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Some complaints we’ve heard from Sales organizations: Forced to fill out old employee review forms on paper. Can’t hire a candidate that lives outside the metro area where the job was posted. Can’t promote a salesmanager to a director. Can’t vary the comp plan based on market cost of living – it’s outside the comp rules.
As a result, they can’t anticipate when in a sales cycle or sales process they will be impacted, and don’t have the awareness to take steps to work around it and improve. When this lack of awareness is prevalent at the top of a sales organization, it is challenging to grow it or scale it. Investments?
As most CEOs have discovered at some point, sales compensation is very often a delicate balancing act. Pay too little, and you will never be able to recruit (or retain) the kind of game-changing salestalent that fuels growth. Pay too much, however, and you will struggle to scale your sales organization as that growth occurs.
Now the economy is growing again and you are looking to hire more salestalent for your team. The bad news is your salesmanagers have maxed out their bandwidth with their current responsibilities and daily activities. This leaves you with a critical decision regarding how to ramp up the new sales hires.
Great inside sales training improves team performance, which can increase sales revenue. Be that reducing recruitment costs by retaining top-tier salestalent or training reps to automate non-selling activities with AI tech. Inside sales means selling remotely rather than traveling to meet customers (outsidesales).
Fact: Most top performers in sales today are better at listening than talking and are careful never to appear pushy or "hard-sell." Fact: Salestalent is inversely related to school grades. Great salespeople make great salesmanagers. Fact: Success in sales is mostly based on innate talent.
A company must determine the sales channels that can reach its target markets and customers most effectively. Some of the factors to weigh: Direct versus indirect versus digital sales team. Hunter versus farmer sales team. Inside versus outsidesales team. Complex solution versus transactional sales environment.
If you’re responsible for budget allocation across sales or marketing (Head of Sales or CMO), this guide is for you. If you’re interested in learning new tactics around driving top-of-funnel activity (salesmanagement and individual contributors in sales and marketing), this guide is for you. Hiring Considerations.
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