Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 20, 2015

This might be the biggest stretch ever in the history of my blog. How can I possibly tie the NCAA Basketball Tournament (also known as March Madness) to selling? Let me begin by setting the stage for selling and how I see it is similar to the event of March Madness. Honestly, I’m not sure…so I will be making this up as I go.

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Salesforce

JANUARY 26, 2024

This is the thrust of converting marketing qualified leads to sales qualified leads (MQL vs. SQL). If handled poorly, the lead can slip right through your fingers and you lose the deal. If handled poorly, the lead can slip right through your fingers and you lose the deal. What is a sales qualified lead (SQL)?

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Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

If you’re not cautious, it’s easy to allow insecurities, fears and a natural desire to be liked to creep into a deal. Most reps have found out that quickly glossing over important details like pricing is always a deal killer. Most reps have found out that quickly glossing over important details like pricing is always a deal killer.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

With that in mind, let’s dive in to explore the following: what a sales pipeline is, why it’s important, what the main metrics are to track your sales pipeline, how to build and maintain it efficiently, and how to maximize your revenue using the sales pipeline.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 9, 2020

I’ve been sitting in a lot of deal reviews recently. Whenever I ask the questions, “What is the customer trying to do, What are they seeking to change about how they grow their businesses,” the responses follow a similar pattern. How does this happen? But in each of these reviews, there is a common pattern.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 10, 2021

We know for sure that if we do not like an item, no matter if it is a big-ticket item, Costco’s got us covered. How does that translate to B2B? Think about your customer’s pain points, nurture your customers by talking about how you can solve their problems. How does this translate to B2B?

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 6, 2022

I’m always stunned by how little win/loss analysis we do. Of course, when we win or lose a deal, there is some reason code–usually some drop down in CRM that gives us a handful of choices about why we won or why we lost. Our win rates are critical to understanding and driving performance.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 27, 2021

Not just exceeding our quotas, but what if we reassessed what we do, how we do it, and realized that we really should be doing much better? But then I started looking at how they had made the $1 B they had committed: At the beginning of the quarter, they had put together a forecast for the $1B. We’ve met our goals!

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Search Engine Land

JUNE 16, 2023

A great blog alone won’t be enough to turn subscribers into buyers if the benefits of what is being sold aren’t crystal clear. What makes a winning content strategy? How Realistic they are depends on your target result (i.e., How Realistic they are depends on your target result (i.e.,

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Lead Fuze

JULY 18, 2023

Understanding how to generate leads is an integral part of any business’s growth strategy. In this thorough guide, we’ll look into the basics of lead generation – from comprehending what a lead is and how the procedure works, to investigating different approaches for producing leads on the web.

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PandaDoc

JULY 6, 2022

When nurturing customers, it often becomes hard to understand where to start and where to stop, which is why tools like the sales funnel exist , helping you understand what stage your customer is currently at and why, and how to best qualify that lead. Is this something you don’t have to picture, because you’ve lived it?).

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 20, 2015

This might be the biggest stretch ever in the history of my blog. How can I possibly tie the NCAA Basketball Tournament (also known as March Madness) to selling? Let me begin by setting the stage for selling and how I see it is similar to the event of March Madness. Honestly, I’m not sure…so I will be making this up as I go.

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PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Opportunity management isn’t necessarily about immediate transactions or closing deals , which is the goal of traditional sales and lead management processes. Leads, opportunities, sales: That’s the natural sequence of the sales process, right? But opportunities can be much more than that.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 20, 2022

Cold, impersonal outreach won’t win points with customers — and that’s assuming that it even reaches their inbox at all. But just because the days of cold calling and big email blasts are mostly gone doesn’t mean that the outbound sales process is dead. Here are four great methods to boost your ROI when using outbound sales techniques.

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Gong.io

MAY 31, 2021

Close more deals. Improve win rates. It leads your sales reps through various scenarios: how to prospect, when to sell what product or service, how to overcome common objections, what to negotiate for (and how ) to name a few. Increase revenue. Meet Exceed sales goals. Best-in-class sales playbooks include: .

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Lead Fuze

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Whether you’re a startup founder, a small business owner, or an experienced marketer, understanding how to generate leads while spending no money can be the key to sustainable growth. Discover how platforms like social media and email marketing can boost your site’s traffic without spending a dime.

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SalesHandy

MAY 15, 2020

In this blog, we’ll explore how to choose, build, and tweak your lead qualification process. How to Qualify Leads effectively Effective Lead Qualification Frameworks How to pick the right lead qualification framework Best Practices for Qualifying Sales Leads Sales Qualifying Questions Top Lead Qualification Tools Conclusion.

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This leads to higher levels of trust and rapport, and ultimately more closed deals. This leads to higher levels of trust and rapport, and ultimately more closed deals. Here are the five most popular open ended sales questions we use at Veloxy: How’ve you been? It’s true. What are open ended sales questions?

