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Closing the Sale – A Realistic Perspective

By CommenceCRM / September 4, 2012

This is a Customer Management article from guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. Follow Dave’s latest Tweets at @davekahle. There is not a salesperson in existence who hasn’t repeatedly heard of the need to “close the sale.”  Every new sales manager must view the process of encouraging his/her sales force to “close the sale” as an initiation…

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Commence CRM Helps Struggling Sales Representatives Get Focused

By CommenceCRM / July 30, 2012

If you are a sales professional in today’s competitive market you need every advantage you can get to close business.  While some sales organizations are mired in paperwork and struggle to ensure new opportunities don’t fall through the cracks, others are turning to easy to use low cost CRM programs like Commence for help.  Commence CRM has been specifically designed…

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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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Best Practice #4 – Regularly uses positive self talk to keep himself motivated

By CommenceCRM / May 7, 2012

A best practice for sales people by guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. By Dave Kahle Most time studies of field salespeople reveal that the typical salesperson only spends 25 to 30 percent of his/her work week actually talking with customers and prospects.  Much of the remainder of that time is spent alone.  That isolation can be…

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Thinking about Sales: Just Listen!

By CommenceCRM / April 27, 2012

This is a Sales Best Practices article from guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. Follow Dave’s latest Tweets at @davekahle. By Dave Kahle I recently came across some research that confirmed what many of us in the profession of educating sales people have known for years: That purchasers would be “much more likely” to buy from a…

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Sales: Question and Answer #7

By CommenceCRM / January 24, 2012

This is a Question and Answer article for sales people from guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. Follow Dave’s latest Tweets at @davekahle. By Dave Kahle Q. Dave, I am finding it difficult to manage my personal finances.  As a commissioned sales person, my income varies from month to month.  It seems like I’m always struggling with finances.  Do you have…

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