{"id":1469,"date":"2008-03-13T10:55:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T15:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/satisfied-salespeople\/"},"modified":"2008-03-13T09:01:51","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T14:01:51","slug":"satisfied-salespeople","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/satisfied-salespeople\/","title":{"rendered":"Satisfied Salespeople"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.salesopedia.com\/?p=560\">Clayton Shold over at Saleopedia offers up some stunning survey results<\/a> from a recent SalesDog.com survey.\u00a0 Check this out (my emphasis):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite the job pressure, <strong>70 percent of respondents reported being happy with their management<\/strong>, while 64 percent of those taking the survey said they felt adequately recognized for their achievements. A surprising 75 percent of respondents believe their management\u2019s sales expectations or quotas are realistic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sitting here cruising at 70mph in Northern Minnesota as I write.\u00a0 I should clarify that Lee is driving, I am geeking it up in the passenger seat.\u00a0 We have been talking about these results for miles.<\/p>\n<p>We often hear of how discontented workers are with their current roles and managers.\u00a0 I suspect the fact that we are recruiters that we spend much of our time dealing with discontented salespeople looking for a new opportunity.\u00a0 That fact skews our perspective.<\/p>\n<p>These results are encouraging for the majority of sales managers who may have shared our perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clayton Shold over at Saleopedia offers up some stunning survey results from a recent SalesDog.com survey.\u00a0 Check this out (my emphasis): Despite the job pressure, 70 percent of respondents reported being happy with their management, while 64 percent of those taking the survey said they felt adequately recognized for their achievements. A surprising 75 percent of respondents believe their management\u2019s sales expectations or quotas are realistic. I&#8217;m sitting here cruising at 70mph in Northern Minnesota as I write.\u00a0 I should clarify that Lee is driving, I am geeking it up in the passenger seat.\u00a0 We have been talking about these results for miles. We often hear of how discontented workers&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/satisfied-salespeople\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[1750,439,440,438],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-nH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->