MTD Sales Training

JUNE 22, 2018

2) Study what great coaches do in sport. By analysing the mindset of great coaches, you pick up useful and applicable tips that can be utilised in the sales environment. Catch some YouTube videos, or read the blogs of successful coaches and identify those cross-over points that would work for you. Happy Selling!

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Coaching Sports Objections Up-Sell 149

Smooth Sale

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Attract the Right Job or Clientele: As I struck out hearing three no’s, I began viewing sales as a sport. But as my mindset started to change to a discovery of the next best strategy, I considered the sports familiar to me. My Story About Sales As A Sport. Your Story About Sales As A Sport. Hire a coach when needed.

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Sports Hiring Loyalty Exercises 68

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 31, 2024

In its most generic form, stages correspond to opportunities as they move from suspect to prospect to qualified opportunity, to closable and finally, closed. In some respects, professional selling is akin to professional sports where everyone who plays must play by the rules. Similarly, there are stages to the sales process.

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Sales Process Decision Maker Sports Construction 182

BrainShark

JULY 4, 2023

Coaching sales reps is vital, and if you aren’t currently doing it, good news – getting started can make a world of difference for your bottom line. All of these issues can be improved with effective sales coaching, but sometimes, getting started can feel overwhelming. What is sales coaching?

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Sales Coaching Coaching Hiring Video 62

Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 3, 2023

In sales, the terms “manager” and “coach” are common titles. In actual practice, however, sales managers and coaches may or may not be the same person. This can help organizations get the most from their sales managers, sales coaches, and, ultimately, their sales teams. This is where coaching enters the picture.

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Coaching Hiring Sales Coaching Lead Rank 62

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 12, 2021

Legendary college basketball coach Bobby Knight once said, “To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you — as the coach — are doing. It's a powerful sentiment that provides some sage advice for coaches working across virtually all sports, fields, and occupations. How to Handle Coaching Challenges.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 20, 2020

Sales coaching is all about looking forward and developing your people. High-revenue growth companies are seeing the payoff; 54% of high-performing companies are using sales coaching more than in the past, and 60% use sales coaching as an integrated part of a sales training program. Coaching vs. Managing.

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Sales Coaching Research Coaching Sales Methodology 111

The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

How do I Overcome my Lack of Confidence When Prospecting: It’s sad to say, but this situation is a major issue and one of the biggest reasons why there’s such a high turnover in sales. Also, sales is a team sport; it’s not a solo activity. This is where the team sport of selling comes into play.

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Selling Skills Telemarketing Sports Motivation 175

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 12, 2024

You initiate the work: securing meetings, creating opportunities with prospects and clients, and closing deals that produce revenue for your company (and income for you). Maybe it’s my sports background! It affords a great deal of freedom along with direct accountability. You are on the front line, making things happen. I HATE to lose!

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Face-to-face Sports Territories Forecasting 113

Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Athletes and sports teams often talk about reviewing the game tape. This is a process in which they revisit a game to see why they either won or lost. In sales, this is called a win-loss analysis. And it’s one of the most important evaluations an organization can conduct.

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Analysis Webinar Metrics Sports Groups 77

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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Hiring Coaching Sales Coaching Sports 189

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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Coaching Hiring Groups Motivation 182

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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Keith Rosen

MARCH 17, 2020

If you’ve read Part One, you’ve probably noticed several opportunities to improve your leadership, remote coaching and management skills, to become the exceptional leader you can be. Managers, Learn How to Coach and Manage a Remote Team. So coach, don’t tell. Develop a Coaching Pre-Call Prep Form.

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Coaching Intent Cold Calling Call-back 83

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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Sales Coaching Coaching Quota Scale 52

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 173

Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I love to cook (and eat) and I love selling and coaching sales management. I often tie sports stories, analogies and themes to sales and sales management, and I generally have at least one in the crowd that doesn’t/cannot relate because they have not played sports or are just simply not into sports.

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Sales Management Sports Motivation Coaching 200

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 18, 2024

Even at age 75 he enjoyed trying out new ways of presenting things to prospects. (He He also liked the camaraderie in the office—particularly the water cooler banter about sports with his younger colleagues.) Like my parents, I find the prospect of helping someone solve a real problem energizing. Don’t look back.

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Insurance Insurance Education Salary 73

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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Enterprise Enterprise Prospecting Cold Calling 104

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

Allego

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

How do you transform someone who has no cold calling experience whatsoever into a fully competent and confident prospecting superstar? It helps them figure out most likely moments where they need to try and close prospects or qualify out. They resort to feature bashing or confusing prospects with jargon or complicated language.

Cold Calling 77

Cold Calling Jigsaw Call-back Face-to-face 77

Highspot

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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. Deals that seem promising may unravel, often as negotiation tactics by customers or prospects.

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Sales Enablement Revenue Maximizer Face-to-face 52

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

These kids are the can''t miss prospects. There''s talent, and then there''s the ability to utilize one''s talent and most sports talent evaluators are no better at this then most sales managers. After all, they met all of your criteria, didn''t they? In baseball, they call it the 5-tool player. What''s that? They don''t?

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Business Coaching (3). coaching (25). Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). Sales Coaching (40). sales coaching skills (10). sales prospecting (34). When I played sports, having sales success was the furthest thing from my mind. Alltop.com.

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Hiring Sports Ideal Customer Profile Webinar Metrics 168

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

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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B2B Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face Hiring 121

The Pipeline

AUGUST 21, 2013

They are able to lead prospect through a range of choices, challenges, noise and alternatives, cheaper and easier solutions, and get them to arrive at choosing them. As in sports, it is a good thing to have great coaching leaders and great teammate leaders, they can coexist and serve the greater good. What’s in Your Pipeline?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sports Promotion 317

A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sales is suffering from 9 brutal ills: The Bro Culture, Lack of Coaching Too Product-Centric Not enough sales people understand the game/rules of sales Too much reliance on selling tools. Not enough training in the industry/space Too much activity management Little respect for prospects and buyers time Not enough humility.

Face-to-face 150

Face-to-face Sports Influencer Quota 150

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 Qualified Lead Sports Intent Enterprise 62

Pointclear

JUNE 11, 2013

Typically, spectators regard track and field as an individual sport; however, in the relay races we experience how those individual talents combine to create exciting and victorious team efforts. As prospects convert to qualified leads, the handoff to sales should be smooth and accurate. Analysis, Coaching, and Adjustment.

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B2B Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Lead Rank 247

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

Braveheart Sales

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

While I was watching ESPN’s College Game Day, I heard Chris “The Bear” Fallica, who is a research producer and sports betting analyst for ESPN, make an observation about betting odds that was a revelation to me. It is really hard to be completely unemotional and unbiased, especially about sports like college football.

Sports 52

Sports Sage Revelation Face-to-face 52

Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2023

87% of sales professionals say that AI tools assisting with writing sales content or prospect outreach messages are effective. What we like : AI prospecting tools can help salespeople move past their own roadblocks with written communication and easily generate personalized messages. 16% of sales professionals use AI for research.

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Top of Funnel Forecasting Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 84

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.

Sports 62

Sports Lead Rank Lead Scoring Course 62

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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Negotiation Exercises Objections Coaching 105

Keith Rosen

JUNE 24, 2019

As you’ll see in this story, the power of questions, authentic, radical curiosity and care, and coaching your customers to succeed is their secret to becoming a sales champion. Adrian was responsible for managing the sales team for one of the largest sporting goods and boating distributors in his town. Insatiably curious.

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Hiring Coaching Sports Quota 130