Dave Kahle Wisdom

Branch Manager Delegation to Sales Reps

Branch Manager Delegation to Sales Reps

Q.  Being a branch manager and having six reps and no sales manager, how do you delegate some of their requests back to them without discouraging their efforts?            A.  Begin with clear expectations.  What you expect the sales person to do ought not to be a...
How do I get to see new prospects who won’t return voice mail?

How do I get to see new prospects who won’t return voice mail?

Q.  How do I get to see new prospects who won’t return voice mail?             A.  Since this continues to be one of the most asked-questions I receive, I’ve decided to spend several months on this question.  In an earlier article, I talked about creating a powerful,...
Dealing with REJECTION in Sales

Dealing with REJECTION in Sales

Q.  Here’s an issue that I confront with my salespeople all of the time.  They are afraid to press for the next step, because they don’t want to experience the rejection of hearing a “NO.”  So, they try to keep the sale alive by not asking for resolution.  This keeps...
Traveling Mercies & God’s Protection

Traveling Mercies & God’s Protection

Nervous about Traveling?  Relax, God Has You           Does God really care for me?  How do I know?  Those are two questions that Christians often ask. One way to answer them is to reflect on the occasions when God has intervened in our lives.  I recently had an...
What Can Christian Businesspeople Learn from the NFL?

What Can Christian Businesspeople Learn from the NFL?

They are all NFL quarterbacks.  But more importantly, they have all unabashedly and publicly proclaimed their faith in God.             Dan Orlovsky, in his role as NFL game commentor, in a moment of pending catastrophe openly and spontaneously prayed on the air in...
When Your Company Asks You to do Unethical Sales

When Your Company Asks You to do Unethical Sales

I was in the third year in a very fulfilling and lucrative sales position.  I was good at it, was well-respected in the market and inside the company, and was enjoying an excellent income.            The company I worked for, however, had a reputation for being...
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