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You may soon begin to reflect on changes to your team’s composition since March and create your Q3 and Q4 plans to retain or attract (new) team members. The below observations are from Xtra Effort conversations with USA based Sales, Sales Engineering, and Customer Success personnel from the technology segment. These Covid era observations reveal...
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Xtra Effort has learned from sales candidates working for companies acquired by much larger companies that they often become “Sales Overlays”.   They are originally employed by a technology company with 25 to 500 employees, typically with responsibility for a specific territory or set of targeted accounts. They have to perform a lot of heavy...
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 Xtra Effort received survey input over the holiday break from 70+ Sales, Sales Engineering, and Customer Success/PS professionals from across the USA’s major hubs. Survey participants (including inactive, passive, and active “candidates”) selected from the below motivations to consider change in 2019: Career Advancement Compensation Increase Technology Exposure Commute Territory Travel Company Culture Company Management/Leadership Style Achievable...
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You may recall Xtra Effort periodically sharing data with you about our clients’ hiring activity, including trends in: available careers, compensation, locations, hot technologies and their respective price points, etc. Click here for a previous example. The majority of our clients are high growth technology product or service companies in need of Sales, Sales Engineering,...
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As an executive of a high growth enterprise technology or services company, you may constantly feel pressure to identify and hire the elusive ‘A’ player. The  biggest challenges with hiring the ‘A’ player: 1) Lack of agreement of what your ‘A’ player may look like.  An ‘A’ player for another employer may be improperly considered an ‘A’ player for...
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Just finished Seth Godin’s book, “What To Do When It’s Your Turn”. HIGHLY recommend it. MY personal takeaways (among many possibilities, depending on the reader): 1) Only deal with customers who truly engage 2) Continue to take risks, get involved 3) Perform activities and services that you find worthwhile, without requiring the recipient’s response for...
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  Today, I received this reply from a potential candidate. I am not sure if I should feel like a pain in the neck and/or a recruiting savant.  As long as there is strong alignment between his background and the Xtra Effort client need, I can feel good about the process … and hopefully the...
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I recently attended a Boston Enterprise Sales MeetUp. The topic was “Make Your Sales Team Rockstars!- Continuous Sales Development”. One of the guest panelists was Mary Rogul, VP of Enterprise Sales at Boston- based Mautic. She was previously with HubSpot and was a key sales player in their early stage growth. Mary made a comment that...
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