Is there a strategy you can count on to deliver rapid, "hockey stick" growth to your company? The answer, according to David Mattson, CEO and President of the global organization Sandler Training, and Tom Schodorf and Bart Fanelli, veterans of the high-tech sales wars, is "yes." Aggressive growth depends on a critical strategic decision: the decision to invest in your sales team. Sales is, after all, all about building and supporting personal business relationships. High-performing salespeople are the means by which those relationships are created and sustained. You need top-tier salespeople to create and support one-on-one relationships with senior-level decision makers. If your objective is rapid, scalable growth, you must target such salespeople in escalating numbers, recruit them, hire them, support them, and ramp them up to full capacity ...
