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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Revenue forecasting has become a necessity in the world of business, no matter how big your particular business might be, or the role one might play within it. Obviously, a budget is a necessity, and businesses tend to have business plans, as well. These are fairly difficult without some form of revenue forecasting. How can ...

Are you focused on making end of year numbers? That is only half the job for Sales Management at this time of year, the other half is being focused on planning for next year! We have created a checklist of major issues all sales leaders must work on to ensure the New Year will start ...

What makes someone an effective presenter? Why do some salespeople seem to effortlessly captivate their buyers, while others struggle just to keep them awake? What an ocean of research has identified is that the way something is presented shapes how it will be perceived and whether it not it will be acted on. In other ...

As a Sales Leader or Executive these 3 secrets will help propel your sales organization to the next level. In preparation to speak to an international association conference I had been making notes and clipping interesting ideas from a variety of sources, one of them was from Success magazine. One article was about a young ...

This question has to rank among the top five most commonly asked questions from business development professionals. No matter whether I am doing a keynote, workshop or one-on-one coaching, if I am speaking about business development the question of how to “get in the door” always comes up. Now this question is asked in a ...

The challenge in a world where virtually everyone has their basic needs satisfied is determining how an organization can stand out and be noticed. How does it get tagged as remarkable and indispensable by their customers? Today people are looking beyond their basic needs and are looking for opportunities to feed their individual wants and ...