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Sales Management

How to Reduce High Turnover in the Sales Department

Here Is Why Salespeople Leave and How It Can Cost You Whether high turnover has resulted from failure to use a sales aptitude test to help you hire wisely, troubles with the company culture or something else, it is a problem that requires your immediate attention. After all, the cost of high turnover in a sales department can be quite staggering – both for your company’s budget and the overall morale of your team. Thankfully, many of the common causes of high turnover rates can be avoided relatively easily. Here are the top reasons companies experience high turnover in the

Sales Interviewing & Hiring

10 Tips to Attract Top Sales Talent With Your Company’s Brand

Drive is important to find in candidates, but many highly-skilled salespeople are looking to be a part of a talented sales team. To improve your sales team, you not only need strong individuals, but people who can work together to bring your company’s sales to the next level. Once you have identified incoming candidates who can really make a difference, do you know how to catch them? The Search is Only Half the Battle Recruiting is not a seasonal job. Many sales managers understand that to get the best candidates, the search is about more than putting a job description

Sales Management

Should You Promote Your Top Salesperson?

Dave broke through every career obstacle. His sales are higher than 35% of his peers. He routinely trains new employees. So, Dave should be promoted, right? Perhaps, but maybe it is not that simple. Think back to when you first started as a sales manager. Do you remember the transition? Chances are it was not entirely smooth, and you know now that the skills required to land a sales position differ greatly from running a team of people with their own (often very strong) opinions. Rather than a desire to lead, quite often the top Driving factors for individuals considering

Sales Management

Is My Sales Team Experiencing a Plateau or a Speed Bump?

The answer depends on how you handle your current sales slump. A sales plateau generally occurs after a rapid increase of sales. After that invigorating climb, you find yourself looking at a flat wasteland. How you get out – climbing back down or finding a hidden way up – depends on both your management style and your sales team. Sales plateaus are so common that industry researchers devote time to studying them. There has been a lot written on what causes plateaus and some on even how to push past them, but not all of this information can be applied

Sales Interviewing & Hiring

9 Ways Employers Can Use Incentives to Attract Top Salespeople

Have you made job offers to highly qualified sales candidates, only to hear that they took a job with another employer? What does the other company have that yours does not? How can you turn the tables and become the employer of choice? Exhibiting a strong, positive company identity is essential to attracting those high-Drive candidates. Providing competitive incentives is one of the top ways companies can separate themselves from the competition. As part of a comprehensive recruiting strategy that focuses on establishing a meaningful employer brand, incentives can greatly increase the number of qualified salespeople that will seek employment

7 Reasons Your Best Employees Leave

Why Your Sales Team Turnover Rate is so High Employee turnover can be very damaging for employers. Companies hire in order to fill a void, but when a candidate fails to fulfill the job’s duties, that void still exists. The slack is then picked up by other employees who become overworked. The resources invested in that employee are a net loss for the company, as is the pay, possible 401k contributions, and other benefits. Why is salesperson turnover so high? The issue could stem from any number of reasons, and maybe your salespeople are good workers, but they leave for

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How to Reduce High Turnover in the Sales Department

10 Tips to Attract Top Sales Talent With Your Company’s Brand

Should You Promote Your Top Salesperson?

Is My Sales Team Experiencing a Plateau or a Speed Bump?

9 Ways Employers Can Use Incentives to Attract Top Salespeople

7 Reasons Your Best Employees Leave

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