Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Despite how good a high powered team looks on paper, there are always “skeletons in the closet”.

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A Sales Guy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Why? Kids are great at asking why? They accept the fact they don’t know very much, so they just move through life, like an information sponge asking why about everything. It’s kinda liberating if you think about it, if you accept that you don’t know anything. If you’re OK with the fact that you don’t know, then asking why is the natural thing to do.

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Anytime someone moves into a new role, there is an adjustment period to figure out how to be effective. When that transition is from an individual contributor to manager, that adjustment can be even more jarring. We all know the typical story with sales managers – they were a top performing salesperson, had ambitions to move up in their career, and then a position opens up and they are managing a group of salespeople.

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Membrain

SEPTEMBER 17, 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.

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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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Jill Konrath

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Yesterday, Dianna Geairn (The Irreverent Sales Girl) and I were musing about some of our big sales wins. As we talked, we realized that our underlying assumptions—about prospects, our roles and factors that could hinder success—were crucial to our performance. In very short order, we identified 17 sales assumptions and why making them helps you win more deals.

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A Sales Guy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

I have nothing but love and respect for salespeople. You guys are the extreme athletes of the business world. Salespeople risk 50%, 60%, 70% and sometimes 100% of their salary in their job. You don’t get paid until you sell something. No one else takes that kind of risk in corporate America. I created this video to show you how much I love you and to celebrate the greatness that is salespeople.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Email is still the workhorse of digital marketing. In fact, the number of emails sent and received per day total over 205 billion, according to The Radicati Group Email Statistics Report. There are no other marketing channels as effective and efficient as email -- but there still might be a use for email your team is overlooking: employee email. Your employees interact with prospective customers, current customers, job candidates, partners, vendors, and industry influencers daily on a personal,

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The buying environment is becoming increasingly complex. A few reasons are likely top of mind including the emergence of new competitors, frequency of touchpoints, ever-shortening buyer attention span, and so on. But have you considered how a generational shift in your prospects’ demographics might impact the buying environment as well? Today’s B2B buying committees are growing more diverse as Millennials take their seats alongside Generation X and Baby Boomers.

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Engage Selling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Do more: it’s an expectation imposed on sales reps constantly. Every year, quotas go up, KPIs get revised and the number of people that need to be served keeps climbing.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

One of my biggest weaknesses is my impatience. I do all sorts of things to control it, or at least mask it. I sit on my hands, bite my tongue, count to 1000 then start over again. Sometimes it’s a losing battle with myself. Recently, I was sitting with a group of sales people. It was a pretty large group of all different ages. One person started talking about how difficult it is to sell.

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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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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Last week, while I was using a website's chat feature to get some much-needed customer service, I realized something shocking: I couldn't tell if I was chatting with a human or a bot. Before 2017, my notion of bots -- and chatbots, specifically -- was that they could only provide canned, basic responses before escalating to a human being. In short, I thought chatbots seemed, well, robotic, and they couldn't get me the help I needed with a human touch.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

I’m proud to announce our 4th annual CXL Live conference! CXL Live 2018 takes place March 28-30 in Austin, TX (the conversion capital of the world)! We have an amazing line-up this year! Almost all the speakers are in-house practitioners with deep expertise in their field. Every year we’ve also worked hard to get as many female speakers as possible, and this year we have achieved a 50:50 female/male speaker ratio (more speakers to be announced).

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Membrain

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Before I began the work that would eventually become Membrain, I was a part of, and built, sales organizations. I became intimately familiar with the unwieldy nature of most CRM implementations, including the industry-leading Salesforce CRM. I experienced firsthand the results of poor user adoption rates and low technology ROI–resulting in graveyards of information, instead of guidance for salespeople.

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Engage Selling

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Last week, we talked about being nice, staying focused and getting to work and I mentioned that being nice was so important because people do business with people that are motivated, successful and happy.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Sometimes, I wonder if the internet can be boiled down to a single sentiment: "Oops.". That was certainly the underlying theme of some major news items this week, like the one our headline alludes to -- more on that below. After all, the digital landscape is a setting that can be described at once as a playground and a hellscape, where mistakes never really disappear (even if you quickly delete them, thanks to screen shots), contentious competition never ends, and consumers are often left wonder

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The greatest satisfaction I’ve ever had in my sales career is when I’ve been selling solely due to the “why” I sell. At the same time, the most difficult time I’ve had is when I’ve been focused on my own personal objectives at the expense of the customers to whom I was selling. Early in […].

