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Did Your Salespeople Grow Up on the Farm?

Anthony Cole Training

You and your salespeople are a product of mom and dad, the people met, the experiences had and the education/knowledge acquired:

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I’m Really Confused About Account Based Marketing

Partners in Excellence

Account Based Marketing/Selling—“Account Based Everything” is all the rage right now. Some very smart colleagues, including Craig Rosenberg and Matt Heinz are real leaders in helping organizations develop and implement their Account Based Marketing Strategies. But despite all that I read, I’m really confused. Perhaps you can set me straight.

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What to Do With The Uncoachable

A Sales Guy

There are certain people who are just not amenable to coaching. I’m not talking about people who struggle with different styles, but rather those people who just are not receptive to feedback. The people who defend everything, argue when given constructive criticism, and aren’t open to hearing about their shortcomings, that’s who this article is about.

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Top 3 Reasons Why Sales Training Doesn't Change Your Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

I get asked this question a lot: "We've tried sales training before and it didn't really change anything. Why didn't it work?". It's a common frustration and often explains why companies try it once and don't go back, or why they use a different company every year. There are three powerful reasons why sales training won't work, and what you can do that will make it work everytime.

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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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The Beginner’s Guide to SaaS Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

When we talk about conversion optimization , much of the strategies remain the same across industries. After all, the goal is to systematically improve the success of a business, whatever that means metric-wise. That said, there are some key differences in how experts approach SaaS conversion optimization. This won’t be a complete guide (hardly anything that bills itself as “complete” actually is), but I’ll point out links in each section for further reading.

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Transforming To A “Customer First” Sales Organization

Partners in Excellence

We know that we are supposed to be customer focused, but too many organizations struggle with actually becoming customer focused. For most, it requires a transformation in the way you do business. Re-examining everything you do, engaging customers in those critical conversations that put the customer first is critical for to driving these transformations.

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Your Sales Team Needs This Key Trait

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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Why Do You Think That Harvard Business Review Does This When it Comes to Sales?

Understanding the Sales Force

For years now, Harvard Business Review and its Blog on hbr.com have been accepting articles on sales that are usually laugh-out-loud wrong. The information is sometimes old and outdated, usually not routed in science, and sometimes simply stupid. While they have always published a great magazine, the information on selling regularly fails to meet our expectations.

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Is Leadership Really About This?

Partners in Excellence

I was stunned reading an article in Fast Company: Five CEOs On The Skills It Takes To Land The Corner Office. The skills they identified were: How to say “No.” How to pitch. How to read financials. How to take criticism. Knowing how the work gets done. It’s amazing there was virtually no mention about effective leadership–that is caring about your people, inspiring them through a great vision, reinforcing it through a great culture, creating ownership and alignment in th

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10 Steps to Networking Effectively

The Sales Hunter

As we near the end of the year, it seems the calendar fills up with numerous parties and events, all of which are great opportunities to network. As good as these can be, they can take a lot of time away from other more pressing activities. Here is my list of 10 steps to […].

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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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Don’t Be Scared To Hire | Sales Tip

Engage Selling

,I know there are a lot of small businesses and startup businesses that pay attention to my site. Often, they come to me and they say, “Colleen, should I build out my sales team?

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How to Run a Competitor Analysis [Free Guide]

Hubspot

When was the last time you performed a competitor analysis for your brand? Too often, a competitor analysis is reserved for the early days of a company or the launch of a new product. For others, analyzing the competition doesn't go further than scrolling through their social media accounts every morning. Whether it's lack of time or understanding, many marketers are not taking full advantage of a proper competitor audit.

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How Much Do You Care?

Partners in Excellence

Sales success isn’t so much about selling skills, techniques and approaches. It’s not so much about product knowledge or even knowledge about your customers. It isn’t about the tools we use, how we are engaging socially. While all these things are important and necessary to our success as sales professionals and leaders, fundamentally, success in sales is about caring.

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: Creating Value in Others

The Sales Hunter

Leaders are measured not by what they do, but by what the people they lead are able to accomplish. We have to continually ask ourselves if we’re creating value in our people. When I mean value, I’m referring to helping those we lead to be worth more to themselves and to others based on the skill […].

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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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How to Refine Your Sales Methodology

Pointclear

Bob Apollo from Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners recently sent me three whitepapers to review and comment on. I thought all three were excellent, but due to my background in, and passion about, lead qualification, that was the one topic that really stood out. Bob’s view: Traditional lead qualification, such as the over simplified BANT criteria (Budget, Authority, Need and Timeframe) are inadequate to reflect the dynamics of today’s complex buying process.

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Why Bots Are the Next Big Frontier for Agencies

Hubspot

Sixteen years ago, I was the founder and CEO of ActiveBuddy, the first commercial bot -- or chatbot -- company. Our uber human natural language bot SmarterChild grew to having over 20 million users across the AOL and Microsoft Instant Messaging networks. There is a very good chance that you had one of our bots in your Buddy List. SmarterChild proved that people liked having a conversation with a smart, opinionated computer.

