Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 28, 2011

Read Tonys Featured Segment in SalesForceXP Magazine! Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! Increase Sales (22). key to sales success (4).

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Smooth Sale

DECEMBER 16, 2021

is an online magazine initiated by Pipeliner CRM. ” Our content aims to empower sales leaders, sales management, sales professionals, and entrepreneurs to achieve new heights of success. is an online magazine that continuously provides expert insights into sales and leadership.

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Your Sales Management Guru

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Sales Management: How Does March Look? In magazine columns and other blog postings I have written about being a proactive strategic sales manager rather than a reactive, fire-drill crazy, un-organized sales manager. Acumen Management Group Ltd. Leave a comment and let me know.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Read Tonys Featured Segment in SalesForceXP Magazine! Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! Increase Sales (22). key to sales success (4).

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 1, 2010

Read Tonys Featured Segment in SalesForceXP Magazine! Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! Increase Sales (22). key to sales success (4).

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Igniting Sales Transformation

DECEMBER 31, 2019

We’ve been trained to believe that the only way to reach our goals is to set deadlines. Following a consistent sales process backed up with the right activities, you can work backwards to lay out the steps needed to achieve your objective. On the other hand, you may have a goal to become a sales manager. SMART goals.

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Allego

MAY 31, 2022

Amand, Chief Marketing Officer at Allego, joined Gerhard Gschwandtner, Founder and CEO of SellingPower magazine, to explore this topic. Best Practices for Leading Virtual Sales Teams. Train on New Selling Skills and Processes. Offer a Self-Navigable Sales Experience. Provide Access to Sales Training in the Flow of Work.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In 2006 Jeb founded Sales Gravy, the most visited sales employment and career search website on the internet. Sales Gravy is an internationally recognized sales training and acceleration firm catering to the career development needs of salespeople and sales leaders. Go check it out! Go check it out!

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Your Sales Management Guru

MARCH 13, 2017

Believe me James Muir’s book, The Perfect Close is a great add to any sales library. Early on James added a section titled “Why I Wrote This Book”, he writes of his history of sales and sales management-almost talking himself out of sale and coaching others in learning how to sell. This chapter is golden.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MAY 30, 2013

I just read an article in a business magazine written by a well-known “former leader.” Lead by example, loyalty of team, achievement of goals, profit to company, excellence of performance, great communication skills, and fulfillment on the job. appeared first on Jeffrey Gitomer’s Sales Blog. ” I was horrified.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

What I also liked is the author’s ability to keep me active with an understanding of the Monkey Brain, Gator Brain and the Elephant’s Tether and how each example teaches the reader how they think and why the model/system must be used to be that innovator or creative solution solver. His blog has been rated in the sales blogs in the world!

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The Pipeline

MAY 12, 2011

I see this over and over again in the early stages of sales development at every company we help. Read this great example from yesterday’s mailbag: A salesperson emailed his lessons learned and included this one: “The final lesson again concerns the compelling reasons to buy. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation.

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 13, 2012

Sales strategy and thought bubbles. While traveling recently, I read an interesting article by Holly Green in Executive Travel Magazine that introduce an interesting way of understanding an idea that poses a threat to that process – thought bubbles. ©2012 Sales Horizons, LLC. and “So what?”

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Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 14, 2014

You can achieve this in a variety of ways, and in my session at WPC I shared 10 actual examples and other marketing ideas. From a sales perspective, we also stress that your sales team is trained to execute more effectively within a Thought Leadership philosophy. Ken Thoreson, President of Acumen Management Group Ltd.

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Allego

MAY 14, 2018

Sales managers and enablement pros need to spur reps to practice on their own before getting in front of customers so they articulate the message properly and win more. Take Tom Brady for example, one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history. “Winging it” won’t cut it in today’s competitive selling environment.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JANUARY 27, 2014

You can achieve this in a variety of ways, and in my session at WPC I shared 10 actual examples and other marketing ideas. From a sales perspective, we also stress that your sales team is trained to execute more effectively within a Thought Leadership philosophy. Ken Thoreson, President of Acumen Management Group Ltd.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 12, 2017

I recently read Kevin Davis’s book, The Sales Manager’s Guide to Greatness , 10 essential strategies for leading your team to the top, published by GreenLeaf books. This book hits the mark when it comes to setting the standard for successful sales management. Each will dramatically improve sales performance levels.

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SBI

DECEMBER 4, 2019

With Rekener, Brainshark will provide cutting-edge visibility into sales team activities, behaviors and productivity, helping customers make real connections from improved readiness to increased revenue. Founded in 2016, Rekener was developed to provide a simpler way for sales and marketing professionals to use data to drive growth.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 27, 2015

That is a question most executives worry about and often have to ask their direct reports, this is especially true when thinking about Sales Management. In some situations the President of the company may have responsibility to manage the sales team or maybe they are attempting to manage a sales manager(s).

