Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 11, 2013

Over the years, I have found some very common responses to our sales and sales management training programs. Our standard operating procedure of beginning our work with a client is to evaluate their sales organization. But the people we''re working with, sales people, are in the same exact business – SELLING.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 17, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Last week I posted this article in reference to an Inc. This is known throughout the selling universe but sales people still suck at this. Non-Supportive Buy Cycle (the way that salespeople buy things doesn''t support ideal sales outcomes). How come?".

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

Sales always has been, and always will be, about closing the deal. But, sales professionals cannot rely on cold calls and haphazard prospect visits if they want to meet their sales goals and make it into the top 10%. Sales Productivity Tools. HubSpot Sales Platform. Gamifier makes sales performance fun.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Every sales team has that legendary sales rep. Don’t worry, there is plenty of truth behind the need for a sales engagement platform. What is a Sales Engagement Platform? What is a Sales Engagement Platform? How is Sales Engagement Software Different from Sales Enablement? Learn more.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2012

This post will help you test a redesigned sales compensation plan to ensure cultural fit. Plus, you’ll find advice on compatibility with other sales effectiveness drivers. Let’s suppose HR is fully engaged for redesign of a 2013 Sales Compensation plan. The IC plan was changed to diminish Rep prospecting.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“All sales problems are pipeline problems, and all pipeline problems are prospecting problems…… ” I was having a conversation with a really smart person. They don’t even look at refining the initial engagement approach in prospecting, they just demand more.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Many sales reps and sales managers commented and shared about the previous post on How Salespeople Goof Up on LinkedIn so we were compelled to share more ideas to help sellers do better. First, I wanted to share that our blog is up for an AWARD – as one of the top Sales Blogs at Top Sales World.

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SBI

JUNE 28, 2021

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Sales Operations Leaders aren’t making data meaningful today. In fact, when asking Sales Operations Leaders what qualitative data they had gathered, here are their responses: Conducted internal win/loss debrief on large opportunities. The objective of the interview is to map a customer buying process.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 17, 2020

According to LinkedIn’s 2020 State of Sales Report , buyers are becoming increasingly less responsive, with 44% of salespeople reporting a decrease in responsiveness to outreach. This research also indicates sales cycles are increasing, with 44% of salespeople saying their customers buying cycles have increased.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 30, 2016

In sales, we must continue to touch-base or follow-up as it’s also known to stay in the game of sales. You sales rep couldn’t touch base either in the right manner or failed to follow-up enough. . An effective follow-up strategy gets a sales deal out of the black hole and back on into the light (the sales process).

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 8, 2020

Have you critiqued your sales process lately? According to Craig Rosenberg, co-founder and chief analyst at TOPO, “of best-in-class sales organizations, two-thirds had well-defined sales processes.”. Consider that almost half the organizations surveyed in that study were not doing the sales process well.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Sales is a function that has always been associated with low efficiency. Some standard workplace automation tools include: Lead generation software: This software allows sales agents to manage leads easily by automating tasks such as data entry and email communication with potential customers. A McKinsey and Co.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 22, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan If you have been reading my Blog for a while you know that there is more to selling than just utilizing skills to execute the sales process, sales model, and sales methodology. Non Supportive Buy Cycle (causes them to empathize with stalls, put-offs and objections).

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 28, 2010

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever?

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Allego

JUNE 28, 2022

Today’s sales managers face tremendous pressure to achieve ambitious targets. Now more than ever, you need to up your game to increase sales performance. But choosing which sales metrics to measure can be tough. 6 Sales Performance Metrics to Track. Sales Lead Quality. Sales Call Quality.

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Mindtickle

MAY 21, 2021

It might not come as a surprise that 57% of sales reps are expected to miss their quotas in 2021. Sellers often can’t explain why deals don’t work out, leaving your sales managers in the dark. Conversation intelligence solutions offer invaluable support to sales managers. Pre-qualification call.

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Mindtickle

MAY 2, 2023

As a sales enablement leader, sales content is a big part of your job. Whether it’s creating it, training reps on it, monitoring its performance, or updating it, simplifying sales content management lets sales enablement leaders focus on other programs that help sellers actually sell. It went from 3.5

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 18, 2019

The reason I want you to walk through this is to help you think about what I think is the biggest challenge facing sales leaders in maximizing the performance of their organizations: Talent. As regular readers know, each sales person we hire is a multimillion dollar investment. The sales person’s territory is open for 3 months.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 30, 2019

We know that best-in-class sales organizations use a consultative sales process. A sales process is consultative when the stages and actions align with the customer’s buying experience and are defined in terms of the customer relationship. Consultative Sales Process. But what does that really look like?

