by Dave Kahle | Mar 1, 2022 | Professional B2B Salespeople, Sales Principles and Practices
Over the decades that I’ve been involved in sales, I’ve worked with tens of thousands of salespeople. Certain negative tendencies — mistakes that salespeople make — keep surfacing. Here is number four of my top five. See to what degree you (or your sales force) may...
by Dave Kahle | Feb 15, 2022 | Professional B2B Salespeople, Sales Principles and Practices
Over the decades that I’ve been involved in sales, I’ve worked with tens of thousands of salespeople. Certain negative tendencies — mistakes that salespeople make — keep surfacing. Here is number three of my top five. See to what degree you (or your sales force)...
by Dave Kahle | Feb 10, 2022 | Professional B2B Salespeople, Sales Principles and Practices
Here’s a lesson that every salesperson needs to learn early in their career: Sales is not magic. Just the opposite; every selling situation has a very definable, step-by-step process which, when executed with expertise, almost inevitably leads to a sale. One way to...
by Dave Kahle | Aug 23, 2021 | Professional B2B Salespeople, Sales Force Issues, Sales Principles and Practices
Q. Every one of my customers is buying less this year than last year. My sales are down. What can I do? A. You really have a choice here. The first, which, unfortunately, is the solution that most companies and salespeople currently choose is this: Do nothing...
by Dave Kahle | Jun 8, 2021 | Professional B2B Salespeople, Sales Force Issues, Sales Principles and Practices
As a veteran sales trainer, I’ve often wrestled with this question: Why is it that some salespeople do so much better, in the long run than others of equal skill and competency? I’ve identified a number of reasons for that. Probably the most powerful and pervasive...
by Kahle Wisdom | Dec 9, 2020 | Entrepreneurs & Executives, Professional B2B Salespeople, Sales Managers/Sales Leaders, Sales Principles and Practices
In our surveys, CEOs indicate “on-the-job” training as the predominant method of developing salespeople. If everyone is doing it, it must be OK, right? I don’t think so. See if this sounds familiar. You are ready to expand your sales force, so you hire a nice guy...
