#JenFerguson discusses selling at the sharp end. Feeding the top of the funnel is one of the most essential functions in sales because it's the #RevenueEngine. It's tough, it's a grind and it's usually the responsibility of some of your most junior and mistakenly undervalued salespeople. Given its importance and its level of difficulty, why is there so little emphasis on high quality training for these frontline salespeople? On developing their broader business acumen? On coaching, lesson capture and collaboration?

Churning and burning junior sales staff has long been a problem in #SDR roles. Leadership of SDRs needs to focus on maximising their progress to increase their effectiveness. Too often it's seen as a temporary stepping stone to bigger and better things. Leadership focussing on volume of activity instead of call quality results in burnout, disappointing experiences with buyers who feel like they're being interrupted with little or no value received, and SDRs not understanding why they're doing to make their lives harder than they need to be. The pressure to rush to a premature demo without effective qualification to people who can only say no or maybe is madness.

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