Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

“It’s not you, it’s me!” I love that scene from Seinfeld.

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A Sales Guy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

I’m so tired of the stupid and annoying emails salespeople send to buyers and prospects and so are they. It’s time to stop. You’re emails and your cold outreach suck. They don’t offer value, they just beg your prospects and buyers for their time. It’s pathetic. I did this video to help you understand how to create emails and cold call messages that don’t make you a digital beggar and improve response rates.

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Membrain

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

It's truly amazing how seller's emphasize 'unique' features or benefits that, in the eyes of the buyer , look pretty much the same as their competition. Yet the way we say what we say makes a huge difference in what people perceive.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Maybe you drink the finest wines, stay at the most luxurious hotels, dine at the best restaurants, purchase the best brands and drive the fanciest cars. Or not. Either way, you'll at least want to know where you can find the best salespeople in the world, right? To accomplish this I looked at data from the most recent 435,000 sales evaluations and assessments from Objective Management Group (OMG) and broke it down into 6 regions of the world.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Data is the life blood of any SaaS company. Data will empower you to make better decisions and help you grow faster. However, few companies make the most of their existing data or get access to the data they need. This guide is meant to help you go from zero to analytics proficient as quickly as possible. It doesn’t matter if you’re starting from scratch or if you’re simply trying to level up your existing data strategy.

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Women Sales Pros

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you sell, you’ve suffered from the ‘Stall’. Your prospect isn’t returning calls or emails and your project seems as if it’s been put on the permanent ‘Back burner’ or worse. Is there anything that sellers can do to avoid the stall? Yes! What Causes the Stall? To avoid the stall, you need to understand what causes the stall. Some of the reasons are on the prospect’s side but most are on the seller’s side.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Over the past 3 months, my wife and I have been up and down the east coast driving our son to and from baseball tournaments and college showcases. Invariably, each drive back home has taken twice the time it should have because of road construction. On Sunday, Waze, my favorite navigation app, said that the drive would take just 2 hours and 32 minutes. 4 traffic delays because of road construction delayed us for another 2 and 1/2 hours.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In the past few years, the U.S. has made some small but mighty strides towards inclusivity, and language plays a big part in that. We've become rightfully cautious when we label other people, and are learning the importance of asking permission before identifying someone as a certain gender. In my English class in college, for instance, my teacher was progressive enough to say, "Please let me know which pronoun you'd prefer I use for you.

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

To sell or not to sell – that is the question among startup founders. As a founder and former sales leader, I get asked all the time how I decided to step back from my sales role and add a layer between me and my sales reps. When I founded ion interactive, I just sort of organically moved into the sales role. Why not? I had a strong sales background, and who knew the product better than me?

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

We continue to organize our sales and marketing initiatives around what makes us more efficient or old views of how customers buy. Classically, marketing’s focus is on creating interest and awareness, then driving demand. The work toward MQLs, turning them over to sales, hopefully as SALs, saying “Good luck and godspeed!, we caught ’em, you skin ’em.” Sales picks up the process, SDRs call to qualify the opportunity, they hand the lead to an account manager who gets

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Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Membrain

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In July, German grocery chain Lidl announced that it was calling it quits on a massive project to upgrade their inventory management system, a project they had spent around $500 million on.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Asking "How is everyone?" at the beginning of every meeting isn't always the best way to encourage connection and team bonding. Sometimes, you need to take it a step further with an ice breaker. The best ice breakers have the power to strengthen coworker bonds, stimulate better brainstorming sessions, and create an atmosphere of inclusivity. But it's easier said than done, and the wrong ice breaker questions can lead to awkwardness or even increased tension.

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Engage Selling

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

??A recent study from Rosetta showed that engaged and satisfied buyers are 50% more likely to reorder, spend 200 times more than the average customer per year and they display brand loyalty 5 times higher than any other buyer.

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Women Sales Pros

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

We are big advocates of implementing ways to work smarter rather than harder in all aspects of business. One area you will want to apply this technique is when you are deciding which prospects to add to your weekly prospecting list. If your current strategy involves calling a random list of prospects, chances are you are not seeing the results you want, or it’s the reason you procrastinate prospecting.

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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

There are a lot of posts, some of them very thoughtful, about whether “Quota” is a reasonable measure of sales performance. I have to admit, I’m torn by this issue, but tend to think Quota is an important measure–though not the only measure. If you’d allow me to think out loud. Everyone in an organization is accountable for producing “outcomes” they are responsible for producing.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Even though I love emojis, I’m still a big fan of typed emoticons. They bring me back to simpler times, when my phone still had a physical keyboard and AOL Instant Messenger was my main method of communication. Those were the days. If you still have an affinity for typed emoticons like me, especially the timeless ¯_(?)_/¯ emoticon, here’s how you can type it in two seconds flat on a Mac, Windows, iPhone, and Android.

