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Sales Management

Open-Ended Questions Sales Reps Should Ask Customers to Improve Sales

As someone in sales management, you know that a salesperson must ask effective, open-ended questions when talking to a customer. It is the only way they can get the customer talking and uncover the information necessary to close the sale. However, if your salespeople ask the wrong open-ended questions, they may end up wasting time and failing to gain any insight. This can be one of the top reasons why your sales team is not successful. So what questions can your salespeople ask their customers to improve sales? Keep reading and you will learn 8 questions your salespeople can ask that
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Inside Sales Rep
Sales Strategies

Inside Sales: What Is It and How Can You Benefit From It?

Sales is the most vital aspect of running a successful business. Without sales, you cannot make a profit. That is why you need to know the ins and outs of the sales process before you can hire a high-quality candidate. In this blog, we will focus on inside sales. The most basic inside sales definition is the process of selling your product or service remotely. An inside sales rep accomplishes these tasks via phone, email and other methods of remote communication. There are myriad benefits that an exceptional inside sales rep can provide to your company. These benefits include cost-effective
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Sales Interviewing & Hiring

Revealing Sales Interview Questions to Hire the Best Reps

As a Sales Manager or hiring manager, it is your duty to find new sales reps who are promising and destined to bring success to your company, beyond just sales skills. And if you’re like most hiring managers, you may have spent hours weeding through resumes, cover letters, references, etc. for a number of sales candidates. You have pared your list down to a handful of superstar candidates and now comes the time to prepare for the interview. With such fabulous candidates on your docket, it can feel a bit overwhelming to ensure that the interviews go without a hitch,
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Sales Interviewing & Hiring

How to Attract and Retain Top Sales Talent

When looking to hire top sales talent, you need to be looking for Drive. But keep in mind many highly-skilled salespeople are looking to be a part of a talented sales team as well. 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 attract them effectively? The Search Is Only Half the Battle Recruiting is not a seasonal job. Many sales managers understand that to get
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Sales Manager Facing Challenges
Sales Management

The Biggest Challenges of First-Time Sales Managers & How to Overcome Them

Congratulations, you are now a Sales Manager! It is now time to cultivate the necessary skills to lead a sales team of your own. As a first-time Sales Manager, you will likely experience a steep learning curve. Do you sometimes feel as though you are expected to already know the ins and outs of this new role?  Does it seem like you are working harder than ever, without seeing results?  If so, you are not alone. Keep reading to learn about the top five challenges of first-time sales managers, and how to overcome them to lead your team more effectively—starting
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Sales Management

The Sales Manager’s Guide to Teaching Active Listening to Salespeople

At SalesDrive, we focus on how to effectively hire sales reps for your company. While our goal is to help you find salespeople that possess Drive and ambition, we also understand that there are other skills that matter. At the top of this list is listening. Let us take a look at the importance of active listening — what it is, how you can identify good listeners and avoid poor ones. If your salespeople are not skilled listeners, their sales will suffer – there is no doubt about it. That is because customers do not want to feel like they
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