Sales Time Management Tip

Sales Time Management Tip

Does this sound familiar?  You have more customers to take care of, more variety of products and services to sell, more information to manage, and more meetings to go to today than you did a year or so ago.  Welcome to the compressed, chaotic job that is the life of...
Q&A for Sales Managers:  The right time for sales training

Q&A for Sales Managers: The right time for sales training

Q:  I wanted to do some sales training last year, but it just wasn’t the right time for it. We had too many things on our plate.  Looking at our calendar this year I am coming to the same conclusion.  Am I ever going to have time to do sales training? Will it ever be...
Best Practices for Sales People #44: Asking Questions

Best Practices for Sales People #44: Asking Questions

Best Practice #44: Is good at asking questions as a means of facilitating every step in the sales process.  A study published a few years ago identified the top five behavioral characteristics of the superstar sales people.  Number two on the list was this:  They ask...
Does every sales person have his own ‘style?’

Does every sales person have his own ‘style?’

By Dave Kahle  “I have my own style of selling.” That is a remark I have heard a number of times, usually from relatively inexperienced sales people. What they usually mean is something like this:  “I don’t have any real system to what I do, I don’t want any scrutiny,...
The Challenge of Being a Christian Salesperson

The Challenge of Being a Christian Salesperson

By Dave Kahle             For most of my adult life, I have been a salesperson.  I’ve sold a variety of things to a mixture of markets. As a college student, I worked during the summers as a route salesperson.  During the school year, I sold men’s suits in a clothing...