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 20, 2016

Whether your organization is using CRM or not I find that most organizations have not taken the time to define, write out and train their sales team on how to use prescriptive a sales process. The more prescriptive process you create, the greater success your sales team will experience. The Results! What happened?

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

In closing, provide examples of solutions accepted by others the persuader respects. During your closing, provide examples of others that have accepted the solution, use a low-key, assumptive close to assist them with their goals; avoid hard, “ask for order” selling and help them to make a positive decision.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Developing an AI strategy should involve identifying pain points, setting goals, assessing infrastructure, calculating ROI, researching solutions, piloting tools, training staff, and tracking performance. Here’s a deep dive into the benefits, each with hypothetical examples. All you need is to check and insert it.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 26, 2017

Now let me tell why this book will be a bestselling sales book and perfect for any Sales Manager or salesperson that wants to add additional income to their W-2. Each week as you use this book, salespeople will see how they can accelerate their sales pipeline and improve their skills. The Lost Art of Closing. -a

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

What make it better is he then provides potential scenarios, examples and test situations where any salesperson can relate to their current list of prospects. Buy this book for this chapter alone-it will increase the velocity of your sales cycle. His blog has been rated in the sales blogs in the world!

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Your Sales Management Guru

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

It is a sales training session all by itself! This chapter is a must read for Marketing teams and all Salespeople, Mark shares tactical steps, specific email scripts that can be tailored for your business, many examples but his 3 Strategies to “get the email opened” are absolutely right on!

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 23, 2015

This is what I generally see or hear when I begin to poke at the problem: When you review the pipeline report (CRM/Excel) all the Closing Dates are listed as the end of the month-6/30/15 as an example. The velocity of the sale or length of time it has been in the funnel is 90 days longer than the average velocity for your business.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The art of selling: “ The death of the salesman has been greatly exaggerated” is the name of a recent article in the Economist magazine: [link]. They had a sales process & system and they were trained in the same mode that my Knoxville TN salesperson was trained.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 18, 2018

While multiple factors influence the effectiveness of your sales incentive compensation plans, 5 tips stand out: 1. Longer periods average out random sales volatility and seasonal demand, but shorter periods encourage reps with short sales cycles to game the system. Consider including training incentives for this group.

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 6, 2015

The sales manager began to fully understand not only what the steps in the sales process were, but why each salesperson needed to execute on them. This provided the sales manager a better platform for coaching, mentoring and monitoring opportunities in the pipeline. Need more sales management resources?

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 15, 2017

Building Belief for Sales Success. NOTE: This past Friday, we started another Sales Management Boot Camp,( they run 8 weeks in a live interactive Peer Group setting along with a series of self-paced video learning and templates), the first session is on Building Sales Culture, Leadership and Management Styles.

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Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

2015 Sales Predictions. KEN : I wrote this magazine column last November (2014), I thought it might be fun to hear your thoughts on my predictions. We believe in 2015 the focal points will be on velocity and execution; increasing the speed of the sales cycle and number of orders received.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 1, 2023

She managed to bring in the first five customers — not an easy task at a new startup — and built credibility among Techstars executives who selected Flyte as one of the top 10 companies that went through the accelerator program.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 6, 2016

As an example under Category #1: Art, Humor and Film, Stu estimated the cost/contact to be between $1-$500, as you progress you read about various real world examples that Stu or others have implemented to achieve amazing results rates. His blog has been rated in the sales blogs in the world!

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 26, 2016

If you are not familiar with the question posed above it’s a mantra from my Boy Scout days and training. Whether you are a Sales Manager that regularly reads this blog or any other job role I wanted to raise this topic as I see this as a major question in our world today. Need more sales management resources?

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Your Sales Management Guru

MAY 23, 2016

Building a Culture of High Performance: Sales Games. At this time of year sales management must be looking at pipeline levels and goals for the 4th quarter and determining if there is the necessary level of activity to ensure targets will be exceeded. Never run contests to the last day of the month or sales period.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 4, 2024

Science Reveals the Actual Impact of Sales Coaching More Sales Assessment Imposters Exposed The Best Salespeople are 2733% More Likely to Have This Than the Worst Salespeople What Percentage of Sales Managers Have the Necessary Coaching Skills?

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Your Sales Management Guru

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

In addition throughout the book they offer strategies to help the executive handle various situations, for example: Strategies for Not Being and Looking Arrogant. If your salespeople network this chapter would make a great sales training meeting, if you managers work events, this chapter is worth a discussion at your managers meeting.

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