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The Direct and Indirect Costs of Bad Sales Hiring

The Direct and Indirect Costs of Bad Sales Hiring

Top salespeople will always be in high demand. For any young company, the ability to hire and retain top sales talent is a major competitive advantage. Go to market companies seeking to ramp up their customer acquisition need great people on their team. Yet, it is not uncommon for companies to experience high salesforce turnover. After all, the average salesforce turnover rate is over 33%…

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Meet “Darth Vader”

Meet “Darth Vader”

The only child of a high-powered Los Angeles lawyer father and a mother who worked at William Morris as a literary agent, Lucas never wanted for anything—including intellect, his classic good looks, or his manipulative charm. His parents divorced when he was 10 years old, and his mother, Beth, took custody and moved him into a colonial in an affluent Connecticut suburb outside Hartford with a stepfather…

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Meet “Ken Or Barbie”

Meet “Ken Or Barbie”

Nothing screamed University of Alabama football quite like Courtney and her Alpha Delta Chi sorority sisters—lily-white, satin faces streaked with crimson war-paint below doe-like eyes—screaming to a national television audience in their low-cut t-shirts: “Roll Tide!”…

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Meet “The Tortoise”

Meet “The Tortoise”

Surrounded by a Midwestern-Protestant ethos she would never shake, Abigail was raised— in Ohio for her first six years—and taught to be obedient, hard-working, and helpful.
Abigail was the only child. Her mother, Helen, was a chemistry major at Oberlin College when she met Abigail’s father, Alex, an English professor at the same school…

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Meet “The Rambler”

Meet “The Rambler”

Roxane grew up in Atlanta, raised by a single mother from who she inherited her gift of gab, with twin sisters, Brianna and Bella, two years her junior. Roxane’s father, Johnny now lived in Tallahassee and sent cards on Christmas and her birthday in February with whatever cash he could afford, depending on his Superbowl bets…

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Brainheart Growth Acquires Salesful

Brainheart Growth Acquires Salesful

Brainheart Growth, a growth advisory firm for lower mid-market businesses based in Madison, Wisconsin, has acquired Salesful. Salesful is a leader in finding and hiring top sales talent. While today marks the announcement of the acquisition, the two firms had worked together for several months. Seeing an opportunity to better serve clients if they came together, a formal partnership was established…

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Meet “MMA GUY”

Meet “MMA GUY”

Ryan’s father hopped on his Harley Davidson and left him and his mother Dawn in Bakersfield, California when Ryan was too young to remember anything about the man. But his biker dad became a mythical figure in Ryan’s mind…

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