How This Guy Became a Top Salesman (Sales Hack)

Summary

• I met a guy in my building who's the top timeshare salesman in America. His firm does $5 billion a year.
• He won the sales award four out of five years and tripled his earnings by changing the lead distribution.
• He told the CEO to give him the best leads and the new guys the bad ones. This led to better overall performance.
• The company shifted from giving all sales reps equal leads to rewarding the best performers with the best leads.
• He went from earning $400,000 a year to $25 million by demonstrating high performance and getting top leads.
• This new system motivated new hires by offering the potential to earn $2 million a year if they proved themselves with bad leads first.
• By giving better leads to proven top performers, the company weeded out weaker salespeople and attracted stronger candidates.

In essence, by aligning rewards with performance, everyone wins. The best get better opportunities, and the system filters out the underperformers.

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How To Take Action

I would suggest implementing a system that aligns rewards with performance. This doesn’t have to be complex or costly but can yield high value.

Start by Identifying Top Performers

Look at your current sales or performance data. Who are your top performers? If you don’t have this data, start tracking it immediately. Knowing who consistently delivers the best results is key.

Reassign Leads or Resources

Once you’ve identified your top performers, give them the best opportunities. This could mean the highest-quality leads, the most valuable projects, or the best clients. For new or lower performers, give them the less desirable opportunities. This way, everyone is motivated to improve.

Create an Incentive Structure

Make it clear that achieving higher performance can lead to better opportunities. Just like the timeshare company, showing that there’s a path to greater earnings or rewards motivates everyone. Be transparent about what’s required to move up the ladder.

Track and Adjust

Monitor the results. Are your top performers becoming even more productive? Are new team members improving to earn better leads? Track progress and be ready to make adjustments if needed.

Foster a Competitive but Supportive Environment

Encourage healthy competition but also provide support and training for those who want to move up. This could be low-cost mentoring programs or sharing best practices among team members.

Streamline Processes

Look for ways to make your business processes more efficient. Sometimes small tweaks in how you distribute leads or manage projects can free up significant amounts of time and resources.

By implementing these strategies, you create an environment where the best performers are rewarded, and everyone is motivated to improve. This approach not only drives better results but also attracts top talent and filters out those who may not be the right fit for high-performance roles.

Full Transcript

a guy in my building is the top time share salesman in America at the biggest firm they do like 5 billion a year he's one four out of five years as number one producer he's a bit of a character but I talked to him I was like talk about your sales process and he was like well I I 5x this business and I was like all right how'd you do that he's like well I won the sales award the first year which means I got an hour with the CEO and when I had the hour with the CEO I told him hey you should stop giving me the bad appointments give me all the best appointments and give the new kids the bad ones I'll make you more money and so he convinced the guy to do that just at his location and he like he went from making like 400 a year to making like 25 million a year as a sales guy and by giving the best leads to the best guys and the worst leads to the worst guys it weeded out the bad guys but more people wanted the job because they knew they could make $2 million a year and that's how it shifts so if everybody makes 250 IT recruits a very different person than knowing you're going to have to put your time in you got to prove yourself in these bad leads so that you get slightly better leads until eventually you're one of the top dogs because you survived