--- title: How You Can Be More of a Hunter in Sales | The Sales Blog description: I spend time with salespeople and sales organizations. I live with them. So I am a bit of a sales anthropologist. By watching and participating in the culture, you get to understand the culture. Here are a couple ideas about how you can be more of a hunter. Spend Your Time Prospecting Hunters develop new […] image: https://www.thesalesblog.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Screen-Shot-2012-04-12-at-9_08_23-PM.png --- ### [Now booking SKO meetings for 2026/27! 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I live with them. So I am a bit of a sales anthropologist. By watching and participating in the culture, you get to understand the culture. Here are a couple ideas about how you can be more of a [hunter](http://thesalesblog.com/blog/2012/03/30/the-advantage-of-a-hunter-culture/). #### Spend Your Time Prospecting Hunters [develop new opportunitie](http://thesalesblog.com/blog/2011/09/27/my-favorite-sales-metric-opening/)s. They aren’t content farming opportunities in their existing client accounts, even if that is part of their job duties. Because they enjoy creating new opportunities, they spend their time [prospecting](http://thesalesblog.com/blog/2012/03/08/the-most-difficult-part-of-prospecting/) and developing those opportunities. Hunters are fearless when it comes to prospecting. They have the [confidence](http://thesalesblog.com/blog/2012/01/19/confidence-in-cold-calling/) to pick up the phone and call the contacts up and down their dream client’s organizational chart. They don’t need an introduction, an opening, or a referral. They have no fear whatsoever of picking up the phone and making cold calls. Hunters, as the name suggests, spend their time hunting. They spend their time prospecting, opening new relationships, and creating new opportunities. If you want to move along the continuum in the direction of hunter, you have to make the decision to spend more of your time prospecting, and you have to make the decision to make your calls. But this alone won’t a hunter make. There’s more. #### Ask for the Commitments that You Need Hunters are fearless when it comes to [asking for and obtaining the commitments](http://thesalesblog.com/blog/2010/07/20/the-first-commitment/) that they need to open an opportunity and to move it forward. They know the outcome that they need from every engagement with their dream client, and they [ask](http://thesalesblog.com/blog/2010/08/04/ask-sometimes-the-answer-is-yes/) for that commitment, whether it’s access to other stakeholders, information, or a commitment to advance the opportunity. This ability to ask for commitments allows the hunter to move from commitment to commitment, steadily moving an opportunity forward. This is why they tend to have fewer stalled opportunities clogging up their pipeline; they know what they need and they make the ask. If you want to be more of a hunter, you have to ask for the commitments you need. #### Close You never have to remind a hunter to ask for the business. They ask. Hunters make sure that their dream client knows that they want the business. I believe that one of the reasons that hunters are so successful is that their dream client really wants to give the business to someone that really wants the business. By continually asking for an order or asking for the business, the hunter makes it clear that they are confident, that they care, that the business is important to them, and that they want it. Softer salespeople believe that asking for the business directly would make them “[too salesy](http://thesalesblog.com/blog/2010/04/12/sino-the-number-one-reason-salespeople-fail/)” and believe instead that they should give their dream client the space to make the decision on their own. They are often disappointed when the sale goes to a competitor. The hunter sells until the whistle blows. If you want to be more of a hunter, you have to keep asking for the business. These ideas (and those that will follow) will help you be more of a hunter. #### Questions What makes a hunter a hunter? Why makes hunters more successful at acquiring new opportunities and new clients? 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