Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Once again, I feel compelled to shed more light on the subject of coaching sales people and how it is tied to performance management. A quick review of previous articles: Coaching Sales People and Raising the Bar. that you recognize and accept that sales coaching is a critical job function of sales leadership and sales management.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 30, 2012

The sports analogy I like to use is that it’s about blocking and tackling – the fundamentals that seem to trip up otherwise smart sales people time and time again. Mike actually offers 16 reasons why salespeople fail at prospecting. Mike has written a book about the basics. But there is hope. That’s what Mike did.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 31, 2013

The 5 functions required of a sales manager are: Coaching, Performance Management, Recruiting, Mentoring and Motivation. What makes performance management so CRITICAL is that it leads to, or allows for, more effective coaching. Raising the bar on coaching starts with the beliefs (record collection) of the sales managers.

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Highspot

MAY 8, 2020

From delivering winning doses of inspiration to transforming rookies into all-stars, coaches are a key component of any winning team — and not just in sports. In the world of business-to-business sales, coaches are just as essential to ensuring reps have the skills they need to close deals with confidence.

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Showpad

MARCH 19, 2021

But someone who went through a lot of learning and coaching to develop top-end sales skills can be just as successful. In the same way, “natural” sellers can benefit just as much from strong coaching. The best type of coaching is truly personalized coaching. The solution?

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 30, 2012

The sports analogy I like to use is that it’s about blocking and tackling – the fundamentals that seem to trip up otherwise smart sales people time and time again. Mike actually offers 16 reasons why salespeople fail at prospecting. Mike has written a book about the basics. But there is hope. That’s what Mike did.

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Prospecting Hiring Sports Cold Calling 146

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Prospecting in the enterprise environment is just different. So, today, we’re going to cover four prospecting tips for breaking into Enterprise Accounts (plus some bonus tips at the end). Building rapport with prospects. Leveraging information to become your prospects doctor. Their calendars are blocked with 76 meetings.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Sales teams must rise to greatness to thrive in the competitive market of today. A systematic approach to equipping, training, and coaching sellers not only increases their selling time but also maximizes their effectiveness, fostering efficient growth in both private and public markets.

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Sales Enablement Revenue Maximizer Face-to-face 52

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

In some sports and other skills based endeavours, for example figure skating, you can score points for artistic merit, and you also get scored on execution. The market and out prospects continue to evolve, treating your playbook and process as though they are impervious to change will only lead to more work, and over time diminished results.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Guidelines Sports 219

Pipeliner

JULY 13, 2018

The way that consumers interact with marketing advances has changed in the last few years. One of the primary goals of the sales and marketing teams are to find new prospects and convert them into customers. This expert sales & marketing interview explores marketing hacks: Nonlinear Marketing.

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Marketing Advertising Advertising Consumer 53

Lessonly

JUNE 10, 2020

How do you coach and develop a sales team? . As someone who has never been a sales leader, I’m not here to share my personal experience or be a professional sales coach. Here are five sales coaching best practices that my two sales managers, Kyle and Kenzie , applied beautifully as they led me. My prospecting?

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Sales Coaching Coaching Cold Calling Sports 39

Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2023

A McKinsey report found that companies using AI have experienced the biggest revenue impact in marketing and sales. 29% of marketing and sales teams reported at least a 6% increase in revenue after adopting AI, and 28% reported a decrease in costs. 85% of sales professionals say that AI makes their prospecting more effective.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! Business Coaching (3). coaching (25). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). Sales Coaching (40). sales coaching skills (10). sales prospecting (34).

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Hiring Sports Ideal Customer Profile Webinar Metrics 168

Vengreso

MAY 11, 2020

If you follow sports, you know that there are games played during the regular season and then there’s the offseason. Consider the mindset of the head coach going into the offseason. The coach knows he can’t control what his players do in the offseason. Consider this metaphor for your B2B sales team. Selling with LinkedIn ®.

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Alice Heiman

JUNE 17, 2020

None of this is good news for your company or your sales team – unless you happen to be one of the companies serving a market or industry that’s actually experiencing growth. It can be tough for salespeople to know what’s really going on with customers and prospects with everything in flux. Keep Prospecting .

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Stop Trying to Be Perfect A little bit of coaching and a few closed deals, and we believe it’s our job to have all the answers. Naturally, we don’t want to admit we don’t have the answer because it could be viewed as a sign of weakness with a new prospect. These prospects can turn into time vampires.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 23, 2020

It might be prospecting activity, learning or investing in key relationships. That’s for sports. Illig helps to train, consult and coach leaders at Fortune 500 companies on how to win more profitable business and build sales cultures that win. Plan these important activities for every week and stick to the plan.

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Real Estate Webinar Metrics Intent Face-to-face 320

Partners in Excellence

MAY 2, 2023

In high school, I worked afternoons and weekends at a local sports shop. A number of technology companies offered me roles in product marketing/management and marketing. Again, I was a little doubtful about my ability to sell, though there were a lot of people supporting me and coaching me. I went on to get my MBA.

