by Kahle Wisdom | Aug 16, 2017 | Sales Force Issues
Excerpted from 11 Secrets of Time Management for Sales People, Career Press Early into one of my sales positions, my boss informed me that the operations manager was upset with me. I was too focused and task-oriented in my dealing with the company’s internal...
by Kahle Wisdom | Aug 10, 2017 | Entrepreneurs & Executives, Sales Force Issues, Sales Managers/Sales Leaders
Q: In regards to working on a big new project with a prospect, we showed huge savings and better operation. The customer gave all our information to the current supplier and they matched it. Is it ok to go above the buyer’s head? Q: One of my salespeople just spent a...
by Kahle Wisdom | Aug 10, 2017 | Christian Businesspeople, Entrepreneurs & Executives, Sales Force Issues, Sales Managers/Sales Leaders
Question: The thing that distinguishes us from our competition is service. How do I make service more tangible to our customer? Answer: This is a great question because it is so common. Let’s put it into perspective. Believe it or not, almost every company I deal...
by Kahle Wisdom | Aug 7, 2017 | Christian Businesspeople, Kingdom issues
Almost every Christian business owner, salesperson and executive has a firm grasp on the idea of stewardship – that everything in this world including our businesses, belongs to God, and we are just temporary stewards of it. “Everything,” of course, means everything –...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 24, 2017 | Christian Businesspeople, Sales Managers/Sales Leaders
“Our business should make money so that we can give it away” – that’s the message our contemporary culture teaches us. Those of us who look for a higher purpose for our business find that message easy to accept. We see that message reinforced by a variety of different...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 24, 2017 | Christian Businesspeople, Sales Managers/Sales Leaders
“For my whole life, I was led to believe that we were the richest country on earth. Now, I see that we are the poorest. It’s like my whole life has been wasted.” This comment comes from John, the 80-year old father of one of our Albanian foster children, who was...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 11, 2017 | Entrepreneurs & Executives, Sales Force Issues, Sales Managers/Sales Leaders
Question: I like the idea of setting goals for personal improvement, not only with my sales people, but for my own growth and development as well. Can you give me a more specific idea of what kind of goals I should be creating? Answer: Sure. This is one of my hot...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 10, 2017 | Christian Businesspeople, Sales Managers/Sales Leaders
Over lunch with one of my clients, he asked an unusually deep question: “In your training, do you try to instill new skills, or do you find you are more effective by removing the hindrances people have to using the skills they already have?” I was stunned. In...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 10, 2017 | Entrepreneurs & Executives, Sales Managers/Sales Leaders
I was in the depths of a major depression. As a third year sales person with a good company, I was doing well, and was on my way to becoming the top sales person in the nation for that company. But business had slowed down a little, and I didn’t have my usual...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 10, 2017 | Christian Businesspeople, Kingdom issues, Sales Managers/Sales Leaders
I’m facing a big business decision – whether to invest a significant portion of my retirement funds into a new venture whose financial success is hardly assured. At the same time, last week I worked with a friend who is faced with a very similar decision – whether to...
