How to motivate your sales staff 17 Articles

by Jeanine Marie

Is your DIRECT SALES TEAM in need of motivation? Would you like to do so in a cost effective manner that produces a good return on your investment? It all starts with your meetings. Whether you host meetings onsite, onli...read more

by Sebastian Ramshackle III

Unless your business is run 100% through the internet, it will make at least some and possibly all of its profits by selling directly either to the public or to other businesses. If this is the case, the only thing more im...read more

by David Riel

Don't know how to motivate your sales staff? You're in good company. Most sales managers are good salespeople first - they know how to self-motivate - but they have little, if any, experience motivating others. And it'...read more

by Maddy J

MOTIVATING YOUR SALES TEAM... Most articles I read on motivation have to do with emotional components like "treat them nice", "treat them fair", "be respectful", "listen", "be firm". The answers are generally along this...read more

by Rachelle de Bretagne

How to motivate your sales staff. In a sales environment, efficiency of staff at all levels is important to succeed. Sales, from the humble filing clerk, right through to the top executive are all part of the chain that...read more

by Tammy L Mahan

An unhappy sales staff, makes for unhappy customers. As a manager, no customers equals no job. As a business owner no customers means, no business and alot of unemployment payouts. As a former business owner, I can ass...read more

by Eric Rine

Confidence, honesty (don't laugh), praise, and incentives. There is no one right way to motivate a sales staff, but there are plenty of wrong ways. Let's focus on the former. First of all, every great sales manager ...read more

by Bob Schmidt

Every effort to motivate your sales staff should be made for the health of your business. Sales are the lifeblood of healthy profits. All salespeople work harder for someone they like, so maintaining a friendl...read more

by Brian Bishop

Having many years experience in the retail sales industry, I can tell you that motivating a sales team can be as diverse in its methods an the sales team itself. There is no one set of rules that will always work for every...read more

by Will Kester

The question of how to keep a sales staff motivated is intriguing to me, since by definition of the position, almost, they should be self-motivating, but they aren't, and never will be. The sales manager, who is successfu...read more

by Beth Oliver

Know what motivates them. Most people will answer money. Make it a contest. But there are so many other perks managers can offer. An extra hour lunch. A better parking space. Dress down/casual dress days. A day off. Buy th...read more

by Andy Paulo

In sales, nothing is more important than your staff. Whether you're selling insurance policies to big businesses with even bigger cash payouts, or you're selling tea cozies door to door with even cozier cash payouts, nothi...read more

by Sarah Langevin

Whether you a supervisor or a head manager of sales. You need staff who WANT to work. Anyone can stand around and direct a customer to a product but it takes motivated staff to show them where and tell them about the pro...read more

by C Davison

Working in the managerial end of Wholesale Marketing Industries, I was able to get a real education in the art of motivating your sales staff, and this company has it down to a science. Following a pattern that worked wel...read more

by marblaze

5 Golden Rules 1. Make sure your sales staff should believe in your products. How can they sell something which they themselves would not buy if it would be sold to them. 2. Provide an attractive salary and incentiv...read more

by Christopher Carlson

WHY DO ALL OF US ACTIVE OR IN ACTIVE MARINES OR OTHER BRANCHES OF THE MILITARY GET JUDGED FOR WHAT WE HAD TO DU OVER SEAS? Yes as you might wonder im a former x- marine i just served a total of 8 years in the marines , ...read more

by Fibro Viv

You must be able to motivate yourself before you can motivate your sales staff. Keep in mind that relationships create opportunities and in the process of nourishing your relationship with your staff, you will gain their ...read more