Technology driving accelerated growth among today’s young businesses

Within the 2014 class of Entrepreneur Of The Year finalists, EY has identified broad adoption of technology among a relatively young population of entrepreneurial companies as a significant trend emerging along the path to accelerated growth. Some of the strongest performers among today’s entrepreneurs have leveraged technology into a game changer. These companies are revolutionizing […]

4 steps to ensure a best-fit sales hire

You’ve been there before: You have an open sales position to fill and several candidates from which to choose. How do you identify the best candidate? How do you determine which of the candidates is most likely to perform the best, which will mesh with the existing sales team, and which is able to step […]

5 steps to effective territory management

The term “territory management” is somewhat of a misnomer. You cannot manage a territory. You can, however, manage your salespeople’s activities within a territory and develop strategies to direct selling efforts to maximize the ROI for your company. Good territory management will ensure that salespeople are calling on the appropriate customers for the appropriate reasons, […]

Sales managers: Are your sales people fundamentally lazy?

Left to their own devices, would your salespeople do just enough to get by: to give the illusion of being busy, perhaps in an attempt to justify the size of the investment the company has made on their behalf? Or, would they go the extra distance – do whatever it took to attain department goals […]