Sat.Jan 08, 2022 - Fri.Jan 14, 2022

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The Pull of Resistive Inertia: One of the Biggest Sales Challenges

Anthony Cole Training

One of the biggest sales challenges to overcome is a prospect who becomes indifferent when they decide that doing nothing is the easiest thing to do. How do you challenge the decision and not the prospect to help them overcome their choice to maintain the status quo?

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Your Sales Effectiveness in 2022

Iannarino

Welcome to the first newsletter of 2022. If you are a sales leader, a sales manager, a salesperson, or in some other role where you are responsible for revenue growth, your number one priority in 2022 should be sales effectiveness.

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MY NEW BOOK (sneak peek)

ClickFunnels

The post MY NEW BOOK (sneak peek) appeared first on ClickFunnels. Wanna ‘New Years’ surprise…? Hey – it’s New Years, and everyone is talking about goal setting and resolutions (which is SUPER COOL)… And my next book (I can’t tell you the title yet. But it’s gonna be AWESOME) is actually about how to achieve anything you want in life…. And walks you through my blueprints for success (with doodles and all).

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Why Improving Customer Experience is Essential to Your Business

Sales Pop!

In today’s customer-centric world, customer experience is everything. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. Business owners who are paying attention have seen the rise in the importance of relevant brand feedback and reviews on social media. Yet, while many organizations generally accept that CX has a role in business success, the correlation is not always appreciated.

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Smart Tools & Strong Teams: A People-First Approach to AI in Sales

Speaker: Matt Sunshine, CEO at The Center for Sales Strategy

AI isn’t replacing salespeople—it’s empowering them. The most forward-thinking sales organizations are using AI to enhance human performance rather than eliminate it. From coaching and messaging to prospecting and pipeline accountability, artificial intelligence is giving managers and SDRs the new tools they need to work smarter, sell better, and close more.

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How to Use Segmentation to Boost Cold Email Engagement

Veloxy

Helping you prevent the dreaded list fatigue. While your competition may be scaling back their cold email outreach, there is a simple strategy you can use to scale up your cold emailing—list segmentation. What is email list segmentation? It’s the practice of continuously reviewing your database or CRM for prospects with similar characteristics and grouping them together.

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The Primacy of Opportunity Creation

Iannarino

One reason sales organizations fail to reach their goals is because they lack opportunities. Sure, their pipeline meetings may sound like they’re swimming in deals: each salesperson recounts all the deals they’re working, updating the status of each opportunity.

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The Best Plans Starts With You

Tibor Shanto

By Tibor Shanto. I’ve read several pieces offering suggestions that now is the time to develop the right plan for the year ahead. One can argue about the timing, some, me included, would say the planning should already have been done. January, or any first month of a fiscal year, should be used to hit the ground running, not planning. But if you’re going to plan, there is more to it than Territory or Account Planning.

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Top 10 sales methodologies for complex B2B sales

Membrain

Implementing the right sales methodology for your complex B2B team can provide a major boost to sales effectiveness. But choosing the right methodology training company can be a challenge.

B2B
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8 Principles to Speed Your B2B Sales Development

Iannarino

"Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing.".

B2B
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Tony’s REACTION to ClickFunnels 2.0 (AHHHH!!!)

ClickFunnels

The post Tony’s REACTION to ClickFunnels 2.0 (AHHHH!!!) appeared first on ClickFunnels. Guess what Tony said when I told him about 2.0…!?! Ok, a couple days ago I sent you the video where I had a chance to ask Tony Robbins ANYTHING…. And his advice and feedback were priceless to me (and I hope that they helped you too). But what most people didn’t know is that ONE YEAR later, I had a chance to return and report back to Tony what had happened… and then ask him a follow-up question!

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How to Coach Reps on Overcoming Sales Objections with Confidence

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Global Sales and David Phelan, Account Manager

In a world where buyers are more informed and objections are more nuanced, confidence isn't optional—it’s a competitive advantage. In high-stakes conversations, knowing how to handle pushback can make or break the deal. Join industry experts Brendan Sweeney and David Phelan for a behind-the-scenes look at how teams are transforming sales coaching with real-time feedback, objection-handling role plays, and pre-call preparation that actually sticks.

