by Kahle Wisdom | Mar 12, 2019 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Force
Question: Customers in my industry do not accept price increases unless they have zero alternatives. How do we handle this? Answer: I’m sure you are not the only person thinking this way, nor is your industry the only one with this issue. Probably almost every one...
by Kahle Wisdom | Mar 6, 2019 | Leadership-Sales Force
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 Kahle Wisdom | Mar 6, 2019 | Leadership-Sales Force
Every salesperson talks about “Closing the sale.” The best salespeople understand that before you can close the sale, you must open it. What is opening? “Opening” means using well designed and delivered questions to thoroughly uncover as many...
by Kahle Wisdom | Mar 1, 2019 | Leadership-Sales Force
How do you sell when the competition has exactly the same product? Are you reduced to being the low price? Unfortunately, many sales people have never thought deeply about how to effectively sell commodities, and resort to discounting. Here’s a proven,...
by Kahle Wisdom | Feb 19, 2019 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Force
Question: In regards to personality conflicts with an account, at what point do you walk away and let someone else in your organization try? Answer: Great question. Let me answer in two ways. First, from a purely theoretical perspective, a professional sales person...
by Kahle Wisdom | Feb 19, 2019 | Leadership-Sales Force
I often hear my clients lament that they wish they had a more professional sales force. That idea of a “professional sales force” gets a lot of conversation in sales management and sales executive circles. But what exactly does it mean? And why is it a good...
