by Dave Kahle | May 27, 2017 | B2B sales, best practices for sales people, how to sell, sales management, selling
The world is full of sales people who claim, quite proudly, to have great relationships with their customers. If that were true, it really would be great. But unfortunately, “great relationships” is too often a veil that sales people hide behind to keep from...
by Dave Kahle | Mar 24, 2017 | B2B sales, best practices for sales people, how to sell, sales training, selling
I wish I had a dollar for every time I was asked that question in a sales training session. It’s certainly one of the most common questions I hear coming from professional sales people – and their bosses. There are a variety of answers — too many for just one...
by Dave Kahle | Jan 18, 2017 | best practices for sales people, how to sell, sales techniques, selling, time management for sales people, wholesale distributor sales people
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 how field sales people really spend their time conclude...
by Dave Kahle | Dec 20, 2016 | B2B sales, how to sell, sales techniques
Does this sound familiar? You have more customers to take care of, more variety of products and services to sell, more information to manage, and more meetings to go to today than you did a year or so ago. Welcome to the compressed, chaotic job that is the life of...
by Dave Kahle | Sep 20, 2016 | B2B sales, best practices for sales people, how to sell
Good time management for sales people has been an obsession of mine for more than 30 years. In the last decade, I’ve been involved in helping tens of thousands of sales people improve their results through more effective use of their time. Over the years, I’ve seen...
by Dave Kahle | Sep 10, 2016 | B2B sales, best practices for sales people, how to sell
Building rapport with customers is like squirting oil into gears. Imagine some gears grinding together. When you squirt lubricating oil into the gears, you reduce the friction and make everything work smoother. So it is when two people interact with each other....
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