So with budgets at year end lows and everyone mentally checked out, hoping for a better 2009, how do you find new business pipeline for next year. A suggestion: go back and contact every candidate you've worked with as a "wellness" call focusing on the specific business challenges they see around them at year end. Look for signs of the need to refersh the sales bench, the need to generate more market awareness or the need to improve execution. These threads along with their introduction to the appropriate C-levels should lead to an opportunity to upgrade the team, especially early in the year when performance improvements realy count. Good hunting !
