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Five simple sales tips to get a handle on company problems that can impact your sales performance, from leading sales educator Dave Kahle.
Read MoreBest 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…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreLife’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?
Read MoreThis 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…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreThis 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…
Read MoreToday’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…
Read MoreSuppliers to the automotive industry do not accept price increases unless they have zero alternatives. How do we handle this?
Read MoreIf 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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