Best Sales People
A best practice for sales people by Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. Mediocre sales people are content to react to the requests of their customers, and focus on maintaining the relationships in order to solidify the business they enjoy. The best sales people understand that, while some of the above is necessary, they proactively seek to discover additional…
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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. Q. What are your views on dress? Does it matter? A. Sure it matters. Everything that you say and do matters. Dress can be a powerful part of your persona. On one hand, how you dress…
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A best practice for sales people by Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. The best salespeople are habitual goal-setters. There’s a good reason for that. When you set a goal, you survey the world of all possible things that you could possibly do, and decide which of those things are the most important. You then turn that decision into…
Read More 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…
Read More 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.
Read More 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.…
Read More 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.
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. 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…
Read More 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…
Read More A best practice for sales people by guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. “Ready, shoot, aim.” Unfortunately, that’s the all too common description of the field sales person’s modus operandi. In a misguided attempt to stay busy and see as many people as possible, too many sales people subscribe to the theory that any activity is good…
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