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Who we are
Vector Sales Advisors is a company that gives business founders, owners, CEOs, and other executives greater hope and freedom—hope that the future looks much different than their present and the freedom that comes from being able to focus on the business or personal matter most important for everyone to make a difference.
This hope, freedom, and fulfillment of your vision and objectives stems from our ability to develop your sales strategy, build your sales and business processes, and execute the plan for your organization.
Our Founder Jeff Parris
As a former professional athlete and championship football coach, Jeff leveraged those experiences into a business career as a dynamic sales leader who owned and successfully operated multiple businesses and held key Vice President of Sales positions within start-ups, mid-market and Fortune 500 corporations. Jeff knows how to lead, work with others, and drive the change necessary to get results and allow an organization to achieve its goals. Leveraging expertise across all areas of running a sales organization and within varying sizes of different organizations, Jeff helps his clients identify, create and pull the “high impact levers” that get them to desired outcomes as quickly as possible. Growing revenue, achieving profits, developing your people and creating/changing the foundation, systems and infrastructure for long-term success have been achievements for organizations leveraging Jeff’s services and firm.
He successfully helped found and lead the sales divisions for three start-up corporations, including a technology company acquired by AT&T, for a 20X valuation increase for its shareholders upon exit. He founded and operated a regional retail organization and led significant sales turnarounds at large and mid-size telecommunications companies. Jeff maintains a reputation for being a hard-charging servant leader who wins through collaboration and acting with the end in mind.
Jeff holds an M.S. from St. Cloud State University, an MBA from Northcentral University, and a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Jeff and his wife Jackie have three children. Jeff enjoys coaching youth sports, fitness, financial markets, entrepreneurship, motivational speaking, philosophy, and the financial markets. He and Jackie also volunteer time doing community education and advocacy work for families and individuals afflicted with eating disorders. Jeff and Jackie welcome families to contact them for help or direction if they are struggling in this area.
What Makes Vector Sales Advisors Different?
At Vector Sales Advisors, we help you DO the things other consultants only recommend.
Build your sales process.
- Results: we have done repeatedly and successfully the work to facilitate breakthrough sales results for the SME sector
- Experience: extensive, prior history driving change in varying sizes and industries
- Education: We are practitioner-oriented and execution-oriented, but our approach is based on evidence, training, and education that works. We possess the pedigree of a Big 5 Consulting Firm but work within the SME space, working closely with founders, owners, CEOs, and others to be effective.
- Extensive large company and board room experience to help develop strategy
- Experience selling and leading sales organizations at small and large organizations with both simple and complex solutions
- Extensive history in recruiting and hiring sales professionals and managers
- Expertise in training and coaching individuals and other leaders with certifications and training within the Rain Group Stephen Covey, Miller Heiman, and John Maxwell and CEB-Challenger Sales/Challenger Customer modalities
- Prior ownership in small and middle market business
- As an equity investor in multiple private enterprises in emerging and mature industries, I also bring a ownership and value enterprise mindset to my clients
What makes us qualified?
Jeff has done it—not just read or written a book about it but instead he has taken action to accomplish the hard work of building best in class sales organizations! Guess what? It is not easy nor something for the novice to lead the way. Be wary of those that suggest there is a magic wand or an “easy button”—that is the first sign you are working with an unqualified party. It takes hard work, inspirational and servant leadership and, at times, tough calls and decisions.
Jeff and his team possess experience in the trenches making it happen. Over the course of 20 years building out sales organizations, he and his team learned from successes and failures, studied the wins and losses and integrated those experiences into a practice and platform built on real world leadership application. Jeff also worked alongside and for some of the brightest and most accomplished business leaders in the US as well as witnessed incredibly broken leadership within some of these same large organization. By studying, working for and alongside great, good and not so good corporate executives–He has learned from observation and experience on how to both “do” and “not do” some of the critical things to make a sales organization great. Jeff is also scholar on business and has authored original research on sales and sales training efficacy.
At Vector Sales Advisors, we are experts in Sales. Period. You need to run your business, let us run your sales team. Jeff will build the proper sales foundation to enable sales growth in your business for years to come!
Build your sales process
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