Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 5, 2018

Of course you have sales problems. If it’s not a production problem, it’s a productivity problem. If it’s not a productivity problem, it’s a servicing problem. If It’s not a service problem, it’s a sales/sales support turnover problem. In the words of Rosanne Rosannadana, “It’s Always Something”.

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A Sales Guy

JANUARY 4, 2018

LinkedIn is a great tool for selling, but most salespeople are using it wrong. They’re treating it it’s a telephone or email and spamming people. We’ve all gotten them (and many of you have sent them). I’m talking about the LinkedIn connect requests that are then instantly followed by some lame pitch or request for your time so push some irrelevant ware on us.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 2, 2018

Most of us stop reading after the last full sentence in an email. After all, the majority of people sign off with “Best,” “Thanks,” “Sincerely,” or something similarly boring -- and there’s no point reading this a million times: Thanks, Aja. However, the ubiquity of boring email sign offs is actually a great opportunity for sales reps. Closing with something memorable and personalized won’t just make you stand out -- it’ll also give you one last chance to connect with your prospect.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 3, 2018

I receive so many unsolicited emails each day that it makes my head spin. Most of them, like the cold calls I get, are simply horrible. Delete. Delete. Delete. Junk. Block. Unsubscribe. This week I received the daily double - a cold call with an identical, corresponding email. The email read like this: Hi Dave, I hope this message finds you well. We spoke in the past regarding the copier equipment in your office.

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Engage Selling

DECEMBER 30, 2017

So far in this series, we’ve looked at how you can apply the hard-earned wisdom of top sales professionals who thrive in crowded, commodity-driven markets and apply it to any organization—even yours.

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Membrain

JANUARY 3, 2018

As we enter the New Year, I wanted to share with you our top posts from 2017, based on the number of views. It’s always interesting to compile these lists and try to understand why some pieces were more popular than others, and uncover any common themes.

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Pointclear

JANUARY 4, 2018

I review a lot of content on this topic and am amazed at what I find written about lead cost. For example: “The average cost per lead across all the companies surveyed is almost $200 ($198.44).Admittedly, that’s a useless statistic, as these figures vary quite dramatically depending on industry, company size, etc.” (see marketing charts analysis of HubSpot’s “2017 Demand Generation Benchmarks Report” ).

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Engage Selling

JANUARY 5, 2018

I want to talk to you about how to kick off this year by having your best first quarter yet. One of the ways we have to do that is to get really focused on three things.

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SalesforLife

JANUARY 2, 2018

Within the walls of thousands of organizations around the world, there are leaders looking at their company’s “Random Acts of Social” and they feel frustrated. Does this sound like you? Do you look at your sales team’s execution, and wonder how you can push everyone to focus on a greater digital sales transformation?

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Hubspot

JANUARY 4, 2018

What’s a sales kickoff? A sales kickoff is an annual meeting (usually in January) for your entire sales team. The main objectives are motivating your reps, managers and leaders; laying out your strategy; and celebrate last year’s wins. You’re setting the tone for the next 12 months and getting the entire organization -- from the top to the bottom -- fired up to hit their goals.

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Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 2, 2018

We are starting another year, and I’m sure you’ve made plans. I want to challenge you to continually calibrate yourself and look for ways to improve both personally and professionally. As I look back on the year that just ended, I’m in shock. Some of my goals were made and others not even close. Am […].

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Outreach

JANUARY 4, 2018

We had a lot of things on our wish list this holiday season. Last month, the Outreach product team put on their Santa suits and delivered some delightful new features that are sure to extend your holiday cheer long after December -- and prepare you to crush your 2018 goals. No lumps of coal here! Snippets and Inbox Bump for Outlook . We’re excited to bring our Outlook users some exciting new features that will increase productivity and organization when sending emails from your inbox: Snippets

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SalesforLife

JANUARY 1, 2018

Every year we analyze our client performance data to determine any new trends or derive patterns that accurately predict how successfully a program will aid in behavior change. After many client engagements around the globe, we found several key factors that drive behavior change and adoption.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 4, 2018

As marketers, we think a lot about what it means to deliver a consistent, on-brand experience across all of our different channels. We recognize the importance of this unification, as it helps to improve brand recognition, foster loyalty, and improve the overall customer experience. Not to mention, it forces us to establish a formalized process for creating and executing on each piece of marketing collateral.

