Good Recruiting Practices Essential To Hiring Sales & Marketing Superstars

In order to find really top sales and marketing talent, whether it be VP, director level, marketing manager, sales manager, down to entry level telesales personnel, you're going to have to go into your competition and find those people and extract them and get them to work for your company.

Ball of String Sales Supervision

How many times have you hired a new sales person and because he or she was experienced and successful somewhere else, they understand how to be successful in your organization? Moreover, did you take for granted that the new salesperson understood what was expected of them on the very first day they began with you? And unfortunately sometime later discovered they do not have your company’s sales process, policies, procedures and prices well understood?

Send Me in Coach!

At one time there was a long-standing belief in many sales organizations that coaching of sales representatives was a fundamental sales management responsibility. By contrast today, in the field skill set development is, at best, hit and miss leaving many sales people unclear how their performance is being evaluated. Little wonder sales force turnover is a reality.

Romancing The Clone

As everyone knows when you first get going in any new job, much less a career, you are for better or worse, subject to the influence of your immediate supervisor. Yet, without one who pays attention in guiding your activities properly, you can develop undesirable traits, which if left unchecked turn into career limiting habits.

How to Get the Most Out of Best Sellers

Each product category in your store has a best seller. This product will not necessarily be the cheapest or lowest gross profit item, but it will be the favourite product purchased by your customers in that category. You can use this to your advantage if you introduce some simple management strategies...

Can Your Superstar Sales Person Become Your Superstar Sales Manager

Finding the right person to fill the sales management role is a common quandary in wholesale distribution. It can be especially challenging when a decision is based strictly on sales territory performance without regard for the specific skill sets required to lead a sales force-2005 has been a good year in wholesale distribution with some industries recording double digit growth rates. With market cooperation like that, most sales people are smiling as they hit or exceed their quotas. Deciding on the right sales person to promote to sales manager can become a difficult and risky decision.

Game, Set and Match

Hunting for prospects is a sales role, narrowing the focus of the hunt for sales to match the business profile is sales managements role. Maintaining a focus on the ideal profitability characteristics for salespeople is critical to success in any businesses sales program.

Why Every Franchise Should Use Electronic UFOC Distribution

Franchisers no longer have a choice whether to use electronic signatures and electronic UFOC distribution, it is a requirement. Electronic UFOC distribution will keep your franchise competitive, as well as save time and money.

Sales Appointment Planning

This is arguably the hardest thing you will ask a salesperson to do, the part of the job they really hate

How To Stop Sales Lead Leakage

Most companies have the classic problem of spending money on the marketing side of the fence in order to generate leads only to see that those leads are not followed up effectively by the sales team. This classic leakage of leads to unnecessary expense and definitely inhibits a company's ability to accelerate its sales.

How To Stop Sales Mis-Hires

Just yesterday I had the opportunity to meet with a very seasoned CEO of a technology service provider who came to us in order to do a recruiting project for a new sales person. He came to us is because he's gone through four sales hires on his own and none of them have actually produced anything for his company. As we sat down to talk about this he sheepishly admitted that this had cost him millions of dollars of lost revenue and opportunity cost as a result of not getting the sales hiring process right.

Sales Management - What's Involved? Part 1

What any individual Sales Manager actively does is conditioned by the size of their company, the products it sells and the way they are sold, the organisation of functions within it, and perhaps their own special ability. They may carry most or all of the responsibilities which would be those of a Marketing Manager, if this position does not exist within their company.

Sales Managers – What Are Their Expectations Of You, The Sales Rep?

This article shows how you can get the most out of your sales job - autonomy and independance - without having a sales manager looking over your shoulder.