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Outreach

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The pressure and expectation of sales reps to be more efficient and effective at their trade, more focused on higher profitability, and more reliant on data rather than intuition can feel like an uphill climb perpetuated by innovation - AI, Machine learning, data science, etc. And the truth is, it shouldn’t be! It should be a downhill roller coaster fueled by data science and controlled by the rep, taking the rep straight to the cash prize.

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Jeff Shore

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

By Ryan Taft. ?In my last blog, Handling Cancellations Part 1 , I laid out the framework for preventing a cancellation before it happens. If you missed it, click here to check it out. In part two, let’s tackle what to do when the buyer is actually canceling the sale. First and foremost let me address what not to do. Don’t get offended! Remember that from my last blog I said that buyer’s remorse is something everyone experiences at some point or another.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Too often, as I work with organizations, teams, and individual, I find people “settling.” By that, I mean, there seems to be some sort of fatalistic attitude or closed mindset that keeps them from doing their very best and seeking the very best from everyone around them. We see it manifested in all sorts of ways: Sales people not taking the time to prepare or research, because they are too busy.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

For more than 8 million people , Slack has become the tool they open first thing in the morning to get the workday started. And it’s become the leader of the team collaboration industry, simplifying people's work and boosting their productivity. But not everyone is completely elated with Slack. While some say Slack costs an arm and a leg to be able to search for more than the 10,000 messages that its freemium version limits users to, others prefer a self-hosted solution -- which Slack doesn’t of

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Engage Selling

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

The days of the “ideal buyer” have gone the way of the dinosaurs. So has the routine sales pitch.

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CloserIQ

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

So, you’ve landed a sales job. Mazel tov! Now, it’s time to start working. If you want to succeed in your new position, you’ll need to do some early legwork so you get off to a strong start. Here are nine items for your to-do list: 1. Find a mentor and take advantage of their knowledge. An internal mentor is critical for helping you to get accustomed to company culture.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

I’m a huge fan of the research done by the folks at CSO Insights. They are very gracious in sharing their research with me—Thank you! I was just reading their newly released 2018-2019 Sales Performance Report. The very first set of data, in a packed report, fascinated me. It was a comparison of Plan vs Quota Attainment: 2018 SRP Metrics.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

If your website is like a house, then your website’s URL is like that house’s address. It defines where your website lives online, similar to how your home address determines where you live in a neighborhood, helping your visitors easily find your site. URLs also help Google understand what your website's pages are about. There are technically five elements of a URL, and they’re discreetly important for optimizing your site’s UX and SEO.

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Selling Power

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Sales training is always one of the first things managers look to for increasing performance. But the number one reason managers are reluctant to invest in training is because they know that salespeople eventually go back to old habits.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

By Brian Hansford , VP of Performance Management at Heinz Marketing. Heinz Marketing and CaliberMind have partnered to deliver the “2018 State of Revenue Marketing” report. We surveyed over 200 B2B marketing leaders in the United States to explore how the best marketers think about, measure, report on, and operationalize revenue marketing using data, analytics, and automation to meet their company revenue goals.

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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.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

How do modern buyers like to be sold to? Does cold outreach on Linkedin ever work? Is 1 to 1 video an effective selling medium? Does anyone pick up the office phone? A new sales engagement survey from The Bridge Group, Modern Sales Pros and Sales Hacker provides answers to all these questions and more, based on data from nearly 800 survey respondents.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Oftentimes, marketers focus heavily on Google when vying for traffic. For instance, I'm willing to bet your SEO meetings revolve largely around the topic of Google, with questions like, "How's our organic search?" "How can we capture page one on Google?" "How can we write the winning featured snippet?". During these discussions, I assume none of your coworkers say, "Okay, let's pivot now.

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Jeff Shore

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

By Amy O’Connor. ?Who likes weekly sales meetings less – the poor salespeople being forced to attend them or the overworked sales managers who dread planning and running them? Hard to say. I suggest that both parties often find these weekly sales meetings excruciatingly uncomfortable – even painful. You’ve probably heard the old saying “come to the meeting to get your beating!

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

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 Explain Content Marketing to Anyone [Fresh Examples]. Explaining content marketing is a never-ending challenge.

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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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