In a recent conversation with a founder, she shared that it was important to her that certain positions like her VP of Sales be W2's employees, given the confidential business info they would know and have access to. Are W2 employees better at keeping proprietary business information confidential than 1099 contractors?
Read MoreHybrid virtual-selling best practices are now based on building new strategic sales systems to achieve remote sales results going forward. Recent customer behavior and interaction with remote salespeople has changed and will continue to remain this way into the future.
Read MoreRemote work is the new normal for many professionals, and salespeople are being tasked with achieving and exceeding their sales business while making a swift transition to working from home. Stellar sales work is possible outside of a traditional company office. As a sales manager, it is important to lead your remote team with the intention of helping them reach their goals while adjusting to a new way to work.
Read MoreHybrid working is simply another way of describing flexible working arrangements. Its prevalence has been accelerated by COVID-19. The pandemic has presented an unprecedented opportunity for employers to re-examine their approach to flexible working. And for many, it's not a case of making a simple switch.
Read MoreTruly successful people don’t merely tolerate discomfort—they embrace it and seek it out again and again. Business founders and university students, top athletes and couch potatoes, meditation gurus, and military leaders all have very different ways of coping with discomfort.
Read MoreHaving worked from home and having led home-based and hybrid sales teams, these were always myths to me. But I guess it took the pandemic and the forced experiment almost all companies undertook about a year ago to expand the idea beyond sales and beyond those companies that had progressively embraced it already.
Read MoreMerging sales organizations and ensuring that they deliver the revenue synergies is hard work. On paper, especially when grasping for straws to make the deal work, it always looks logical and makes sense. It almost always ignores the human aspect of sales: the team, the clients, and their interactions.
Read MoreWe’re talking about 5 signs your small business or start-up is in high-growth mode and how you can collaborate with a Fractional CFO to ease the pain.
Read MoreWhy should business owners and CEOs hire small, independent professionals, as opposed to other, more traditional options? Here are her top five reasons.
Read MoreWhat has been your worst buying experience? Mine continues to be buying a car. The process is broken, ripe for re-engineering and disruption. The proverbial car salesman is not dead! And they all attend the same old school of playing games.
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