Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 4, 2014

When we evaluate a sales organization using the Objective Management Tool - Sales Force Evaluation and Impact Analysi s, we uncover the Sales DNA that drives sales results for the individuals and therefore the company. In order to increase sales, it is important to understand how these root causes affect the bottomline.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 20, 2019

Like clockwork, this year’s results show sales once again in two of the bottom three positions, only trusted more than members of congress. Today, the world of sales is once again shifting under our feet. One 2015 Forrester article predicted that 95% of B2B sales jobs will be replaced by AI by 2020. .

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Sales Training Article: Taking the Path of Least Resistance. Marketing organizations by default now own the top of sales funnels. I suggest organizations step back and consider that buying cycles start in one of two ways: 1. Bottom-up" selling is a path to long sales cycles and low win rates.

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Customer Centric Selling

APRIL 10, 2013

Sales Training Article: Competition. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company In my first year of selling I worked for a company that had a competitive analysis group. For sellers doing bottom up sales, that means it starts almost immediately.

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Customer Centric Selling

JUNE 26, 2013

Sales Training Article: Adaptive Sales Organizations. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company The great baseball pitcher Satchel Page is credited with the quote: “Don’t look back. I’d like to share four (4) major characteristics of Adaptive Sales Organizations: 1.

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Customer Centric Selling

JUNE 12, 2013

Sales Training Article: Confusing Activity with Progress. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company One of the major differences of sellers that will deliver their quota and those that can''t is having an understanding of the difference between activity and progress in opportunities.

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Customer Centric Selling

JULY 29, 2013

Sales Training Article: How BMW Would Have Benefited from Social Selling. By John Kearney, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) Sales Operations leaders have seen the power of Social Selling. Sales cycles that begin with an online referral are closing more rapidly. Implementing a successful sales transformation.

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Are you a CEO, VP of Sales, or Chief Revenue Officer feeling pressured because your company missed its numbers last quarter? If your company needs to find new sales this quarter, this article is for you. It explores the current sales environment and what companies can do to increase their win rates in the next 90 days.

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Customer Centric Selling

JULY 3, 2013

Sales Training Article: Where''s All This Buying? A survey by Sales Benchmark Index showed 52% of sales cycles driven by sellers result in no decision. A final thought: With sellers involved 52% of sales cycles end in no decision. Need some help with your sales performance?

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Sales Tips: Qualify Before Requesting a "Four-Legged" Sales Call. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. In my first sales management position I soon noticed that one of my salespeople seldom made calls alone. Cost of sales is a concern for most organizations.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Top Sales & Marketing Awards 2011. Stored in Attitude , Awards , Business Acumen , Communication , Compete , Marketing , Sales Success , execution , qualifying. One for Top Sales & Marketing Blog , where I share the company of last year’s winner S. December 2007.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Technical selling of SaaS, on-premise software, and hardware solutions has relied on sales proofs of concept (POCs) that require pre-sales professionals to lead, manage, and drive to a ‘technical win” outcome so that account executives can close the deal. Sales Profile: SMB to Commercial. Sales Profile: SMB to Commercial.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Mobile Apps for the Mobile Sales Force. Stored in CRM , Communication , Guest Post , Review , Sales 2.0 , Sales Success , Sales Tool , Sell Better , execution. One profession that stands to benefit most from these apps is sales. A Random Walk Up Sales Street.

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Customer Centric Selling

APRIL 12, 2013

Sales Training Article: How the Big Deal Review Will Rescue Your 2013 By Greg Alexander, Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) 41% of b2b sales organizations missed the Q1 revenue target. CEOs and sales leaders don''t know why big deals push. We publish an un-gated sales and marketing best practice daily.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever. What Does the B2B Sales Process Look Like? What Is B2B Sales Training? What is B2B Sales Training?

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Customer Centric Selling

JUNE 26, 2014

Sales Tips: How to Accelerate Sales and Buying Cycles. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Need some help to increase sales? Take a look at the sales training workshops available to get started and improve sales performance.