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Banking Retail Call-back Engineering 105

Sales Evangelist

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Growing up, Stephen loved playing sports and he aspired to become a professional athlete. Stephen realized that sports wasn’t for him after doing an internship during his senior year in college. Stephen realized that sports wasn’t for him after doing an internship during his senior year in college. This results in good sales.

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Sports Insurance Insurance Decision Maker 75

Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2021

Sales role-play scenarios are an especially valuable coaching technique right now. Because sales is such a people-oriented profession, many of the skills learned on the job are developed through shadowing, coaching and mentorship. . That being said, role-play is traditionally considered a team sport. Negotiation.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 22, 2014

Marketing and Sales Feedback Loop Can Help You Grow. If we refer to baseball, the best sport for sales analogies, there''s a word that ball players and managers use quite often: Execute. You could substitute most any sport and the dialog would be similar. What kind of coaching will you provide?

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Proposal Sports Sales Qualified Lead Scale 233

Janek Performance Group

APRIL 25, 2022

The only thing created when an impatient salesperson rushes to close a deal is an annoyed prospect. “ Sales Meaning: The best players in all sports have coaches and Jack Nicklaus was no exception. Having a sales coach is a way to cultivate healthy self-awareness. Like golf, sales is a contact sport. I’m not.

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Sports Lead Rank Lead Scoring Course 62

The Brooks Group

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Email prospecting can be a powerful tool for sales reps—when it’s used in the right way. In addition to poor click-through rates, canned emails create distrust and can damage brand reputation and undermine future prospecting efforts. 6 Keys to Better Prospecting Emails. Focus on the Buyer. Keep It Short. Make It Personal.

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Prospecting How To Exercises Sales Qualified Lead 45

Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Just like professional sports, there are jobs on the line for sales leaders (coaches) and individual contributors (players) if they don’t hit promised and forecasted numbers. Make sure you have enough prospects so that you are not desperate to try to close the only opportunities you have.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 14, 2011

Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! Business Coaching (3). coaching (25). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). Sales Coaching (40). sales coaching skills (10). sales prospecting (34).

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Sports Webinar Metrics 168

Pointclear

JANUARY 31, 2013

TeleSmart is a leader in providing inside sales coaching and consulting to Fortune 1000 companies. While Josiane admits that “gamification is the new black” among sales consultants, many inside sales professionals respond to systems that track performance like a video game or a sporting event.

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Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

And I was always in sports and I have always been goal-driven. Margaret’s sport of choice is swimming, which was similar in some ways to Jim’s sport of choice: Tennis. How do you coach for that? You can coach your customer on what they should ask your competitor that they’re likely talking to. No surprise there!

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Apptivo

APRIL 27, 2023

Some noteworthy aspects include: Contact management Sales Management Marketing Automation Analytics and Reporting Customization and flexibility Mobile Access Integration with other systems Scalability User Friendliness Contact management Contact management is similar to a well-coached sports team.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 4, 2019

But today, buyers put less trust in us than they ever have, market competition is fiercer than ever, and these traits no longer separate the best salespeople from merely good ones. If you want to develop a more effective salesperson, start with how your organization coaches and trains them. The best sales coaching is individualized.

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Hiring Training Hubspot How To 103

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Millions of Americans are facing the prospect of a return to the office in the near future, and an end to the widespread remote work policies that defined working life for many during the COVID-19 pandemic. The world where sellers and marketers had just a few tools to survive is gone,” Bryerton says. But you’re also on a team.”

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SalesforLife

MAY 20, 2019

But aggressive companies—and those that came out of the 2008 financial meltdown that did well—bucked the trend and doubled their marketing budgets. They didn’t look at the market and see it as a necessary evil to retract; they saw it as a competitive advantage to double down and enhance the brand. Tools—because of the cost per seller.

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Chorus.ai

JANUARY 10, 2020

“The number-one thing I loved to do was fundraising for the sports programs I was involved in,” says Becc. I’d sell poinsettias, oranges and fruit baskets door-to-door, and I absolutely loved it — even as much as the sports! To prepare for her sales career, Becc earned a marketing degree at Texas A&M University. “I

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 25, 2022

You simply must have an offering that’s scalable; there must be a strong product-market fit. Now, obviously, many products or services are either invisible or commonly available, which makes it hard to literally throw them out into the market to sell on their own. I like to think of this in terms of sports.

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! Business Coaching (3). coaching (25). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). Sales Coaching (40). sales coaching skills (10). sales prospecting (34).

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Hiring Sports Ideal Customer Profile Webinar Metrics 120

Mindtickle

JUNE 29, 2021

Sales role-play scenarios are an especially valuable coaching technique right now. Because sales is such a people-oriented profession, many of the skills learned on the job are developed through shadowing, coaching and mentorship. That being said, role-play is traditionally considered a team sport. Negotiation.

Negotiation 72

Negotiation Exercises Objections Coaching 72

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Every successful sports coach will tell you that games aren’t just won on the field or court. 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.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Here are some interesting findings from the data: Out of the 29 industries, Marketing and Advertising companies have the lowest email open rates. The lowest-hanging fruit is personalizing your subject line so it’s unique to the specific prospect. Marketing and Advertising: 25%. Professional Training and Coaching: 36%.

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Industry Real Estate Outsourcing Services Biotechnology 143