January, 2017

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Why is It So #%&@ Hard to Solve the Sales Growth Problem? – The 5 Constraints to Growing Sales – Part II

Anthony Cole Training

In the previous post, I identified 8 clues that would indicate that your sales organization has a sales growth problem ( CLICK HERE to read the article and review the 5 clues).

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The Optimizer’s Guide to Web Accessibility

ConversionXL

What if you found out you are, at best, only optimizing your site for 81% of the people who might possibly visit it? Whether you’ve spent years perfecting your site’s usability or are just getting started, you’d want to know about that other 19%, right? That 19% represents millions and millions of people with disabilities who can’t access or engage with sites in the traditional way.

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The Fastest and Easiest Way to Reach Sales Greatness

Understanding the Sales Force

One of the things I hear an awful lot is, "Dave, how do you write so many articles?". 1,600 articles in 10 years equates to an average of about 3 articles each of the 48 weeks that I work. The secret behind that kind of prolific writing can actually help you too - to find and close more business , sell more consultatively , qualify more thoroughly , and earn more money.

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20 Stunning Examples of Brand Style Guides

Hubspot

When it comes to building a memorable brand, it's all about consistency. When you're shopping for your favorite cereal or coffee at the grocery store, you want to be able to spot it from a mile away. The best brands stick in our brains because their presence is defined by the repetition of the same logo, fonts, colors, and images. Once we see them enough, they become instantly recognizable, bringing us a clear sense of reliability and security.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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The Critical Key to Sales Success

Engage Selling

Do your team members possess the key trait for sales success? People are always asking me what they think the number one personality trait of a successful salesperson should be.

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Don’t Confuse Your Experience with Your Expertise

A Sales Guy

There is a real difference between experience and expertise. Too many of us confuse the two and they are not the same. Experience simply marks the time we’re do something, but it’s a bad gauge of how well we actually do it. Expertise, on the other hand, is a far better gauge of our competency. I have an entire chapter on this concept in my book Not Taught.

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The Battle of the Brand: CRO vs. Branding

ConversionXL

Math. It’s cold. It’s undeniable. It’s absolute. It’s infallible. Or is it? As CROs we tend to boil the world of human behavior, intent, and action into neat rows in a spreadsheet. We weave our assumptions together with formulas in order to break down complex interactions into absolute spreadsheet cells valued by the number of the digits they contain.

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Top 10 Tips to Help You Sell More And Get More Done Than Anyone Else This Year Part 1

Understanding the Sales Force

We attended the organizational kick-off meeting for the team with whom our 14-year old son will be playing travel baseball this year. The organization is run by former MLB pitcher Brian Rose and one of the memorable things he said at this meeting was, "There will always be someone working harder than you." He said, "If you take a day off, someone else will be still be working" and, "If you want to be the best you have to work harder than everyone else.

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The Essential Artificial Intelligence Glossary for Marketers

Hubspot

Thank goodness for live chat. If you’re anything like me, you look back at the days of corded phones and 1-800 numbers with anything but fondness. But as you’re chatting with a customer service agent on Facebook Messenger to see if you can change the shipping address on your recent order, sometimes it’s tempting to ask, am I really talking to a human?

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Do your emails measure up?

Engage Selling

Response rates are critical in sales. After all, of you can’t get a buyer to respond to a call or an email…you can’t start a relationship let alone close a sale.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Leaders and Followers, Why We’re Both Failing

A Sales Guy

Leadership is hard. I mean real leadership. Not many people are good at it. I’ve had a number of boss’s in my life, but only a few were actual leaders. I’ve been a boss a number of times and I’m pretty sure I’d only been a leader a few of those times. Being a leader is hard because you have to want to be a leader. Being a leader is very different than being someone’s boss.

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Why is It So #%&@ Hard to Solve the Sales Growth Problem? – The 5 Constraints to Growing Sales – Part I

Anthony Cole Training

I’ve written on this subject, talked about it at workshops/keynotes and presented it to our clients in our Sales Managed Environment ® Certification program for over 20 years. But, here I go again and for good reason – it’s still a problem. It’s still in the news. It’s still something that we get asked about when we present at the Community Bank CEO Network and other venues.

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Why eCommerce Product Filtering Is Broken (and How to Fix It)

ConversionXL

Discoverability and findability are two important terms that optimizers should be familiar with. Discoverability is when you find the perfect book, even though you were not necessarily looking for it. Findability is when you find the exact book you were looking for, even if all you knew about it was the author’s last name. eCommerce product filtering, when done right, can solve both issues.

