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Advice, tips and industry insights for salespeople!

How To Achieve Guaranteed Results When Using A Recruitment Firm To Hire

7/5/2018 Hiring Advice • Resources • Sales • Tips

Have you ever partnered with a recruiting agency for your hiring needs? How was your experience? Judging by what I see on LinkedIn and other social networks...

Good Things Take Time

7/3/2018 Hiring Advice • Resources • Sales • Videos

When it comes to hiring sales people, be patient. The odds of finding the right person immediately or after your first crack at it, is very slim.

The Other Little Black Book

7/2/2018 Career Advice • Interview Advice • Resources • Resumes • Tips

There you are. Interviewing for the sales job of your dreams. It’s going great! You're telling the manager all about your performance...

Become a Variety Pack - The one HUGE reason to use a (great) recruitment firm

6/28/2018 Hiring Advice • Resources • Sales

Imagine this: You’re throwing a party and want to provide snacks & drinks. You head to the local grocery store and start walking down...

Your LinkedIn Connections Are Worthless

6/25/2018 Career Advice • Hiring Advice • Resources • Tips

If you have a million connections, but they aren't liking, commenting, or sharing your posts (ENGAGING WITH YOU)...

Don't Listen To Reviews

6/21/2018 Career Advice • Hiring Advice • Interview Advice • Tips

When a candidate tells you they are no longer interested in having a phone interview with a company due to the ratings on a review website...

How To Overcome Ugly (And Attract Great Talent)

6/20/2018 Hiring Advice • Resources • Social Media

Are You Attractive?…Yes, of course you are! But is your company? It should come with little surprise that prior to any interview...

How To Lose A Great Employee In 10 Days

6/13/2018 Hiring Advice

Why do people flee from certain companies and build lasting careers with others? The answer to this question is...

How To Create Good Videos For Linkedin

6/5/2018 Resources • Sales • Social Media • Tips • Videos

Most people on LinkedIn have built their personal brand by sharing thoughts through written posts or sharing things they like. This is a brand built over a canvas that hides a visual dimension of yourself from the public...

Mutate For Success - Why So Many Businesses Fail

5/30/2018 Resources • Sales

“Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” – Leonardo Di Vinci_

The Costly Mistake Many Hiring Managers Make

5/23/2018 Hiring Advice

It shocks me how often a candidate will be rejected based solely on their paper resume. Even more so for sales positions and when they are presented...

Knot Your Average Tie

5/23/2018 Tips • Tools & Apps

“A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.” - Oscar Wilde

Your Fate is in the Follow Up

5/20/2018 Career Advice • Interview Advice • Tips

Congrats! You just finished an amazing sales interview for your dream job. What’s next? Follow-up!

Own your email, own your day

5/15/2018 Tools & Apps

It’s crunch time. You are deep in thought and working on a project. The words are flowing. Then your phone beeps…

Relationship Advice For A Sales Person

5/14/2018 Career Advice • Sales • Tips

Successful personal relationships are tough to maintain. Usually people have different personalities, backgrounds, needs, and problems that need to be solved. People have good days and bad days. Highs and lows. It's how we tackle these issues that leads to a successful relationship versus a break-up....

Drink This Coffee For More Sales

5/9/2018 Health & Wellness • Videos

Why did the hipster burn his tongue? Because he drank his coffee before it was cool.

Use Storytelling To Close More Sales

5/7/2018 Sales • Tips

The stories we tell literally make the world. If you want to change the world, you need to change your story...

The 5 Worst Pieces of Advice You Are Getting About Your Career

3/9/2016 Career Advice • Tips

The first: Apply to as many jobs as possible...

Perseverance in the Weight of Rejection and Hatred

2/18/2016 Career Advice • Motivation • Success Stories

Persevere is the mantra of some of the biggest names today. They listen to their calling, their passion, their drive, and purse it with unequalled perseverance. Take a look at J.K. Rowling...

Success Is Paved With Hard Work

2/17/2016 Career Advice • Humor • Motivation • Pictures • Quotes • Tips

Do you want to be successful? Yeah? Well, you better be prepared to work hard...

Expect The Best, Prepare For The Worst

2/16/2016 Career Advice • Resumes • Tips

Be prepared for the worst...losing your job. Regardless if you are currently employed, update your resume regularly (at least every 6 months) and document your achievements so you can capture all that you’ve done in your job. Also, be sure to maintain the great network...

First Interview: 5 cramming hacks to do the night before.

2/3/2016 Career Advice • Interview Advice • Sales • Social Media

Most certainly, someone in your life has wished you luck. Our interpretation of luck is two-fold. One, luck is nothing more than an ambiguous state-of-perception. Two, we can generate our own “luck” by following a simple system...

Are you Facebook professional?

2/3/2016 Career Advice • Resumes • Social Media

For the duration of the hiring process, we can anticipate a single certainty. The varying HR personnel of the companies to which you’ve applied will scrutinize your social media. TRUST US!