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“It’s Not A Numbers Game, It’s A Human Game!”

Partners in Excellence

Anyone entering into selling immediately sees the obsession we have with numbers. They create revenue models, bow ties, and related models reducing selling to a math equation. The Numbers Game doesn’t seem to be working! If selling is a numbers game, and the numbers aren’t working, what’s wrong?

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The Rules of the Game for Baseball & Selling

Anthony Cole Training

In 2005, I read Dave Kurlan’s book Baseline Selling. Dave took the fundamentals of effective selling and used the baseball diamond and baseball terminology to explain his sales process. Baseball today is essentially the same game that was formalized in New York around 1840, but we know that selling has changed considerably.

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Gaming The Numbers

Partners in Excellence

I realized this SDR was gaming the number. As I started doing the analysis, I noticed they had unusually short selling cycles. It was a professional services company selling complex service offerings. This company was getting win rates above 60% and their selling cycles were 20% that of their competitors.

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Effective Sales Coaching: The Game of Selling

Anthony Cole Training

It began with: You must understand the game. Years ago, one of the lead execs from our client KeyBank shared an article called, “What it takes to be a Coach”.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations. This frees up valuable time for sellers to focus more on building relationships and closing deals.

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Finalize More Year-end Business with Ease

Sales Pop!

However, one easy strategy relaxes everyone we meet during the selling process, including follow-up. Most people will not, but I can tell you that doing so throws them off ‘their game.’ My take regarding the sales profession is that it doesn’t have to be merely a numbers game. Ultimately, you are the winner of the numbers game!

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Mattel Mindflex Game: Brain-controlled Neuro-Toy

Neuromarketing

I wrote about the toy way back in 2009, and was surprised to find it was still selling. The post Mattel Mindflex Game: Brain-controlled Neuro-Toy appeared first on Neuromarketing. The toy giant Mattel makes Mindflex, a toy that lets players control a ping pong ball with their brain waves.

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B2B Pocket Playbook: End-to-End Guide to Sales Enablement

It’s all about equipping sales professionals with the tools they need to put their best-selling foot forward. And if sales teams want to continuously sell better -- and faster -- their sales enablement process must have a game-winning strategy.