Proxima Sales, is hiring NOW. We're growing and you can too.

Proxima Sales is hiring four experienced technology specialty salespeople, preferably before the end of May. We're growing and we have all sorts of new projects that need the right people to help us maximize sales for our clients. Proxima Sales reviews what prospects are buying, when, and how. So when we're hiring, it's because we have already scoped out the need.

We have one simple request to begin our hiring process: get to know Proxima Sales. Figure out the company we keep. Read our blogs. Review the Proxima Sales web site. https://www.proxima-sales.com . Think about what you might add to our distributed company of experienced, quirky, workaholic, fun loving, kindness obsessed, technology professionals and send us a note (my email is at the bottom of this and every post) describing what you can add to what we offer Proxima Sales clients.

Proxima Sales works with companies to grow their sales. We do not offer marketing consulting, collateral, or training. So if you are not a died-in-the-wool, I couldn't imagine doing anything else for a living, sales person, you won't be a fit. We need people who know the difference between a cold call and a waste of breath. We need people who know that it takes years to learn what calls not to bother making and who also know who to call instead.

If you think relationships are LinkedIN or other social media contacts, you probably won't like our old-guard ideas about what counts as a real contact and what we do to maintain those relationships. Speaking of maintaining relationships, we don't care where you live as long as you like to travel - nearly everyone is on the road at least some. The road warriors are 60-70% travelers, and yes, they keep all of the Southwest and United points they rack up.

We do pay a salary and benefits. If you would be happy living on our salary, you will not like working at Proxima Sales. We eat what we kill. So bonuses based on successfully building new business for our clients are what you'll need to earn to buy yourself a boat. Or a semester of tuition at the college your daughter is currently selecting.

Please, stop if you are already looking us up on LinkedIN or firing your resume into our inboxes. Send us something that passes the sniff test for whether you understand our model.

We don't give funny tests like the big G. We don't auto-scan thousands of resumes a week like Facebook and the other giants. We do make hiring decisions very, very quickly when the match is right.

You can find me, Kate Parker kate@proxima-sales.com and other Proxima Sales company contributors in lots of places:

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Brexit vote: The Only Certain Outcome is Uncertainty

After Brexit, The Only Certainty is Uncertainty

The United Kingdom’s vote to depart the European Union has shocked virtually every segment of the global economy and caused immediate, wild gyrations in financial and business markets across the planet.

First: Let’s admit that absolutely no one genuinely knows what will happen next. Proxima Sales reviews dozens of definitive news sources daily; from around the EU and the United Kingdom, as well as the American business media, very little is agreed upon by even the most authoritative voices.

Each and every constituency is trying to drill down through the uncertainty and figure out how the vote--much less the actual exit--would or could impact everything business touches. From currencies to tax and trade structures, to the rules and costs affecting operations outside the UK, to the daily realities of employing staff, business travel across borders, and exactly where and how operations can function effectively…uncertainty rules the day. Credit Suisse, in an immediate post-vote note, described the vote as “the most significant pullback to-date fromthe post-WWII consensus of closer integration and open trade.”

But this could still be merely a bad dream for the technology companies, enterprise software makers, professional services firms and start-ups that Proxima Sales sales teams represent in the US market. The very same Credit Suisse release features a flow-chart (included below) that sets forth a labyrinthine set of (phenomenally complex and confusing) potential political routes to this whole episode ending with the EU intact--with the UK’s special status perhaps revised, but in place.

Nothing in the chart offers relief from huge uncertainty or the pressing need for businesses, in the UK especially and elsewhere in the European Union, to have a plan for stability in place absolutely as soon as possible.

The timeline for the whole unraveling--should it take place at all--is completely unclear as well. EU leaders said, after the vote, that they preferred an immediate beginning to the exit of the UK and the myriad processes involved in accomplishing the withdrawal. That sounds fairly definitive.

But German chancellor Angela Merkel said over the weekend, “Great Britain has not put into motion this proposal, and also the agreement isn't finished." Her tone and comments suggest that she hopes that this leap into an abyss of Brexit uncertainty can be reversed. She continued, “Great Britain continues to be a full member of the EU with all rights and responsibilities.”

Our international teams at Proxima Sales are convinced that the German record--of holding sway on important EU matters--will likely be extended, making Chancellor Merkel very active in every way she can assist any UK party prepared to roll up their sleeves and reverse the exit.

In everything about to come after the Brexit vote, uncertainty is the only consensus.

Proxima Sales specializes in assisting companies with all aspects of sales and marketing, particularly in the US and Canadian markets. There has never been a better time for firms in Great Britain and in the European Union to establish a presence, and a pipeline of revenue in dollars, in the relatively predictable business climate of the United States. The US economy is stable, profitable and welcomes Proxima Sales European and UK-based client firms.

And yes, Proxima Sales is hiring. No matter where you live, if you have sales and marketing expertise, we may have a position for you. 

Fall is for Hiring

Proxima Sales is hiring. Yes, we were hiring at the beginning of 2015 and we are hiring now. We are on the grow.

In between we've added eleven excellent people to our staff and congratulated one departing sales person on her adorable new twins (yes we begged her to work part-time but for now she wants to do the whole 24/7 sleep deprivation and posting the oh-so-adorblz photo of the hour on Facebook gig. Mazel Tov).

We're hiring because we're growing. Businesses are more aware than ever that sales matter. Brand new start-ups and veteran service firms need reliable revenue and a pipeline of new clients.

