Anthony Cole Training
FEBRUARY 2, 2017
So, this morning, Linda and I were watching Morning Joe while talking business. We were discussing our brand promise of, “When you lie awake at night worrying about sales growth, we lie awake at night.
A Sales Guy
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
What happens when you Google your name? What comes up? You’re Facebook page, your LinkedIn profile, what? Do you like what you find? Is it consistent with who you are and how you do your job? Is what you find when you google your name, consistent with who you are? If someone had to make a split decision on hiring you or not, based on your social presence would you get hired?
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Hubspot
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
Earning the trust of prospective customers can be a struggle. Before you can even begin to expect to earn their business, you need to demonstrate your ability to deliver on what your product or service promises. Sure, you could say that you're great at X, or that you're way ahead of the competition when it comes to Y. But at the end of the day, what you really need to win new business is cold, hard proof.
Engage Selling
FEBRUARY 3, 2017
Over the past 12 months, I have done some deep analysis of the sales pipeline, specifically looking for points of leverage that we can create more success with, as well as looking for any problem points that need to be … Read More »
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Anthony Cole Training
JANUARY 31, 2017
At Christmas, my wife, Linda, bought me a cookbook – The Science of Good Cooking. She gave it to me because I really do love to cook. I love to cook because I love to eat. I’m not a foodie who is into exotic or gourmet types of recipes. I’m a basic meat, potato, soup, pasta, BBQ, stew and sandwich kind of guy. You’ll notice the absence of veggies in that list.
The Sales Hunter
JANUARY 31, 2017
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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Engage Selling
FEBRUARY 2, 2017
When professionals in virtually every industry think about “compensation” – especially when it comes to structuring compensation plans, rarely is anything but a dollar sign considered.
Anthony Cole Training
FEBRUARY 3, 2017
SCORECARDS DO NOT DRIVE SALES GROWTH.
The Sales Hunter
FEBRUARY 3, 2017
Do you as a leader allow yourself to listen to voices outside of your circle? If not, you are operating within what I call “cocoon leadership.” It’s when the only input we receive is from a very limited set of people who subscribe to our beliefs. Leadership is about being pro-active. It’s about seeing and […].
Score More Sales
FEBRUARY 3, 2017
It was a tale of two retail stores and the customer service they represent. I dropped by a Staples store to pick up a few items this week. No one greeted me on my way in, even though it is just a few minutes after 9AM with only a few shoppers in the store. Not to worry, I am used to this in retailers – so I get my items and head toward the registers to check-out.
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Pointclear
FEBRUARY 2, 2017
Walk out of your office and ask the first three marketers and the first three sales executives you encounter one question: What constitutes a lead? I suspect that you will get 6 almost entirely different answers to this essential, strategic question. Before technology came into play things were bad enough. With technology it is now possible to get more poor quality leads to sales faster than ever before.
Engage Selling
JANUARY 31, 2017
Like many professional sellers, I travel all the time. Having racked up over 225,000 miles over two major airlines last year you could say that my most used office space is seat 3D.
Hubspot
FEBRUARY 2, 2017
LinkedIn is a highly valuable tool to network with like-minded professionals. But here's something we don't talk about as much as we should -- it's also a highly useful marketing platform. It might seem a little bit intimidating. You have enough on your plate -- do you really need to be figuring out yet another way to create targeted content? Actually, yes.
Partners in Excellence
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
I’m tempted to paraphrase the old Carly Simon song, You’re So Vain. Too often we think our customers’ buying cycles are about us, at least a choice between us and our competitors. We may be very customer focused in our sales process, trying to understand and align ourselves with the customer buying process. But still, our strategies tend to focus on a singular part of the customer buying cycle, “What does it take to select us?
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The Sales Hunter
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
When was the last time you did a deep dive and compared the types of names you have at the top of your sales funnel and who you have coming out the bottom as a customer? For the majority of salespeople, after the smoke has cleared, it’s amazing how the two ends of the […].
SalesLoft
FEBRUARY 2, 2017
It’s almost here. Salesloft’s annual Sales Engagement Conference. Rainmaker ’17. Tickets are selling fast, the hotel block is filling up and, most importantly, the lineup of speakers is starting to get STACKED. While sales reps come to Rainmaker each year for a number of reasons , the one we hear most often is to learn. The modern sales professional needs to constantly be learning and evolving to succeed.
