Dave Kurlan's Blog - The Authority on Sales Force Excellence

The Crucial Step Missing from Most Sales Training Programs

Masks and Sales Assessments - You Lose a Little Freedom and Control for Safety and Confidence

How the Correlation Between Restaurants and Covid 19 Applies to Sales Assessments

Most Companies Can Boost Sales From 30-100% in Just One to Two Years

3 Selling Characteristics for the Age of Covid, Politics and Recession

The Best Solutions for Hiring Great Salespeople for Your Company

FDR and Sir Isaac Newton on Why Salespeople Fail

FOX News and CNN Can Help You Conduct Better Sales Opportunity Reviews

15 Things Salespeople Must Do to Make up for a Lackluster 2nd Quarter

Data Shows Sales Commitment and Motivation Changed During Quarantine

Sales is Like Baseball and Baseball Can Save Capitalism and Liberty

Why it is so Difficult to Compare Sales Effectiveness from One Salesperson to Another

How to Achieve Sales Mastery - A Collection of Loosely Connected Thoughts

New Data Reveals Interesting Differences in Salespeople's Ability to Work From Home

How Much Has Video Impacted the Way We Sell?

The Real Reason Why So Many Salespeople are So Bad at Selling

Definitive Playbook to Lead a Sales Force Out of the Current Crisis

One Thing Your Company Must Do Right Now to Increase Sales

10 Critical Best Practices for Your Sales Force in This Crisis

Why Reopening the Economy Won't Be Enough To Turn Things Around

Why the Future of Selling Won't Resemble the Past

Companies Surprised by Unexpected Remote Selling Challenges

15 Lessons Learned from Converting a Multi-Day Conference to a Virtual Online Event

Why You Will Finally Pay the Price of Not Selling Value

3 Steps You Must Take Today to Save Your Company From This Economic Downturn

The New York Times' Misleading Article on Assessments and Their Use Cases

How Companies Choose Sales Training Companies is Backwards

New Data Reveals a Finding That Correlates to Sales Success

Is Your Sales Force More Like a Dunkin', Starbucks or Panera Drive Thru?

The Science Behind One Company's Top Sales Performers and Why They're So Much Better

The Deal Breaker That Prevents you From Hiring a Great Salesperson

An Inside Look at Why 3 Good Salespeople Failed and 3 So-So Salespeople Succeeded

Salespeople in Small Companies are 43% Better at This and Other Salesenomics Insights

Dave Kurlan's Predictions for Sales Organization in 2020

The Most Successful Negotiation is The Negotiation That Isn't Needed

The Top 15 Sales and Sales Leadership Articles of 2019

Only 11% of All Salespeople Do This at the End of a Sales Call

What Sales Organizations Must Learn from the Impeachment Hearings

Are You Using This New Technology to Generate New Opportunities?

Video Conferencing for Salespeople - To Zoom or Not to Zoom?

Good Sales Recruiting is Like Selecting Movies and TV Shows

New Data Reveals a Magical New Score for Sales Effectiveness

A Tale of 3 Squirrels and Their Human Counterparts in Sales

How Sales Coaching Utilizes a Quid Pro Quo

Sales Process and Why So Many Salespeople Lose Their Way

What is the Sales Stack and Do You Need it?

Elements of an Effective Elevator Pitch

New Data Shows That Top Salespeople are 2800% Better at Disrupting the Flow

Using the Most Powerful Sales Tool to Get What You Want

Change in Approach Leads to 304% Increase in Sales Effectiveness

You're Normal and Your Sucky Salespeople are Probably Normal Too!

Did You Know That The Beatles Taught us About Selling?

How Big of a Role Does Age Play in Sales Effectiveness?

The Bearded Lady, My Shaving Pattern and Your Sales Pipeline

How All Those Trucks on the Road Can Help You Stop Discounting

The Best Salespeople are 791% Better at This Than Weak Salespeople

The Best Salespeople are 2733% More Likely to Have This Than the Worst Salespeople

How to Transform Your Sales Pipeline Today

Putting Some Hollywood into Your Sales Presentations

Your Last Chance to Make a Good First Impression

Win a Free Coaching Call with Dave Kurlan and 4 More Prizes

How to Raise the Incomes of Minimum Wage Workers Without Wealth Distribution or Socialism

How to Know if You Are You Really Selling Consultatively

How Top Salespeople Anticipate and Manage Resistance

The New Salesenomics

The 14 Lies Preventing Salespeople From Getting Their Prospects into a Buying State of Mind

10 Reasons Why Salespeople Hallucinate

Dave Kurlan's 23 Steps to Improved Channel Sales

What to Do with the Salespeople Who Become Your Biggest Problem

Using the Power of a Duracell to Help You Hire Perfect Salespeople

2 Selling Shortcuts That Will Always Work

The Voicemail Message with Everything but the Kitchen Sink

Six Overlooked Factors When Hiring Salespeople

The 21-Day Solution for the Toughest Sales Weaknesses

How the Rubber Band Sabotages Sales Performance

Are Salespeople Still Using the Hard Sell?

