108: Alex Jones, CRO at NetSPI, talks journey into cyber and building a great sales team

Alex Jones, CRO at NetSPI, joins me today to talk about his journey into the cybersecurity sales world and what he’s doing at NetSPI to continue to build a great sales team. Alex spent most of his time building a career outside of cyber (in recruitment), until 5 years ago when he joined NetSpi. At NetSPI, Alex had to dive in head first to learn the terminology and become familiar with the space. Luckily, the nontraditional aspect of his background paid off when he had to make hires to build up his sales team. Alex tells us the 5 key traits he looks for in all potential new hires: Coachability Curiosity Prior successIntelligence Work ethic Tune into today's episode where we expand more on Alex’s tactics to creating a great sales team! If you are a sales leader at a startup, or you're in the sales team, and you're searching for your repeatable scalable sales process to grow sales faster, then please get in touch with me at [email protected] or you can also go to my site at www.unstoppable.do. Sign up for our newsletter (https://www.salesbluebird.com)We want your questions and topic suggestions for future episodes.  Send them to  [email protected] or  send us a voice/video at https://zipmessage.com/unstoppableNetSPI is hiring so, get in touch with Alex on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-jones-9ab28811/ or he says you can find his email - a good sales rep will find it!  Support the showThe Cyber Go-To-Market Talk is the show for cybersecurity sales leaders, founders, CROs, and go-to-market operators looking to improve cyber sales performance and build more predictable revenue growth. Hosted by Andrew Monaghan, founder of Unstoppable.do, covering cyber sales leadership, revenue leadership, sales onboarding, forecasting, pipeline generation, and cybersecurity go-to-market execution.Follow me on LinkedIn for regular posts about growing your cybersecurity startupWant to grow your revenue faster? Check out my cybersecurity sales consulting and trainingNeed ideas about how to grow your pipeline? Sign up for my newsletter.