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What is Leadership Coaching & How is it Beneficial. Leadership coaching empowers sales leaders to do exceptional work in times of struggle and change. Leadership coaches can establish a solid relationship that uncovers the strengths and weaknesses of sales executives like yourself. This unbiased relationship allows for maximum results because leadership coaches have experience and are empathetic to leading a sales team’s difficult and ever-changing lifestyle.
The new year is upon us, and along with it comes new sales resolutions. One of the most popular sales resolutions for 2022 will be a commitment to reduce non-selling activity. Did you know that most salespeople spend over 60% of their time not selling. Imagine how much revenue those sales orgs are losing every single year. The quickest way to resolve this problem is to automate Salesforce.
The Gist: We sometimes overestimate our competition, making them a sort of bugaboo. There is nothing you can do about how your rivals compete. You should, however, know their approach so you can counter their strategies. Chances are, you worry too much about your competition. For one thing, you can’t really do anything about how your competitors go about pursuing deals.
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Speaker: Matt Sunshine, CEO at The Center for Sales Strategy
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Establishing a small business is not an easy decision to make. The process involves various steps that require your utmost confidence and focus. If your drawing board contains thoughts about starting a business of your own, this article can help. This post outlines the steps you need to take to become a successful entrepreneur. Do Your Research. Having an idea of what you want to offer is a big step towards starting your own company.
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Here at Anthony Cole Training Group, we are always striving towards helping our clients achieve sales success. We interviewed our Sales Development Experts for a curated list of how to be successful in sales for 2021. Their advice includes successful sales traits, habits, and characteristics. Use this detailed resource to your advantage, and boost your sales success in 2021!
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The Gist: Advice to “do whatever it takes to win the deal” is presented without the necessary guardrails. When what you’re doing isn’t working, you need to change your approach. Do all the things that are necessary for you to succeed, without violating your values. “Do whatever it takes” sounds like a good way to succeed in sales , until you recognize that there are no constraints or guardrails.
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The Gist: We have reached peak email prospecting, the point when its effectiveness begins an inevitable decline. Two emails aren’t better than one, and any more than two undermines your goals. It’s time to reimagine email’s role in prospecting. Every day, your clients wonder if they’ve been sentenced to one of the lower levels of Hell, perhaps a floor or two above politicians and attorneys.
The Gist: No one likes getting a straight pitch on LinkedIn. That approach is treated as “spam.”. You can make the same mistakes when making a cold call by using the same flawed techniques. Creating opportunities is too important to emphasize quantity over quality. As a professional courtesy, I accept cold calls. I even take the spam calls that reach my iPhone, working very hard to persuade the person trying to steal from me to quit their job and find a more honorable profession.
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 Gist: Many thought leaders recommend that you should not pitch your clients, a model that suggests not starting with “why us.”. There are, however, things that you should pitch if you want to make your conversations valuable to your clients, all of which improve your position. Switching your pitch from “why us” to the conversations necessary for better results improves your approach and your odds of winning.
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The Gist: It is no longer enough to identify your client’s problem, especially when it’s already well-known. Less than half of salespeople reach their quota and more than half of buyers don’t change, evidence that what we’re doing isn’t working. To solve your client’s problem, you have to solve the problems that prevent them from solving the problem.
The Gist: The way to a second meeting is a valuable first meeting. The reason clients disengage is because the conversation isn’t one they find valuable. A lot of legacy practices prevent second meetings. You never get a second chance to make a first impression, which means you have a lot riding on your meeting with a new client. That first meeting can end with you impressing your client by using their time wisely and making the experience a valuable one, moving both of you forward in the
The Gist: We want to win deals, but we can’t do that without first creating them. There are (still) only two things we do in sales: we create opportunities and we pursue them. Build your sales workday around the outcomes you need to create, working in the order that enables the next outcome. There is an order of importance in sales, prioritizing certain tasks over others.
Every salesperson wants to win now and increase sales. But what are the chances that you will actually reach your prospect when they have a problem they want to fix?
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