Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 1, 2017

MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBLE FOR A $450 BILLION PROBLEM.

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A Sales Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

I knew Not Taught could help people. That’s why I wrote it, but I’m blown away by how much. That was my motivation for writing Not Taught. I wanted to help people to find success. I wanted people to know that times had changed. I wanted them to know that we had left the Industry Age and entered the Information Age and because of that the approaches and methodologies they were using no longer worked.

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Drivers/motivators Consult Gaming Start-ups 96

Engage Selling

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Closing rates are ALWAYS the “topic of the day” during workshops, coaching calls and strategy sessions. What is yours? Is that high or low compared to average? What would you expect it to be? How can we make it better?

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Closing 84

Hubspot

MARCH 3, 2017

We’ve been together for a while now, Marketing Blog readers. I’ve shared stories with you about business school, my surprise revelation that I’m an introvert, and other personal tidbits here and there. Here's one that I hope won't lower your opinion of me: I have a bit of a potty mouth. My first instinct is to apologize for it. But then, I came across new research that shows a strong correlation between cursing and authenticity in character.

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Manufacturing Government Promote Drivers/motivators 78

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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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Recently, I was privileged to observe a series of training sessions at Microchip. My friend, Mitch Little , kicked off the session with some introductory comments. One sentence captivated me, “We change the world…” That has been occupying my thinking since I heard Mitch make the statement. Sales people have the opportunity to change the world!

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Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Recently we shared a post 5 Ways – Don’t Leave Money on the Table and this week we break it down by one item at a time. Losing track of a prospect is one of the biggest ways to lose a sales opportunity because research shows that only 3% of buyers are ready to buy at any given time. The remaining 97% is either not going to buy or will buy at a later time.

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Hubspot

MARCH 3, 2017

Before the internet was more widely available, your business may have relied on printed directories, such as the Yellow Pages , to be found and discovered by new customers. The greatest likelihood someone would call you over your competitors was if you paid for larger print ad placements, or if your brand's name started with one of the first letters of the alphabet.

Engineering 78

Engineering Prospecting Product Customers 78

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 1, 2017

Account Based Marketing (ABM), Account Based Selling (ABS), and Account Based Everything (ABE) are hot topics these days, particularly in the As-A-Service worlds. There are articles, books, conferences focused on these topics. Observing the interest around these topics, one begins to think, “They seem to have discovered the hidden secret to sales and marketing success.” In some ways, perhaps they have, but in reality, all of this is based on the same basic principles of all sales a

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Think you’re sitting on the next big idea for a product or a product feature? Before you spend dozens of hours and tens of thousands of dollars on the idea, you need to validate it. In other words, you need to make sure your audience is just as excited about the idea as you are. So, how can you validate the ideas sitting in your startup notebook or your product feature backlog without wasting resources?

Product 67

Product X-functional A/B testing Minimum Viable Product 67

Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The 2017 Academy awards were nearly over when a huge mistake was made in announcing the last award – for Best Picture. People wait all night – all year – to hear those final awards for best actor, actress, and film. This year, actors Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway had the honor of announcing the big Best Picture winner. Many loyal Score More Sales blog readers are in their 20’s and 30’s - you may have no idea who those old folks were.

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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.

High impact

Hubspot

MARCH 2, 2017

Emerging technologies always encourage scrutiny and critical analysis, and ad tech is no different. This discipline has been around for a few years, but it's only recently caught the attention of savvy ad tech agencies. In the era of big data, they've recognized having ad tech company relationships makes them more powerful and attractive to clients.

Clients 78

Clients Technology Technology User Experience 78

The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Have you ever worked on a team where not everybody has the same goal? Early in my sales career, I was part of a sales team that, to put it mildly, wasn’t aligned. Each of us had different goals. Some wanted to kick back and relax, others wanted to get promoted and others were just […].

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Drivers/motivators Promote Sales Sell 60

Engage Selling

MARCH 3, 2017

People ask me all the time what my tips are for travel because I travel all the time.

Sales 52

Sales Sell 52

Sales Gravy

MARCH 1, 2017

Sales Myth: If I provide great customer service I will never have to prospect Sure, that sounds great. Providing great customer service is what every company and salesperson feels they need to be doing.

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Hubspot

MARCH 2, 2017

If you thought your research days were over when you graduated from high school or college, think again. If you create any kind of content as part of your role, your arguments should be well-supported with data. Why is research so important? It makes your claims credible, your content authoritative, and helps you earn more social shares and backlinks.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Sure, that sounds great. Providing great customer service is what every company and salesperson feels they need to be doing. The sales myth is the more focus that is placed on taking care of existing customers and providing them with great service, the less need there will be to prospect. The myth becomes the rule […].