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 19, 2023

Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. What are the key elements to consider when prioritizing in-market signals for effective demand generation, and how can marketers leverage de-anonymized people, marketing qualified accounts, and intent qualified accounts?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 16, 2020

On the flip side, however, the Enterprise segment offers a vast number of decision makers to go after, and, as we all know, there is a big payoff if you can win the deal. Russell prepares to win by preparing his mindset. Enterprise is generally behind the times and slow to move on new ideas. Shifting your mental game.

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InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But how do you know what key moments or metrics to focus on? But how do you determine which moment and which metric to drive this quarter? In all these cases, it may very well be appropriate that you set up more, but less qualified, meetings for your field sales team. Conversion rates (output / input i.e. MQL rate).

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PandaDoc

MAY 30, 2019

Here are 14 ways you can close deals faster and set up your entire company for sustained growth. Bring in the big guns. Qualify leads better. Lean on them for insight, create a work environment they enjoy, and create channels through which they can help get deals progressing through the funnel. Bring in the big guns.

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Hubspot

MARCH 21, 2019

If you answered " Yes " again, you already know how important this calculation is to understand the growth mindset and overall health of a sales organization. Sales velocity is the measurement of how quickly deals move through your pipeline and generate revenue. That answer is probably, " Yes. So, what is sales velocity?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 26, 2020

They’re won during planning and practice. The same can be said for sales enablement. Earlier in my career, I helped build a global sales enablement team at Oracle Marketing Cloud that designed, deployed, and measured a sales onboarding program integral to a business unit responsible for $675M in annual recurring revenue. Sales Onboarding.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 2, 2015

He’s a great sales person, a big deal hunter. He wanted to review a deal strategy and call plan he was making on a CTO at a very large, fast growing prospect. By itself, it was a big order, but his colleagues saw a lot more potential in the account. As I reviewed John’s deal and call plans, it was very good.

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Highspot

JUNE 6, 2023

In this blog post, I’ll share the best practices for how leading companies are achieving what good looks like in sales productivity, and offer insights on top strategies, known challenges, benefits, and the future role that AI will play across your marketing and sales organization. What is Sales Productivity?

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Score More Sales

JUNE 30, 2014

To win in sales you, and your company, need a recipe for success. The ingredients to win in sales must be pure and of high quality to create a great, high-end, finished product. Here is what we believe it takes to compete with a strong solid sales team that closes the right deals with great sales velocity.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Big Google Partners program changes are coming: What you’ll need to qualify 2020: There were new requirements for agencies to achieve and maintain Google Partner status starting in June. Google AMP stories launch In 2018, Google launched a new, visually rich mobile content format designed to generate more engagement from users.

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PandaDoc

MARCH 7, 2023

Wondering how to streamline the sales process ? How can a business benefit from a good sales process flowchart? This visual aid gives every member of your sales team a big-picture view of the entire selling process. Links or arrows can guide each team member on what to do next, depending on how the customer is responding.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 31, 2018

I speak on behalf of HubSpot 50 times a year, and at every engagement I tell my audience they should take the hour they use for cold calls to do something that’s not even in their job description: blogging. I’ve been selling for over 30 years, and it’s been a blast. Buyers have changed, and top salespeople have to change with them.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 17, 2018

Regardless of the source, the goal is to help the Sales Team handle as many Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs) as possible and maximize revenue. You can use the table of contents below to navigate through the guide: Why Qualifying leads matters. The Fundamentals of Qualifying outbound (P-M, from P-MAP). What Is Lead Qualification?

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 14, 2021

Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 27, 2020

Pacific you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. This week’s episode is entitled “ How to Win (and Keep Winning) Bigger Deals ” and our guest is Lisa Magnuson , Founder of Top Line Sales and the author of The TOP Sales Leader Playbook: How to Win 5X Deals.

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Lead Fuze

JULY 3, 2023

Understanding how to work leads is a crucial aspect of any business’s growth strategy. We’ll explore how webinars present unique opportunities for generating sales qualified leads online and discuss the effective use of website popup forms in capturing potential customers’ contact information. And guess what?

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InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But how do you know what key moments or metrics to focus on? But how do you determine which moment and which metric to drive this quarter? In all these cases, it may very well be appropriate that you set up more, but less qualified, meetings for your field sales team. Conversion rates (output / input i.e. MQL rate).

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Lead Fuze

AUGUST 18, 2021

Once you have a good idea of the how and why of it all, you’re ready to start experimenting with ways to grow things rapidly this 2021. This is a tactical post on the sales process on how to hack sales learned from the Sales Development Playbook by Trish Bertuzzi. How to Hack Sales — The Foundation (The 5 Whys).

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 24, 2011

dealing with objections (7). dealing with objections (7). How to Increase Sales (30). How to Sell (21). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). Expert Websites / Blog Roll. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now. Tonys Top Ten. 7 More Sales Core Competencies.

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