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Sales Question and Answer #13 – Are company backorders costing you the sale?

By CommenceCRM / July 25, 2012

Five simple sales tips to get a handle on company problems that can impact your sales performance, from leading sales educator Dave Kahle.

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Successful Salespeople Sell with Passion

By CommenceCRM / July 12, 2012

Best Salespeople Selling products or services has never been easy.  For every successful salesperson there are ten unsuccessful ones. So what makes one salesperson better than the other? Well you can point to a host of things such as their product knowledge, their understanding of the value their product or service provides, their follow-up and persistence, knowledge of competitive products…

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Sales Best Practice #6 – Plans every sales call

By CommenceCRM / July 10, 2012

A best practice for sales people by guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. By Dave Kahle It continues to amaze me that so many sales people shuffle into most of their sales calls with very little, if any, prior planning. I suppose that is why this is one of the practices of the best. Most surveys of…

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Thinking About Sales: Is Integrity a Sales Strategy?

By CommenceCRM / July 3, 2012

Life’s too short, and business is too busy to deal with people you can’t trust. The question, then, for you as a sales person is this: Do your customers see you as trustworthy?

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Sales: Question and Answer #12 – Overcoming call reluctance

By CommenceCRM / June 26, 2012

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. By Dave Kahle Q. I have long enjoyed your articles.  I am in my second year of being a full commission salesman and wanted to get your advice.  When I make an onsite visit or pick…

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Sales Best Practice #5 – Is good at closing the sale

By CommenceCRM / June 11, 2012

A best practice for sales people by guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. By Dave Kahle The best salespeople earn that designation because they write more business than the mass of salespeople.  They get the order! One of the practices that contributes to that success is that of “closing the sale”.  Unfortunately, there is no one issue…

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Thinking about Sales: Your Most Powerful Sales Tool

By CommenceCRM / June 4, 2012

This is a Sales Best Practices article from guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. Image by Rich Nacmias on Flickr under Creative Commons license. Article By Dave Kahle Did you enjoy what you had for dinner last night? You are probably wondering what that question has to do with sales.  Bear with me a moment, and answer the…

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Professional Selling Skills Tip # 4 – Get To Top Management

By CommenceCRM / May 23, 2012

Today’s challenging economy may be the best thing that’s happened for sales professionals in more than a decade and here is why.  Every financial decision at any size company is now going through a level of scrutiny like never before.  If you cannot demonstrate that your product or service will provide the customer with a rapid return on investment your…

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Sales Question and Answer #11

By CommenceCRM / May 22, 2012

Suppliers to the automotive industry do not accept price increases unless they have zero alternatives. How do we handle this?

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Professional Selling Skills Tip # 3 – When To Demo

By CommenceCRM / May 18, 2012

If you sell software in today’s competitive environment and find yourself doing demonstration after demonstration, after demonstration without closing your share of business, guess what?  You’re letting the prospective customer take advantage of you. Customers are the most savvy people in the world and they are masters at taking up your valuable time if you allow them to do so. …

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