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Secrets Buried In a Sales Person’s Resume

The vehicle that introduces sales people to companies is a resume, but there are secrets hidden in the resume that ...

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The Sales Person’s First Day

Companies think that once the sales person agrees to join their company that the goal has been accomplished. The truth ...

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Priming the Sales Applicant Pump

Many confuse the purpose of a job advertisement with a job description. These are both valuable tools, but are not ...

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Finding The Right Sales Talent For Your Company

Hiring sales talent is one of the most critical activities a company performs. However, few are adept at hiring the right people for ...

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12 Keys to Tuning Up Your Sales Force

Not sure if your sales organization is up to snuff? Here are twelve keys to help ensure that your team ...

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What Return Should You Expect On Your Sales Compensation Investment?

This article answers the following questions: How do most companies look at return on investment (ROI) for their sales compensation expense? What portion of sales ...

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Sales Compensation Q&A

This article addresses three frequently asked questions related to sales compensation plans. Question #1 In trying to create a fair breakout of the cost of sales, ...

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How to Develop an Effective Sales Compensation Plan

The most common question I hear concerning sales compensation goes something like this: "What commission percentage should I pay for _____________?" I'm sorry, but there ...

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New To Sales Management? - How To Quickly Establish Authority In The Team

Sometimes a new Sales Manager has to face awkward, contentious, embarrassing or tough issues. Difficult situations, you may have noticed, don’t tend to get easier ...

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What’s a Professional Sales Manager?

I was in the depths of a major depression. As a third year salesperson with a good company, I was doing well, and was on ...

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Sales Team Psychology

Goal setting is powerful way of keeping sales psychology on the up-and-up. We all know that goals dictate future performance by giving team members a ...

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Sales Management Myths: Straight Commission

I had just hung up from a phone conversation with one of my clients. He was commiserating with me on the sorry state ...

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Sales is Easy, Changing Our Sales People Is Not

I often laugh when I hear people say they could never do sales. When I ask why, they state all that rejection and ...

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Sales People are NOT Immune to Bionic Automation

If you look up the definition of the word - bionic, here is what you will find: A machine that is patterned after principles found in ...

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Fishy Salespeople?

How to Finally Stop Handing Out FREE Fish to Your Sales People…and Start Teaching Them How to Fish By Jeff Hardesty Do you ...

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Sales Managers - How To Develop A First Class Sales Team

Pick up a typical report and what words do you find? Verbs like analyze, forecast, plan, assess and schedule, are used in pursuit of ...

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Sales and Leadership: The Differences That Matter

You've heard something like this before: "He's not a leader, he's a salesman." Or: "She was trying to motivate me but gave me a ...

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Self-Limiting Beliefs Within A Sales Team Can Be Overcome

Beliefs Are Opinions and Opinions Can Change! The organization with the ability to overcome the variety of mental models living in the minds ...

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Are Self-Limiting Beliefs Constraining Your Sales Team?

"The winners in life constantly think in terms of I can, I will and I am. Losers on the other hand concentrate their waking ...

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Top Sales Performers Motivate Others to Excel

1. Proceed with caution. If you plan to hold up one of your team members as a ...

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Help Your Salespeople Win - How You Can Paint Salespeople Into a Picture of Success

Salespeople often enter the field of selling full of excitement. They start their sales careers full of hopes and dreams. ...

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Tactics of the Invisible Salesperson

Look around, do you see evidence of a salesperson in your organization? If you are the salesperson, do you leave a trace of what you ...

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Advice Is Nice - Ask Mentoring Questions to Improve Your Salesreps Performance

Despite their wealth of ego strength, salespeople aren’t always perfect. If they were, there would be no need for sales managers. Helping ...

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Leadership vs. Management - How to Plan for Success

Why is planning always the last thing on a salesperson's to-do list? Probably because they see planning as a time-consuming, ...

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Four Types of Sales Manager-Which One Are You???

A few years ago when working as a coach for a multinational company my colleagues and I were given the task of designing a ...

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