August, 2021

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Why Your Next Lead Is No Better Than the Last

Iannarino

The Gist: New leads are not better than old leads. Recency bias will cause you to believe that a new lead will be easier to convert, even though this isn’t true. It is a mistake to believe that recent means better when all leads share common traits, one being helping clients on their buyer’s journey. In Pee-wee’s Big Adventure , Pee-wee Herman is briefing his friends on his missing bicycle.

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The Fearless Sales Leader

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The Fearless Sales Leader. Fearless sales leaders know that business success is defined as achieving an objective or goal. Sales leaders are accountable for making the company’s sales objectives and sales objectives equal success. As part of their role, sales leaders set the direction, create the culture, hire, develop, and retain top sales professionals, aiming to create an environment that facilitates success.

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How to be Successful in Sales in 2021

Anthony Cole Training

Here at Anthony Cole Training Group, we are always striving towards helping our clients achieve sales success. We interviewed our Sales Development Experts for a curated list of how to be successful in sales for 2021. Their advice includes successful sales traits, habits, and characteristics. Use this detailed resource to your advantage, and boost your sales success in 2021!

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14 Ways AI Can Revamp the Sales and Marketing Processes

Veloxy

As time passes, there seems to be more and more tech tools at our disposal. These advancements offer businesses a solid opportunity to reflect on what is and isn’t working optimally in their day to day operations. It also helps pin point what exactly needs improvement and how tech can help companies work smarter, not harder. Artificial intelligence is among the most influential technologies of our time which business leaders across an array of industries can eagerly embrace.

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Welcome to the Future of Hospitality: Smart Rooms Start Here

Speaker: Jady West, VP of Hospitality & Chris Bennett, Head of Sales & Engineering

The modern hotel room is no longer just a place to stay—it’s an experience to remember. Today’s guests expect seamless 5G connectivity, personalized comfort, and high-tech convenience. From AI-powered smart room controls to in-room entertainment and app-based services, technology is redefining hospitality from the inside out. In this new session featuring industry pros Jady West and Chris Bennett, we’ll explore how high-speed, high-bandwidth connectivity powers the innovations that are enabling

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Usually The Best Choice Is No Choice

Tibor Shanto

By Tibor Shanto. Choice , such a nice word, makes everyone who offers or receives one feel good: and for all the wrong reasons. But in reality, and in sales it will almost always work against you. I’ll go further, it is a clear indicator of laziness and lack of professionality. Yet for the all the usual reasons, salespeople and pundits swear by and depend on it.

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How To Do Digital Marketing – A Simple Step By Step Guide

ClickFunnels

The post How To Do Digital Marketing – A Simple Step By Step Guide appeared first on ClickFunnels. You can’t expect to build a successful business if you don’t know how to do digital marketing. You need to be able to effectively promote your products online if you want your company to thrive in today’s fiercely competitive marketplace. Of course, that is easier said than done.

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The Sales Manager’s Success Checklist

STAR Results

Sales Manager’s Success Checklist. Do you have a success checklist to see if you are on track for a successful year? How can you assess if you are on track? It is far too early to look at sales early. Go through the checklist below and see how many items you have completed ensuring that you are on track. Here are the top 10 questions you should ask yourself and your sales managers to gauge if you/they have set the foundation for success.

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Coaching Sales Behaviors

Anthony Cole Training

Coaching has become the single most important competency for sales managers to learn and optimally, they should spend 50% of their time coaching their salespeople. It is also the single most difficult sales management competency to learn and master. In this post, we will review the skills that contribute to sales coaching effectiveness and introduce a sales coaching process any sales manager can implement immediately to coach sales behaviors.

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Top 13 Inside Sales Management and Automation Tools for B2B SaaS

Sales Pop!

The sales process in B2B is not self-sufficient. In addition to the sales team’s efforts, certain tools are also required to achieve the main goal. These can be a unique selling proposition, recommendations, business launch questions, success stories, demonstrations, and presentations. In addition, you should use automated sales management tools as often as possible.

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In Sales Time Is Value Not Money

Tibor Shanto

By Tibor Shanto. Helping people adopt new skills and habits can take many forms. One proven way is to use analogies from different yet relatable practices. In sales the go to is often sports, and one can understand why. The stats, competitiveness, playbooks, execution, individual contribution to the team effort, and more. No issue with that, but I prefer to use investment and the financial markets, primarily because of the focus on value.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Why You May Want To Hire A Lead Generation Specialist

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The post Why You May Want To Hire A Lead Generation Specialist appeared first on ClickFunnels. Sales are the lifeblood of any business. And lead generation is how you keep your sales pipeline full. But as an entrepreneur, you likely already have too much on your plate, so you may not always be able to give it the attention it deserves. However, neglecting lead generation can have disastrous consequences.

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The Sales Process Was Designed to Solve the Sales Organizations Problems

Iannarino

The Gist: It’s heresy to say so, but the sales process was designed to solve the sales organization’s problems. Creating a repeatable process for salespeople is supposed to ensure success, but it rarely creates value for clients. We are evolving our approaches too slowly and need to innovate faster. As you start to recognize how much professional sales has changed and how impotent the legacy approaches are, you start to realize just how many structures and strategies were designed to

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Executive Coaching Gets Results!

STAR Results

Executive Coaching Gets Results. The Harvard Business Review reported that Executive Coaching is a $1 billion industry. In certain countries, as much as 88% of companies use coaching. A few years later, it seems that it’s not slowing down any time soon. So what’s driving this growth? Results. Plain and Simple. The case for executive coaching is that it’s working.

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5 Keys to a Better Banking Sales Training Approach

Anthony Cole Training

The bank CEOs we work with know they know that a banking sales training approach will help them by putting a structure in place for all to follow. In this blog, we discuss the 5 keys to choosing and implementing a better banking sales training program.