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How to Sell More in Less Time

Engage Selling

Are your sales reps really operating at full capacity? That is, are they making the most of the time they’re provided each day to produce results? Chances are, they’re not.

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How Confident Are You With Your Sales Process?

The Sales Hunter

Success in sales is not measured by activity. It’s measured by results. This sounds simple, yet too many times we get caught up in the process, thinking if we just do the process enough we’ll be successful. The challenge is how do we know the process we’re using is working and is there something different […].

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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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Modern Sales Is Complex – Jill Konrath, Brent Adamson, Nick Toman

Score More Sales

Recently I had the opportunity to talk about how challenging and complex modern sales has become for both the sales rep and his or her customers with three true sales experts:

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10 Creative Exercises That Are Better Than Brainstorming

Hubspot

We're all familiar with traditional brainstorming as a method for producing new ideas, but there are many alternative exercises for tackling problems and developing new ideas, both individually and in a group setting. Ranging from structured to silly, here's a selection of ten simple techniques and exercises to help you get your problem solving juices flowing: 10 Alternative Creative Exercises. 1) Storyboarding.

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3 Steps To Master Your Sales Operations Data

SalesLoft

As your sales team grows, having a role devoted to managing data and process is a must. In theory, reviewing sales operations data to make decisions is easy. But in a world with mass amounts of data and such robust tools (like Salesforce), many organizations are held back by the chains that are their own inefficiency. That’s exactly why the Sales Operations professional has so much power.

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Sales Motivation Video: Ramp Up Your Prospecting Now Through Year End

The Sales Hunter

Too many salespeople slow down with their prospecting as the end of the year approaches. This is so short sighted! You need to ramp up your prospecting efforts now through year end. You will likely discover that the holidays cause schedule variations that actually offer you MORE opportunities to reach people. And be sure to […].

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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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Stand Out from the Sales Pack: Ask the BEST Qualifying Questions

Sales Gravy

You, as a sales professional, want to separate yourself from the everyday average sales herd. You want to stand out from the pack. Be unique. Especially early on in the sales process.

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Facebook's Miscalculated Metrics: What Marketers Need to Know

Hubspot

Over the past couple of months, you may have heard some things about Facebook's metrics. There was talk of numbers -- lots of them. Things were overestimated. Others were underestimated. People were kind of upset. But mostly, they were confused. What the heck happened? How was Facebook going to respond? And at the end of the day, what did it mean for marketers?

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Cutting to the Core of Sales Forecasting Fallacies

SalesLoft

Houston, we have a problem : only 31% of businesses consider their sales forecasting to be effective in terms of accuracy and helping guide pipeline management. If this number doesn’t surprise you, your business may very well be in the midst of experiencing the repercussions of generating inaccurate sales forecasting, which can be as serious as over-hiring or product shortage.

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A Podcast Interview With Andy Paul on  Accelerate!

Pointclear

My interview with Andy Paul’s podcast Accelerate! is packed and includes the following: What is the truth about leads? What percent of leads does sales follow-up on? What percent of the buying process is complete before sales needs to be involved? How are companies nurturing leads? Are there enough hunters, beaters and farmers in sales? What is multi-touch, multi-media, multi-cycle marketing?

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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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How to Create a Conversion-Focused Tone of Voice

ConversionXL

You’re likely familiar with the finding that over half of communication is non-verbal. So perhaps you won’t be surprised to learn that your copy is “saying” a lot more than you think it is. That’s because tone of voice is at play, influencing how visitors read your copy and relate to your company. Fortunately, tone of voice can be deliberately created, managed and optimized.

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Last Minute #GivingTuesday Wins for Your Nonprofit

Hubspot

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, which means #GivingTuesday isn't far off. This year, it's on November 29. If you haven't already put together any special campaigns to promote giving or volunteering around #GivingTuesday, don't worry. Yes, we're getting down to the wire here, but that doesn't mean you can't create something around that day that will make a big impact on your annual goals.

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Building Lasting Sales Relationships with Fellow SDRs {Video}

SalesLoft

Sales relationships between a mentor and mentee are often overlooked in the professional community. Sure, we look at the sales relationships between manager and rep, SDR and prospect, and even Account Executive and customer, but the rapport between a mentor and their mentee is an important one to discuss when it comes to truly developing your reps.

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Helping Your Buyers Look Beyond Themselves!

Partners in Excellence

We know we need to be customer focused. We know that we are most effective when we focus less on what we sell, but how we help the customer with their opportunities and challenges. For many, just this shift in focus, moving from internal focus on pitching products, to focusing on the customer is a huge challenge. But the reality is, we and our buyers, need a larger perspective.

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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.