The Sales Development Playbook: Build Repeatable Pipeline and Accelerate Growth with Inside Sales
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The Sales Development Playbook: Build Repeatable Pipeline and Accelerate Growth with Inside Sales
Hiring an individual contributor with one foot in management and one foot as a rep can be a recipe for failure. If you’ve identified someone with the potential to be a fabulous leader, promote him or her. Asking someone to have one foot in the SDR world and one in the management realm is unfair and counterproductive.
The absolute bare minimum number of attempts to contact at least 50 percent of your leads is 6.
“Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without kn
... See moreMake sure your onboarding and training leave reps fluent in your prospects’ language, thinking, professional goals, etc.
it answers why work here before addressing what you’ll be doing here day to day
It follows that a rep’s job is twofold. One, schedule the meeting. And two, make sure the meeting is held.
shared, “We may tell a candidate the story about the person who got promoted in six months, but we tell them that they could just as well expect to spend two years in the role. Doing a good job of setting expectations upfront prevents disconnects and the inevitable disappointments.”
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