Sales Representatives

How to Add Healthy Competition to the Sales Process

Two camps divide popular opinion on the topic of salespeople competing with other members of their teams. On one side, sales representatives are inherently competitive because their jobs revolve around winning customers and beating competitors and they thrive in...

3 New Year’s Resolutions for Closers

In 2013, we want to be better closers. However, since now is year end for us and we have a lot of deals to close before F113, we plan to get a head start on our New Year’s resolutions. Improve Forecasting Accuracy A successful sales rep can assess just about anything:...

Motivate Your Team to Sales Success

With fiscal year end in sight for many sales organizations, December can usher a pressure unfelt throughout the rest of the year into a month already packed with holiday parties and vacation plans. As some companies strive to clear out their cash buckets and others...

A Guide to Lead Qualification: The Basics

As the continuous cycle that is the sales process rolls on, sales’ need to capture more and more business grows. That’s why the sales representatives that are truly successful know the difference between sales inquiries, sales leads, marketing and sales qualified...

Social CRM: How Can It Make Money?

Once the consumer world shifted primarily online, the business world followed. The move to relating to the customer who absorbs and shares products and information in 140 characters or less culminated with the rise of social customer relationship management (CRM). The...