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Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

Billions of dollars have been invested in software promising to transform how sales and marketing teams reach new audiences. Sales and marketing tech stacks have swollen, with dozens of conflicting tools promising greater efficiency, accelerated growth, and higher revenue. The result? But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 4, 2017

Sales Leaders’ Guide to Developing an Awesome Sales Management Team. Do you want to develop an awesome sales management team? Sales leaders have several options to achieve and exceed their sales numbers. Your goal is to build a high-performance sales organization that consistently deliver outstanding results.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Yet too many just keep doing what they have always done, failing to achieve their real potential. “I can only hire this many people, so I’m limited in how much I can grow.” ” He never had, because his management had never challenged him to think differently. What does it take for us to do this?”

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 13, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan It’s an interesting question and one that has more than one answer. I wrote an article back in September of 2013 that asked the question, Are Sales and Sales Management Candidates Getting Worse? Consider the way that most companies hire people for sales roles.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 30, 2022

They seem to be challenged by learning and figuring out what it takes to be a top performer. It’s not just the money, it’s the professional challenge. In the first place they are too casual about hiring, believing if the person doesn’t work out, they can always hire a replacement.

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Allego

MARCH 31, 2023

Let’s face it, we all make bad hiring decisions. While we may strive for sifting and recruitment strategies that leave us with rock star sales reps, it’s never bulletproof. Even when you provide sales coaching, a sales rep may still leave. The average tenure of an SDR (Sales Development Rep) stands at just 1.4

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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. By doing these basics well you will consistently crush your sales objectives.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 12, 2024

One job aspect that continues to challenge most managers is workplace conflict. What happens when employees complain about a co-worker who consistently fails to complete a critical task in a timely manner? SalesFuel - Sales Credibility | Sales Research | Sales Hiring | Sales Management | Sales Enablement

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 9, 2024

Even if you’re outsourcing your marketing or hiring a professional to manage things, it’s worth knowing what it is and why it’s so important. If your company is relegated to the bottom of the first page or fails to appear, you risk missing out on many potential customers. Do you sell women’s clubbing clothes?

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Some companies need to validate our validation. The challenge is that our predictive validity is so good, some people just don''t believe it and they want to revalidate it themselves. In this pilot, 90% of their not recommended candidates failed. Does it always work out like this?

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Alice Heiman

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Hiring the right sales leader is something that every CEO has challenges with, so this episode of the Sales Talk for CEOs podcast is a great opportunity to improve your strategy and avoid some common mistakes. The perfect guest for this topic is Elay Cohen, CEO and Co-Founder of SalesHood , a sales enablement platform.

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 22, 2020

In a previous article, I talked about what often breaks in companies and sales organizations when scaling from Seed to Series A. Support roles for the sales org: sales operations and enablement; Hire the experience you need today; and Invest in an inbound engine. In sales, we tell our managers and reps to figure it out.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. 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? See Part 1 here. This is Part 2.

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Smooth Sale

OCTOBER 13, 2023

My Story At an early age, I learned to walk away from disrespectful people, and it became a habit in the sales arena at corporations. And although I was a producer in the sales profession, there were occasions when disrespect and a lack of values had me quickly walking out the door. Celebrate Success!

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 26, 2014

Sales or marketing challenges exist in every organization. Sales performance may be suffering. The acute issues of 5-10 years back (sales process, CRMs, dialing or direct mail leads, etc.) Some challenges are eternal (sufficient quality talent, sales coaching, account segmentation.). 3 Key Mistakes.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Many companies tend to underestimate the importance of guidance, training, and support for their new hires, and that tends to be detrimental. Many sales professionals often don’t receive the crucial tools needed for success right away. While you’re at it, assess your other sales team members. And what did they do wrong?

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Pipeliner

JULY 13, 2022

Danielle Mulvey is from a company called 5 Star Employees, and for the last ten years, she has developed, tested, and shared with others exactly how to recruit, hire, and retain five-star employees. This Expert Insight Interview discusses: Why hiring is still such a gamble. What hiring managers typically fail to do.

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Zoominfo

MAY 12, 2020

This may sound challenging, compared to the readiness of active job seekers – but passive candidates provide a great investment in a company’s talent portfolio. In order to consistently hire the best candidates, a strong recruitment strategy must appeal to passive talent. But, often, passive candidates make the best hires!

