Showing posts with label kate parker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kate parker. Show all posts

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Proxima is hiring new tech sales professionals NOW.

Proxima B2B is hiring four experienced technology specialty salespeople, preferably before the end of July. 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 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 B2B. Figure out the company we keep. Read our blogs. Go to our web site. Proxima-b2b.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 B2B clients.

Proxima B2B 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 B2B. 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 kpark@proxima-b2b.com and other Proxima B2B company contributors in lots of places:

@proximaB2B on Twitter

https://www.linkedin.com/company/9429622



Wednesday, September 7, 2016

When is a headphone jack, not just a headphone jack?

Apple's new iPhone won't have a headphone jack and several generally respected reviewers, including CNET, say, "get over it" and, "no big deal".

Whoops and hold up there technology cowboys. The Apple headphone jack is far more than a place to plug in headphones that are, so, five years ago.

TechCrunch apple jack story        TechCrunch agrees with our team. The headphone jack isn't really a headphone jack, it's the port for nearly every add-on, assistance, productivity, and other non-app tool, that lots and lots of people have built to serve niche markets and user communities, on and with the fabulous iPhone, Apple platform.

Proxima B2B reviews technology companies, trends, and solutions. We rarely wade into the product review space covered so well by the CNET's and TechCrunch and ZDnet's of the world.

So why now? Well, besides CNET and some other media, simply blowing this product announcement by obsessing about the cool camera, more than two of Proxima Sales's employees are people with amazing expertise, experience, and skill, who happen to be deaf or HOH (hard of hearing). We also have an employee who is visually challenged who uses iPhone assistive add-ons for what mere glasses can't provide him.

These employees are core staff and we think they should be able to communicate in whatever fashion makes their jobs and their lives work best for them. Each of these employees uses the headphone jack on their iPhone for a different assistive technology (or five). These are every day tools that cost our company a few hundred dollars a year to reimburse our employees for, when they need a replacement or an upgrade. They are cheap and easy because they use existing mini jack and other built in (usually Bluetooth) technology.

When I asked one of our gadget enabled staff members what it was like before she had her plug in device that makes phone calls easier for her, she said, that, "the old stuff, before all the iPhone accessories, was expensive, big, and really out of date. Also everyone could see it was some weird special 'deaf person' thing." She went on to say that she doesn't have to have as much support from friends or co-workers, ASL interpreters, etc. because there are so many tools, including apps, as well as 3.5mm jack enabled, that allow her to do all of her job and life related tasks on her own. This is small jack is no small thing. 

Proxima Sales company reviews a lot of technology roll-outs in a year. We're generally cheering in the front row as sales outsourcing and consulting clients of Proxima Sales debut new solutions, upgrades, and enhancements. Every once in a blue moon we see a roll-out that has the palm slap to face effect -- why did they do this? Why go backward? Why be less customer-centric? Why create even a small storm of user fury over a feature that is well loved, and well understood.

Apple, it's not too late. We know, thinner, yada yada, next generation, blah blah, back down and let us keep our 3.5mm headphone jacks of connectivity. From our seats at the Apple event, it looked like the only cheers for this change were folks clueless about any use beyond old white ear-buds.

Oh, and by the way, Proxima Sales is in the market for a few more great employees. Yep, we're really fierce about offering real opportunities and hiring people who want to work with our team and have skills to bring. Feel free to apply by whatever means works best for you. Email me, Kate Parker, kate@proxima-sales.com, and I'll get you connected to the right people.

Needless to say we're an equal opportunity employer with great benefits, fair salary plus bonus compensation plans, and support for all sorts of diversity.


Sunday, October 18, 2015

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.

Thursday, April 30, 2015

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


Thursday, April 23, 2015

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.