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Hiring a Star Salesperson- What to Look For

Practical Wisdom from Kahle Way Sales Systems

Release Date: 01/26/2023

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Practical Wisdom from Kahle Way Sales Systems

One or more of your salespeople has leveled off.  Their performance hasn’t improved much in the last few years.  You know that these experienced salespeople can do better, but they seem unable or unwilling to break out of a certain level of performance.  You are scratching your head, frustrated, and losing sleep at night wondering how to improve the situation.  What do you do? Here’s a simple, effective strategy:   

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It seems like more and more business people have lost the ability to say no. That’s too bad.  Being able to say no is a higher level skill that is advantageous in both business as well as life in general. Those who don’t master the art of saying no are forever doomed to an immaturity in their business skills, while those who can and do say no operate at a higher level of skill and social finesse.

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The biggest cost in a sales team is often invisible and unacknowledged.  Yet, it costs the company more in opportunities lost than any other single issue. Many sales managers aren’t even aware of it.  Let’s take a look. The Kahle Way(r) B2B Selling System: https://www.thesalesresourcecenter.com/immersion-b2b-sales/ The Kahle Way Distributor Selling System https://www.thesalesresourcecenter.com/immersion-distributor-sales/

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Every sales manager wants to hire star salespeople.  But few do. One reason for that is we don’t know what to look for in an interviewee.  In this concluding article in a series of six, I identify the qualities of character that contribute to the make-up of a superstar salesperson.  

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Hiring a star salesperson is one of the best things you can do.  But, very few people do it well.  We often look for the wrong things in the interview process.  We should be looking for the character of the prospect.  Here's the next  in my series on the qualities of character star salespeople have in common. -- A self-image of success.    Te.  

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We’d all like to hire superstar salespeople. The problem is spotting one in the interview process. What do you look for?  In this, one of a series on the qualities of character of superstar salespeople, I share my number three recommendation:  Th Ability and Propensity to learn. Investigate the Sales Leader's group in the Xi

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We’d all like to hire superstar salespeople. The problem is spotting one in the interview process. What do you look for?  In this, one of a series on the qualities of character of superstar salespeople, I share my number three recommendation:  Th Ability and Propensity to learn.

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