While I don’t do this often (I did it constantly when I was in management), I recently hired a salesperson for a local company and I am now involved with the training of that individual. I’m not sure why companies want me to be involved in the hiring process. Well, yes I do. It’s PAINFUL
While I have spent most of my adult life hiring and training salespeople, it has been two years since my last new hire and that was for a client. I left my last management job in 2005 and have been blissfully semi-retired since that time. Well, here I go again and once again for a
In October of 2021 I was contacted by an electric sign company where I had previously served as a partner during the 1990’s. They had lost one salesperson to COVID and another was returning home to the east coast. They also had lost their sales manager to another health issue. They needed help with replacing
Every week it seems that I either run across, or I am introduced to, some really great new apps and articles that pertain to social selling. Then there are those apps that I have used for an extensive period of time and they are worthy of a shout out! While I can’t do extensive research
It’s been a lot of years since I last hired and ran a sales team which was in … 2005. Yikes! That long ago!? Still, over 80% of my career was spent doing just that. Finding and selecting the right salesperson for your company is one of the most critical, and difficult, challenges that any
What Is a Successful B2B Sales Personality For a Startup?
Over the last ten years of running startups, I have observed two very fascinating patterns: Sales is one area where the leaders of the organisation can’t really do much to change things around; it is all in the hands of the sales force. Most successful salespeople do not even know why they do better than
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