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7 Reasons Why Salespeople Underperform and How Sales Leaders Can Coach Them Up

Understanding the Sales Force

Image Copyright 123RF. Day after day and call after call, I hear the frustration from sales managers and sales leaders who have at least one thing in common. They know that their salespeople could and should be doing better. For almost ten years and regardless of how the US economy has performed, reports continue to show that only 50-60% of reps are hitting quota.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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How to Calculate Your Lead Generation Goals [Free Calculator]

Hubspot

To hit revenue and growth goals, your company needs customers. To get customers in an inbound world, your marketing team is responsible for generating leads and funneling them over to your sales team. The question is. how many leads? When your boss asks you what your lead goal is, don't just pull an answer out of thin air. Your projections need to be based on math and rooted in your company's larger goals.

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Why Comparing Apples-to-Oranges Wins | Sales Tips

Engage Selling

Most sales reps are making a fundamental mistake when handling the pricing objection. They’re always trying to get the buyer to make an apples-to-apples comparison on the pricing and that’s not what we want.

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Sales Video Short: Become a Giving Sales Person

A Sales Guy

Sales is a giving profession. Unfortunately, most of us missed the memo. We’re too busy asking for our prospects time. We want 10 minutes of their time to tell them how great we are. We want 30 minutes to barrage them with questions for our discovery call. We want 45 minutes to do a demo. Sales people and sales organizations are constantly in taking mode.

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Why is It So #%&@ Hard to Solve the Sales Growth Problem? – The 5 Constraints to Growing Sales – Part III

Anthony Cole Training

In my series ( see previous posts ) regarding the constraints to growing sales, the two remaining topics are:

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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Live Course: Google Tag Manager Fundamentals

ConversionXL

Announcing our next live online course: Google Tag Manager Fundamentals with Chris Mercer. Learn GTM to 10x your effectiveness as a marketer. by giving you power and control over your data measurement. Our 4-week, 8 live class intensive training program will give you. A knowledge of how to use Google Tag Manager to deploy third party tracking scripts.

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10 [More] Tips to Help You Sell More and Get More Done Than Anyone Else Part 2

Understanding the Sales Force

To start the year off I posted My Top 10 Tips to Help you Sell More and Get More Done Than Anyone Else. I received so many thank you notes and emails expressing appreciation for that post that I decided to share 10 more tips for those who have the capacity to become even more efficient.

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Sales Productivity Focus

Score More Sales

Improving sales efficiencies and effectiveness is a top, recurring issue as researched by organizations like CEB and the AA-ISP. I participated in two podcasts about this recently with CEB you can listen to here. In this new year, how will YOU lead a team to better productivity? If you just lead yourself, and not a team, how will you have your most productive sales year ever?

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Your 2017 Sales Prospecting/Growth Plan in 8 Steps

The Sales Hunter

It’s the start of a new year and as much as you feel good, you also feel a sense of concern about the numbers you need to hit for this year. The solution is NOT merely doing more of what you did last year and thinking that alone is going to do the trick. Success […].

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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A New Framework to Drive More Sales

A Sales Guy

Today I did a BrightTALK presentation for the Sales Xpert Channel. I talked about what I call “Gap Selling” or “Selling to the Gap” Selling to the Gap is based on the concept that when people buy, there is a “gap” between where they are today and where they want to go, and it’s this gap that drives the value and probability of closing the deal.

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4 Steps to Create Client Advocates

Anthony Cole Training

A guest post by Walt Gerano, Sales Development Expert, Anthony Cole Training Group.

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What Does the Future Hold for Conversion Optimization?

ConversionXL

“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” – Yogi Berra. Digital marketing moves at a fast pace. One year something works, and the next year it is obsolete. Similarly, conversion optimization moves quickly. Sure, there are some core skills that seem foundational and everlasting, but year to year there are also some new skills that crop up.

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7 More Tips on How I Sell More and Get More Done Part 3

Understanding the Sales Force

Image Copyright: toonartist">123RF Stock Photo. Who knew that this would turn into a series? Part 1 and Part 2 were very popular and centered around productivity and technology, but not selling competencies. This post presents Part 3, which although having a different perspective on selling more and getting more done, but like the other two parts, stays away from selling-specific competencies.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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How to Frustrate Your Leads

Engage Selling

Picture this…you call into your bank for support. Upon dialing the number, you’re prompted by a machine to enter in your card number and other details.

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How Well Do You Know Your Customer’s Customer?

The Sales Hunter

How would you answer that question with regard to your biggest account? I’d suspect you’d say you know a pretty good amount. Now, ask that same question about the prospect you’re about to call on? Different answer? Why? Don’t tell me it doesn’t matter because they’re only a prospect. I’ll argue it does matter because […].

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How to Talk About Your Competition

Score More Sales

Before the New England Pats played the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2017 AFC Championship game, the media asked a lot of questions – as always. Quarterbacks Tom Brady and Ben Roethlisberger together have six Super Bowl rings. What bad things do they say about each other?

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Developing Rapport Quickly with Sales Prospects

Anthony Cole Training

A guest post by Jack Kasel, Sales Development Expert, Anthony Cole Training Group.

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5 Inspiring B2B Marketing Campaigns to Take Yours to the Next Level

Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con