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5 Types of Difficult Salespeople and How To Deal With Them [Guest Post]

Every sales organization is bound to have a few team members that can only be described as difficult. While everyone on the team may have their own unique personality and attitude, it may take a lot of adjustment and patience to deal with certain people on any given day. As a sales manager, it’s important to know that just because one of your top sales representatives is consistently closing business doesn’t mean that they are untouchable. This person has to be a good employee, with a great attitude and loyalty to the organization. Some managers would rather turn a blind

Sales Management

Productivity Hacks for Your Sales Team [Guest Post]

All of us experience it at some point or the other – that hour in the day where you are sitting at your desk and have lost all focus. You pick up your phone and check social media, reply to some text messages and surf your favorite websites. You have a long list of tasks to get done but you just can’t focus on them. There are different reasons for productivity to suffer, from being distracted due to issues at home, to not feeling fit enough to work. We have jotted down a few hacks for you to improve your productivity,

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How to Choose the Best Sales Assessment for Your Company

Finding the Best Sales Assessment for Your Team You are looking at your sales stats for the past quarter, and are realizing that things did not go as well as you had hoped. After spending some time reviewing what could possibly have led to these lackluster sales, you have finally come to determine that the basis of your sales problems is your sales team. But you thought these salespeople would be fabulous? They performed so well in their interviews and you felt very strongly that they would give your company the boost you were looking for to take things to

Sales Management

The Magic in Managing a Multigenerational Sales Team [Guest Post]

Many Sales Managers describe themselves as leaders, motivators, coaches, mentors, perhaps even friends of the people whom they manage. At the end of the day, the job is straightforward: focus time and attention on optimizing the performance of each member of the team. Managing sales people can be difficult. If a “team” is a group of individuals aligned for a common goal, why does the concept seem to break down in the context of sales? Why does it feel like sales professionals so often operate autonomously, more focused on their own performance instead of the overall performance of the team?

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Sales Interviewing & Hiring

4 Mistakes Managers Make When Building a Sales Team

As a sales manager, you want to build a strong sales team to ensure your organization continues to grow and succeed. Unfortunately, many managers continue to make the same hiring and team building mistakes—mistakes that could be easily avoided. With that in mind, let us start by going over a few common mistakes managers make when building a sales team. Then, we will look at how you can avoid making those costly mistakes. 4 Mistakes Managers Make When Building a Sales Team 1. Hiring With Your Intuition Interviewing several different sales candidates can be a tedious and time-consuming process. One

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Sales Management

How to Help Your Team Break Through Their Top 3 Sales Barriers

As a Sales Manager, you want things to run smoothly for your sales team. Unfortunately, there are several barriers that may get in the way of your salespeople’s success. But as with many challenges, there are ways around (or even through) them if you have a plan of attack. With that in mind, here are three sales barriers you may encounter and how you can lead your team past these obstacles. 3 Common Barriers to Your Sales Team’s Success 1. The Fear of Being Rejected One of the most common barriers for salespeople (and many other people) is the fear

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5 Types of Difficult Salespeople and How To Deal With Them [Guest Post]

Productivity Hacks for Your Sales Team [Guest Post]

How to Choose the Best Sales Assessment for Your Company

The Magic in Managing a Multigenerational Sales Team [Guest Post]

4 Mistakes Managers Make When Building a Sales Team

How to Help Your Team Break Through Their Top 3 Sales Barriers