Stop Overpaying Salespeople
For over a century, top performing sales superstars earned great profits for their companies and themselves. These sales rock stars were worth every penny. As compensation for rock star salespeople increase, the overall compensation for salespeople increased in...
Startup Sales Stack
Check out this awesome deck on The Startup Sales Stack. Startup Sales Stack Report 2017 from Nic PoulosSales Management Quotes
Here are a few quotes on how others define the role of a sales manager: “A sales manager can have a narrow or a broad spectrum of responsibilities including the following: estimate demand and prepare sales forecasts; establish sales force objectives and quotas;...When is the right time to hire a salesperson?
There never seems to be the perfect time to hire a salesperson. Either you can’t afford it or you desperately need sales help at any cost. The article below is excerpted from http://www.inc.com/matthew-bellows/four-reasons-not-to-hire-a-salesperson.html 4...
Perhaps you don’t need a sales manager
Every company is different and not every company has the same sales management needs. As the Inc. article below points out, not everyone needs a sales manager in the traditional sense. http://www.inc.com/articles/201106/what-to-look-for-in-a-star-salesperson.html...Recent Posts
Phantom costs could be killing your profits
I love a good bargain as much as the next person, but I learned a valuable lesson about phantom costs. That is, those costs that don’t show up on your income statement but drain profits. Everyone has heard the saying “good things are cheap, and she things are good,” however, we tend to forget it... Read more →
What is the upside to having a Proven Repeatable Sales Process?
A few years back, I was hired by a manufacturing company who was doing 7-8 million dollars in sales per years. They had been in business about 20 years and had experienced a few growth spurts, but were now in a stagnant position the past few years They were struggling to hit the next level. ... Read more →