The Power of Smart Differentiation in Sales

One Question Provides Salespeople with Instant Feedback on How Well They Differentiated

Dave Kurlan's 10 Rules for Effective Sales Emails That Connect With New Prospects

Why Coaching Causes Some Sales Managers to Hold On for Dear Life

How to Use the Your Experience with Turbulence to Overcome Resistance

Salespeople Make This Mistake - The Dumb Question I Was Asked in a Hotel Restaurant

Hiring Salespeople Should Not be Like a Coin Flip

I'm Sorry But Your Sales Process Sucks

An Easier Way to Coach Salespeople - For a While

Great News! The Latest Data Shows That Salespeople are Improving

Do the Least Informed Salespeople Have the Loudest Voices

Top 13 Requirements to Help You Soar as a Sales Manager

The Top 8 Requirements for Becoming a Great Salesperson

Popularity Polls are Just Like Sales Management Tracking Metrics!

Dave Kurlan's 10 Surefire New Years Resolutions For All Salespeople

The Top 10 Sales Articles of 2018

Why are Half of All Sales Reps Still Missing Quota in a Booming US Economy?

How Getting Feedback and Making Adjustments are the Keys to Sales Improvement

Would Henry Ford be Able to Sell Cars Today?

Speed Limits, the Flow of Traffic, and Sales Pipelines

Data Shows That Only 14% are Qualified for the Easiest Selling Roles

The Wrong Salespeople are Hired 77% of the Time

Last Day Madness on the Sales Force - That's One Kind of Urgency

How I Realized That Selling is Just a Bunch of Crap

Examples of How Salespeople Lose Credibility with Their Prospects

Golden Nuggets from the CSO Insights 2018 Sales Talent Study

New Data Shows that You Can Double Revenue by Overcoming This One Sales Weakness

Salespeople With This Weakness Score 47% Worse at Reaching Decision Makers

Which 4 Sales Competencies Best Differentiate Top from Bottom Salespeople?

Where Can You Find the Best Salespeople?

The Top 12 Factors that Cause Delayed Closings and What to Do About Them

Data Shows 1st Year Sales Improvement of 51% in this Competency

How to Achieve Short-Term Explosive Growth from your Sales Team

How the Cheesecake Factory Menu Can Make You a Better Closer

Finally! Science Reveals the Actual Impact of Sales Coaching

Do the Best Sales Managers Have the Best Salespeople?

New Data Shows That Elite Salespeople are 700% Less Likely to Do This

Elite Salespeople are 26 Times More Effective at This Competency Than Weak Salespeople

Does Being a Strong Qualifier Correlate to Having a Strong Pipeline?

Elite Salespeople are 200% Better in These 3 Sales Competencies

Latest Data - Strong Salespeople Score 375% Better Than Weak Salespeople

Sales Pipeline Data Shows That Most Late Stage Opportunities Just Aren't

Latest Data Shows Most Salespeople Would be Fired or Arrested if they Worked in Accounting

New Data - Are Experienced Sales Managers Better Sales Managers?

The Latest Data Shows That Sales Managers Are Even Worse Than I Thought

Sales Playbook and CRM Problems - What the Data Tells Us

New Data Shows How Relationships and the Need to be Liked Impact Sales Performance

New Data Shows Sales Weaknesses Cause Powerful Chain Reactions in Salespeople

10 Reasons Why Parents of Toddlers Make Better Sales Coaches Than Sales Managers

What You Should Never Do on LinkedIn to Do Business with Your LinkedIn Network

Eliminate Delayed Closings Once and for All

Discovered - Data Reveals the Second Biggest Obstacle to Closing More Sales

Discovered - Data Reveals the Biggest Obstacle to Closing More Sales

Improper Use of BANT Will Cause You to Kill Opportunities

Great Example of Why Sales Success Is Not Always Transferable

New Data Reveals Why Veteran Salespeople Are Not Better Than New Salespeople

Improve Your Win Rate and Shorten Your Sales Cycle by Doing This

Data Shows Most Salespeople are Dinosaurs When it Comes to Social Selling

3 Tweaks to Your Sales Approach Are Steps Toward Sales Greatness

Persistence Over Polish - What the Top 10% of All Salespeople Do Better

10 Ways to Determine if Your Sales Prospect was Engaged

What Happens When You Force a Square Sales Peg into a Round Sales Hole?

