Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 11, 2017

How well can you relate to the following situations: producers not meeting sales expectations, there aren't enough opportunities in the pipeline, too few of the people are carrying the sales production load for the entire team? In almost every sales organization, these three situations exist no matter how many sales meetings are held, what CRM system is used or how closely the sales team is managed- these problems persist.

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A Sales Guy

AUGUST 10, 2017

I got this crazy idea yesterday morning to start a How to Sell Better series. It just came to me, and it sounded like a good idea. I don’t know how long it’s going to last or how many posts it will be. I’m gonna take it day by day and see where it goes. Remember the movie Forest Gump where Forest (Tom Hanks) just started running? Well, it feels kinda like that.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 7, 2017

You already know by now that high email open rates are useless if click-through rates (CTRs) are low. You need people to click the links in your email to end up on your website. Click-through rates are a much better indicator of email engagement and success than only open rates for that reason. But the average email CTR is 4.19% — across all industries.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 11, 2017

"That wasn't what I expected!". You might say that after reading an awesome book, waiting for months and years in anticipation of the movie version, only to be extremely disappointed when the much hyped film failed to live up to what you remembered feeling when turning the pages. You might also feel let down after leaving a great, but expensive restaurant, but the meal, service or ambiance was quite different from what you had imagined when you heard about the business.

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 9, 2017

Companies are constantly trying to figure out how to drive organic growth by:

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 11, 2017

Quit walking around complaining about how your boss or management does not motivate you. It’s not going to help, because let’s be clear — nobody can motivate you! Only you can motivate yourself. The best anyone can do is create an environment for people to motivate themselves. If a person doesn’t want to be motivated, […].

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 7, 2017

What are the top tips to success when it comes to crafting cold email messaging? Do you even believe there are strategies for success sending cold emails? There are.

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RAIN Group

AUGUST 9, 2017

Alison Brooks and Maurice Schweitzer, two researchers at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, conducted an experiment to induce varying levels of anxiety among negotiators. One group was subjected to the not-so-melodious screeching strings from Psycho. The other group was treated to calming Water Music by Handel. After listening for a while, the groups were sent off to conduct simulated negotiations.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 9, 2017

At this point, you might be asking yourself: Do I really need a privacy policy for my website? If you’re starting any kind of company today, the answer is likely yes, you really do. Starting a new business can be overwhelming -- there are a lot of moving parts to manage all at once, and it's easy for your privacy policy to get overlooked (or completely forgotten) in the shuffle.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 8, 2017

One of the most difficult things you can find yourself having to do is to connect with the CEO or any other senior level person in an organization. Thinking you can use the same approach you use with others in a company is simply not going to work. In my book, High-Profit Prospecting, I devote several […].

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Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

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Engage Selling

AUGUST 10, 2017

Your sales team needs to know how to pivot. Anyone can memorize a sales script – but it’s an essential skill for salespeople to be able to handle all elements of a real-world conversation, including those dreaded objections.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 9, 2017

I recently wrote, “The Sales Manager’s Job Is Different,” addressing the impact of making the wrong decisions in selecting Front Line Sales Managers (FLSM). Too often, the “easy” solution is to take our very best sales people, promoting them into FLSM roles. Usually the results are devastating, they may be great sales people, but they don’t recognize the FLSM job is different.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2017

Ask any social media manager what they stress out about on any given day, and the answers you receive may vary. Some worry about having enough content to publish while others might worry about posting on the company page from their personal account. But almost all social media pros will agree upon one: news feed algorithms. Social media algorithms are designed to serve audiences up the most relevant, interesting content possible -- after all, social networks are about being social, and Instagram

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 7, 2017

Want to make your number in December? It depends all on your sales prospecting NOW! You have to be prospecting now, and be sure the prospects are truly prospects and not “suspects.” Quantity in your sales pipeline doesn’t matter nearly as much as quality. Making (and exceeding) your number in December will be exponentially easier […].

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Engage Selling

AUGUST 11, 2017

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Cold calling is nothing more than desperation selling. I had a recent debate on one of my social media networks on the effectiveness of cold calling.

