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How to Write a Sales Manager Job Description

by Eliot Burdett | Published on - March 9, 2015

The key to writing a great Sales Manager job description: articulate specific performance objectives and highlight how a candidate will advance their career at your organization.ย  High performing sales managers are gainfully driving revenue for their employers and not perusing job ads. So if you need to hire one, you are going to have to

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2015 Sales Compensation Trends

by Eliot Burdett | Published on - February 23, 2015

In January, the World Bank announced cautionary good news. The organizationโ€™s Global Economic Prospects Report (GEP) predicted growth for developing countries, soft oil prices, a stronger U.S. economy, and the continuation of low interest rates globally. As experts continue to talk about economic recovery, this positive outlook for the global economy is reflected in corporate

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Sales Hiring: Culture and its Impact on Recruiting

by Eliot Burdett | Published on - February 18, 2015

Cultivating the right internal culture is an afterthought for many organizations and yet culture plays an enormous role in business success. What is Culture? A companyโ€™s โ€œcorporate cultureโ€ can be thought of as the general norms, traditions and assumptions that govern employee perceptions, thoughts and behaviours at work. The term โ€œcorporate cultureโ€ came into vogue

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Hiring Solution Salespeople in an Evolving Sales Landscape

by Eliot Burdett | Published on - February 5, 2015

One of the biggest shifts in selling approaches occurred in the mid-1980s when Mike Bosworth,ย formerly of Xerox Computer Services,ย popularized โ€œSolution Sales.โ€ Bosworth championed the idea of selling โ€œexpert to non-expertโ€, in which salespeople proactively uncover a customerโ€™s business requirementsย and position offerings as a โ€˜solutionโ€™ to these business needs rather than simply waiting for purchase requests.

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B2C vs. B2B Sales Recruiting: Establishing the Differences

by Eliot Burdett | Published on - January 16, 2015

When we launched Peak Sales Recruiting many years ago, we looked at the market and recognized the under served need for companies to recruit high achieving sales people. While it was overly common at the time for recruiting companies to specialize their services outside of a geographical region, we saw an even more acute need