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

While you’re reaching out to the accounts in your pipeline, the last thing you want to worry about is whether or not your emails land in your prospect’s inbox. But some sales reps are still plagued by emails that don’t make it to their intended destination. Since spam accounts for half of the messages sent worldwide , your recipient’s email servers are on high alert to protect their user from spam.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Managers spend an inordinate amount of time in pipeline reviews. Largely, I think this is the result of lack of clarity of what they want to accomplish in pipeline reviews or too great a focus on the numbers and not what produces the numbers. (but these are topics for other articles.). Probably 95% of all pipeline reviews I sit in are wasted efforts.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Late last night -- at least, here on the East Coast -- a formal announcement was made that, if you're as obsessed with the business of mobile as we are, didn't exactly come as a surprise. The word: Google had acquired a team from mobile electronics company HTC in a $1.1 billion deal. When the Taiwan Stock Exchange opened at 9:00 AM local time, where HTC is headquartered, many suspected the announcement was coming.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Leaders and salespeople think they are good at how they can handle anything that gets thrown their way, but too many times I see just the opposite. When a change occurs, are you one who expects others to change so you don’t have to? With customers, are you forcing them into your world or are […].

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Building personal relationships is crucial to sales success. But since every person you interact with is unique, the thought of catering your process to each potential buyer’s personality may seem overwhelming. Fortunately, people tend to fall into a limited number of personas based on common traits. Personas make it easier to understand your future customers, how they like to communicate, how they like to be sold to, and even the types of emails they respond to most.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Surprisingly, one of the characteristics I see too many managers lacking is empathy. One would think otherwise, after all, most sales managers have been sales people at some point in their career. We would think these managers would have deep understanding of the challenges sales people face every day. Perhaps there’s a switch, of some sort, that causes individuals to forget what it means to sell in today’s environment.

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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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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

If you're a human with internet access in 2017, you've probably talked to a bot recently -- even if you weren't fully aware of it. With over five billion monthly active users on messaging platforms like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, the current tech landscape is set for a veritable explosion of chatbots and AI-based assistants over the next few years.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Who has fallen off your bandwagon? Do you have prospects who possibly got in touch with you at one time or who you simply haven’t connected with in quite awhile? Now is the time to boost your sales motivation and call the prospects who have possibly fallen off your radar. Check out the video to […].

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Salesloft customers amaze us every day with the innovation and sincerity they employ to drive modern sales success. We’re humbled to serve such an awesome group and to contribute to building a community of genuine, like-minded sales professionals. In September 2017, the Salesloft community came together in cities across the country to swap stories at the Salesloft User Meetups in New York, San Francisco, and Atlanta.

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Sales Gravy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

There is no beginning, middle, or end in sales! Every day is a new day and it's about what can I do today to meet my daily and monthly quotas.

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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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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Like the magnificent architectural wonders that hold up The Pantheon in Rome, pillars will help you hold up your blog's architecture, too. You have to build them yourself -- but we promise it takes less time and effort than building them from marble or concrete. In this blog post, we'll dive into everything you need to know about pillar pages -- how they fit into the new topic cluster strategy we're advocating, what they can achieve for your blog's results, and how to actually create one.

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Sell Or Die

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Our guest this week is Shawn Doyle, contributing writer for The Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, Inc, The Good Men Project and Addicted2Success and author of Jumpstart Your Motivation and The Sun Still Rises. His mission as a trainer and certified speaker is to make a monumental difference in people’s lives at work and at home, as they go through this thing called life.

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The Bridge Group

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

A few weeks ago, I shared my research on the failure rate of SDR-to-AE promotions. ( Executive Summar y : 26% of SDRs who take on an AE role fail. The shorter the SDR tenure, the higher the failure rate. The post-promotion failure rate for SDRs with 11 or fewer months experience was 55%. The failure rate for SDRs with 16+ months experience was just 6%.).

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Sales Gravy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

What if rejection wasn’t the thing that you were afraid of, but instead it was the goal?

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