Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Trust me when I say that this is a great article, but before we get to it, I have a few post-vacation links for you. Hubspot''s Sales Blog published this post with some professional follow-up email templates. Today, the data shows that no more than 27% of salespeople are what we now call extrinsically motivated.

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Openview

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

On a personal level, you need to deliver on your promises and show your team that they can rely on you and trust you. If you expect them to stay late at the end of the quarter to catch up on quotas, you’d better stay with them. They’ll be intrinsically motivated to meet your expectations. Extrinsic Motivation.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

The three biggest factors: Trust, respect, and affirmation. Take this advice from a research roundup done at Lee University : Research on healthy relationships between adults and young people has consistently identified respect, affirmation, and trust as the most influential factors. Here's what I've discovered.

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Hubspot

MARCH 25, 2016

Some days you just want to put your feet up, eat buffalo chicken nachos, and watch Netflix -- and not even good Netflix, but some crappy movie that you're only watching because you've given up on being productive and are complicit in filling your brain with dim-witted, mind-numbing entertainment. A nice little brain vacation.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 5, 2016

The law dictates that performance increases with physiological or mental arousal, but only up to a point. Any incentive you offer can potentially change your visitors’ motivation from intrinsic to extrinsic, meaning their buying and use becomes dependent on the incentive. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson in 1908.

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Highspot

MARCH 9, 2022

Set inspirational SMART goals and spark intrinsic motivation in their sales reps to achieve those goals. Expect sales reps to follow the game plan, dotting every “i” and crossing every “t” along the way. It takes a particular set of skills and traits to energize your team and get them to follow you.

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Hubspot

JULY 30, 2018

Growing up, a few of my baseball coaches were some of the most ruthless and demanding people I’ve ever met. Since businesses actually have to make money, and not just win a few games, I was scared to mess up. If one of their employees doesn’t follow orders, they’lll punish them by chewing them out or threatening their job.

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