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Why is it so hard to find great (or even just “good”) sales people these days?

  1. Is it the “Y Generation” (the “me me me, fuck you, generation”) problem, who want high salaries without high performance? (Note: I don’t think ALL Gen Y’ers are like this, but unfortunately a LARGE percentage are VERY much like this.)
  2. Or is it just the bad rep that the word (and role) “sales” seems to have gained over the past two decades?
  3. Or is it the “conservative (risk averse) nature” about having a guaranteed (ie: boring) salary mentality that the working force is getting trapped in to?

As you can probably gauge, I believe it is a mixture of the three points above.

ineedhits (our Search Engine Marketing firm)  is currently trying to hire a few new (good to excellent) sales team members and we are very disappointed with the low response rate, and the low quality of those that did respond. What ever happened to trying to “sell yourself”? If you can’t convince us (or even yourself), how are you going to convince potential customers.

People with the right mind set, can achieve an EXCELLENT overall salary, if the job offers a decent base salary, with achievable targets combined with attractive commissions. Come on people, set yourself a challenge, go out and achieve it and then be rewarded!!