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Sales Assessments

5 Key Personality Traits You and Your Sales Assessment Should be Measuring

 We know that individuals with Drive make great salespeople, but there are a number of other traits that complement Drive and are important to consider when looking to hire top-producing salespeople. These are sales traits that you just cannot identify from an interview alone. That is why it is critical to start out with an assessment that measures Drive, because coaching salespeople after hiring isn’t always the best way to find success. Keep the following five sales traits in mind during your next performance reviews or sales assessments to help you identify high-potential salespeople. Five Traits of Successful Salespeople 1)
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Unusual Sales Interview Questions that Work
Sales Interviewing & Hiring

10 Unusual Sales Interview Questions to Uncover a Candidate’s True Potential

Landing top sales talent starts with the interview. Yet many hiring managers ask tired questions that fail to reveal candidates’ actual selling skills, mindsets, and fit. This leaves them struggling with underperforming hires misaligned with revenue goals. To consistently source superstar reps, you need a strategic arsenal of the best sales interview questions. The right behavioral and situational sales interview questions uncover true motivations, qualifications, and potential beyond just pat answers. They help assess sales-specific abilities from targeting ideal customers to delivering value-driven pitches and powerfully handling objections. You’ll gain insight into how prospects will experience working with candidates. In
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Sales Compensation Plans
Sales Interviewing & Hiring

9 Types of Sales Compensation Plans

There are many different types of sales compensation plans to choose from; each one is designed to motivate salespeople differently. In the US, sales performance management is a 3.4 billion-dollar-a-year industry that impacts every company worldwide. But it is not just in the US – sales compensation plans are all over the world and are used widely by companies of all types and sizes. What is a Sales Compensation Plan? Compensation planning is a function of sales performance management to measure, manage and optimize sales results. A compensation plan is a set of rules and procedures for paying employees. The
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Sales Interviewing & Hiring

Finding Good Salespeople in a Tough Market

Today’s tough job market challenges companies to find good salespeople to staff their companies. However, you can still find star employees with the right tactics for navigating a challenging job market.  In this post, we will walk you through what qualities to look for in superstar salespeople, where and how to find them and finally, how to hire them. Let’s get started. Why Can’t I Find Good Salespeople? Finding good salespeople in a tough market is a challenging process. As minimum wages increase nationally and internationally to match the higher standard of living due to inflation, companies must hire fewer
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Sales Interviewing & Hiring

Onboarding Salespeople: Getting New Sales Reps Up to Speed Quickly

As the sales team manager, it is your responsibility to ensure that new sales reps are properly onboarded and trained. Onboarding is the process of bringing a new hire up to speed on the company culture, values, systems, procedures, and products. A good onboarding program will help new sales reps hit the ground running and make a positive contribution to the team from day one. Here is what you need to know about getting your new sales team up to speed efficiently and the best strategies to make it happen. 4 Key Phases of Onboarding Sales onboarding works through four
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Sales Assessments

How to Build a Sales Team From Scratch

The sales team is an integral part of any organization. The basic share of profit for a business is brought in by the sales team which is crucial for the success of any business. When starting a new business, you are likely handling all the operations by yourself — from setting the strategies to supervising the infrastructure. After some time, you need to have an efficient team of individuals that you can fall back on for your day-to-day selling activities. Considering the critical role of the sales team, it is important that you put in the time and effort to
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