by Dave Kahle | Dec 20, 2016 | Personal Improvement, Professional B2B salespeople
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...
by Dave Kahle | Jul 4, 2016 | Professional B2B salespeople, Sales Managers/Sales Leaders
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...
by Dave Kahle | Jun 30, 2016 | Professional B2B salespeople, Sales practices & strategies
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...
by Dave Kahle | Jun 15, 2015 | Personal Improvement, Professional B2B salespeople, Sales Force Issues, Sales practices & strategies
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,...
by Dave Kahle | Apr 6, 2015 | Professional B2B salespeople
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...
