Tagged: Startup
How to Interview Sales Reps – Building your bullshit Filter
In case you’re reading this because you’re hiring for sales, and your idea of a great salesman is DJ Trump, then stop reading here. I got nothing for you.
“WTF? The dude’s clearly a genius salesman – he sold the whole country the idea that he’s who they need!”
Exactly. The only commodity Trump has ever been able to sell – himself. He is exactly the rooster you’re trying to weed out of your interview process.
Bear with me…
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Hiring your first Sales Rep? Do this First
This may come as a surprise, But I know who your first sales rep is. I’ll introduce you shortly. You already know him/her. You see them every day.
Cut the bullshit – Sales unmasked for Tech Founders, Engineers and other Rationalists
You’re an engineer. Selling is alien to you, right? It’s the dark side. It certainly sounds like black magic when sales managers talk about it. Better hire someone who knows how to do it.
Look, it’s really not. You can do it, even if you don’t want to. And you can also manage a sales team.
B2B SaaS Sales in a Nutshell : a Startup-sized Framework to cut out and keep
A Startup founder asked me today “Can you help me put some structure around our sales process, but I’m also wondering – do we even need one? since we’re intending selling through channel partners”
Um.. the answer to each of those questions could fill a book. And for that matter does fill several hundred. How long have you got?
Anyway, I thought I’d write down how I really answered, in case it’s of use for anyone else. I basically sketched out for him the key elements of a lightweight framework for a scalable B2B sales model for any SaaS startup based in a location remote from its target markets. Continue reading
Robert Drummond 