by Dave Kahle | Oct 27, 2020 | Professional B2B salespeople
B2B salespeople must be good at relationship building. For B2B salespeople, relationships are essential because you see your customers more often, and for longer periods of time than almost any other type of salesperson. You must build relationships that provide you a...
by Dave Kahle | Oct 21, 2020 | Professional B2B salespeople, wholesale distributor sales people
It’s 10 AM Tuesday, and you are about to visit one of your customers. Why are you here? That’s the question I have asked innumerable distributor salespeople. Unfortunately, the answer too commonly is, “Because it’s Tuesday at 10 AM.” In other words, the salespeople...
by Dave Kahle | Oct 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’m afraid for the future of our country because it appears we are afraid to think. It’s not just Covid-19 and the reaction to it. And it is not just the recent riots and looting. It’s much deeper than that. I’m afraid because I believe that the discipline of...
by Dave Kahle | Oct 13, 2020 | Professional B2B salespeople, Sales Force Issues, Sales practices & strategies
One area of business that is important to manage is prioritizing customers and prospects. Fortunately, it’s also the area of a sales job that will make the biggest impact on sales performance. From my personal experience as a salesperson for 30+ years, plus my...
by Dave Kahle | Oct 5, 2020 | Sales practices & strategies
Excerpted from 11 Secrets of Time Management for Sales People by Dave Kahle. Copyright Career Press. Picture the way a sailboat operates. Its majestic sails catch the wind and power the boat forward. But if a sailboat were only equipped with sails, it would be...
