New research from the Boston University School of Management suggests that the best phrase a sales person can use to build trust and increase the likelihood of closing a sales is to respond with “I don’t know” when stumped by a question rather than making up an answer. Perhaps this has to do with the
Interviews are the staple method for most companies when hiring sales staff and often there are multiple interviews conducted by different team members of the hiring company. Some companies will take the screening process a step further and conduct in depth reference checks. All of this is done to ensure the new hire is the
Our clients rely on us to find all sorts of sales professionals from sales support to reps and managers, to executives and sales VP’s, and a significant portion of the positions we work on are the hard to find top producing and reliable hunters. Reps who are able to develop territories will make or break
This article adapted from the book Sales Recruiting 2.0 – How to Hire Top Performing Sales People, Fast Is there any better icon of a winning culture than the New York Yankees? Each year they field a team expected to win it all and if they don’t get to the World Series, their fans are
The three most common sales hiring mistakes which result in sub-optimal sales hires, missed targets, and staff turnover. 1. Poor understanding of selling environment 2. Unstructured hiring process 3. Not looking in the right places To read a transcript of this video click here… Full transcript of the interview. Avoiding the Three Most Common Sales
A surprisingly high number of sales people aren’t well prepared when they attend job interviews, perhaps because they don’t do it that often, but when you see one who makes a great presentation, it should give you some insight into how they will prepare for customer meetings. While this is not always the case –
Most people don’t like to hear other people say “no,” but in sales it happens all the time. Does the ability to handle rejection have a direct relationship to sales performance? Absolutely! Insensitivity to rejection is one of the most critical attributes of highly successful sales reps. To continue reading this post, click here >>
One of our readers asked us whether they should hire a junior sales person or a telesales company. On paper, outsourcing the sales function looks quite attractive. Risk and costs are assigned to a third party that specializes in sales and management overhead is decreased. In practice things are a bit different and here is
In case you missed the presentation yesterday, here is a recording in which we share some of the concepts in our upcoming book Sales Recruiting 2.0 – How to Find Top Performing Sales People, Fast: Click here to purchase Sales Recruiting 2.0 – How to Find Top Performing Sales People, Fast from Peak Sales® Recruiting.
The age old rivalry between marketing and sales is never more contested than in the context of leads. We have all seen it. Marketing complains that sales can’t convert quality leads and sales complains that marketing provides poor quality leads. In an ever more internet-connected world, companies feel compelled to spend an increasing amount of