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Smooth Sale

JANUARY 21, 2022

Hiring, onboarding, and training prove to be a constant problem for companies. Worse is when new hires realize they are not a good fit to quit the new job quickly. The accumulative costs for the company can be highly challenging. Upon recruiting new team members, taking the new hires through an orientation process is necessary.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 26, 2023

A sales person is struggling–we can replace that person with another. We need to scale our 15% win rate–so we hire more sales people, teaching them how to achieve 15% win rates. We struggle to close deals–discounts/concessions are the answer. We don’t take the time to understand the root causes.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 10, 2023

” These executives struggled to hire and onboard quickly enough to address the opportunity. “Is there a more cost effective way to reach customers than through a direct sales organization?” ” “How do we more quickly expand into new markets, where our sales people have no experience?”

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 10, 2024

Photo by Andrea Schit z via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Know How To Increase B2B Sales? Intense competition in the business-to-business (B2B) landscape often makes it challenging for brands to win potential customers. Poor sales rep interactions are one habit that ruins potential leads.

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For football, basketball, and sales teams, superstars will always be in high demand. For sales leaders, the challenge is twofold: finding top sales talent and coaching high performers to expand their capabilities. The Definition of a Sales Superstar By definition, superstars are rare. This is the wrong question.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

There is no argument among sales leaders that finding, hiring, and retaining good sales reps is the biggest challenge in leading an organization to higher profits. But how to hire the right sales reps? It turns out that I was about average for hiring on “gut” feel.

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Smooth Sale

JANUARY 9, 2023

In this case, it’s wise to select a specialty financing source that understands the unique challenges of the staffing industry. It can be a tricky balance to hire the staff you need while using a loan to finance employees. Additional possibilities include hiring interns and using an affordable outsourcing company.

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 14, 2024

An Overview of Common Digital Marketing Challenges Small Businesses Face Sales teams in digital marketing agencies frequently face a common set of challenges when selling solutions to small businesses. Time management also presents a significant challenge. The narrative you convey is more significant than your budget.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Regardless of whether you are an experienced sales manager or a brand-new hiring manager, this article will help you in your search for superstar sales talent. The myth of a perfect salesperson is something many sales managers pursue because the need for high-performing sales reps is greater than ever.

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Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 26, 2020

The insight Card gained from reading these books was that President Lincoln had four generals, three of whom failed him because they lacked the will to be aggressive and win the war. Yet, his predecessors failed, and Grant won. How is it that one leader succeeds with the same resources with which another leader failed miserably?

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Anthony Iannarino

MAY 6, 2019

When I started work in my family’s business, I was hired to interview and place light industrial employees on assignments. My title did not suggest that I was a salesperson, nor did anyone hint to me that these activities were called “sales.”. Because I was failing, I went back to what was already working for me.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 25, 2014

If your sales reps are overwhelmed, they might decide the job’s not worth the stress. The job of sales reps is to sell—to maintain strong sales pipelines and spend their time talking to clients. When you force them to spend hours entering data, coaching new hires, and attending long, boring meetings, they’ll leave.

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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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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

But it can also be stressful, challenging, and messy. Consider, for instance, how half of all startups fail within the first five years. While there are many reasons why a business fails, one major one is the inability to sustain successful processes as your organization grows rapidly.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 7, 2019

Author: David Sill In August 2017, the DiscoverOrg sales team was working at top speed, well aware that Q4 was right around the corner, when our CEO announced the acquisition of a formidable competitor, RainKing. A sort of panic set in: this meant merging two sales teams that had been accustomed to going head to head. It isn’t easy.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 28, 2012

Surprisingly, one of the reasons that Dowling cites for NS-LIJ’s success is the fact that traditional “experience” is not a pre-condition for hiring new managers. They don’t challenge everything and ask tough questions. They don’t challenge everything and ask tough questions. ’” Wow!

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This data originally appeared in much of the research around Challenger, led by Brent Adamson, Matt Dixon, and Nick Toman. We shouldn’t be surprised, research by Morten Hansen and others show high failure rates of internal projects, so it shouldn’t be surprising that so many buying efforts fail, ending in no decision made.

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