Why You Should Hire a Salesperson to Plan Your Retirement

Are you an owner/operator responsible for a large percentage of the revenue in your company? Are you the lead Influencer in your company? The top evangelist? Are all the new sales leads from your efforts and your relationships?

Have you thought about what this looks like when you don’t want to work that hard every day?

If you are 100% responsible for every lead and every sale, you should be concerned about the future.

This is an invitation to take a serious look at your sales lead flow and evaluate your vulnerabilities. It maybe that filling a specific sales role will stabilize your pipeline. Here are some roles to consider.

Hunting Salesperson

Anytime a single source is creating awareness, fostering new relationships, and bringing fully qualified leads to your Subject Matter Experts to quote and close, you run the risk of your pipeline collapsing if that source is no longer available to produce. A good Hunting salesperson will provide diversification with additional leads and opportunities. Their primary job is “identify & qualify” new opportunities for the company and the team and get them in the door. This is the most difficult role to fill because good Hunters are never on the market long, if at all. They have to be recruited and wooed, which can sometimes require commitment and patience.

Subject Matter Expert

Maybe you are the quint essential “e-myther” (link below),the expert who knows everything about the industry or technology your company offers. When you want to slow down, you will need to hire an “SME Salesperson” to fill that gap. Their job is to take solid opportunities and formulate and demonstrate a plan to the prospect. Someone needs to get up to speed on all that technology and somehow gather and digest your decades of specialty experience and knowledge. This is going to take some time

The Closer

If you operate in the “closing” capacity at your firm, you have to touch every deal. They won’t close unless you are involved. The closer is the one who identifies and overcomes objections, gives decisive answers, negotiates the final details, and gives the prospect the confidence to say yes. It's not often that someone hires a dedicated closer, but it is a critical role, and it is important to know who in your company can handle that responsibility

360 Degree Salesperson

What if you handle all these sales roles in your company? Who’s going to do all that work when you want to spend less time at the office? Who will bring in new qualified deals, propose them, and get the mover the finish line?

Now What?

Once you’ve identified what roles you fill in your sales process, it’s time to start looking for a salesperson or salespeople to backfill your position and bring in new revenue independent of you. You can check out some videos we have published on the five different roles. We will link to that below. If you aren’t sure where you sit in the process, or if you are concerned because you are everywhere in the sales process, drop us a note and we’ll help you figure it out.