Sales Training

Multi-tasking, focus, and other stuff

By CommenceCRM / April 3, 2013

This is a Sales Time Management article from guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. Article by Dave Kahle I just had a conversation with a sales manager at my last seminar. The gist of it is this: he has so many competing responsibilities; it is difficult to spend time with his sales team. Sound familiar? It should.…

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Sales Question and Answer #21 – Dropped the Ball

By CommenceCRM / March 25, 2013

This is a Sales Question and Answer article from guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. Follow Dave’s latest Tweets at @davekahle. Article By Dave Kahle Q. If you dropped the ball with a customer, how can you redeem their trust again? A.  By “dropped the ball”, you can be referring to two different situations.  First, it was…

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Sales Best Practice #27 – Has a systematic set of criteria for classifying customers and prospects into ABC categories

By CommenceCRM / March 13, 2013

A best practice for sales people by Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. Are you Reactive or Proactive? Today’s selling environment is jammed with an unbelievable array of “things to do.”  Left without any mechanism to take control, salespeople can easily default to a way of going about their jobs that is characterized by being extremely busy at all…

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Sales Question and Answer #20 – Is Being Yourself a Sales Strategy?

By CommenceCRM / March 4, 2013

When it comes to what it means to “be yourself,” I can make a good case that it means your values, beliefs and world view – the deeper layers.

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Sales Best Practice #39 – Regularly and systematically meets and interacts with all the key contact people within A accounts

By CommenceCRM / February 25, 2013

A best practice for sales people by Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. It’s so easy to become complacent and satisfied with our “relational comfort zones.” Those are defined by the people with whom we have developed comfortable relationships, who can be counted upon to see us and spend some time with us. These people make us feel comfortable.…

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The Ultimate Sales Improvement Skill

By CommenceCRM / February 13, 2013

Self-directed learning is the ability to absorb new information about the world, and to change one’s behavior in positive ways in response to it.

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Sales Question and Answer #19 – How to Become the Best Salesperson

By CommenceCRM / January 22, 2013

This is a Sales Question and Answer article from guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. Follow Dave’s latest Tweets at @davekahle. Article By Dave Kahle Q.  Mr. Kahle, was there ever a time in your sales life that you just decided to be the best?  Or was it something that you have always had?  I started a business a few years…

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Sales Best Practice #26 – Seek opportunities to be coached and mentored

By CommenceCRM / January 11, 2013

A best practice for sales people by guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. There is, in the world of professional salespeople, a significant group of salespeople who cringe at the prospect of someone working with them, and who shun every such opportunity.  These salespeople are more comfortable in anonymity.  They want to exist under the radar screen…

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