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Increase Your 2020 Sales With These 9 Sales Productivity Tools

Anthony Cole Training

It's a new year and we have some new content to share with you here at Anthony Cole Training Group. If you're looking to increase sales this year and beyond, then you're in the right place!

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Developing Master Sales Coaches

STAR Results

Developing Master Sales Coaches. Do you have a team of master sales coaches? Are your sales managers ready to crush it in 2020 or will it be another frustrating, mediocre 12-months? Most sales managers lack the skills, tools and methodology to effectively coach their team so the reps just try to ‘wing it’ as best they can. Unfortunately, as you know, this won’t maximize your sales nor improve the competencies of your sales team.

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Consultative Selling Techniques: 6 Ways to Earn Trust and Sell More

Sales Hacker

A consultative selling approach is key to running a well-oiled sales team. To me, the difference between a traditional sales process and a consultative one looks a bit like the difference between a doctor and a therapist. What Is Consultative Selling? Rather than telling your prospects what they need, consultative selling is an investigative approach by which prospects are engaged with thought-provoking questions that help them identify their own pain points.

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Sandler sales methodology: 7 steps to sales success

Salesmate

It’s a no-brainer that sales methodologies help businesses sell better and choose better customers for life. In our past articles, we have talked about some of the best sales methodologies in depth. This would be the last article in that series, and we’re talking about Sandler Sales Methodology. But first, if you haven’t checked our detailed article on sales methodology, please check that out from here.

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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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3 Things That Will Increase Sales in 2020 and Beyond

Anthony Cole Training

The most successful salespeople are always challenging and adapting their personal sales process to be more effective. However, they don’t challenge the notion of the importance of making prospecting their "A" priority every week.

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What Problem Is The Customer Trying To Solve?

Membrain

Pause for a moment. Look at your qualified pipeline. Start at the bottom. Can you identify the problem the customer is trying to solve? Or the opportunity they are trying to address?

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Automate your follow ups with Text (SMS) sequences

Salesmate

In this article, you will learn about creating your own sets of automated text messages with text (SMS) sequences and merge them with your email drip campaigns for successful follow ups. We already have shown how sequences can be used as drip campaigns for putting your email follow-ups on autopilot. We know email campaigns have to be well-planned. Their lengthy and repetitive loop makes it difficult for users to keep a manual track on the execution and deliverance.

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How Companies Choose Sales Training Companies is Backwards

Understanding the Sales Force

Do you partake of dessert prior to eating your appetizer? Do you eat your dinner in the morning and have breakfast at night? Would you prefer to have the builder complete the finish work on your new house prior to framing it and installing the roof? Would you back your car out of the garage before opening the garage door? (I've actually done that by accident - twice!).

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How Good Are “Best Practices?”

Partners in Excellence

Thousands of blogs, books, articles, video’s, and podcasts talk about “best practices.” They cover every topic imaginable. Every nuance of marketing, sales, customer experience, business, dating (oops) talk about best practices. As consumers of information about how to improve, we devour best practices. The thought is, “If I know what’s best practice, and apply it in my organization, we will be doing the very best things we can be doing and should see huge performan

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A Simple Strategy to Better Manage Your Time

Engage Selling

I often get bombarded with questions from overwhelmed salespeople and sales managers on how to manage their time effectively given everything they have to do in a day.

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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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Can purpose help you sell more in b2b?

Membrain

In the retail world, talk of “purpose-driven organizations” is all the rage. Millennials and Gen-Z’ers, they say, care more about purpose than previous generations.

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Nine Lessons from Four Years (and 200 Episodes) of Podcasting

Heinz Marketing

By Matt Heinz , President & Founder of Heinz Marketing. It was a little over four years ago that Jim Obermeyer finally convinced me to start a podcast. We call it radio, because technically it’s a live show every Thursday as part of a bank of content broadcast as an Internet radio package. We get far more people listening via the podcast subscription and RSS feed than listening live , but it’s still fun to call it Sales Pipeline Radio.

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How much money do you need to be an angel investor?

SaaStr

Q: How much money do you need to be an angel investor? You can dabble, but to do it right , you’d want to have at least $5m+ total to invest in all assets. So that you can do $500k-$1m in your angel investments. Why? Angel investing is risky, and. To do it right, you probably need to do 30–50 deals. Fewer, your odds of hitting the 1 big deal, the 1 unicorn, to make up for the losses goes way, way down.

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Are You Lacking Consistency?

Engage Selling

Be honest, is your sales team, or are you lacking consistency? One of the most underrated concepts when it comes to growing sales is this idea of consistency.

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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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Why 97% of Sales Leaders Want a Playbook

Women Sales Pros

What is a Sales Leader Playbook? Is a Sales Leader Playbook the same as a Sales Playbook? The short answer is ‘No!’ A sales leader playbook is a book of ‘Plays’ for sales leaders – Sales VP’s, Directors and Managers. A reference guide mapping out the best practices associated with all the aspects of their challenging jobs. Sales Playbook vs. Sales Leader Playbook: At a high level, your Sales Leader Playbook might include: Sales Leadership and associated plays Sales Methodology (the management

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The Courage To Be A Great Sales Leader

Partners in Excellence

It takes great courage, self confidence, and conviction to be a great sales leader. Think of the job for a moment. It’s a job where there are no “right answers.” There are a variety of methods, strategies, and approaches to achieving the organization’s goals. Each has it’s pros/cons, none is guaranteed to work. But you have to do something.

