Dave Kahle Wisdom

Learning from failure

Learning from failure

           Remember John Delorean?  He was the superstar General Motors executive who started the Delorean Motor Company.  When the company began to falter, he was arrested and charged with complicity in a drug deal that some speculated was an attempt to raise money...
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...
Creating a Monthly Sales Plan – Best Practice #29

Creating a Monthly Sales Plan – Best Practice #29

by Dave Kahle         There are several very common temptations that routinely present themselves to the field salesperson.   One is to become too reactive.  When you succumb to this temptation, you eventually default to a...
Sets Annual, Specific, Measurable Goals for Sales Performance – Sales Best Practices #28

Sets Annual, Specific, Measurable Goals for Sales Performance – Sales Best Practices #28

by Dave Kahle The best salespeople are habitual goal-setters.  There’s a good reason for that.  When you set a goal, you survey the world of all possible things that you could possibly do, and decide which of those things are the most important. You then turn that...
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