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What Companies Don’t Know About Sales

Understanding the Sales Force

And “We don’t know what we don’t know about sales” is a true statement in most companies. As a result, they can’t anticipate when in a sales cycle or sales process they will be impacted, and don’t have the awareness to take steps to work around it and improve.

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Weekly Roundup: Companies Fail to Hire Top Sales Talent, Remote Work Forever + More

The Center for Sales Strategy

> Five Reasons Companies Fail to Hire Top Sales Talent – Selling Power. Research shows that high-tech companies lose as much as $2 million per year on a bad sales hire. Here are five reasons many companies fail to hire top salespeople. >>> Stephen Covey. AROUND THE WEB -. >

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How to Hire the Right Sales Talent for Growth

Force Management

Define what the ideal sales talent candidate looks like for your organization so you can help your managers hire the right people for growth. The topic of sales talent has come up often on the Revenue Builders Podcast.

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5 Tips to Help You Attract, Hire and Retain Top Sales Talent

Force Management

Build a process you and your managers can leverage to make your B2B sales talent a competitive advantage. The remote and hybrid work environment provides companies the opportunity to hire talent with fewer geographical restraints creating the ability for leaders to expand their talent pool.

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Sales Talent Productivity Risks and Remedies for 2023

SBI Growth

Facing the background of a tight labor market, companies risk workforce burnout and missed opportunities to capture new markets. There's pressure mounting due to buyer uncertainty in a sideways market, a renewed focus on earnings versus growth, and owners and shareholders hungry for good news.

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When Self-Motivation Works Against Companies

Sales and Marketing Management

In the hunt for top sales talent, companies have to offer something better than current and future employees can create for themselves. The post When Self-Motivation Works Against Companies appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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The True Cost Components of Sales Talent Attrition

SBI Growth

Companies are experiencing pain from the Great Resignation, rising turnover, and teams seeking and paying heightened salaries for A-players. SBI wanted to help leaders assess the cost of sales rep turnover with greater accuracy and determine the best talent strategy for their businesses—build versus buy.