Peak Sales Recruiting

You need your new sales reps selling fast, and you need a comprehensive program to ensure that happens. On-boarding provides the means to equip new hires with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed within your organization, ensuring they fall in with the rest of your team as quickly as possible. It’s the foundation [...]

Consistently delivering sales targets is the primary mission of any Sales Manager and if you are like the best, you work hard to build a high performance culture, while keeping morale high. There are times however, when, the drive to succeed unwittingly backfires and create an unproductive environment for sales. If you see your sales [...]

When we get called in to help a company improve its sales hiring record or turn around poor hiring performance, the first thing we do is investigate what has worked and has not worked in the past. There are several mistakes that are commonly made and most involve poor preparation or lack of process. Given [...]

A lot more than you think. With so many reps currently below target, we thought we would show a quick and dirty calculation on what a bad sales hire costs. Let us assume we are speaking of an intermediate to senior position (depending on the company) with a base salary of $100,000 and a quota [...]

Successful companies are very rigorous about sales force structure, process, management, incentives, hiring and development. All important. In today’s market and economy, fierce competition and tightening pockets, dictate every penny spent on the sales force produces results. The most successful companies also know that you can’t simply hire sales reps, throw them into the trenches [...]