About Us
We understand selling more than any other firm.
Best Sales Talent specializes in helping companies through the services of search, recruitment, and placement of the Best Sales, Sales Management, and Marketing Talent.
If your company has lost a salesperson, you have lost revenue and profits. If you have an underperforming salesperson, you are losing revenue and profits. If you need to expand, you will need more sales talent to bring you more revenue and profits.
If you have lost someone in sales management, you have lost the person who leads your team(s) and who drives revenue and profits. If you need to expand, you will need more, or better, sales managers to lead your team(s) and to bring you more revenue and profits.
Consider Best Sales Talent as the bridge between losses and gains. As the bridge between goals of higher revenue and profits. And actually attaining them. Best Sales Talent provides the bridge, and the path, between your company’s failure and success by solving your sales, sales management, and marketing staffing problems.
Our founder and President, Peter Cotton, operates on the basic principle of “it takes one to know one.” An award-winning salesperson and sales manager from a Fortune 500 company, he has a total of more than 54 years of experience in sales, sales management, and marketing. To date, he has spent 48 years in the recruiting industry. He owned and operated the franchised office of Sales Consultants of Rhode Island for 36 years.
Sales Consultants of Rhode Island was part of the world’s largest executive search firm, MRI. In its zenith, MRI had more than 1,200 offices with 4,500 recruiters, placing more than 40,000 professionals a year. Cotton’s office of Sales Consultants specialized in the search, recruitment, and placement of sales, sales management, and marketing talent. Cotton was the 3rd franchisee, in the history of MRI, to have been accepted into the MRI Ring of Honor for having achieved the level of $1 million in fees from placement activity.
After moving to Massachusetts in 2014, Cotton rebranded under the name of Best Sales Talent, LLC and continues to provide the same services of search, recruitment, and placement of sales, sales management, and marketing talent.
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Capitalizing on his sales management experience, Cotton co-authored a book for the American Management Association: How To Be An Effective Sales Manager.
Utilizing his sales and organizational management skills, while operating his business and managing a staff of recruiters, Cotton became the Founder of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Rhode Island. The chapter he founded, and where he became the Executive Director and President of the Board of Directors, was the 75th in the U.S. and was the fastest start-up in the charity’s national history. The Rhode Island chapter granted more than 1,000 wishes to children with life-threatening illnesses in less than ten years. Cotton was recognized for his outstanding volunteer service by Presidents George W. Bush and William, Clinton.
Testimonials
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A rare talent and the type of person who gets things done
I’ve known Peter Cotton for a long time and had the pleasure of working closely with him for the last ten years. He joined the Rhode Island Staffing Association (RISA) when a critical issue surfaced at the state government level that posed a serious threat to our businesses and the recruiting industry in general. Peter helped us fight adverse legislation that would have put many people in the Rhode Island recruiting profession out of business. He mounted a strong social media campaign to inform, educate, and rally independent and franchised recruiting businesses alike into action. Peter also spoke on behalf of our industry at the Rhode Island State House during financial committee hearings. He was masterful at putting the campaign together which ultimately led to our success in defeating the issue. I was very grateful when Peter decided to join the board and take an active role in the association as our Vice President of Membership. He is a gifted speaker, a talented writer, and he puts together marketing campaigns that are persuasive. Peter increased the RISA membership by 25% in his first year. He’s a rare talent and the type of person who gets things done. If you want a successful outcome to your recruiting efforts, then Peter is the person you would want working for you.
Bethany G
President, Rhode Island Staffing Service Association
Peter helped me to hone my interview skills to put me in a better position
I want to express my gratitude towards Peter Cotton for his expertise and due diligence in relation to providing guidance and feedback throughout the entire job placement process. After 22 years at the same company I found myself in need of employment. Peter’s knowledge and open feedback was a differentiator for me throughout the entire job placement process. Peter helped me to hone my interview skills to put me in a better position when it came to the actual interaction with the hiring manager. I truly believe the partnership with Peter positioned me to succeed and ultimately be selected for the General Manager position with one of his client companies. I would highly recommend Peter and his firm, Best Sales Talent.
John R.
General Manager, Office Furniture Dealer
One of the true experts in the field
Anyone who has hired you for a search, or anyone in general who knows you, understands that you are one of the true experts in the field of sales/sales management, business development and marketing recruitment and highly targeted sales training.
Paul F.
Coo, Telecommunication Company
If you need top talent, call on the expertise of Peter Cotton at Best Sales Talent to make it happen. We also understand the importance, impact, and cost of every hiring decision. To help our client companies make the right hiring decision, we offer training in unique methods of job description development as well as the latest interviewing and selection techniques. We also make the hiring process simpler, faster, and more cost-effective by employing our unique video technology. We have more than forty-eight years of experience assisting executives in hiring the very best candidates for roles in sales, sales management, and marketing. Hundreds of searches have been successfully completed for Fortune 500 corporations and small, local firms who need top talent.
Our mission is to help our client companies grow and prosper and to help individuals reach and exceed their sales goals. Ask us about our latest, money-saving, video technology which accelerates the interviewing and hiring process. Call on Best Sales Talent to make it happen.
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Need new or additional sales, sales management, or marketing talent? Best Sales Talent will make the difference.