Sales Management Tips

Are your customer relationships an asset or an obstacle?

By Dave Kahle / July 21, 2016

What to do when business declines from your high-volume customers, and the relationships are no longer as profitable as they once were.

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Selling Confidence: How Optimism Can Bolster Your Sales Team

By CommenceCRM / July 31, 2014

Sales management tips on BusinessNewsDaily.com Excerpt below: Inspiring optimism in your sales team isn’t always easy, but you can do it with the right techniques. Caretsky shares three tips for helping your team take the “glass half full” approach to its work. Retrain worn-down employees. Constant rejection when making a few dozen calls a day can take its toll on…

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Teaching Sales Professionals to See the Glass as Half Full

By CommenceCRM / May 5, 2014

  Larry Caretsky discusses sales management skills for professional sales people.  Excerpt below: “…One of the most crucial skills you can help your sales team develop is the ability to effectively manage adversity and overcome rejection through the power of positive thinking.” Click here to read the full article on YoungUpstarts.com

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Sales Best Practice: Skilled at dealing with adversity and failure

By CommenceCRM / April 9, 2014

A best practice for sales people by Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. By Dave Kahle Every now and then, I run across an idea which makes a significant impact on me. One such was the idea (I wish I could remember who first said it) that the surest indicator of success was the ability to deal effectively with…

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Handling an “Entitlement” Mentality

By CommenceCRM / August 23, 2013

How do you deal a salesperson or new hire who thinks they deserve it all now, and are not willing to work hard for their pay?

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5 Statistics that every Sales Manager should track using their CRM system

By CommenceCRM / May 30, 2013

The most basic function of any sales manager is to make sure that their sales team is doing the things that they need to be in order to be successful. Sales managers should keep their eye on certain statistics that will give them valuable information about the performance of their team. These statistics can range from activity tracking, response time,…

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Getting the Right Sales Model is Critical for Small to Mid-size Businesses

By CommenceCRM / April 26, 2013

  According to industry reports… More than 41% of all small to mid-sized U.S. businesses reported that their sales and marketing efforts fell short of achieving their Q1 revenue goals.   “This is nothing new.” says Larry Caretsky, president of CRM solution provider Commence Corporation. “I think the biggest challenge facing small to mid-size companies today is dealing with the…

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Knowing How and Where Your Sales are Being Generated Can Pay Dividends for Future Business

By CommenceCRM / April 19, 2013

As a sales manager when I get together with some of my colleagues the conversation is often centered on what deals each of our teams has closed. My colleagues seem focused on the size of the deal or the number of deals coming in. One day I decided to ask a question that seemed to confuse them all: where do…

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