June, 2010

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Sales Guru

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Huge Ego Behind Every B-to-B Purchase

HeavyHitter Sales

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Recent Posts. A Salespersons Most Important Competitive Weapon. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. Why Year End Deals Dont Close: THE CESSPOOL! IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Are Top Salespeople Born or Made?

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The Advantages of a Career in Financial Services

Tom Hopkins

Advantage #1 – Nearly everyone is a potential client. Unless you plan to specialize, such as working only with the affluent who have $10 million or more in net worth or some other niche, your pool of potential clients expands to nearly every adult on the planet. Think about it. Who doesn’t need knowledge and [.] No related posts.

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Are Your Prospects Reverse-Sandbagging?

SBI

Sandbagging is when a Rep holds onto signed orders until the last minute. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, the Rep submits all the orders at once, usually at the end of the month or quarter. When the Rep doesn’t have any orders until the last possible moment it’s something else all together. Maybe it’s “reverse” sandbagging. Prospects hold onto orders because they’re too busy, or too distracted by other things.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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When Plagiarism is NOT Flattering

Your Sales Management Guru

When Plagiarism Is NOT Flattering. The following blog is from a friend of my from TOP Sales Experts, a group of International consultants in Sales and Sales Management. His subject matter is important to us all, I know, I have actually attended a conference and heard other speakers using my content and PPT slides that resemble mine. The internet can be so easy to simply &# copy&# and use others expertise.

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5 Sales Lessons for Sales Reps I Learned While on Vacation

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: What's Wrong With Sales Training Today

HeavyHitter Sales

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Recent Posts. A Salespersons Most Important Competitive Weapon. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. Why Year End Deals Dont Close: THE CESSPOOL! IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Are Top Salespeople Born or Made?

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Do What You Fear Most

Tom Hopkins

The best way to avoid failure is to never try. How many people in the profession of selling are hiding from the possibility of failure? Let me give you a personal example of this. The first time I ever stood in front of an audience was in a second grade school play. I’d been asked [.] No related posts.

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101 Things To Do Before I Die: Make a Bucket List

VuVan

'Ever heard of a bucket list? Well, it is the list of things you hope to do before you kick the bucket. I have developed my 10o things to do in life before I die, and life reacts in funny ways. It seems to be a self fulfilling prophecy when you actually write down your […]. Related posts: How to Save More Time Is it possible to actually ask, “how to save time” Make a Things I won’t Do List Do you have a “To-Do” list that you work on.

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Supercharge Your Sales: 5 Steps to Effortless Selling

Sales teams often lose precious time hunting for updated sales materials, while marketing struggles to keep these assets accessible and current. It's not just about managing; it's about seamlessly finding, presenting, and sharing critical sales content. All of this takes place within an intuitive, unified platform. Dive into Showell's groundbreaking content management realm.

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Sales and Social Media-3 Keys

Your Sales Management Guru

Three Key Social Media Tactics for Sales. This week I thought I would share with my readers a “guest blog” from Tom Pick on Sales and Social Media…I have known Tom for a few years and he is top SEO and Social Media consultant… read and enjoy… Although marketing departments tend to be the heaviest users of social media for business, sales groups aren’t far behind.

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Is My Team Uncoachable? The Top Ten Reasons Why Coaching Fails When Managers Attempt to Coach Their Team

Keith Rosen

“I’ve tried coaching my team. It didn’t work.” Really? Was it the coaching that didn’t work, the manager’s coaching that didn’t work or was it more about how the coaching was delivered that didn’t work? As a manager, there are many things to consider when rolling out a coaching program for your team that will lead to a successful initiative, a mediocre one or a coaching program that will go down in flames.

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Sales and a Fish Story

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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The First Rule of Sales: Leverage

SBI

Leverage: The ability to influence a system, or an environment, in a way that multiplies the outcome of one’s efforts without a corresponding increase in the consumption of resources. In other words, leverage is an advantageous-condition of having a relatively small amount of cost yield a relatively high level of return. Thus, “doing a lot with a little.” As it goes for business, so it goes for sales.

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Redefining the CDP: 8 Data-Driven Designs for Successful Customer Journeys

In this guide, discover 8 use cases for how a customer data platform can tackle common challenges faced by marketing, commerce, service, and sales teams. With helpful diagrams and simple explanations in each use case, see how Salesforce’s CDP, Data Cloud for Marketing, powers personalized, real-time experiences across marketing, with capabilities that include: Optimizing ad spend Powering dynamic website content Increasing upselling and cross-selling Resolving service cases with marketing data B

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Never Sell Yourself – Let People Buy You by Jeb Blount

Sales Training Advice

Sales expert and bestselling author Jeffrey Gitomer teaches a simple philosophy, “People love to buy but they hate to be sold.”. In other words, most people prefer to buy on their terms. They do not want or appreciate a hard pitch or a features dump. Yet millions of salespeople daily, either on the phone or in person, sell to their customers by dumping data, pushing their position, or simply trying to talk their way into a sale.

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Waking up Early Tip #2: Schedule Important Items in the Morning

VuVan

'To help you wake up in the morning, make a habit of scheduling important items to do first thing in the morning. I usually schedule my phone appointments as early as the other person is willing to conference with me. I also make it a habit to check my emails, respond to my emails and […]. Related posts: Benefits of Waking Up Early Series: #1 Motivation & Control All throughout college and the beginning of my post college.

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Creativity… a Sales Thing!