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If Practice Makes Perfect, Why Do We Keep Practicing The Wrong Things?

Partners in Excellence

We know to master any skill, it takes practice. It may be Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hours to mastery. Or we look at what great athletes, artist, musicians, and others do. They are constantly practicing to improve their skills and capabilities. We know that to get really good at anything, we have to continue to work on developing our capabilities to do the things that produce the outcomes we hope to achieve.

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Product-Led Growth: Enabling Sales to Scale Your Success

Force Management

Product-led growth (PLG) is leading many B2B companies to drive rapid revenue success. While PLG solutions can propel organizations forward efficiently, this approach also brings specific and complex challenges of its own. If your company is aiming to scale revenue, your cross-functional team may already be considering shifts to go-to-market (GTM) distribution efforts and strategies.

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The 10 Most Common Sales Mistakes in 2021

Iannarino

The 10 Most Common Sales Mistakes. Outdated Sales Approaches: There is nothing more harmful to your sales results than practicing outdated, legacy approaches to sales. Less than half of salespeople reach their goals because their clients don't find the experience to be valuable enough to continue the sales conversation. For two years, I have implored sales leaders, sales managers, and sales organizations to focus on improving their effectiveness.

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I Became Partners With Tony Robbins By Doing This…

ClickFunnels

The post I Became Partners With Tony Robbins By Doing This… appeared first on ClickFunnels. How to get access to anyone…. Over the next few days, I am going to send you a few videos that I think will have a HUGE impact on you and your business…. A few of them are a couple years old, but they are the FOUNDATION for the video I want to send you on Friday, that is the KEY to your growth over the next 12 months.

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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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There Is No Excuse For Not Doing Your Homework!

Partners in Excellence

To the annoyance of most school children, virtually every night, their parents ask a question, “Did you do your homework?” Growing up, sometimes I would blow off doing my homework, I’d not lie, but I’d find a way not to answer the question. Eventually, that would catch up with me, I’d not be prepared for class, my grades would suffer.

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How to build a long-term, search-first marketing strategy

Martech

“There are roughly three and a half billion Google searches made every day,” said Craig Dunham, CEO of enterprise SEO platform Deepcrawl, at our recent MarTech conference. “According to research from Moz, 84% of people use Google at least three times a day, and about half of all product searches start with Google. The way that consumers are engaging with brands is changing, and it’s doing so rapidly.”.

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8 Improvements for Reaching Your Goals in 2022

Iannarino

At the beginning of a new year, many people make resolutions and set new goals for themselves. Everyone starts with good intentions, but without consistent action, intentions aren’t enough to reach a significant goal.

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My Intervention With Tony Robbins

ClickFunnels

The post My Intervention With Tony Robbins appeared first on ClickFunnels. Should I step down as CEO of ClickFunnels? So… did you like the Dream 100 video I sent you Monday (showing behind the scenes of over a decade with Tony Robbins!?!). Well, today I wanted to show you video # 2 in that series , where I was lucky enough to have a private intervention with Tony where he answered my question of: “Should I step down as the CEO of ClickFunnels…” I was SO nervous to ask him

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Breaking The Commerce Bottleneck: Your SAP Exit Plan Starts Now

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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The Monday Morning Breakfast For Champions Podcast – Episode 54 – Sean McAuliffe

Tibor Shanto

Subscribe today , and take the Breakfast on the go! Sean McAuliffe is a solutions-oriented entrepreneur who built a multimillion-dollar business from strategic inception to successful acquisition. Since founding his first company, IKS (International Key Supply), in 2012, Sean has grown the organization from a part-time e-commerce gig to a full-time multichannel business that generates $28M+ in annual sales and employs a growing staff of more than forty team members. .

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Need A Cold Call Script? Follow This To Win Sales

The 5% Institute

Cold calling incorrectly can potentially harm your sales efforts – which is why in this article, we’ll go through our recommended cold call script, to help you win more sales. In this article we’ll cover what cold calling is, our cold called script (and structure), and various other handy tips regarding cold calling to help you ethically persuade your potential client and be more successful.

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3 Words That Provide Clarity and Direction for 2022

Iannarino

For many years, I have borrowed a practice from Chris Brogan: theming each year by using three words to provide clarity and direction. The practice is both simple and difficult.