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The Playbook To Re-Igniting Growth with Predictable Revenue Co-Founder and CEO Aaron Ross (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Aaron Ross discusses inbound and outbound sales and how to integrate Sales and Marketing Teams to re-ignite growth. Learn why it is difficult to have accurate and trustworthy outbound dashboards and how to clean up and educate your clients. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Aaron Ross | CO-CEO @ Predictablerevenue.com.

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Banish the MQL? Four Fears and Five Breakthroughs from B2B CMOs

Heinz Marketing

By Matt Heinz , President & Founder of Heinz Marketing. This past week we kicked off a new series of CMO breakfasts across North America starting with Seattle and San Francisco. These “no slides, no pitches” breakfasts feature networking and vibrant discussions on highly relevant topics for B2B marketing leaders. Special thanks to 6sense and Hushly for joining us and making this series possible.

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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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Green Circle Growth: Get Serious About Quarterly Reviews

Engage Selling

Quarterly business reviews are essential for understanding potential growth with existing customers, retention issues and future opportunities.

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Prisoners Of Our Own Experience

Partners in Excellence

Recently, I had separate discussions with two very good sales executives. Each was taking a very strong position on particular aspects of selling. As the discussions progressed, I could see their perspectives were limited by their experience. One was talking about how to drive decision-making on deals. He was taking a position, “This is the way everything gets done.

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5 Ways to Increase Your Market Share

Hubspot

In 2007, Apple introduced the iPhone. The cell phone boasted a full touch screen, a slew of personalization options, and internet capabilities. These features were rare in the phone market before the iPhone, and having them all on one device was especially enticing. Because of these innovative features, Apple built a reputation and loyal fan base in the first year of the iPhone's release, earning the company a 3% market share.

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B2B Reads: Dark Mode, The Holy Grail, and Remote Marketing Teams

Heinz Marketing

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the Web each week. We’ll miss a ton of great stuff, so if you found something you think is worth sharing please add it to the comments below. How to Marry ABM and Inbound Marketing. While ABM and Inbound Marketing may seem drastically different, there may be a way to marry them in order to land those game-changing contracts.

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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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What are some of the most overlooked details or challenges when integrating two companies post-acquisition?

SaaStr

Q: What are some of the most overlooked details or challenges when integrating two companies post-acquisition? I can make a long list of challenges and overlooked details in acquisitions, but I think they all stem from 1 issue: not being honest about what things will look like in 24 months: Does the CEO really want to stay? If not, just staying for an earn-out may be OK, but it’s not the same as wanting to stay.

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On C-Level Buying

Partners in Excellence

As sales people, we learn that we are to call high. We should be reaching the top executives in the corporation. We believe if only we could reach these individuals, we can wear them down or convince them to buy what we are selling. Often, we are so focused on reaching that exalted level, we neglect important people at lower levels. We, sometimes, believe that regardless of the decision a buying group might make, we can influence the C-Level to reverse unfavorable decisions.

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7 Email Cadence Best Practices for Better Email Marketing Campaigns

Hubspot

By 2022, an estimated 330 billion emails will be sent and received each day — making it one of the largest digital communication channels. Emails can include everything from details about pressing, work-related crises to e-cards from your aunt on random holidays like Arbor Day. But email’s practical use extends beyond the personal — it can also be one of the most effective ways for businesses to convert leads into buyers.

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Inside Look: “SalesLoft on SalesLoft” Track at REV2020

SalesLoft

4 tracks. 50+ sessions. 100+ speakers. 2000 attendees. REV2020 , SalesLoft’s industry conference about where sales is going , is shaping up to be a truly transformational event. With so much great content planned this year, we want to dive into each of the educational tracks and highlight some not-to-be-missed gems from the lineup. The SalesLoft on SalesLoft track focuses on the platform roadmap, new capabilities, and best practices gleaned from SalesLoft’s own team members using the SalesLoft

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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People, Process, Product – 3 x Words To Succeed

The 5% Institute

People, Process, Product – these words made popular by Marcus Lemonis and CNBC’s The Profit , have become synonymous with business success. But what does the People, Process, Product statement mean? And more importantly, how can you use the People, Process, Product methodology to build a business to consistently serve you? In this article, we’ll cover where the People, Process, Product methodology comes from, as well as how you can use it to serve both you and your business.

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Escaping Your Comfort Zone with Michael Wigge

criteria for success

Happy Monday, Let's Talk Sales listeners! This episode's featured guest is Michael Wigge. Michael Wigge, travel writer, Tonight Show guest and keynote speaker, offers his motivational work in Germany, as a stress management trainer and resilience coach. He also authored several travel-related books, including How to Travel the World for Free. Be sure to check out his wonderful TEDx talk on overcoming fear.

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4 Marketing AI Predictions for 2020, According to Experts

Hubspot

According to Gartner, 80% of technology will be built on an AI foundation by 2021. As AI becomes more prominent across industries, it's also impacting marketers in subtle ways that might not be obvious to them yet. While this technology was once described as "over-hyped," marketers now use a handful of AI-powered tools in their day-to-day tasks. For example, AI tools help content strategists define SEO and keyword strategies , perform SEO-related tasks like fixing duplicate content , and self-op

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The Advanced Guide to Inside Sales: Strategy, KPIs, and Tools for Success

Sales Hacker

Inside sales jobs are growing at a staggering rate, and it’s not hard to see why. Most companies offer uncapped commissions for their inside sales positions. Almost any lifestyle you can imagine for yourself is possible with an inside sales role. Whether you’re paying off college debt, saving to pay for your child’s tuition, or simply trying to hit your own financial goals, here’s what you need to know to have a competitive edge when selling by phone.

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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.