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5 Types of Difficult Salespeople and How To Deal With Them [Guest Post]

Every sales organization is bound to have a few team members that can only be described as difficult. While everyone on the team may have their own unique personality and attitude, it may take a lot of adjustment and patience to deal with certain people on any given day. As a sales manager, it’s important to know that just because one of your top sales representatives is consistently closing business doesn’t mean that they are untouchable. This person has to be a good employee, with a great attitude and loyalty to the organization. Some managers would rather turn a blind

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Sales Interviewing & Hiring

4 Mistakes Managers Make When Building a Sales Team

As a sales manager, you want to build a strong sales team to ensure your organization continues to grow and succeed. Unfortunately, many managers continue to make the same hiring and team building mistakes—mistakes that could be easily avoided. With that in mind, let us start by going over a few common mistakes managers make when building a sales team. Then, we will look at how you can avoid making those costly mistakes. 4 Mistakes Managers Make When Building a Sales Team 1. Hiring With Your Intuition Interviewing several different sales candidates can be a tedious and time-consuming process. One

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Is Your Sales Team Equipped With the Right Knowledge?

Did you know that 40% of salespeople cannot understand a customer’s pain? When a customer comes with a problem, sales reps panic and end up giving the first option that comes to their mind, which can prove to be a disaster if their solution addresses a problem which the customer did not even have. There are many factors that salespeople do not control but the failure or success of a sales rep is mostly dependent on the level of preparedness and constant adaptation to the dynamic sales environment. Being the Founder/Head of Sales of the organization, one question you need

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Sales Interviewing & Hiring

2 Simple, Yet Overlooked, Ways to Build a High-Performing Sales Team

Having a strong sales team is absolutely necessary to the success of any sales manager, director or VP. Therefore, it seems only natural that when it comes to building your sales team, you cannot simply rely on the luck of the draw—you need to have a strategic plan in place to find and hire the right salespeople. With that in mind, let us explore a couple of ways you can build the ideal sales team. 2 Underutilized Ways to Build a High-Performing Sales Team 1. Look for candidates with the key traits that support a successful sales team Some of

Sales Management

4 Frequent Struggles For Sales Teams and How to Fix Them

Is your sales team dealing with poor sales performance? If so, then you are probably scrambling for answers on how to overcome obstacles that are dragging your team’s productivity down. But what is the first step in trying to solve the age-old problem of struggling sales reps? The first thing you must do is find the root of your team’s struggles. 4 Common Sales Team Struggles 1. Poor Sales Planning Paul Meyer, founder of Success Motivation Institute, once said, “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning and focused effort.” With

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Sales Management

7 Signs Your Sales Rep Will Make a Great Sales Manager [Infographic]

A good sales manager is critical to the success of the entire sales team. The sales manager’s attitude can determine the sales department’s performance and the team’s attitude towards work. However, before you promote one of your salespeople to a sales management position, you should know that not every salesperson is fit to manage and lead a team to success. Sales management positions require an entirely different skill set and personality than typical sales positions, and you must know whether or not your potential candidate possesses those skills and personality traits before you can confidently promote them. 7 Signs Your

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5 Types of Difficult Salespeople and How To Deal With Them [Guest Post]

4 Mistakes Managers Make When Building a Sales Team

Is Your Sales Team Equipped With the Right Knowledge?

2 Simple, Yet Overlooked, Ways to Build a High-Performing Sales Team

4 Frequent Struggles For Sales Teams and How to Fix Them

7 Signs Your Sales Rep Will Make a Great Sales Manager [Infographic]

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