Anthony Cole Training

MAY 23, 2024

Business or sales acumen is the ability to connect with prospects and clients on a deeper level by understanding their unique problems, anticipating their needs, and leveraging knowledge of their business and industry to recommend the best possible solution — regardless of whether or not it results in a closed deal.

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PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

So, what is a sales spiff, exactly? It’s no secret: sales is a fast-paced industry. Competitions can bring fun and games into your sales department. Spiffs can also boost team morale, accelerate short-term sales, and help you rapidly shift your sales strategy. You’ve come to the right place.

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Drivers/motivators Commission Objectives and Key Results Launch 52

Veloxy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Despite discussions of outside sales dying, field sales are far from obsolete. Outside sales remain invaluable to companies, even as we move towards hybrid models. A 2023 study revealed that field sales teams outperformed their inside counterparts by 14%. In this guide, we’ll explore field sales enablement in-depth.

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Sales Pop!

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Things like your clients, who depend on you as the year wanes. 31 matters to your clients as well. But most importantly, at any time of year, your clients need the value you deliver regardless of deal size. It’s determined by the client. Or a deal where you’ve been heartily recommended by a delighted current client.

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Drivers/motivators Commission Clients Up-sell 69

criteria for success

AUGUST 5, 2020

Are you a sales leader with an unmotivated sales team? Are you struggling to find sales meeting ideas that will inspire and motivate your team to get moving and just sell already? Sales “ headtrash ” has a way of getting to the best of us—everyone needs a little pick-me-up every now and then. Share the Positive.

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Iannarino

JULY 18, 2021

The Gist: More and more, sales organizations are refusing to provide their prospective clients with the help of a salesperson. Many of the new models are based on removing the costs of sales, something that limits success in complex sales. In professional B2B sales, human beings provide more value than automation.

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Cold Call Electricity Clients Drivers/motivators 318

Veloxy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The world of sales is vast, and if you’re a sales professional, you’ve likely been exposed to both inside and outside sales roles. However, if you’re considering a transition to outside sales or simply want to elevate your field selling game, you’re in the right place.

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Outside Sales Cold Call Represent Objectives and Key Results 242

Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 24, 2023

And, critically, how can you keep your team motivated in a world (wide web) of smoke and mirrors? Failure to do so can risk client satisfaction and potential product sales. But it’s usually the account managers and account directors (sometimes even sales staff) who receive the positive outcome feedback.

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Drivers/motivators Intrinsic SQL Education 103

Martech

OCTOBER 19, 2023

While businesses value the synergy between marketing, sales and product teams in theory, they often struggle to create a cohesive atmosphere and deliver seamless customer experiences in practice. Our head of sales also has two primary KPIs: new revenue and CR from SQL to the client. Why did we choose these KPIs?

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Martech

MAY 20, 2024

Ring 2: The internal disconnect Marketing departments can become isolated silos within a company, disconnected from sales, customer service and product development. Ring 3: The client disconnect One of the biggest marketing challenges is aligning with our clients’ perspectives. Marketers can be the bridge builders.

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Drivers/motivators Pitch Trust Manufacturing 102

The Lost Book of Sales

JANUARY 31, 2024

In strategic sales, it's incredibly common for salespeople to decrease their activity and reduce their involvement with their customers when the signatures are exchanged, whereas experienced sales professionals know that the real work between your organizations is only about to begin. Let’s discuss each of these stages.

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Iannarino

JULY 9, 2021

While some sales organizations still use legacy approaches, none of them are based on high-pressure sales. Once they finished their assignment, I asked the students to raise their hand if one of their parents worked in sales. The Gist: The decades-old stereotype of a high-pressure salesperson is no longer accurate.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 14, 2024

This is not an analogy about inflatable trampolines, but it is about the analogy between pumps and sales and for variety, it will be two separate stories instead of one culminating in pumping up sales. It’s what one of our clients would call a water feature. They weren’t.

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Pipeline Sales Drivers/motivators Consult 77

The 5% Institute

AUGUST 20, 2019

Whether you’re an absolute stud performer or fairly new to your sales role, it’s completely natural that your sales motivation will dwindle from time to time. Instead, I want to give you some key ingredients that are tangible and can actually help you stay motivated long term – and during both the tough and trying periods.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 24, 2014

In a previous blog, I talked about my own motivation as it related to my athletic career. Today, let’s talk about what you can do to "help" your people stay motivated. Before I get into the list below, note that I said "help your people stay motivated." When I originally wrote the line, I wrote, "stay motivated to sell."

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 25, 2023

Perhaps the individuals most impacted, and possibly most unprepared, are retail bankers, at the frontline of client changing preferences, digital options and increasing expectations. For a banking leader, it is an important time to have a strong focus on sales team motivation.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 11, 2019

Do all the research you want… Implement all the bright-shiny strategies you can think of to get sales reps excited about their roles and success…. Clearly, new strategies alone aren’t enough to motivate a sales team. According to behavioral intelligence (BQ), it’s all about how you motivate your team. Extrinsically.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 5, 2024

With ChatGPT’s help, I identified and prioritized the top 10 most dominant themes: Passion for Problem-Solving : Many storytellers express a deep-seated passion for solving complex problems — both for themselves and for their clients. This theme underscores the importance of human connection in sales, beyond mere transactions.

