Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Without a doubt, Sales and Sales Management is an art and a science. On January 13 th , I posted the first article in the Series: Why Isn’t Your Sale Team Selling As Expected? Did your sales person “accept” the expectations? Somewhere in that mix people are underperforming. Were they reasonable?

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Whether it’s marketing, sales, customer experience, there are endless discussions about the principles and practices of great sales and marketing. They talk about what drives high performance, they talk about strong leadership, coaching, purposed, culture, values. Perhaps they really believe what they promote.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 9, 2022

Over the past few years, tenures in all sales roles have been plummeting. In complex B2B sales roles, it’s devastating, often in the millions. Every day it seems that I wake up to read new reports about work, the great resignation, people increasingly choosing to be nomads, moving from job to job.

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Lead Fuze

JUNE 27, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into various factors that contribute to why digital marketing agencies fail. “Marketing agencies, don’t fail due to lack of planning. This is a question that often plagues agency owners and leaders. It’s important to be proactive and manage your relationships with clients effectively.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 31, 2021

In sales, we see indications of employee disengagement with plummeting average tenures, somewhere around 12-16 months for both sales people and managers. A new word/concept is creeping into my vocabulary, “The Great Resignation.” ” I have to confess, I’m not seeing much of this in my clients–at least yet.

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Women Sales Pros

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

This is the time of year to reflect on great things happening to help move the needle for more women in sales (#womeninsales) and sales leadership in B2B companies with “male majority” sales teams and male sales leadership. It covers hiring, promotion, speaking up, and double standards for women in sales.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 13, 2015

To prove deficient or lacking; perform ineffectively or inadequately: failed to fulfill their promises; failed in their attempt to reach the summit. Generally, when you hire someone, fold them into your organization or acquire a team of sales people, what you think you are getting is: People that have a track record of success.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 30, 2023

A lack of effort in marketing and optimizing videos is one reason the C-suite is often reluctant to invest in future video projects. YouTube is all about clickbait, pop culture and music videos. Sometimes it is due to a lack of resources. How can it help my business? Shouldn’t I be on TikTok instead? Nothing more, nothing less.

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Martech

MARCH 31, 2023

For example, DevOps and sales topics can help you better understand your stakeholders. Such teams tend to offer training applicable across disciplines for skills like coaching, teamwork, emotional intelligence, ethical behavior and prioritization, in addition to helping onboard new hires and promoting the established organizational culture.

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CloserIQ

APRIL 30, 2019

As founder and CEO of a B2B SaaS startup , I realized fairly early the importance of a team-driven approach to sales. More specifically, their failure to apply a more comprehensive approach to their sales strategies. Marketing and sales teams dedicate a considerable amount of time and energy into developing outreach campaigns.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

But, if you have a similar background (or lack thereof) in diversity as I did growing up, you might not know how to develop cultural competence and cultivate a diverse team. In this post, we'll learn what cultural competence is, why it's important, and how to develop it at your company.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 3, 2022

I’m beginning to think we also become “prisoners of our lack of experiences.” I’ve been involved in business, primarily customer facing or leadership roles, for about 40 years. As a result, I’ve gained a lot of experience—some good, some bad—but all of which I’ve learned from.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The term “sales culture” is a bit of a fuzzy concept. All of those elements and several others are influenced by your company’s sales culture. All of those elements and several others are influenced by your company’s sales culture. How to build a winning sales culture.

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Lead Fuze

JULY 21, 2023

Gaining proficiency in readying for a sales talk is an essential expertise that can make you stand out from the other contenders. From understanding your target market to brushing up on key sales principles, there are many aspects to consider in your calculated preparation. But that’s only part of their arsenal.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

This is especially true when it comes to sales and marketing. In an ideal world, sales and marketing processes would be built with the other team in mind. Here are some numbers that just might convince you of the value of Sales and Marketing alignment: Sales and Marketing Alignment Stats to Know. LinkedIn, 2020 ).

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 13, 2015

To prove deficient or lacking; perform ineffectively or inadequately: failed to fulfill their promises; failed in their attempt to reach the summit. Generally, when you hire someone and fold them into your organization or acquire a team of sales people, you think you are getting. Freedictionary.com: fail (f?l) can execute effectively.

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Hubspot

MAY 21, 2019

The societal movement for diversity and inclusion has rightfully bled over to Corporate America, enabling the public to expose the working world’s lack of diversity and challenge them to fix their ways. However, generating more sales shouldn’t be the only reason you market to minority groups. Neuromarketing. Multicultural Marketing.

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Sales Pop!

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Reaching foreign markets has never been easier than now, thanks to the growth of the global digital landscape. But according to DigitalPortal, 31.9% of the world’s users from the ages of 16 to 64 use translation tools when searching online. Translation tools are handy, but they’re not always accurate. It’s more than that.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

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

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 30, 2021

I ask to look at people’s calendars. Looking at someone’s calendar tells me a lot. I understand their priorities because I see where/how they are spending their time. I look for things that should be on their calendar that aren’t. This tells me what they might be missing. Sometimes, he scheduled several meetings at one time.

