How to hire salespeople, recruit the salespeople with the best traits possible... All based on real life results, without the need for a long interview process.
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If you cannot figure out how to hire sales people, most businesses won’t be able to grow successfully. This is one of the most important skills to grow almost any kind of business. Sales people have the highest conversion rate out of anything else potentially that you can do to get sales.
How do you find sales people? Where do you find them? How do you hire?
This strategy does not apply to corporate sales. This is for smaller companies selling to smaller companies.
Where do you get sales people? For salespeople freelancing websites are not good enough. There are not a lot of good salespeople there.
You are looking to hire people, who do not have too much experience. If you hire sales people, they need to do things exactly as you are doing it. You need to transfer all your knowledge to the sales person. You have to train them from scratch. If it is a sales person with 5 years of experience, he will not learn and hear you. They will stick to the existing methods and habits, which are very hard to unlearn.
Maybe there are other people, who are better teachers, but for me it has always been easier to hire people, who are a blank sheet, but who have what it takes to learn. They have the basic talent for learning.
How do you actually find them? You should go and look in Facebook groups, which are related to the industry that you are interested in. For example, if you are looking to sell services online to companies for inbound leads, you should go for example to a Facebook group like Daily Business Hustle, where there are a lot of young people who want to become entrepreneurs.
Those people want to become entrepreneurs and they know that they have to learn sales. They do not have sales skills, but I can teach them that. They are very eager to learn and they are very eager to earn some money. That is a good lead.
I am looking for a person, who wants to get out there every morning and get shit happen, get the money to the bank account. I am looking for someone, who is quick to talk, whose brain works quickly and able to make decisions quickly and who can control his emotions somehow, someone who is all over the place. I am looking for this type of people.
When I find them in LinkedIn and other websites, I get them to apply and follow my rules for application. They know that this is a job application, but also it is a sales call. I want to see what happens, when they do not know what is going on. If their reaction is very off, then it will be hard to teach them how to find the right reaction.
If that person has a strong frame and won’t be interrupted if we are just messing with him, then that is a very good sign. I am looking for people, who are very strong in their beliefs and very strong in the way of communication.
The question, which I ask them are not important. The important thing is how they behave in the interview, how they respond to me and how they react emotionally.
Here is the best thing you can do if you want to hire a salesperson. Make the interview very short. Give them a 24-hour or a 1-week test. Hire 3 people and see how they behave and communicate with the customer, with you. That is the way they generally will behave and communicate forever. It is very hard to change people’s behaviors.
They need to be able to be there on time and do the work on time, be eager to learn and ask questions without being afraid of sounding stupid.
How do you train them? You need to get good at sales yourself first before you hire sales people. Otherwise, you do not know what really they are doing. You do not know what they are promising and it is really messy.