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Does Efficiency or DNA Help to Increase Sales?
- July 24, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
The Salesforce Blog published a new article of mine today – Read How to Create Perfect Sales Conditions. It’s really an article about how to use tools and efficiency to increase your focus and sales. Speaking of efficiency, Kyle Dougherty, from Prialto, sent me this very cool video today. Talk about a tool that helps you to be efficient!
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Look for Potential in the Next Generation of Sales Hires
- July 22, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Make-up is nice to have. DNA, Competencies, Will to Sell and Potential are must-haves. OMG is uniquely able to determine and accurately predict whether or not a candidate’s combination of will, competencies, and DNA will allow them to succeed in a particular sales role, in your business and industry, selling to your ideal decision-maker, against your competition, with your pricing, sales cycle and challenges. It’s all about potential.
There are eight findings that point to potential:
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What Percentage of Sales Candidates Are Hired?
- July 21, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
In very simple terms, 6% means that 20 candidates must be assessed for each one who is hired. With an overall recommendation rate of 28%, those 20 assessments will yield approximately 6 candidates who are worthy of your time. But there is much more to consider.
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Top 10 Sales Recruiting Lessons to Hire Great Salespeople
- July 17, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
One of the first emails I came across this morning was a LinkedIn update telling me that 16% of my network had started new jobs. 16%. That’s one of every 6.25 people I am connected to.
That brings us to this question. Who’s in a LinkedIn network?
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What is the Best Sales Process for Increasing Sales?
- July 14, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Companies have terrific results when they implement Baseline Selling, and last week a well-known expert asked, “What is the big secret that makes Baseline Selling so powerful?” He thought it would make for a great article discussion, so let’s attempt to answer that question by starting with a few questions of my own.
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The 21 New Sales Core Competencies for Modern Selling
- July 10, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Can you name 10 Core Competencies of a great salesperson? Let’s see, there’s prospecting, qualifying and closing, and then there’s….wow, this is difficult!
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My Top 21 Keys to Help Your Sales Force Dominate Today
- July 8, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Do you have salespeople who are busy, but struggling to succeed? Do you have salespeople who are putting in long hours, but don’t generate enough business in relation to the time invested? Do you have salespeople who find enough opportunities, but struggle to get them closed? In my experience, there isn’t a correlation between busy and successful. Oh sure, successful salespeople may be busy and busy salespeople might be successful, but one being true does not necessarily mean that the other is true as well.
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Leads are Making Salespeople Lazier Than Old Golden Retrievers
- July 7, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
We all know that the introduction beats the crap out of the lead follow-up 95 times out of 100. If that’s the case, why are so many salespeople spending all of their time attempting to generate and follow-up on the leads that produce results 5 times out of 100?
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One Thing Missing from The New Way of Selling – Part 2
- July 2, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Selling is still selling and while a lot has changed in the last 10 years, a lot of it hasn’t. I’m a social seller. Social sellers get found, find prospects and connect using a myriad of social selling tools. But once a meeting has been scheduled, the social must be dropped in favor of the selling. A prospect should only be aware of a terrific conversation, but process and methodology must be hidden backstage.
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The One Sales Question I’ve Been Wrong About for Years
- July 1, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
I must be a moron. Stupid. Dumb. Blind. Certainly, I couldn’t have been paying attention or it wouldn’t have taken me 28 years to figure this one out!