When you think about what makes a good salesman, being a team player is probably not the first thing that pops into your mind. After all, there’s a widespread perception that salesmen are only out-for-themselves, eye-on-the-prize kinds of people. They’re portrayed that way in movies and on TV. Infomercials don’t do anything to help the

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  Sports fans know the importance of recruiting the right players for a team. Whatever the sport, the coach is important, but it’s the players that win or lose the game. It’s the same with selling—you may have a great game plan, but if you don’t have good salesmen to run the plays, you’re just

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    In this election year, there are, as usual, a large number of voters who are dissatisfied with their options at the polls. Most elections are like that—we want at least one candidate who is clearly perfect, but what we are given rarely lives up to our expectations. Most of us sigh and punch

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Although this blog generally refers to the masculine segment of the sales force, it’s only for the convenience of using a single pronoun.  But today, it’s all about the feminine!  Today’s blog is devoted to the ladies of the trenches. After all, according to various sources, 32% of working women are in sales, making the

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While reviewing a DISC Styles profile of a sales applicant with a client I heard an interesting, if not uncommon, response  the other day. It seems the client, who shall go nameless, had skipped quite a number of steps in the AHS Sales Hiring System. Where the Advanced Hiring System Aggressively recruits applicants, then Profiles

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