Anthony Cole Training

JULY 20, 2016

Guest Post By Alex Cole, Recruitment Specialist, Hire Better Salespeople.

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Closing Bigger

JULY 22, 2016

I was interviewed by Louise Uwacu for her U&I Talk Show, we talked about the Professional Sales Certificate Program , becoming a professional speaker, social selling and more. So if wonder what the path could look like to become a sales trainer, speaker and author this is a good start. Enjoy!

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Engage Selling

JULY 19, 2016

Working with so many different clients across a variety of industries really opens your eyes to new ideas, strategies and insights. I’m always open to embracing fresh new thinking!

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A Sales Guy

JULY 28, 2016

In this video, I talk about the place your prospect or customer need to get mentally before you can make a sale. We don’t talk about this much, but it’s hard to sell if you can’t get your customer to do this. Selling is a relationship, and key to a relationship is working together. Learn how to get your prospect to this place and you’ll see your sales processes turn around.

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JULY 25, 2016

Google might be the holy grail of analytics, and there’s little question that you need it plugged in if you want to track your website’s success. But that doesn’t mean Google Analytics is telling you the full story. In fact, your analytics could be telling you outright lies. GA doesn’t mean to lie, of course—not most of the time, anyway.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 26, 2016

Earlier this week I wrote an article on why so many sales managers are so bad. In today's article, I'll share what makes them so ineffective. The easiest way to explain this is to start with a baseball analogy. Our son, who is now 14, is a very talented baseball player. In addition to me, he has been coached in some capacity by approximately 15 other baseball coaches with varying degrees of effectiveness.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 25, 2016

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Hubspot

JULY 26, 2016

Ten years ago my answer to the cocktail party question, “What do you do?” was as easy as two letters: PR. These days that answer is: I help companies in the design and build industry connect with their targets through social media, content marketing, public relations and strategic partnerships. (Say that after two cocktails.)The PR job has changed dramatically in the last decade.

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A Sales Guy

JULY 20, 2016

Earlier this year, as many of the readers here know, we at A Sales Guy had big, bold, and somewhat risky marketing stunt. You can read about it and it’s abject failure here. In a nutshell, we were going to do a pop-up event for Virgin America’s inaugural flight to Denver from San Francisco. The plan was to show up at the for the first flight from Denver to San Francisco.

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ConversionXL

JULY 19, 2016

If you are an email marketer, chances are that the majority of the articles you read are about growing your list , getting more opens, clicks, etc. But what if your list is growing thanks to all those tips for improvement, but the open and click rates actually deteriorate? Are you doing something wrong? Not necessarily. The thing is that leads age – they become uninterested in what you have to offer for a variety of reasons (job changes, bankruptcy, already found a better product/service,

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 11, 2016

I managed to develop a case of poison ivy that is so bad it is making my blood boil. Earlier this year I wrote an article explaining why more salespeople suck than ever before. (You'll need to read that article for the rest of this article to make any sense.) Last week, a reader provided a comment that made my blood boil and I wrote a response to it.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 12, 2016

It’s the middle of July, and it seems as if everyone is either on vacation, about to go on vacation or just got back from vacation. All of the talk about vacations makes it seem as if nobody is working, and as a result, it’s easy to fall into a summer sales slump. Here […].

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Score More Sales

JULY 15, 2016

I spoke with Ken Allred , CEO of Primary Intelligence , about Win Loss programs and how they help Sales teams win more deals. Below is an excerpt from our discussion.

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Hubspot

JULY 28, 2016

Live chat technology has been around for a while. And while customers increasingly demand immediate attention, businesses have been relatively slow to adopt a live chat strategy - particularly in the SMB space, where deals are still built on relationships. Live chat is often solely thought of as a customer support tool and tends to be overlooked from a sales and conversion perspective.

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A Sales Guy

JULY 11, 2016

I work with a lot of SDR’s (also called BDR’s, Inside Sales Reps and more) and one of the things I often see is how many of them can’t wait to get promoted to account executive. For many SDRs, the role of setting appointments and being the first line of qualification is less than glamorous. Often, it’s not just the SDR’s who feel this way; it often pervades an entire organization’s culture, perpetuated by management.

