Smart Business Practices

How do you make the Right CRM Decision in a Commodity Market?

By CommenceCRM / July 20, 2012

This free B2B report outlines “7 Points to Consider before Making Your CRM Decision”. I hope you find this valuable and that it helps you to make the best CRM decision for your business.

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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 Best Practice #3 – Has an excellent working relationship with the boss

By CommenceCRM / April 11, 2012

A best practice for sales people by guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. By Dave Kahle The best salespeople understand that their company has assembled a collection of resources into which they can tap in order to further their sales success.  One such resource is your sales manager. Now, I understand that the quality of sales managers…

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CRM Software Can Help a Failing Sales Organization

By CommenceCRM / February 15, 2012

Sales organizations can be underachieving for a myriad of reasons, but it’s typically a lack of structure and process that divides highly successful sales organizations from poorly performing ones. The structure begins right at the introductory stage of the selling cycle and that’s lead qualification. Successful sales professionals traditionally have a specific set of skills that enable them to quickly…

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Sales Best Practice #35 – Regularly spends time and money improving sales skills

By CommenceCRM / November 16, 2011

This is why the best sales people are the best. They regularly spend time and money on the pursuit of perfection.

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Sales Best Practice #21 – Uses an effective system for making appointments

By CommenceCRM / October 13, 2011

The best sales people have thought deeply about the best way to acquire appointments, and have put together a system made up of processes, practices and tools.

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Building a Professional Reputation with Your Customers

By CommenceCRM / October 7, 2011

The world is full of sales people who focus on their product instead of
the customer. Don’t do that.

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Best Practice #46: Plans for four aspects of every sales call

By CommenceCRM / July 15, 2011

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 “You should have an objective for every sales call.” That’s a bit of sage wisdom that we have all heard, probably multiple times, throughout our sales careers. Unfortunately, I disagree. I believe you should have four…

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Sales Practices: Question and Answer

By CommenceCRM / June 28, 2011

This is a 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 struggle with knowing how much information I should leave when I’m making a cold call, or just beginning to warm someone up to one of my products. Are there any guidelines for this? A. …

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