Your Sales Management Guru

Creativity… It’s a Sales Thing! There is no question about it, top performers are more creative that your average salespeople. They seem to come up with unique ideas to prospect, find ways to enhance client relationships and they close more effectively. Sales leadership requires creativity as well, sales managers that are exceeding sales quotas, hiring and developing their teams and building a sales culture require huge levels of a creativity quotient.

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Great Sales Coaching Will Lead to Great Sales Results

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

More Free Stuff | Email Us | Get Started Now! | Blog. Sales Training & Management Workshops | 302-478-4443. Home. About Us. The Company. Our Training Approach. Paul Cherry. Patrick Connor News & Events. Corporate Sales Training. Overview. The SalesBridge™ Training Options. → On-Site Sales Training. → One-on-One Sales Coaching.

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Retail Tech: Empower Associates, Optimize CX, and Boost Productivity

Speaker: Andrew Regan, Managing Partner at BlueSeed Retail Ltd.

Did you know that 70% of new retail technology fails to deliver expected benefits and can often decrease customer value, service, and experience? With that in mind, how can we empower our store associates to leverage new technology to optimize the customer experience and boost productivity? This exclusive webinar with Andrew Regan will dive into strategies to empower retail associates for success with new technology.

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Sales Success and Crossword Clues

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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How to schedule 4 times more appointments or give your Reps an extra 5 weeks of sales productivity

SBI

Could you sell more if your Reps had 4 times the number of appointments? How about if Reps had an extra 5 weeks of selling time? You’ve got 215 selling days in the year. Too many of those 215 days are eaten up by non-selling (but necessary) tasks such as the tedious process of coordinating calendars and scheduling appointments. In fact, without the right tools, your Reps are losing 28 days of selling time every year unnecessarily while making appointments.

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Who Do You Trust? Industry Analysts Reign Supreme

The ROI Guy

A SiriusDecisions survey recently examined which b-to-b sources are trusted most by buyers during the buying lifecycle, and the results indicate not surprisingly that Industry Analysts and Peers are the most influential and trusted sources of information. In an age of information overload, over 30% higher than years past, the research indicates that buyers are trying to find ways to cut through the noise and get help to solve their specific problems / personalized advice and references that prop

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Money Follows Passion

VuVan

'Do you have passion for what you do in terms of career or business? Are you just working to bring in money to pay the bills but you are miserable and always wishing you were doing something else? If so, do you know what you are passionate about? I feel that the second question here […]. Related posts: How to Stay Motivated at Work: Reinvent Yourself Are you feeling un-motivated at work, not feeling the excitement.

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Connect, Care, Convert: Secrets to Establishing Trust with Niche Markets and Turning Them Into Clients

Speaker: Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach®

Niche markets represent a huge opportunity for the financial services industry in America. From college students and women to communities of color and low-to-moderate-income households, niche populations have specialized financial needs – but they often underutilize many valuable financial products and services. How can you better connect with these consumers?

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Learning from Losing?

Your Sales Management Guru

Learning from Losing. In most of our client consulting engagements we strongly recommend that “win/lost” reports are completed. This is a process of reviewing all sales that occur and those that don’t! We suggest this action is performed in two steps. The first step is between the sales manager and the salesperson, during this phase the sales leader simply probes as to what the salesperson believes are the reason the prospect purchased or did not purchase your solution.

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Sales Management Training: 10 Questions to Engage C-Level.

Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

More Free Stuff | Email Us | Get Started Now! | Blog. Sales Training & Management Workshops | 302-478-4443. Home. About Us. The Company. Our Training Approach. Paul Cherry. Patrick Connor News & Events. Corporate Sales Training. Overview. The SalesBridge™ Training Options. → On-Site Sales Training. → One-on-One Sales Coaching.

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Selling As A Profession - What Is Your Legacy?

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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How to Screw Up Your CRM Decision

SBI

1. Make sure the main purpose of your CRM system is to track Sales Reps activities. You need a way to prove they should be working harder. 2. Emphasize the management reporting capabilities when explaining to your Sales Reps why its important that they use the CRM to its fullest. 3. Don’t analyze your sales and marketing processes before you pick your CRM Software.

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Strategic ABM Gifting: A CMO’s Silver Bullet to Engage the Enterprise

Today’s customers are hungry for human connections, but how do you break through the digital noise? How do you connect on a more personal level? A strategic ABM gifting campaign can help. You can target accounts and prospects by sending gifts or direct mail. It will help you stand out from the crowd and increase your chances to connect. Download Sendoso’s complimentary eBook to learn: Effective ways to level up your gifting strategy for the enterprise customers.

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Brainshark for Mobile.and so much more!

BrainShark

It's that time again! Time to announce yet another upgrade of the Brainshark application for our customers. I am pleased to report that the June 2010 release of Brainshark is now available on a desktop near you.

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STUDY: Employee Engagement Ranked As the Most Important Organizational Success Driver: Event This Week!

Keith Rosen

An unscientific poll of visitors to the EEA portal over the last two months suggests engagement in early phases. More specifically, this poll found that: • 47% had received at least one survey from their company in the last year; the rest had not; • Only 32% said their organizations provide them with a dynamic environment that encourages excellence and advancement; • 51% believe engagement should be measured by customer and employee retention; 31% by revenue and profits, and 17

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Changes in Sales & Sales Mgmt? What do you think?

Your Sales Management Guru

Changes in Selling or Sales management? Living in the Southeast where football is a lifestyle, the radio sports talk shows and the newspapers sports pages are covered with discussions regarding the changing PAC 10, Big 12 and even Nebraska going to the Big 10 and the potential impact on the SEC. The changes that could occur impact TV, basketball and all non-revenue sports and as expected-there are opinions on all three sides of each issue.