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The Key to Building a High Performance Financial Services Sales Team

Many hiring managers for financial services firms face a dilemma when trying to build a high performance sales team because their sales reps are often asked to play two roles. Be top-notch salespeople: capable of finding and developing new clients and new business. Be competent financial consultants: or at least be able to speak intelligently relative to financial services during the selling process and thereafter with a greater team. But when looking to hire financial service salespeople, you have a choice. Should you search for people with financial acumen and then try to train them to sell?  Or should you
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5 Surprising Reasons Ambiverts Can Make Great Salespeople

When hiring a salesperson, you might automatically assume that you should hire someone who is very extroverted. After all, you would think that an extrovert’s outgoing nature and social skills would make them a great addition to your sales team. However, recent studies have shown that ambiverts out-perform both extroverts and introverts in the sales department, generating 24 percent more revenue than introverts and 32 percent more revenue than extroverts. So what exactly is an ambivert? 5 Surprising Reasons Ambiverts Can Make Great Salespeople was last modified: June 30th, 2015 by SalesDrive, LLC
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How to Find Successful Salespeople for a Tech Startup

Finding great salespeople has always been a challenge because selling requires core aptitude and personality traits that less than 20% of the general population possesses. On the other side of the coin, hiring salespeople for a tech startup can be even more difficult because many people do not possess the requisite technical aptitude to understand the very technology they are selling. Put the two together, and you can see how the numbers work against hiring managers looking for both. How to Find Successful Salespeople for a Tech Startup was last modified: June 24th, 2015 by SalesDrive, LLC
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How to Separate a Candidate’s Confidence from Drive

Candidates coming into an interview are prepared to show you their best face. Most sales candidates appear confident, exuberant and project a go-getter attitude. Some applicants, however, may interview poorly, but could be hiding a great talent for sales. The problem with heavily basing the hiring decision on interview performance is that you are likely not getting the full picture of the candidate’s ability and Drive. It is nearly impossible for sales managers to definitively know from an interview alone whether or not a candidate will maintain their positive, ambitious demeanor when faced with difficult situations or clients (or whether
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How to Choose the Right Sales Assessment for Your Company

Another sales quarter is nearly over and your sales have not been growing as expected. You have already ruled out any external factors that could have been contributing to the slow growth, so the cause must be coming from within your company. You realize that your current hiring process is letting more than a few bad eggs on to your sales team. All your candidates performed well during the interview process, but their numbers out in the field are rotten. You are ready to take a new approach to screening candidates. Now may be the time to consider adding an
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Hunters VS Farmers: Why You Need Both on Your Sales Team

Are you experiencing slow sales growth, or are you witnessing a dramatic decline of new clients? If so, then you may have your sales team stacked with only one type of sales representative. Building the right sales team can be tough. You need salespeople who can hook new clients and recognize potential leads, but you also need sales representatives that know how to transform a new client into a repeat buyer. There are two kinds of successful salespeople: Hunters and Farmers. Both are needed to grow and maintain sales. If you’re only hiring one of these, then you need to
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