How to significantly reduce the cost of a bad sales professional hire.

Some of our clients justify the cost of our program based on identifying those that don’t have the aptitude or attitude to do the prospecting part of the job much earlier.

There are two benefits to putting a newly hired sales professional through one of our Prospector’s Academies™. On the positive side, those that will be successful will get off to a quicker start, filling their calendar with Initial Appointments as soon as they are licensed and know enough to go on sales calls. Even those that will need to take an experienced sales professional or manager with them begin to get face-to-face selling experience much more quickly. And more experience generally means more commissions and a lower failure rate of new hires (turnover rate, which is a discussion for another day). Continue reading “How to significantly reduce the cost of a bad sales professional hire.”

How to build territories over time.

Why ignoring this concept is costing you money and what to do about it.

 

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Let’s face it, sales professionals come and go, but territories tend to be permanent.

If you think about it, even if we divide up a territory into smaller pieces, or recombine multiple territories in some fashion, the individual targets within them stay the same. Therefore, I would argue that territories are permanent even when the deck is re-shuffled. So, as I like to say, shame on me if my territories are not stronger, warmer and better defined a year from now than they are today.

There are two reasons why this is important:

Continue reading “How to build territories over time.”