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Bottleneck #3 – The 3 Hidden Bottlenecks That Doom Sales Hires

Bottleneck #3 – The 3 Hidden Bottlenecks That Doom Sales Hires

Bottleneck #3: I Know I Need Sales Reps, But I Don’t Know How to Lead Them

At a certain point, every founder reaches this crossroads. You’ve built something real, customers are buying, referrals are coming in, and your calendar is booked with sales calls you barely have time to run. 

Revenue is growing, but the weight of it is growing, too.

You know it’s time to step out of being the primary salesperson because you can’t do it all anymore. You need a system and a way to hand off sales without watching it unravel.

But while it’s clear that someone needs to take sales off your plate, the part that’s less clear is how to lead them once they’re in the role. You’ve never had to train someone on your process, because, up to this point, you’ve never really had a process. 

It’s all been instinct—conversations, gut feeling, a few proven responses you’ve picked up along the way. You know what works. You just don’t know how to explain it.

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Sales Team Selection
Sales Strategy, Culture, Hiring & Onboarding Kevin McMillan Sales Strategy, Culture, Hiring & Onboarding Kevin McMillan

Sales Team Selection

A seasoned sales professional (me) was once asked, “Why are you so successful at sales?”

The question, coming from the President, and Co-Founder of the company that had employed me for five years caught me off-guard. I hadn’t really given it much thought. I had been in sales for most of my life, and to me, just did what came naturally.

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Achieving Sales Success

Achieving Sales Success

The Discovery Call is the most important conversation in almost any sales process and yet so many salespeople and business leaders are missing the boat. If you take this part of the sales process seriously, the wins will come far more frequently. If not, you will constantly struggle to obtain a healthy close rate

As I have led sales teams and we have assessed sales operating systems at Altezza, here are the 7 most common mistakes we see over and over.

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