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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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SalesLoft

JANUARY 3, 2018

As a seller, you know that both inbound and outbound leads are important. While they’re both valuable, inbounds deserve a fundamentally different approach in the beginning stages of a sale. Because they’re already familiar (and interested) in your business, they’re not the cold leads you’re accustomed to in an outbound sale. What this means is that response time is incredibly important as you connect with your inbound leads.

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Outreach

JANUARY 3, 2018

2017 has been quite the wild ride at Outreach -- our product and company are growing so fast, you may barely even recognize us from a mere 365 days ago! Over the past year, we set out on a mission to create innovative technology that would empower every sales rep to book and hold more meetings, create more meaningful connections with prospects, work more efficiently to focus more time on selling activities, and ultimately, bring incredible innovations to market.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 5, 2018

Even for experienced salespeople and sales leaders, it is not unusual to occasionally hit a wall — even fear — when it comes to making cold calls. Here are a few tips to put you at ease: Today will soon be done. Essentially, my encouragement to you is to stay positive and remember that one […].

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2018

What new habits did you start, or recommit to, yesterday on New Years Day? Did you hit the gym? Hit the pavement for a run? Did you count your calories, drink a little less, or otherwise execute day one of your new resolutions? Whatever your New Years Resolutions, I hope yesterday was the start of a trend, and a set of new habits that help you hit your goals.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 2, 2018

I’ve been working with a fascinating new client. We’ve been looking at how to improve their prospecting results. It’s been a fascinating project, in some sense, I may be learning more from them than they have from me–but they seem excited about the changes we are introducing. First, a little background. They wouldn’t be offended, but what they sell is about the furthest thing from being mission critical that one can imagine.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 4, 2018

The post How to Supercharge Customer Acquisition with 4 Unconventional Outreach Tactics appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 1, 2018

It’s a new year, which is the perfect time to think about what you will do differently this year than last year. If we want to succeed in business and in life, we must be willing to continually refine and grow. Check out the video to see what I mean: Don’t forget to sign […].

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 5, 2018

Consolidation amongst B2B marketing technology and service providers has been a constant over the past several years, and 2018 started with a bang with Terminus’s announced acquisition of BrightFunnel earlier this week. The first-day news is always buzzworthy on its own, but my interest is typically on what the news media call “the day two story” – which often focuses on why the news happened, why it is important, and what happens next.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 4, 2018

My friend Keenan was on one of his rants on LinkedIn. This particular rant was on really bad prospecting through LinkedIn. It generate a huge amount of conversation (Jim, I would have chosen a different shirt ). I was struck by a number of comments arguing against Jim, basically saying anything goes. One leaped out to me from a woman stating, “My outlook is money, and money is money!

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 4, 2018

The post How to Win More Deals with Sales Engagement Data appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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SalesFolk

JANUARY 4, 2018

One of my 2018 New Years Resolutions was to get more comfortable with video, and so I decided to do this email critique of Telzio’s sales prospecting email on video instead of writing an article. Here is what came of my little video experiment. I hope you enjoy and learn something too: If you liked this video, please let me know what you enjoyed, as I’m going to test many different video styles and topics this year.

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Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2017

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. In the meantime, here are some B2B Reads we love: How Prepared Are Marketers for the GDPR?

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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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Sell Or Die

JANUARY 4, 2018

You hear our podcast, you watch our videos on youtube, twitter and instagram but do you know the history behind how Jeffrey Gitomer has built his sales media empire? Jeffrey recently sat down with his first head of production Adam Chin to discuss building the studio, revolutionizing sales learning and the foundation of BuyGitomer's audio and video operations.

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Smart Calling

JANUARY 4, 2018

Salespeople complain they can’t get through, no one returns calls or emails, they get screened out… all true–for the salespeople who don’t have anything compelling to say. People are still buying. If you want to get more people interested, YOU need to be more interesting. That means bringing the value. Every time. Here’s an example of a good prospecting opening from a call I received.

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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 4, 2018

We?re in an age of revolution for gender equality, and with that comes a desire to blaze trails. Young women want to take the path less traveled, and they?ll go out of their way to fight cultural norms.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 3, 2018

After seeing numerous visualizations of marketing technology stacks from companies throughout B2B last year, we wanted to share one of our own. Below is a simple overview of our key tools broken up by general sales funnel stages. Like most marketing technology stacks, this is constantly a work in progress. We are regularly reviewing & evaluating our marketing technology needs based on objectives, utility, results and future needs.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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