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Sell Cross-sell Drivers/motivators Education 123

Iannarino

JUNE 23, 2021

The Gist: Some salespeople try to acquire a meeting by mentioning their prospective client’s direct competiton. This approach is problematic because it implies that you’ll share confidential information that will somehow benefit your prospective client, making you untrustworthy. You Never Have to Kiss and Tell.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Helping founders with GTM Strategies and teaching sales reps how to earn the right to ask questions, which questions to ask, and when is the primary driver for Richard Harris. He brings 20+ years of experience, having done all the roles – SDR, AE, Manager, Director, VP of Sales, and Director of Sales Ops – to the table.

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criteria for success

MARCH 18, 2020

Keeping a remote sales force motivated doesn’t have to be hard. Here are 6 tips to keeping your remote sales force motivated to perform at peak levels. Tip #1 for keeping a remote sales force motivated – hire the right salespeople. Tip #2 for keeping a remote sales force motivated – provide good training.

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Martech

MAY 2, 2024

However, with B2B buying journeys now occurring primarily online before sales’ involvement, marketers are turning to new data-driven technologies to pinpoint potential buying group members earlier in the process. Each role will have an agenda, meaning what it cares about and what motivates it. Remarkable.

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criteria for success

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Here at CFS, we are always looking for ways to inspire our clients to set big goals, hit their targets, and stay motivated. That's why we're re-sharing a story from 2019 about building a Sales PlayBook with one of our clients. Why develop a Sales PlayBook? Why develop a Sales PlayBook?

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The 5% Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Making a great first impression in your sales conversations is key, and in this article, we’ll look at ten questions to ask a potential client to help you with this. Although there are various questions to ask a potential client; we’ll be looking at it with the following structure: Rapport. Qualification. Objection handling.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Because sales managers are not coaching – still – at least not consistently or effectively. It’s simply incomprehensible that sales managers aren’t picking up the clue phone. It’s simply incomprehensible that sales managers aren’t picking up the clue phone. It’s low hanging fruit.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 8, 2024

What was fascinating was the sharp contrast with the dozens of responses from outstanding sales practitioners I’ve been sharing. ” to lots of sales people. The direct correlation between effort, skill, and financial reward is a powerful motivator. Let me share the key prompt and ChatGPT’s response.

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Sell Drivers/motivators Relationship building Commission 77

SalesProInsider

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It’s the missing ingredient for many sales conversations and conversions. Impact is the consequence of what is going on with your prospective client, and the consequence of what will happen if they use your service and work with you. Financial Advisor sales training doesn’t have to focus on pushy tactics or high-pressure pitches.

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Conversion Finance Drivers/motivators Sales 77

Veloxy

JULY 14, 2023

Sales route planning has evolved beyond basic navigation and emerged as the key to unlocking unparalleled time efficiency and maximizing results in the field. In the dynamic world of field sales, simply getting from client A to client B is no longer sufficient. What is a Sales Route Planner?

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Closing Bigger

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This sales podcast episode is focused on shifting our sales performance management from tactical to strategic. Although there are dozens of strategic shifts we can make, today we are focused on three key levers that can impact your personal and organizational sales performance. Strategy can also be influenced by tactics.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

While business development representatives (BDRs) were always associated with sales, more and more companies have started integrating them into their marketing departments. The drivers behind BDRs and marketing coming together Traditionally, marketing teams take care of inbound lead generation and content creation. Sounds impressive?

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Objectives and Key Results SQL Lead generation Drivers/motivators 118

PandaDoc

DECEMBER 22, 2022

There are tons of memes showing the huge difference between client price expectations and the budgets they really have. All of them are tied to the fact that clients expect to see something gorgeous and epic but they’re ready to pay for something far less massive and good. As a result, such activities have no established prices.

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ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2019

Automated dashboard reports save time but bring limited functionality and don’t help clients understand the story behind the scorecards. So before you start building your Data Studio report, make sure you know what to include—and what to leave out—to create a compelling client report. Clients need stories, not just data.

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Martech

APRIL 10, 2024

It’s a scene from a bygone era when companies could woo clients with flashy presentations and empty promises. They were content to rest on their laurels, charging a premium for mediocrity and catering to complacent clients with fat wallets and thin attention spans. Marketing this then becomes a conversation, not a sales pitch.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

That means not only your audience, but your clients, coworkers, managers, and everyone in-between. According to Brenda Bailey-Hughes , a professor at Kelley School of business in Bloomington, Indiana, there are 3 primary types of trust, also known as trust drivers. Authenticity applies to more than just sales. Authenticity.

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Veloxy

MARCH 23, 2023

We’re living in an era where sales has the richest technology stack and set of professional capabilities than ever before. Yet, the sales organization is failing to crush their quota, let alone hit it. This blog post is your comprehensive guide on how to hit and crush sales quotas in 2023 and beyond. What is sales quota?

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Lead Fuze

AUGUST 3, 2021

Whenever someone in your circle promotes your company to a prospective client, this is known as a business referral. If you deliver a positive client experience, word-of-mouth recommendations will certainly occur on their own. It’s now time to learn how to generate referrals from existing clients.

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The Lost Book of Sales

JANUARY 31, 2024

In strategic sales, it's incredibly common for salespeople to decrease their activity and reduce their involvement with their customers when the signatures are exchanged, whereas experienced sales professionals know that the real work between your organizations is only about to start. Let’s discuss each of these stages.

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