{"id":1251,"date":"2017-05-02T09:32:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T13:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peaksalesrecruiting.comblog\/characteristics-sales-success\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T18:00:08","slug":"characteristics-sales-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peaksalesrecruiting.com\/blog\/characteristics-sales-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 7 Characteristics Essential to Sales Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Evidence of common attributes amongst top salespeople comes from many high profile studies.\u00a0Spend some time with top sales talent and it will quickly become evident that they share common characteristics. Sales leaders of high performance sales teams understand that knowing these traits is\u00a0critical in the hiring of their sales reps.<\/p>\n

So, what are the characteristics shared amongst top performers that are essential to sales success? We asked the reps themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a recent study<\/a>, researching the behaviors and characteristics of top performing salespeople,\u00a0over 500 salespeople were asked to rate several traits\u00a0from unimportant (1) to important (5) to sales success.<\/p>\n

In the infographic below, we\u2019ve listed the top seven characteristics critical\u00a0to sales success according to top salespeople\u2013those who have met or exceed quota over the past three years\u2013and average salespeople\u2013those have met less than 80 percent of quota over the past three years.<\/p>\n

Here are\u00a0the top seven characteristics essential to sales success, according to top salespeople versus average salespeople:<\/h2>\n

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