Hubspot
JANUARY 30, 2017
Just when you thought you were up-to-date on the latest SEO best practices, an algorithm change or a new expert post has you questioning yourself. Sound familiar? It's true, the world of SEO is spinning faster than ever, and for every new strategy, an old one becomes obsolete. As inbound marketers, it's our job to stay informed of these changes, while continuously questioning the status quo.
Partners in Excellence
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
Recently, I was having a conversation with Robert Racine about the state of sales management. During the discussion, he mentioned, almost in passing, that too many Sales Managers are becoming Zombies–that is acting purely on autopilot, rather than thinking, evaluating, engaging. As I reflected on the conversation, I realized this trend isn’t limited to sales managers, but is extending to the entire organization.
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The Sales Hunter
JANUARY 29, 2017
“Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.” — Jim Rohn I love this quote by Jim Rohn. By no means is it his most famous quote, but I feel it’s his most life-changing. Who is in your crowd? I’m a big believer of […].
SalesLoft
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
When it comes to managing sales development reps and account executives, the management responsibilities often fall on the same person. And that makes sense, right? Put all sales functions under a sales manager so they’ll have the clearest view of the entire team. But for modern sales managers responsible for both SDRs and AEs, it’s important to realize that these two groups need to be managed differently.
Hubspot
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
Once upon a time, back in 2005, there lived on the internet a website called YouTube. It's a name that, today, many people recognize as a video-sharing website -- and much more -- that's owned by Google. But over a decade ago, YouTube wasn't what it is today. In 2005, YouTube was a dating site. Yes, you read that correctly. YouTube began as a dating site.
Partners in Excellence
JANUARY 31, 2017
The only reason sales people exist is to help customers solve their problems, grow, and improve. The corollary is, if the customer doesn’t have the problems you can solve, they don’t need you! But, judging by most of the prospecting calls I get, and most I observe with sales people, too many sales people fail to recognize this. Too often, sales people call blindly, reaching out to anyone, any company, any name on their list.
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Score More Sales
JANUARY 30, 2017
Getting organized AND keeping organized as a professional seller can be difficult.
SalesLoft
JANUARY 30, 2017
Salesloft is proud to announce the appointment of Fred Fried as Vice President of Enterprise Sales. Fried joins the executive management team in the company’s San Francisco office and brings over 20 years of experience and passion for hiring, building, and scaling sales teams to an already fast-growing Salesloft. A key hire for 2017, Fried’s role focuses on continuing to scale Salesloft’s ability to serve enterprise-level clients, helping Salesloft to transform more companies into modern sales o
Hubspot
JANUARY 31, 2017
As the number of email senders fighting for recipients’ attention continues to climb, many marketers are seeing their engagement rates steadily decrease -- even if they're using an approach that worked well a year or two ago. But that’s the problem: If you haven’t shaken up your email program in over a year, your emails are probably getting stale. Whether you’re an email marketing veteran or are just getting started, you may be operating under certain common misconceptions about email that have
Engage Selling
JANUARY 28, 2017
This is the second of a six article series on the future of sales that I wrote for the Adobe Document Cloud Blog.
Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.
ConversionXL
FEBRUARY 3, 2017
Bo Bennett once said, “Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.”. Of course, affiliate marketing has this mysterious aura about it. Many of the top search results for the term are focused on what it is and whether you can make money from it. The truth is that it’s not all that mysterious. It’s nothing more than another marketing channel for you to experiment with, analyze, optimize and grow.
Partners in Excellence
FEBRUARY 3, 2017
I have to admit, this post is targeted primarily to vendors of Sales/Marketing tools, services, and consulting. I guess being a consultant in this space makes me a target for more than my fair share of poorly thought out marketing and sales approaches. Frankly, I think any person with sales, marketing, business development in their job title gets inundated with the same crap I have to wade through daily.
Hubspot
JANUARY 31, 2017
Supermodels may have ruled the world in the 1990s, but today it's the creatives. Everyone wants in on disruptive, viral, [insert your own buzz word here] intersecting worlds of design and technology. Especially the savvy students who are looking for challenging, fun, and economically rewarding professions. Design and coding academies are rising to meet these opportunities, but there's a lot of noise swirling around.
Understanding the Sales Force
FEBRUARY 2, 2017
Image Copyright OcusFocus. Ryan changed jobs and companies this week when he started in his new role as Business Development Manager. When I congratulated him on his new job he wrote back the following: "You were 110% on the money back when I became a first time sales manager. You told Stuart and me that my biggest challenge would be in not being able to understand why the hell sales reps working for me just didn't do what I did when I was selling, and what I asked them to do, since I always did
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