Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 12, 2017

When I Googled ‘Keys to Great Sales Success’ here are some of the links I found interesting:

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Engage Selling

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Are you blind to the major turnoffs you may be exhibiting to your clients and prospects?

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 12, 2017

When was the last time you ran a competitive analysis for your brand? If you're not sure, or if the last "analysis" you ran was a quick perusal of a competitor's website and social media presence, you're likely missing out on important intelligence that could help your brand grow. To help you get started with competitive analysis the right way, we're breaking down everything you'll want to look for below.

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Membrain

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Grab a ten-year-old and they can remind you of this important math concept: Any number multiplied by zero, is zero.

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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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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Designing your website requires a studied understanding of human behavior if you want to increase your conversions. Using psychological tactics in your design to appeal to potential customers can help do this, but you must first know how users’ decisions are made. Daniel Kahneman presents two thought systems that can give marketers a framework for how to target their ideal clients through site design and get a major uplift in conversions.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Image Copyright iStock Photos. I always enjoy reading articles that expose things I don't know about topics I enjoy, like 7 Unsung Built-in Gems in Mac OS X. I had the opportunity to provide that kind of training to a dozen or so sales leaders on some of the less obvious findings and relationships in Objective Management Group's (OMG) Sales Candidate Assessments and how to use them.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 13, 2017

How confident are you in the outcomes you can help your customers achieve? After finishing speaking to an audience recently, I was approached by a salesperson who was seen by his company as a high achiever. This person had won numerous awards and was viewed as a rock star by his peers. Within a minute […].

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Openview

OCTOBER 13, 2017

It’s an age-old question: should SDRs report to sales or marketing ? Ask five people, and you’ll get five different answers based on individual experience and factors ranging from company stage to the SDR career path to the individual personalities and preferences of a company’s heads of sales and marketing. It’s a complex issue that is always evolving as the marketplace changes.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 8, 2017

I have been invited to participate in a discussion on the “Future of Sales,” with a small group of wickedly smart practitioners. I can’t express how much I’m looking forward to the discussion and learning. In many cases, predicting the future can sometimes be done with an artful projection of the past. Not with sales/marketing–at least not in these transformative times.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every time I think I've gotten a grip on the weird, wonderful world of sales, I learn something new that forces me to change my perspective and question my beliefs. Like just 17% of salespeople think they're pushy -- compared to 50% of prospects. And along similar lines, only 3% of buyers trust reps. The only professions with less credibility include car sales, politics, and lobbying.

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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.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 10, 2017

I’m proud to be in sales. In fact, I’m not just proud — I’m very proud. But I admit that wasn’t the case early in my career. I got into sales only because I couldn’t afford car insurance due to my driving record, and I took a sales job purely because they offered me a […].

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SalesProInsider

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder , wrote Plato in the 3 rd century BC. Well, so is value, writes me today. If buyers don’t see the beauty or value of what you sell, that’s value blindness. And buyer’s value blindness will stop your sales opportunity right in its track. Value blindness can create a big problem when trying to convert leads- if it’s not easy for the buyer to see the value of your solution, they most likely won’t put the energy into figuring it out

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Everyone in sales and marketing is jumping on the AI/Machine Learning bandwagon. Mistakenly, too many think of these technologies as the silver bullet that will enable us magically to increase engagement, increase our ability to connect with customers, and fill the ever widening gaps in quota and revenue attainment. Everyday, I see dozens, if not more articles on the power of AI/Machine Learning in sales and marketing.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 9, 2017

According to Glassdoor, 68% of salespeople are currently looking for a new job. That might surprise you. but it probably doesn't. Heck, you might even be in the process of sending out applications as you read this. Just in case you're thinking the grass might be greener on the other side, we've scoured the internet to identify the best sites for sales jobs.

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Last week, our CMO Joe Chernov explained why InsightSquared is going “all-in” at Dreamforce 2017. As part of our increased presence this year, we are teaming up with customers, partners and industry experts to host three interactive break-out sessions throughout the week. The sessions will offer sales and sales operations professionals with case studies, lessons learned and the tactical takeaways needed to become even more strategic within their organizations.

