Business Growth

The Benefits of Hiring a Fractional Sales Leader

I don’t think that anyone will argue that building and growing a business is a difficult task. Plain and simple, the process, speed, and expectations of cultivating a profitable and successful company are forever evolving. The advanced demands in today’s world have proven to be problematic for business owners. It commonly puts them in a position of having to lead without proper experience, knowledge, or focus, making it increasingly difficult to function at peak level across all departments.

The Benefits of Hiring a Fractional Sales Leader2021-02-25T13:53:40+00:00

Finding the Right Leadership Team Is the Biggest Barrier to Achieving Business Goals

One month ago, we asked business owners to take our survey, “What inspired you to start your business?” This was a challenge to you to go back to basics and validate business assumptions, in order to move forward with confidence in planning 2021 goals. Survey responses were a representative sampling of owners with annual business [...]

Finding the Right Leadership Team Is the Biggest Barrier to Achieving Business Goals2021-02-18T18:31:51+00:00

The Art of Sales Compensation

A sales compensation plan is an important factor in your company’s ability to attract, recruit, and retain a sales team that produces results. While a sales compensation plan is a vital component, it can be challenging to structure it just right. Are you among the 78% of small-to-mid sized businesses that feels their sales compensation plans [...]

The Art of Sales Compensation2021-02-17T12:54:42+00:00

The Sales Plan: A Roadmap to Reach Your Goals

Getting off on the right foot in a new fiscal year starts with having a solid sales plan in place. Rather than counting on your salespeople to instinctively know the best course of action, Owners and Sales Leaders need to develop a company-level strategic sales plan to provide direction for the individual sales plans managed [...]

The Sales Plan: A Roadmap to Reach Your Goals2021-01-14T16:10:15+00:00

How Much Do You Know About Onboarding? Setting Your New Hire Up for Success

You have just hired an A-Player for your sales team – someone you’re looking to perform at a high level and crush your company goals. Are you assuming your newest employee will continue to be a sales powerhouse in your company environment? Don’t count on it! Owners and Sales Leaders can’t take a backseat just yet in [...]

How Much Do You Know About Onboarding? Setting Your New Hire Up for Success2021-10-21T01:29:42+00:00

What Inspired You to Start Your Business?

A lot of people are challenging their business assumptions right now. After nearly a year of coronavirus lockdown and continuous pivoting to stay viable, how in the world do you set clear business priorities and goals for the coming year? I’ve been thinking about this a lot – how do businesses, and business leaders, move [...]

What Inspired You to Start Your Business?2020-12-21T20:25:34+00:00

How to Hire a Stellar Sales Team to Accelerate Your Recovery

If there is a silver lining to the pandemic-related economic shut down, it is that a lot of excellent salespeople are now available and hungry to contribute to your business. The opportunity here is to rehire your best performers and then build a stronger team than before. To hire a stellar sales team to accelerate [...]

How to Hire a Stellar Sales Team to Accelerate Your Recovery2020-06-09T14:32:22+00:00

How to Precisely Define Your Target Client

I’ve noticed something interesting about small-to-medium businesses across industries: Many are not very specific when describing their target client. This is a major sales roadblock, especially for B2B companies. You have to precisely define who your ideal client is and what they care about before you can engage them in a sales conversation.   Who [...]

How to Precisely Define Your Target Client2020-03-05T14:43:34+00:00

How the Right Value Proposition Removes Obstacles to Growth

Obstacles to growing a business are not always monetary. Issues that restrict a company’s ability to grow are sometimes related to the wrong value proposition (i.e., focusing on your business offering, not on the customer’s needs). How do you know if you have the right value proposition that removes obstacles to growth? And if not, [...]

How the Right Value Proposition Removes Obstacles to Growth2020-02-05T20:55:46+00:00

Top 10 Reasons Why Sales Don’t Increase as Planned – Reason #8

Reason #8 – Lack of a Defined Sales Process Are you struggling to get some consistency to your sales results? Is it difficult to predict with any certainty when deals are going to close, or if they are? Are your revenue forecasts hit or miss? In Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Alice gets lost (on her way somewhere) [...]

Top 10 Reasons Why Sales Don’t Increase as Planned – Reason #82021-01-07T10:47:54+00:00
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