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Sales Tips: Quantity vs. Quality and Making Sales Numbers. At the start of my sales career my manager set targets for me for how many calls per week to make, how many proposals per month to issue, the number of cold prospecting calls that should be made each week, etc.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 12, 2015

Gartner’s Tiffani Bova identifies three dangers looming over modern sales organizations. What is predictable is the challenges sales organizations face. Sales organizations are finding it harder and harder to deliver predictable revenue, and historical sales models are beginning to show cracks. Conference. Conference.

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Lead Rank Top of Funnel Face-to-face Lead Scoring 120

The Pipeline

MAY 15, 2018

Change is hard, and sales are all about change, and salespeople are always looking for the easiest way to get things done. The best salespeople focus as much on “changing” their approach and execution of sales as trying to get buyers to do the same. By Tibor Shanto. Quite the mix! That Poor Frog. It does for being risky.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 2, 2019

If you only had 90 days to penetrate the market and produce sales, what would you do? In sales, no matter how much you may wish otherwise, the fact is a prospect buys on their own timeline. If they won’t buy today, you must develop a plan to stay in touch until they do. As it worked. For a time.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 26, 2018

Soon after starting my sales career I became aware there was a staggering list of things I needed to learn. In retrospect I’m not proud to admit that my objective when making initial calls was to see if I could get a second call with prospects. I had no concept or a sales process.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 10, 2014

If you invite a prospect to connect with you on LinkedIn, you can check off your list that you’ve developed a relationship , right? Consider this example: A prospect reaches out for some information. Everything comes crashing in when we recognize that sales and marketing is about establishing human connections. Not so fast.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 4, 2018

Most sellers don’t want to think about their sales process. After all, it’s more ‘Art’ than ‘Science’, comes naturally and every sales situation is unique. Let the sales leaders think about it, the sellers just want to sell. So, what are the benefits of a Clearly Defined and Adhered to Sales Process? Basis for automation.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 22, 2019

Too often, as executives look to improve sales performance, they look to doing something new or different. Any of these can improve sales performance, but the come with their costs. Since these represent major changes, the change management process and time involved in solidifying changes can be very long.

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Nutshell

JUNE 19, 2018

When you think about the activities that are essential to making a sale, you probably think about actions that require the human touch of the sales rep—listening to a prospect’s needs, developing a solution for them, and asking for the sale when it’s time to do so. Researching a prospect online (i.e.,

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Sometimes, I think selling, and all the things sales people must do to be successful, is something like a jigsaw puzzle. Overlaid on this is the endless administrivia, CRM updates, dealing with all the latest sales enablement or marketing programs that are supposed to be helpful.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 19, 2020

Our jobs, as sales people and managers, are complex and multifaceted. For example, as sales people, we may focus on the deals in our pipeline, forgetting that we have to continue to find new deals to keep our pipelines healthy. Many avoid prospecting. As sales people, if we don’t prospect, our pipelines empty.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever?

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Lessonly

APRIL 28, 2021

Sales competencies and sales readiness. We’re so glad you asked… What Are Sales Competencies? Sales competencies are the skills that successful sales reps need to use to impact the buying decision. Sales competencies are the skills that successful sales reps need to use to impact the buying decision.

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Pointclear

APRIL 19, 2017

The entire day was spent talking about prospecting. One of the presenters, Mike Weinberg, summed up the sentiment in the room: “Many in what’s called the Sales 2.0 movement harshly declare that proactive targeting and prospecting for new business is dead. Prospecting sets you up for everything else in sales.”.

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LeadFuze

JUNE 2, 2021

What do Top Sellers Know on How to Close a Sales Deal. Here are the things the top sellers are doing right: They focus on the prospects’ needs. A great salesperson knows the difference between convincing their leads to buy to convincing them to buy now. 7 Techniques on How to Close a Sales Deal. Soft close.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 30, 2019

As sales people, our job is to achieve our goals. For example, I just read some “expert” saying, “90% of your time should be spent on prospecting.” Every hour we spend on prospecting means we can’t do something else. Every hour we spend on prospecting means we can’t do something else.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever?

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