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Get Higher-Quality B2B Leads That Convert!

B2B marketers face a number of challenges, including: continuously generating great leads converting leads to active sales prospects finding vendors that deliver real results Aggregage has proven content syndication, webinar, online advertising and intent signal marketing programs that deliver higher-quality leads. More than 700 companies have already benefited from our programs.

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What is Neuromarketing?

Neuromarketing

It's been fifteen years since the last time we answered, "What is neuromarketing?" Here's the overdue update. The post What is Neuromarketing? appeared first on Neuromarketing.

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The Yin Yang Dynamics Of Prospecting

Tibor Shanto

By Tibor Shanto. Dynamics is a critical part of most interactions, core to nonverbal communication, which itself accounts for 80% plus of communication. The most dramatic pieces of music feature a full range of dynamics, often contrasted in unexpected ways. The best composers understand dynamics and can create just the right dynamic tension to thrill and win the audience.

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Inside Amazon One: The Pay-by-Palm Technology Everyone is Talking About

Sales Pop!

Throughout the years, Amazon has proven to be no stranger to innovation. The ecommerce giant is always striving to improve their customer service, a case in point is Amazon One, which was launched in 2020 with the sole purpose of making everyday activities effortless. This new biometric tool enables a Pay-by-Palm service for Amazon customers. Now, Amazon Go stores and Whole Foods customers can pay by simply holding their hand over a scanner.

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How Your Email Campaigns Harm Your Results

Iannarino

The Gist: We have reached peak email prospecting, the point when its effectiveness begins an inevitable decline. Two emails aren’t better than one, and any more than two undermines your goals. It’s time to reimagine email’s role in prospecting. Every day, your clients wonder if they’ve been sentenced to one of the lower levels of Hell, perhaps a floor or two above politicians and attorneys.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Split Testing – What It Is & Why You Should Be Doing It

ClickFunnels

The post Split Testing – What It Is & Why You Should Be Doing It appeared first on ClickFunnels. You have probably heard the term “split testing”. But what exactly does it mean? Here’s what we are going to discuss today: What is split testing? Why should you use split testing to optimize your sales funnel? How to conduct a proper split test? Want to make more money with the same amount of traffic?

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How to Prospect for Sales

Anthony Cole Training

Some major shifts have occurred in the way that you should be prospecting for sales opportunities. But has your prospecting plan changed with it?

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Top 10 Reasons to Set Goals

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Questions Are More Than Just For Info

Tibor Shanto

By Tibor Shanto. Questions are the weapon of choice for consistently successful salespeople, so listen up the half that aren’t making quota. But most sales professionals don’t approach question in a strategic fashion, meaning going beyond the obvious. But done right, there are dimensions to questions that can help in prospecting and lead to a more meaningful Discovery.

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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.

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Understanding The Pros and Cons of a Four-Day Workweek (video)

Sales Pop!

Iceland recently completed a year-long study designed to assess the value of a four-day workweek. The study, involving thousands of workers, found that not only was there no loss in productivity, there were actually multiple benefits. The four-day workweek isn’t a new concept and has been tried by several American companies with the same results as the Icelandic study.

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The Problem with Problems and Pain

Iannarino

The Gist: It is no longer enough to identify your client’s problem, especially when it’s already well-known. Less than half of salespeople reach their quota and more than half of buyers don’t change, evidence that what we’re doing isn’t working. To solve your client’s problem, you have to solve the problems that prevent them from solving the problem.

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What Is Digital Display Advertising? – A Complete Explanation

ClickFunnels

The post What Is Digital Display Advertising? – A Complete Explanation appeared first on ClickFunnels. You have probably heard the term “digital display advertising”. But what exactly does it mean? Here’s what we are going to cover in this article: What is digital display advertising? What are the pros and cons of digital display advertising? How to create an effective display ad?

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Cultural Frame Switching: Different Language, Different Personality

Neuromarketing

Bilingual individuals demonstrate different personality characteristics when speaking different languages. Marketers making media and language decisions when addressing multilingual markets should add this finding to their list of influencing factors. The post Cultural Frame Switching: Different Language, Different Personality appeared first on Neuromarketing.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Best Sales Prospecting Power Tips

Score More Sales

In a recent post , I shared the calling strategy from Ryan Reisert that proves how your math of sales has been lying to you. If you are a sales leader that says more calls equal more meetings, that is not true. Ryan proves that time and time again.

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The Monday Morning Breakfast For Champions Podcast – Episode 35 – Shawn Casemore

Tibor Shanto

Subscribe today, and take the Breakfast on the go! Shawn is driven by a passion to help business owners, executives and leaders accelerate their sales results. A consultant, author and speaker, he has held senior executive roles in both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Shawn’s published two books, The Unstoppable Organization and Operational Empowerment , and his insights can frequently be found online in publications such as Fast Company and INC magazine.

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7 Most Important Rules of International Negotiations

Sales Pop!

Every business owner understands the significance of negotiations. You must maintain constant contact with other businesses in order to obtain supplies, distribution channels, or licenses. Negotiating with foreign companies is much more complicated than dealing with locals because cultural differences and language barriers must be considered. There are, however, some things you can do to ensure that your negotiations go as smoothly and effectively as possible.

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How Your First Meeting Repels Your Prospective Client

Iannarino

The Gist: The way to a second meeting is a valuable first meeting. The reason clients disengage is because the conversation isn’t one they find valuable. A lot of legacy practices prevent second meetings. You never get a second chance to make a first impression, which means you have a lot riding on your meeting with a new client. That first meeting can end with you impressing your client by using their time wisely and making the experience a valuable one, moving both of you forward in the

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.