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Engage Selling

JULY 21, 2016

You may have noticed this interesting trend… Lost deals tend to be the same ones that stagnate during the proposal phase.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 13, 2016

Image Copyright 123RF Stock Photo. Verne Harnish is the President of Gazelles - the coaching organization that helps fast growth companies. In addition to his best-selling books, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits and his latest, Scaling Up , he writes the Weekly Insights, which I always read from top to bottom. In his June 30 insights, Verne included a quote from Greg Brenneman, author of Right Away and All at Once - 5 Steps to Transform Your Business and Enrich Your Life.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 26, 2016

The most valuable asset any salesperson has is their time. It’s not what they sell or the customers they sell to; it’s their time. How we use our time is what will make a much bigger impact on our success than nearly anything else. Below are 10 things you must be doing to help save your […].

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JULY 22, 2016

It’s frustrating being a newer sales rep and falling for what I call the “buddy effect”. It’s even worse when you are a veteran seller and this happens to you. It happened to me more than once, until I learned how to qualify. Here is an example of what the buddy effect is –.

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Hubspot

JULY 22, 2016

It's no secret that internet users are no strangers to seeking out the information they need online -- in fact, Google now processes over 40,000 search queries every second. And as the volume of search queries continues to climb, advertisers are recognizing an opportunity to introduce a number of different types of ads. (Think: pop-up ads, autoplaying video ads, and the dreaded mobile ad that takes up the entire phone screen.).

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A Sales Guy

JULY 28, 2016

Author of grit, Ted speaker, and University of Pennsylvania Professor Angela Duckworth is going will be live on The Word today, via blab. If you want to understand the psychology to success and what truly separates the successful from the unsuccessful, you don’t want to miss this. Register here: . We’ll be talking live questions, it’s your chance to meet Angela and learn how you can get to the next level.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 12, 2016

I recently read a post, “Is Sales Coaching Dead?” It was written by a team I respect, and was based on extensive research. The results are interesting–and can lead to confusion in the interpretation. In assessing, 17 critical sales management competencies, the survey ranked Sales Coaching as the most critical competency–5.8/7.0, the bottom ranked was Business Acumen at 4.3.

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 25, 2016

Image Copyright alvinge / 123RF Stock Photo ">123RF Stock Photo. I see bad ones everywhere I look. They are not usually bad people and they might not have been bad salespeople, but they are usually so ineffective in their role as sales managers. We will discuss some of the reasons and share an example next!

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 5, 2016

Let’s face it. You can’t prospect if you don’t start, and starting is the problem too many salespeople have. The number of excuses salespeople can come up with range from logical to just plain avoidance. Here are 10 things you can do right now to help you stop procrastinating on doing the prospecting you know […].

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SalesLoft

JULY 29, 2016

We all know that personalization has become the key to sales success. And the best way to prioritize personalization to the right people in your sales pipeline is by using predictive analytics. The addition of analytics to your process may be a new trend for departments like marketing and service, but keep measuring predictive analytics is nothing new to data-driven sales teams.

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Hubspot

JULY 25, 2016

What if I told you you could visit an art gallery. from the comfort of your own home? Or from a bus seat on your commute to work? Or while you're taking a break for lunch? If you follow the right people, that's what Instagram can do for you. There are a lot of really talented artists and designers out there who use Instagram as a sort of mini art gallery -- a social portfolio, if you will.

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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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A Sales Guy

JULY 6, 2016

Ask yourself how many times in a day, a week or month you say, “I didn’t have time.” We all do it. It’s a common default phrase we are all guilty of. The truth is, however, our inability to get things done or commit to things has nothing to do with time. In Spazz Out 4, I break down why time is NOT your problem. What are you prioritizing?

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JULY 11, 2016

It is always good to see great sales skills in action. While in the Concierge Level Lounge of a Marriott hotel recently, I saw a woman from the Marriott walking around and striking up conversations with guests. She was polite and friendly, getting everyone she approached to interact with her.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 18, 2016

Today I'm in Florida, preparing to speak at a company's national meeting. Like many companies, they have not only realized that selling has changed dramatically, but that their salespeople may not have adapted, developed new skills, and changed the way they sell. If you're a regular reader, active on LinkedIn or Social Media, then you have certainly read about the many ways that selling has changed.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 18, 2016

What’s your 5-year goal? Don’t wander through life only focusing on “this week’s numbers.” If you don’t set a course toward where you want your life to be in 5 years, you won’t achieve it. Where do you want to be personally and professionally 5 years from now? Do not rely on business that simply […].

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