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Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 30, 2013

Sales Training Article: Why A Rising Win Rate Could be a Bad Sign. By Drew Zarges, Sales Benchmark Index The software company''s VP of Sales boasted about his win rate. If the sales team was getting better, why did they keep missing quota? The Sales team hadn''t vastly improved. Each year we''ve improved."

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Groove.co

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Apologies to Greek philosopher Heraclitus, but this butchered quote makes the point that B2B sales is constantly changing - and that change is being accelerated by the rise of digital transformation as a result of COVID-19. So what does the future of sales look like? Who doesn’t want to boost sales productivity and CRM adoption?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The same can be said for sales enablement. Earlier in my career, I helped build a global sales enablement team at Oracle Marketing Cloud that designed, deployed, and measured a sales onboarding program integral to a business unit responsible for $675M in annual recurring revenue. Sales Onboarding. Sales Onboarding.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s The six elements of a perfect sales meeting. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Coaching , Emotional Intelligence(EQ) , Guest Post , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales Meetings. Do you dread the weekly sales team meeting? A Random Walk Up Sales Street.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 20, 2010

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success?

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Sales Tips: Know the Difference Between Buyers - and Researchers. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Bottom-up selling makes long sell cycles and lower win rates more likely. Save your seat now for the FIRST public workshop of 2015 in Boston, Feb 3-6!

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Sales Tips: Marathon vs. Sprints. By John Holland , Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Sales can be viewed as a series of races that end December 31 st and start the very next day. As a sales manager, most of my sellers hit the accelerator hard as needed.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 19, 2010

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success?

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Sales Tips: "Search and Replace" These Two Common Terms. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. My concern is that terms used internally by sales management and sellers may be used externally with prospects and customers. The second is the phrase “sales cycle.”

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 26, 2014

Sales Training Article: "Send Me Some Info". By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Sign-up for one of these sales training workshops to learn how to better engage with prospects. You''ll be better served not to assume that the buying cycle is moving forward.

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MEDDIC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Sales coaching has become very popular in recent years, and it’s easy to see why. Studies have shown that companies with sales coaching programs boost their win rates by almost 30%. What’s more, statistics show that businesses that use effective sales coaches report annual revenue growth of up to 7%! Let’s take a look.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success?

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Sales Training Article: 2014 Resolutions. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Image courtesy of Danilo Rizzuti at FreeDigitalPhotos.net 2013 winds down, people think about prospects for the New Year. View our updated calendar of 2014 sales training workshops.

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Ever felt like you’re on a treadmill, running after sales targets but never quite catching up? Sales training : two words that hold the potential to change your game entirely. This post is your metaphorical guide through different types of sales training programs available and their benefits.

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HeavyHitter Sales

JULY 1, 2011

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Four Critical Sales Kickoff Meeting Success Factors. Sales Tips.

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Customer Centric Selling

MAY 7, 2014

Sales Training Article: Who Buys? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Sign-up for a sales training workshop to learn how to better navigate sales cycles and improve sales performance. Need some help with your sales performance?

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

We have prepared the roundup of the best sales blogs just for you! These are the best sales blogs you need to be following to keep your sales blade sharp. Here are the best sales blogs in Slideshare form, or below the presentation are all the individual sales blogs with a little more detail. Sales Hacker.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 18, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Retarded Sales Behavior and The Reasons We Under-Perform. Stored in Attitude , EDGE Selling , Guest Post , Proactivity , Sales Strategy , Sales Tool , execution. We’ve become a generation of retarded under-performing sales semi-professionals. December 2007.

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Customer Centric Selling

JULY 2, 2014

Sales Tips: How to Boost the Remainder of Your 2014. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Early in my sales management career, I was astounded by how hopeful salespeople were that had achieved 35% of their annual quota going into the fourth quarter.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 30, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s To get more insight on that, you can read a related article “ Working Backwards From Your Goal To Get Ahead “ Look forward to your comments, and invite you to visit our YouTube Channel to view other SellBetter sales videos. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Sales Cycle.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Sales Training Article: Motivation Absent Requisite Skills. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net A few years ago I spoke at a sales conference. Inbound leads should be considered buying, not sales cycles.

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