Some of our clients love sales and actively participate in every aspect of their revenue growth side-by-side with their Proxima Sales team. Others know that they have great talents and sales is not in the top three. Another group wants to focus on current clients and sees the Proxima Sales model as a great way to build new business without hiring more people and spending more time managing the people they don't want to hire. New product or service? We can laser beam in on the best prospects for the new offering and leave your current team committed to current customers. We probably already attend the conventions and industry conferences that our clients want and need to attend.

Did I mention we've got this cool new platform that makes our time more effective and is making everyone more money? Proxima Sales reviews resumes by hand so check out our website at Proxima-sales.com and then Shoot us a note at Kate@proxima-sales.com and tell Kate Parker about why you think you'd like working in our results = rewards environment and we'll chat. If you have the background and the quirky mix of industry experience and love of sales that Proxima Sales people share, we'll talk more and show you our new not-so-secret weapon. We promise the process won't be boring.

Proxima Sales company hiring people who want REAL balance.

News stories keep crossing my desk at Proxima Sales responding to the recent NYT piece on Amazon. The theme seems to be: "Here's our take on working our tech company staff to death: they like it." I'm pretty sure the authors of these essays can't hear the historically resonant tones of the pre-union-era (read wayyyy before unions) bosses saying that their immigrant, ethnic minority, and other under-class workers just love to work that hard.

All this glorification of how nicely workers are treated, while working for their entire careers with 24/7 availability to their employer, is just a bit too much to swallow.

The lovely CEO at VMware, Pat Gelsinger, is a good Christian guy who, back in the day, literally wrote the book on work-life balance. Today, he extolls in Business Insider the many ways that his company makes it easy to cheerfully work endlessly. He shows no signs of self-consciousness when he describes how easy they make it at VMware to bring your family on campus to share dinner with you AT WORK. He nearly broke an arm patting himself on the back for the annual Halloween family event. Recently, while salmon fishing at the mouth of the Columbia river with his son, he even found the off switch on his phone! (Pro tip: the Columbia is a nature-bats-last kind of river. If you think you can fish, take a call and survive the mighty Columbia rolling on....you just might be a tech CEO).

My intention is not to dun any particular company, or worse, blame the workers who go along with these arrangements. Nope. My intention is to invite you to apply to Proxima Sales. You will not be asked to be available 24/7. You will in fact be required to use your vacation, volunteer, family, and other leave time because we don't enjoy working with clinically exhausted martyrs. You'll make more money and have real time off. This value proposition is the very real reason that Proxima Sales has no trouble at all recruiting and retaining talent, in every department, that is far superior in skills and more experienced than our size should allow.

Will you ever take a call from a Proxima Sales client at 4pm on Christmas Eve? Maybe. I did last year, but Christmas isn't big at our house so I held phone duty for everyone on the team who was busy celebrating. Did one of our salespeople cut into her own vacation to onboard a new client who said their availability required it? Yes, she did. Will she do such a favor for that particular client again? That's another post.

We have no problem admitting that our distributed company, focused on building sales for our clients, is not a low-effort place to work. With genuine power to build your own schedule, we expect you to deliver phenomenal service to our clients and your co-workers when you're at work. We do not serve dinner so you'll need to arrange to eat with your family. Our bonus system rewards results rather than role-playing Mad Men, though, so if you have call reluctance, please continue avoiding the phone and don't call me.

If some of this sounds great, shoot me an email: kate@proxima-sales.com. If you think any of this was helpful or even slightly amusing, please join us so you can help share blogging duties.

Join a WInner, Proxima Sales--our company is growing and hiring

Proxima Sales First Quarter Earnings Impress

Proxima Sales is growing and the company is hiring.

Our sales positions are salaried, full-time, location flexible,  and require at least ten years of experience in the vertical market or industry where your relationships are strong.

Current needs include:

Healthcare, medical device embedded technology team leader. Proxima Sales offers full company infrastructure and suppport and training in industry specifics for someone with appropriate technology expertise in embedded device and related products.

Financial services, prefer banking, background with super strong internet security and compliance related subject matter expertise.

Legal services and vendors - You need to have either sold high-end information and compliance related services into law firms or have built new business for a law firm.

Learn a bit about our company and then shoot Kate Parker an email with why you think you should join our team.

About Katherine Parker kate@proxima-sales.com

Katherine Parker, Kate to her friends, has been closing major sales for technology companies since the road warrior’s best friend was a Compaq luggable. In addition to leading new business initiatives at Proxima sales, Kate still makes at least 50 quality sales calls each week for the company, into the markets she knows best.

Proxima Sales reviews best in class tech solutions and closes sales for best in class companies offering complex intangibles within the North American market. 

You can find Proxima Sales on Twitter  @Proximasales

Proxima Sales is hiring

If you are an experienced technology sales professional, we may have your next great job.

Proxima Sales reviews the best of class tech solutions in the industries we serve. We provide software, professional services, and a wide variety of IT services firms with outsourced sales services and solutions.

You need at least ten years out on the road representing services and solutions, vertical market subject matter expertise, and a desire to build sales for great companies.

We offer a good salary, better commissions, and a full range of benefits.

We are a distributed company and don't care where you live as long as you have already mapped out, and frequently reviewed, every route to your nearest airport.

We want people who understand the thrill of building sales for quality clients and don't need a whole lot of babysitting or Monday morning donut diatribes to get the job done.

Want to talk? Proxima Sales reviews resumes by hand so take the time to review our website and then Email Kate Parker at kate@proxima-sales.com and tell us why you think you might be a good fit with our team. We promise we'll respond.