Dave Kahle Wisdom

Monthly Sales Magazines and Sales Improvement Seminars

Monthly Sales Magazines and Sales Improvement Seminars

Q.  Dave, I’m interested in what you would recommend for a subscription to a monthly sales magazine and a sales improvement seminar.             A. You have touched one of my hot-buttons with this question. ...
Great Sales People Accurately Measure the Potential in each Account. Best Practice #36

Great Sales People Accurately Measure the Potential in each Account. Best Practice #36

by Dave Kahle            Every day, salespeople are confronted with the necessity to make these three time management decisions well: Where to go?  Who to see?  What to do?            The master salesperson understands that consistently making thosedecisions well...
Golf, Good Questions, and The Basics of Selling

Golf, Good Questions, and The Basics of Selling

           Sales is, at its most basic level, a relatively simple process.  I recall one of my clients showing me the flow-chart of his sales process.  Twenty six steps.  That level of detail may be appropriate for that specific situation, but it is an overkill when...
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.          ...
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...
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