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RAIN Group

OCTOBER 11, 2017

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.". Warren Bennis, Author, On Becoming a Leader. When it comes to sales negotiations, all too often sellers: Don't plan for successful negotiated outcomes. Let the buyer define the negotiation process and venue. Allow the buyer to set the agenda for negotiation-focused meetings.

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Membrain

OCTOBER 8, 2017

The other day, Matt Dixon and I were having a discussion, trying to solve all the problems of sales. As is often, the case in these discussions, we started reflecting on a lot of broad and, possibly, esoteric issues.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 13, 2017

We've been following the competition heating up between Snapchat and Instagram since Instagram launched Stories last August. And in the year since, we've been keeping track of the changing tides of disappearing messages and stories -- and Instagram is the one to beat. The number of Instagram Stories users exploded to 250 million users in just a year, far outpacing Snapchat's 173 million users.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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SBI

OCTOBER 10, 2017

I have a passion for sales technology. It’s kind of my thing. Nancy Nardin? Oh, she’s that SalesTech person! Having spent 100% of my time studying the SalesTech market for the past 8 years, you can imagine how excited I am to be the one to launch the world’s first comprehensive benchmark study to track SalesTech usage trends over time.

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Technology Technology Non-Profits Sales 55

Pointclear

OCTOBER 12, 2017

To make your forecast for the new year, look at sales for the coming year in terms of units. How many units must be sold? Review the existing pipeline and your closing ratio. Now you have the number of units that will be sold in the coming months without lead generation. This is the basis for projecting the number of leads needed to make the forecast from sales leads for the new year.

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Guest blog by Mike George, Business Systems Analyst at Toast, Inc. Getting a sales team to enter accurate information to your CRM is like pulling teeth, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Here are some tips for satisfying your data needs without burdening your sales team. Keep your forms lean. You’ve probably heard the expression, “If it’s not in Salesforce, it doesn’t exist.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 11, 2017

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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.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Your confidence — including your eye contact and tone of voice — is vitally important when stating your price. Too many salespeople are confident right up until they have to be clear about the price. Then they hesitate or their voice gives them away, and the customer leverages this hesitancy. You must be confident when […].

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 7, 2017

1000’s of blogs from real and self-proclaimed experts appear every day. Each asserts they have “the answers.” Often, these answers are based on deep experience from the writer. We can learn a lot in reading those. We are hungry for answers. Each of us faces challenges that are real and very difficult. We are anxious to find answers, often leaping to “magic solutions” based on the experience of some pundit.

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SBI

OCTOBER 12, 2017

In the B2B marketing arena, Account Based Marketing (ABM) is on fire these days, and it isn’t showing signs of cooling off anytime soon. This practice of focusing on a smaller, albeit more lucrative, set of best-fit accounts and measuring success based on revenue generated, is quite the pivot from how many B2B marketing teams used to measure success.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Here it is: the fourth installment of one of Facebook's biggest VR events, Oculus Connect. Today, things kick off with an opening keynote from Mark Zuckerberg himself, and we'll be there to bring you the highlights of his thoughts and insights in realtime. The event comes at an interesting time for Facebook. The company has been under a growing amount of pressure to answer questions about its possible involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, with particularly high scrutiny for how it

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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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The 5% Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2017

One of the more common questions I am asked by my Students is sales objection handling. Ranging from money, to ‘needing to think about it’, there are all kinds of objections you’ll come across when having conversations with your potential clients. Below I’ve outlined a simple process you can use and follow, to breakdown where the objection is coming from, and then secondly, work with them (rather than fighting them ), to overcome it.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Sales success has always required reaching your prospects where they are. Often times that’s at their office via a phone call or at their computer via email. But phone and email don’t even come close to covering all the touchpoints used by the modern buyer. That’s why Salesloft has a category of steps that can be added to Cadences for everything else.

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SalesHandy

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Email lists are widely used by companies in every line of business. A sales email provides a customizable link from your customer to your company. Sales emails build on the existing relationship with the customer and can also be used to target new customers. With a successful email list, you can drive repeat business and new sales to your web site. This article will detail four steps to optimize your email list. 1.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 10, 2017

We all have different reasons for getting up every morning and doing what we do every day. So why is it that, on some days, it can feel harder than others to get up when your alarm goes off, do your workout, crush a work or school assignment, or make dinner for your family? Motivation (or a lack thereof) is usually behind why we do the things that we do.

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