Would You Like to be Selling Guns Right Now?

Glue - The Missing Element That Makes Every Sales Training Initiative Successful

Can Sales Statistics be Bad and Good at the Same Time?

Easiest Way to Assess Degree of Sales Success

What Salespeople Can Learn from Josh McDaniels Gutsy Reversal

Is the Sales Force Getting Dressed Up or are Real Changes Taking Place?

Measure Change in Sales Effectiveness without Numbers and Metrics

Predictions for 2018 - The Sales Triad Will Provide Record Sales Growth

When Good Prospects Can be Worse Than Tough Prospects

What You Should Know When Your Cold Prospect Suddenly Returns From the Dead

7 Reasons Why Prospects Go Cold and How to Avoid it

How to Write a Sales Email That Works

3 Lessons that Apply to Every Sales Call No Matter What You Sell

14 Sales Topics That Readers Cared About Most in 2017

More Fake News in Sales Organizations Than on TV Networks!

The Perfect Day for a Salesperson - 10 Ways to be More Efficient and Effective in 2018

Which is Worse - Crappy Salespeople or Crappy Sales Managers?

B2B Salespeople Send 16,000+ Unqualified Proposals Each Day!

5 Keys to Get Prospects to Trust You and Then Buy From You

How Companies Routinely Short Change Their Own Sales Force

Increase Odds of Successful Sales Hire by 368%

Distraction, Engagement, and Selling with Great Efficiency

It's OK for Salespeople to Lie When This Happens

Why Do Salespeople Use Facts and Logic to Combat Objections?

5 Sales Hiring Mistakes and Fake Resume Claims

Customers Love to Buy - Why Do Salespeople Struggle?

4 Reasons Why Salespeople Suck at Consultative Selling.

9 Reasons Why Salespeople Lack the Urgency Necessary to Succeed

Why You Should Care That Sales Motivation Data Correlates Perfectly With Sales Effectiveness

How to Get New Salespeople to Take Off Like a Rocket Ship

How Salespeople Must Run Stop Signs and Red Lights - Legally

Can Preventing Hiring Bias Benefit the Sales Hiring Process?

Insights Revealed in The Ultimate Analysis of the Sales Force

How Executives Fail to Understand the Reasons for Poor Sales and Revenue Performance

Great, Previously Unread Sales Research Uncovered

12 Reasons They Didn't Like You Enough to Buy From You

What We Can Learn from the Latest Data on Sales Motivation

Grammar - Why Commas Provide Sales Success Where Periods Fail

Crucial Selling Take Aways from the 2017 Home Run Derby Lead to Sales Greatness

30 Interesting Non-Selling Subjects to Make You Better at Selling

Sales Effectiveness - How to Win Every RFP That You Respond To

Sales Science and Data Win the Day

Perhaps Hope is a Selling Strategy After All!

Predict the Weather but Control the Sales Forecast and Revenue

Phone Prospecting - the Key to Scheduling Meetings

How to Simplify Coaching Salespeople

7 Powerful Exercises to Up Your Sales to the Next Level

New Analysis Shows the 5 Biggest Gaps Between Top and Bottom Sales Performers

Closing and Negotiating Challenges - Symptoms of Another Selling Problem

Which Salespeople are Easier to Train - Millennials or Veteran Salespeople?

What B2B Companies Must Learn from 10 Reasons Why Amazon is Destroying Retailers

The Future of Selling - Understanding This Crucial Sales Competency is More Important Than Ever

How to Eliminate the Need for Sales Motivation, Accountability and More!

How Your Salespeople Measure Up in the 21 Most Crucial Sales Competencies for Modern Selling

Successful Movie Franchises and the 10 Keys to Impactful Sales Coaching

New Book Improves Sales Excellence and Grows Revenue

The Official 2017 List of 21 Sales Core Competencies

Call Reluctance is Just as Popular as Ever!

Managing and Overcoming Resistance is the Key to Sales Success

21,000 People Agree That These are the Top 5 Traits of the Best Salespeople

Veteran's Great Quote Makes News and Has Terrific Lessons for the Sales Profession

10 Selling Scenarios When You Must Slow Down

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