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SalesLoft

AUGUST 11, 2017

Between inconsistent pipeline management and difficult-to-track metrics, more and more modern sales leaders are putting standardized sales processes in place for their account executive teams. And the efficiencies gained from such effective sales processes can be huge. By forming a consistent process, or cadence of actions, across the team, you provide a blueprint for your sales organization that removes all the guesswork.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 9, 2017

I just saw the term, “Objection free selling.” In fairness to the person raising the issue, I didn’t read the article, so I’m not certain the premise or his position. It was the phrase that caught my attention, making me flashback on my own history of dealing with objections. At one point, I feared them. I did everything I could to avoid them.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 8, 2017

Everyone wants a full sales pipeline. There’s not a sales manager in the world who isn’t continually beating up their sales team to get more into their pipeline. News flash! It doesn’t matter what you put into your sales pipe that counts! What counts is the speed with which it moves through the pipe! […].

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AUGUST 8, 2017

One idea that can help sales reps is to always set a next action :

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SalesLoft

AUGUST 9, 2017

It’s rare and exciting when a new piece of technology comes along that changes the way you work to a degree that’s irreversible. Technology that, now that you have it, you can’t imagine giving up. For the Salesloft sales organization and many of our customers, team cadences fit that description. Team cadences take the power of a Salesloft cadence and make it accessible to the whole team.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2017

Bob Apollo recently wrote a great piece, “Where Did That Close Date Come From?” His discussion focused on improving forecast accuracy. It provoked me to extend the discussion. Target close date and maintaining the accuracy of those close dates is important. Most of the time, the way sales people establish the target close date is one of the following ways: Wild ass guesses driven by wishful thinking.

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Sell Or Die

AUGUST 10, 2017

Gamification isn't coming.it's here. Companies all over the world are incorporating game mechanics into training, production and even the product or service itself. The industry is worth $2 billion and growing fast. Our guest this week is Sam Caucci, CEO of one of the top gamification companies in the world, 1Huddle. He breaks down why gamification works and where training is going in the next decade.

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Sales Gravy

AUGUST 8, 2017

The two main benefits that you can expect from a Business Advisory Board are, of course, insight and accountability.

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SalesLoft

AUGUST 7, 2017

Contracts are a necessary part of buying and selling goods, especially in the B2B sales world. Gartner estimates that 60-80% of B2B deals are managed by contracts. It’s surprising then how many companies leave the contract process up to chance or a sales rep’s discretion. According to IACCM, ineffective contract management can cost businesses up to 9.2 percent of annual revenue. 9.2 percent!

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 10, 2017

Recently, a good friend, who’s a senior manager in a Sales Automation Tools company, asked me for help. When he posed his request, I was puzzled, I responded, “John (that’s not John’s real name), isn’t that what your solution is supposed to help your customers do?” While it seems obvious, that was a bit of an “Aha” moment for John.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 10, 2017

In this 2017 State of the Conversion Optimization Report, we gave a 26 question survey to 333 people who work in the optimization space. We partnered with Sentient Ascend , the AI optimization software company, for the survey AI, and we learned a ton of interesting things about the CRO space. A lot of what we learned was expected and was a simple continuation of our insights from last year’s survey.

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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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Hubspot

AUGUST 11, 2017

Remember only being able to send 1,000 texts each month? My mom definitely remembers our phone bills when I doubled that amount every week in middle school. Thankfully, companies created messaging apps to provide free and unlimited messaging, which was a refreshing solution for rigid text message limits and their lofty costs. But messaging apps refused to be just another form of text messaging.

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A Sales Guy

AUGUST 8, 2017

Every day some one is declaring something is dead. Email is dead. Social media is dead. Cold calling is dead. There is always some influencer looking to get ahead of the curve and claim some sales technique is dead. Let me ask you a question. Is door to door sales dead? If you said yes, then you should feel lucky that you’ve never heard that knock.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 8, 2017

The front line sales manager has, possibly, the single most difficult and important job in the sales organization. They are responsible for translating the strategies and priorities of the organization into execution by their teams. Through their teams, they are responsible for millions to tens of millions in revenue. Given the importance of this role, I’m constantly amazed at how casually many organizations are in hiring and onboarding sales managers.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 10, 2017

In this 2017 State of the Conversion Optimization Report, we gave a 26 question survey to 333 people who work in the optimization space. We partnered with Sentient Ascend , the AI optimization software company, for the survey AI, and we learned a ton of interesting things about the CRO space. A lot of what we learned was expected and was a simple continuation of our insights from last year’s survey.

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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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