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Engage Selling

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

This is the fourth of a six article series on the future of sales that I wrote for the Adobe Document Cloud Blog.

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Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Plan Your Weeks and Your Days, Prioritize Your Three Most Important Projects, Choose Three Tasks Each Day and Block Time, Negotiate for Time with No Distractions, and Wake Up Early Here are five things you can do now to be very productive.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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Hubspot

MARCH 1, 2017

“I’m so bored.”. How many times a week do you utter that phrase? If it’s at least once, you’re in the same boat as roughly 63% of people. And according to the same report that drew that conclusion, how bored you are depends on several factors -- like location and other demographics. But chances are, we all have at least one common outlook on boredom: It can be remedied by the internet.

Gaming 78

Gaming Real Estate Entertainment Follow-up 78

The Sales Hunter

MARCH 3, 2017

I talk a lot about the role of leadership in sales and how the way others see you determines how they treat what you say. Leadership is about making a positive impact and influencing them in a manner that encourages them to achieve a greater outcome. The more we look at leadership, the more we […].

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Sales 57

The Bridge Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

I've started and stopped writing this post half a dozen times over the last few months. I hesitated as I didn't want to upset anyone or look like I am casting shade on some amazing and successful people. But the more I've thought about it, the more I've come to understand that this is a topic that needs to be discussed. I'm talking about the glass ceiling in Sales Development.

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Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Effective networking can increase your visibility and strengthen your career. The more people you meet the more that know you. The most successful people in the world have vast networks. These help with jobs, leads, aid and a whole lot more.

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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.

Sales

Hubspot

MARCH 1, 2017

You love data. Nothing makes you -- and your client -- happier than a chart that shows just how great a campaign is performing. But collecting all that data each month, organizing it, creating charts, and writing up reports is draining your team's time. Typically, agency staffers spend around four or five hours per client each month reporting on digital.

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Clients Campaign CRM Referrals 78

ConversionXL

MARCH 1, 2017

Are you sold on the idea that it’s beneficial to understand your customer? Hope so. If not, it’s guess work. When you know who your customer is, where they are, what they love and what they hate, you can market to them much more effectively. There are a variety of ways of learning about your customer – some quantitative and some qualitative, some passive and some active.

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Entertainment Education Technology Technology 88

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 1, 2017

Our society and business worlds seem to be becoming increasingly polarized with group taking extreme positions, suggesting their way is the “Right Way!” They argue that everything else is wrong and terrible things befall those not doing it their way. Social media channels are filled with people taking these positions. There are the social selling and “cold calling” camps, each thinking the other is wrong.

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A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

My new Forbes post is up. Like most of my posts, the ones I think are just OK, do really well, and the ones I think are homeruns, fizzle and die a painful death in obscurity. This post has been fairly popular. I knew it was an important topic, but I didn’t realize how much it would resonate with sales leaders and sales people alike. Enjoy and let me know what you think.

Growth 85

Growth Sales 85

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.

Product

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

When you start an online business, there are thousands of questions that need answering. How much money do you really need to start a business? How do you register it with the government? How do you build a website? Who’s your target customer, and what tactics and messaging should you use to reach them? You’ll quickly find that coming up with the idea for a new business is the easy part.

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Finance Legal Government Start-ups 78

Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 1, 2017

[Another disclaimer - this is not a political post and I am not taking sides. I am simply using an example from Trump's recent address to the joint session of congress to illustrate my message about managing resistance when selling.]. Image Copyright SIphotography. If you watched the address on Tuesday evening or the news coverage on Wednesday morning, you couldn't help but notice that there were three separate and distinct audiences in the hall.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

We spend a lot of time on social media sites -- globally, it’s around two hours per day. But for all of that time spent social networking, we may not always know what’s going on behind the scenes with the sites themselves. To help you save time while staying informed, we’re launching a monthly social media news roundup. This month, we’ll discuss Snapchat’s growth and content diversification, Google’s step into live-streaming, and other changes worth knowing about.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Sometimes, it seems like keeping up with a search engine's algorithm is like learning a new language. Only, it's a language that keeps updating over time and changing with things like technological advances, evolving topic interests, and constant improvements to user experience. And often, it seems like those changes are quiet -- like there's no way to find out about them unless you, say, subscribe to a blog that keeps you in the loop.

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