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Mentoring – The Ultimate Salesperson Accelerator

Finding great talent is only the beginning of the process when you want to improve your sales team. Have you noticed a difference between pre-hire expectations and actual sales performance? Are you sick of having to deal with high turnover rates and poorly qualified salespeople who underperform and leave you feeling overworked? Sales should be a fun and exciting career, not a constant battle. If you are ready to start making lasting changes in your sales team, mentoring is an effective way to improve your team’s performance and start in a new direction. The sales industry is changing every day.
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The Sales Manager Factor | How Sales Performance Can Be Affected

While most sub-par sales performance is blamed on salespeople as a reflex, it is important for companies to closely monitor the relationships between their salespeople and sales managers.  It is not uncommon for potentially productive salespeople to be stifled by inexperienced or incompetent sales managers who are protected by their superiors at the salespeople’s expense. The Sales Manager Factor | How Sales Performance Can Be Affected was last modified: May 29th, 2014 by SalesDrive, LLC
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[Infographic] 5 Biggest Sales Hiring Mistakes That Cost Companies Millions!

Hiring high aptitude and high performance salespeople is really hard, but hiring managers don’t make it any easier on themselves by often making the following sales hiring mistakes. Let’s take a look… Text Version: Hiring high aptitude and high performance salespeople is really hard, but there are some common sales hiring mistakes that make it even harder. Avoid these mistakes and start hiring better salespeople. Lack of Testing: Managers do not use online sales assessments to vet for the core aptitude that research shows is common to almost all sales producers. No Behavioral Interview: They do not use a thorough behavioral
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[Infographic] Why Is Hiring Salespeople So Hard?

Finding and hiring great salespeople, who will work for you and make you money, is very difficult. But why? Let’s take a look at the infographic below to find out. [Infographic] Why Is Hiring Salespeople So Hard? was last modified: April 29th, 2014 by SalesDrive, LLC
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[Infographic] Hiring Bad Salespeople May Be Killing Your Business

Salespeople make or break your business.  It’s that simple. So the stakes are literally (business) life and death when it comes to hiring a salesperson.  Yet it is shocking how many bad salespeople there are and how casual many companies are about the process of selecting them.  One of the problems is that hiring managers and/or business owners often do not appreciate just how much damage just one bad salesperson can do, or how remarkably valuable one good salesperson is. Like the proverbial frog in water that is slowly turned up to the boiling point, the damage takes time, but
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Is Cold Call Reluctance a Sign of a Bad Salesperson?

In the world of sales recruitment, businesses are constantly trying to find the candidates that are most likely to successfully close sales and outperform their competitors. Unfortunately, many companies find out too late that their current sales hiring methods fall short when it comes to finding sales candidates who can really perform well in their sales environment. Some companies like to interview and test for cold call reluctance. They theorize that if a person is shy about making calls, he or she should not be selling for a living. However sales is about more than just cold calling, so this conclusion
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