The most critical component in creating a high performance sales team is attracting and selecting the right level of talent. However, hiring correctly is still the number ONE problem in most organizations. While the jury is still out on the on college national signing day and their recruitment of high school seniors, and if you ...
You may impress them by accident on occasion, but hit and miss success won’t earn you the brass ring in the long run.
Our number one goal is to make work as easy as possible for salespeople and sales managers. Our most recent effort along this line is our new Gmail Inbox App–if you, like millions of others around the world, work in Gmail, you don’t need to switch back and forth between Gmail and Pipeliner CRM. It’s ...
If you have two reps doing exactly the same things, high activity, strong energy hunting in their patch; the big differentiators of output and results are emotional intent and positive attitude. Positive intent and a smile are infectious. Sales is an extremely repetitive job so the only way to save your day is true selflessness ...
Does your office have some fun activities to offer to your sales team? A Ping pong table, maybe? A big TV to watch the favorite sports games? Office-wide outings? Well, if it does not, it might be the first sign of an environment that does not attract and retain the best sales experts. How do ...
Sales compensation is strategic, any new plans must be in alignment with any business goals that can be impacted by the sales organization. Your sales management team must understand your company’s overall goals and structure compensation to align with them. In short, sales compensation should be not just a tactical focus for your organization, but ...
No doubt you’ve heard that trust is required in today’s business relationships. Few people, however, can actually define what trust is. Mistakenly, many salespeople with strong values automatically assume that because they are good people they are trustworthy. It frustrates and surprises them when they come to realize that their prospects don’t really trust them. ...
Today’s changing roles for both the sales rep and sales management are made possible by accurate and useable sales analytics. How have these roles changed? For example, traditionally sales forecasts have been created by sales management, based on data entered and provided by salespeople. Believe it or not, salespeople have greater control over their own ...