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eComm Funnels…? (Alison’s BIG Secret)

ClickFunnels

The post eComm Funnels…? (Alison’s BIG Secret) appeared first on ClickFunnels. Want behind the scenes? Everyone wants to know… for 2022, what’s the BEST type of funnel or business to launch. Alison Prince (winner of MULTIPLE Two Comma Club awards) would probably say eComm funnels… while I’d probably say some type of ‘info product’ funnel. Well, next week, we’re going to settle this ONCE AND FOR ALL during the: “Ecommerce VS Expert Smackdown!!!”.

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New Research-Backed Strategies to Empower Managers as Culture & Engagement Leaders

Speaker: Beth Sunshine, SVP, Up Your Culture

When culture isn’t consistently lived out across the organization, engagement suffers—and it often starts with a disconnect at the top. In this session, Beth Sunshine, SVP of Up Your Culture at The Center for Sales Strategy, will reveal how HR and executive leaders can close the gap between vision and execution by equipping frontline and mid-level managers to become culture carriers.

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Meritech: The Average SaaS Company IPO’s at $225m in ARR. And is No Longer in the Bay Area.

SaaStr

The late-stage VC firm Meritech put together its annual SaaS report here and it slices the data in a few interesting ways. A few tidbits of particular interest: 1. The average SaaS company hits $225m ARR at IPO. This was about what I expected, but I hadn’t crunched the numbers myself. So that’s the bar. 2. The average SaaS company is growing 55% at IPO (at that $225m ARR).

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How to manage customer experience disconnects in your marketing campaigns

Martech

“One of the biggest challenges marketers have today is getting people into the hopper, getting them to convert and stick around as lifetime customers,” said Gene De Libero, Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Consulting for marketing technology consultancy GeekHive, at our recent MarTech conference. There are several factors that can affect a brand’s ability to attract, convert and keep customers, but virtually all stem from one issue: disconnection.

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4 Easy Ways to Improve Your Sales Process in Salesforce

Iannarino

Can you put a dollar value on switching from an ineffective (or even absent) sales process to an effective one? According to the Harvard Business Review , you can. Companies with a solid pipeline management process saw an average of 15% more growth over companies without one.

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Can I Use BOTH Physical And Digital Products?

ClickFunnels

The post Can I Use BOTH Physical And Digital Products? appeared first on ClickFunnels. The BIG SECRET…. So, one of the BIG SECRET that we’ll be showing you during the ‘Ecomm VS Expert SMACKDOWN’ is that you can actually use BOTH (for a few reasons…). 1st – it’s one of the BEST ways to actually serve your dream customers…. 2nd – it’s the fastest way to create multiple streams of income…. 3rd – it can be REALLY FUN….

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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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Top 12 2022 B2B Marketing Trends to Watch

Heinz Marketing

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing. If you missed my LinkedIn series last month , here’s a recap of all twelve B2B marketing trends, investments and focus areas I expect to see from CMOs and teams in the new year. . In Summary: . Change Management . Account-Based Retention . Sustainable Marketing . Target Account Precision . Brand & Community Investments .

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The Top LPs Made 95% Or Higher Returns on Venture and Private Equity in 2021

SaaStr

So every day there are more and more massive funding rounds. But where does all that money >come from<? 1/ From "Limited Partners", the ones that give VCs $ to invest. And they had an incredible year. Top endowments and LPs saw a jaw-dropping 62% (!) returns from VC + PE in 2021 pic.twitter.com/ZSjfFQMXYh. — Jason BeKind Lemkin 2⃣0⃣2⃣2⃣ (@jasonlk) January 14, 2022.

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The what, why and how of outcome-centric selling

Membrain

I believe that it would be hard to argue that B2B selling hasn't changed significantly in recent times - and equally hard to deny that it will inevitably continue to evolve.

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SMACKDOWN (physical VS digital products)

ClickFunnels

The post SMACKDOWN (physical VS digital products) appeared first on ClickFunnels. Which one will make you more moolah!? This is the debate I hear almost EVERYDAY…. Which path is the FASTEST (and BEST) way to build a business online? Option #1: An ‘Expert’ business selling information, coaching, courses, etc…. OR…. Option #2 – An ‘Ecommerce’ business selling physical products….

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