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Veloxy

MAY 24, 2023

Mastering sales velocity is essentail for driving revenue growth in today’s competitive business landscape. Sales velocity measures the SPEED at which deals move through your sales pipeline, resulting in shorter sales cycles, higher conversion rates, and increased revenue generation. Need help with Sales Velocity?

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Gamification took the sales industry by storm in the latter half of the previous decade — and with good reason. Research has shown that there are huge benefits to gamifying your sales process, including better worker productivity and retention when it comes to learning new things. Let’s jump in! People love to play games.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 15, 2019

In our last post , we started our deep dive into the best practices correlated with selling success in leading sales organizations, as identified in the “All That Glitters Is Not Gold: 2019 World-Class Sales Practices Study.” Our culture supports continuous development of customer-facing professionals.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 3, 2020

And that last part is the hardest aspect of just about any sale. In B2B sales, getting multiple decision makers on board is a dream. Most of my role has been focused around sales for the better half of the past ten years, and in that time, I’ve noticed that more product and service lines are expanding to support multiple departments.

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 25, 2022

People search a lot about “marketing skills.” ” Google Trends shows the upward graph of the above term from January 2016, but its search has dramatically increased in 2022. This increase leads to the conclusion that more people are looking to enhance their marketing skills. Why is curiosity important in marketing?

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criteria for success

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Read on to learn more about this week's Let's Talk Sales inspiration! The post Let’s Talk Sales! Read on to learn more about this week’s Let’s Talk Sales inspiration! Take our Let’s Talk Sales Podcast Listener Survey! eBook – Assessing the State of Your Business: Start with Sales.

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criteria for success

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Read on to learn more about this week's Let's Talk Sales inspiration! The post Let’s Talk Sales! Read on to learn more about this week’s Let’s Talk Sales inspiration! Take our Let’s Talk Sales Podcast Listener Survey! eBook – Assessing the State of Your Business: Start with Sales.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

A few simple blogging mistakes can turn an otherwise stellar content marketing strategy into an embarrassing, sticky mess. Here are seven common blogging mistakes your business will want to stay away from…far, far away: 1) Typos, typos, typos. Typos are one of the biggest – and most unforgivable – blogging mistakes.

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criteria for success

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Read on to learn more about this week's Let's Talk Sales inspiration! The post Let’s Talk Sales! Read on to learn more about this week’s Let’s Talk Sales inspiration! Take our Let’s Talk Sales Podcast Listener Survey! eBook – Assessing the State of Your Business: Start with Sales.

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CloserIQ

APRIL 30, 2019

As founder and CEO of a B2B SaaS startup , I realized fairly early the importance of a team-driven approach to sales. More specifically, their failure to apply a more comprehensive approach to their sales strategies. Marketing and sales teams dedicate a considerable amount of time and energy into developing outreach campaigns.

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 16, 2013

Is your company and/or sales team in a bit of a sales slump? I know it may surprise you to hear me say this, but sales training is not always the solution. Sometimes, sales training is exactly what is needed! Is the poor performance based on the culture or leadership of the organization?

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Hubspot

JUNE 23, 2020

At every stage of the sales lifecycle, LinkedIn offers a way to nurture professional leads. I like to stay updated about the changes in the marketing industry and congratulate my peers on their recent accomplishments. And, of course, I love looking at the new and exciting marketing campaigns brands roll out.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

Eventually, I got tired of that lack of action, which led me in-house. So many are distracted by the bleeding-edge techniques and purported algorithm tweaks hyped on SEO blogs and Twitter. So many are distracted by the bleeding-edge techniques and purported algorithm tweaks hyped on SEO blogs and Twitter.

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Openview

MAY 22, 2018

The world of sales is full of dangerous villains – time-consuming administrative tasks , inefficient internal processes, lack of proper tools and resources, etc. And to top it all off, there is an even greater foe – the leaking of your valuable sales knowledge. Sales Knowledge Management to the rescue! Efficiency.

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Lead Fuze

JULY 5, 2023

How to get out of a sales slump is a question that can haunt even the most seasoned professionals. Sales slumps are an inevitable part of any business, but they don’t have to spell disaster. In this blog post, we’ll delve into strategies used by top salespeople for overcoming these challenging periods.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

ABM allows you to craft efficient solutions to some of the biggest issues plaguing sales today. You need specific, account-based marketing tactics, and I’m going to let you in on 5 tactics that we use at Belkin that you can use to boost your sales. In the world of sales development, nothing stays a novelty for long.

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Hubspot

APRIL 28, 2014

Once in a while I''ll hear from someone who''s sold on the value of business blogging, starts doing it, and then doesn''t see any results. Their blog is failing. There are other circumstances a blog could fall victim to, to be sure. These are the macro-level problems I always look at first when troubleshooting a failing blog.

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