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Prepares better sales questions for every important sales call. Best Practice #34

Prepares better sales questions for every important sales call. Best Practice #34

The single most powerful tool that a sales person has is a well-phrased, appropriately asked question.  Nothing else compares to the impact a good question can have on the customer and the sales process.          ...
Effective Selling Begins with Information

Effective Selling Begins with Information

Excerpted from Take Your Sales Performance Up-a-Notch            Most sales people love to be active — out in our territories, seeing people, solving problems, putting deals together.  This activity-orientation is one of the characteristics of a sales personality.  A...
Spending the greatest amount of time with the highest potential sales customers – Best Practice #33

Spending the greatest amount of time with the highest potential sales customers – Best Practice #33

It is so easy to do that which is comfortable and easy as opposed to that which is smart.  It’s a common temptation to which every sales person succumbs at least some of the time.            This applies most dramatically to the fundamental decisions that every sales...
Two Sales Techniques to Build Relationships with Occasional Customers

Two Sales Techniques to Build Relationships with Occasional Customers

Reprinted with permission of the publisher from HOW TO SELL ANYTHING TO ANYONE ANYTIME©2011 Dave KahlePublished by Career Press, Pompton Plains, NJ.  800-227-3371.  All rights reserved. One of the most powerful one-on-one sales calls you can make is what I call the...
Snippets for 5-Star Sales Conversations

Snippets for 5-Star Sales Conversations

Sales training for my first professional sales position consisted of memorizing two four-page, single-spaced presentations – word for word – and then presenting them to a group consisting of the other sales trainees as well as various executives.   The presentations...
Make it a Practice to Expand the Customer Relationship by Bringing Customers to Our Facility – Best Practice #31

Make it a Practice to Expand the Customer Relationship by Bringing Customers to Our Facility – Best Practice #31

by Dave Kahle Every now and then I encounter a salesperson who believes that it is to his advantage to have all the calls and requests from the customer go to him personally.  Picture a salesperson with his arms wide open, trying to encircle and control every...
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