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Expert Guide to Finding Your Team's Sales Rainmaker
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An Expert Guide to Finding Your Team’s Sales Rainmaker

We have all heard of competitors’ having a key rainmaker on their sales team that have constantly shattered sales records. So you may be thinking, “I need to hire a sales rainmaker.” The truth is, you may actually already have a rainmaker on your team – you simply have been looking at all of the wrong traits and data to evaluate your team. Keep reading to learn how to spot the rainmaker already on your sales team. Once you understand how rainmakers work, you can then harness their potential and give them the right support they need to make your
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Personality Test Versus Sales Assessment
Sales Assessments

How to Choose Between Personality Tests and Sales Assessments

Finding good salespeople is one of the biggest challenges that sales VPs face today. Most sales managers find themselves stuck in a never-ending quest to hire quality salespeople that will help grow the company to new levels. And, as you gain more hiring experience, chances are you are learning that the standard resume review/interview routine just is not enough to truly determine the quality of your sales candidates. While a potential hire may look great on paper, and seem promising in the interview, hiring on intuition alone is one of the biggest mistakes you can make in building your sales
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What is a Sales Aptitude Test & How Can It Help Your Sales Team? [Infographic]

Are you tired of hiring salespeople that seem promising during the interview, but sizzle out quicker than you can say “follow-up call?” You are in good company. In fact, according to Hubspot, 40% of all salespeople do not understand customer pain, which plays a large role in the fact that 75% of salespeople miss their quotas. As you can see, this underperforming sales rep problem is something that has plagued the entire sales community, not just your company. However, it is time to make a change and no longer be a part of the above statistics. Continue reading the information below to
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Top Questions to Ask Sales Candidates in an Intervew
Sales Interviewing & Hiring

4 Savvy Interview Questions to Ask Superstar Sales Candidates

Interviewing candidates for sales positions within your company is one of the most important things you will do as a sales VP. It is also one of the most challenging things you will do. There is much more to the sales hiring process than a simple resume/cover letter review and basic interview. Establishing a successful hiring process is going to make or break your position as sales VP, and your company. After all, your salespeople play a vital role in determining the amount of sales your company is able to do, and if your sales reps are a far cry
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Sales Assessments

How to Choose the Best Sales Assessment for Your Company

Finding the Best Sales Assessment for Your Team You are looking at your sales stats for the past quarter, and are realizing that things did not go as well as you had hoped. After spending some time reviewing what could possibly have led to these lackluster sales, you have finally come to determine that the basis of your sales problems is your sales team. But you thought these salespeople would be fabulous? They performed so well in their interviews and you felt very strongly that they would give your company the boost you were looking for to take things to
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Sales Interviewing & Hiring

5 Common Interviewing Mistakes Sales Managers Make

Building a strong sales team from day one is what will bring your company the success you seek. After all, how can you expect to sell your company’s product or service if you have bad salespeople representing you? Chances are, as a sales manager, you have had some hits and misses with hiring for your sales team. You probably have a few members of your team that have been with you for years, are solid and reliable and would be sorely missed if they ever quit. And, you probably have a few members of your team on the other end
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