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Sales Managers: Think You’re Ready for Referrals?

No More Cold Calling

Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts. If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. It’s a lonely world for account executives. That’s why we need sales managers. Actually, what we need is strong sales leadership. Sound familiar?

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What Percentage of Sales Candidates Are Hired?

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. Do you know what percentage of sales candidates eventually get hired? Two of the results pointed to an article of mine from earlier in 2014 that answered the question, " How Many Sales Candidates are Worthy of Being Hired? Recruiting is a lot like real estate sales.

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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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Look for Potential in the Next Generation of Sales Hires

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The Harvard Business Review finally published a relevant article that I agreed with! 21st Century Talent Spotting points to coming talent shortage and the importance of hiring for potential. Trainable - whether or not the candidate has the incentive to change and adapt.

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Founder Q&A Series: Incentives and Compensation Structure

Sales Hacker

Spiff budget for monthly incentives/contests (keeps it fun). Cost of living limits incentive %. Do you have any suggestions for structuring an incentive package to optimize for sales/revenue efficiency?” Noah Marks , VP GTM Strategy & Operation at Udemy : SDR: 70/30. Measured by qual opportunities per month.

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Hiring New Salespeople (While Keeping Up With Business as Usual)

Sales Hacker

Like most things in life, hiring sales talent is a matter of timing. Especially since the best candidates with strong sales skills are usually snatched up within 10 days. That’s why it’s critical to overcome indecision and move quickly when recruiting sales talent. Is it unrealistic sales quotas?

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Why You Can't Fill Your Open Sales Manager Positions

SBI Growth

A post for Sales and HR Leaders to find root causes of Sales Manager (SM) vacancies. The Sales Manager position is the fulcrum between sales leadership strategy and sales force execution. Teams without effective sales managers lack morale and discipline. Hiring profile not right.

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