No More Cold Calling

JUNE 8, 2023

Can you solve your sales problems before they happen? It was a weekly meeting of sales team leaders. That’s what we were doing in those weekly sales leadership meetings—putting out fires. We were trained to minimize and eliminate the threat without having to first think very hard about it. Read about Frank on LinkedIn.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 5, 2024

. __ Reduce Business Risk Image Source Buy Insurance Insurance is no longer a question but is necessary to secure one’s business. Doing everything possible to protect the company, beginning with buying appropriate insurance, is critical. While some companies might seek out niche insurance, others have no need.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 19, 2024

Martin is VP of Marketing for The Jacobson Group, the country’s premier insurance talent acquisition firm. It includes identifying key competencies and knowledge areas and creating targeted training modules and resources. After training, survey what was most liked and disliked for improving future efforts.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 28, 2023

The intricacies of pharmaceutical products, stringent regulatory guidelines, and the critical role healthcare professionals play in decision-making create a complex environment for sales reps. With those unique circumstances in mind, the importance of effective sales training cannot be overstated.

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Emissary

MARCH 2, 2022

Key account management (KAM) draws an outsized amount of marketing and sales resources to a small set of prospects. Your KAM team understands key accounts extremely well and customizes sales and marketing processes to suit their needs. Key Account Management Focuses Your Team on the Most Promising Current Accounts.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 12, 2024

Navigating the Legal Landscape Let’s chat about a bit dry but particularly important: medical malpractice insurance. Different specialties have different legal risks and insurance costs. Admit to your shortcomings and acquire the training you need. Today’s insights are provided to help you achieve the Smooth Sale!

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SugarCRM

MARCH 2, 2023

WFG National Title Insurance Company is an organization in the real estate insurance field looking to create a better real estate transaction experience for all parties involved. Besides, WFG was looking into solutions to increase CRM adoption and streamline Marketing operations, along with giving their sales enablement efforts a kick.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 18, 2024

Both my parents were in sales. My dad’s sales career spanned five decades, split in roughly equal parts. My father’s next career was in insurance. Dad truly believed that selling insurance was a noble profession. He enjoyed helping people solve real problems and felt that insurance products did that.

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BrainShark

JULY 9, 2022

The right channel partner training software can help with this. Online or offline access on nearly any device , so channel partners can access trainings anytime, anywhere. Easy content authoring , so you can create personalized, engaging trainings for each channel partner. With Brainshark: .

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

One major key to success in sales is a salesperson’s ability to reach decision makers. However, working with them also lengthens the sales process. I think you even told me in one of my original trainings,’It sounds like you are not talking to the person who makes the decisions.'”

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Now, if you have been taught to up-sell or add another product onto that sale, it is unusual for people to spend more than 25% more than what they have just invested. Well, items such as extended warranty on top of the maker’s included warranty, car insurance, finance offers, gap insurance, etc. How about upselling?

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Increase Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Can we have a forthright conversation that the business world has changed and specifically the most pressing sales training dilemma? These unknown sales leads “lurk” in the shadows reading what is posted and over time begin to feel like “I know that person” and “I trust that person.”

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The Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Businesses spend over $70 billion annually on sales training in the United States, representing an average of $1,459 per salesperson. That’s more than 20% more than training spend for all other workers combined. And it matters even more when choosing a sales training organization. The quality of their training.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Companies have heads of operations, marketing, accounting, sales and human resources, but rarely do they have someone in charge of their second most important asset (after employees). A Toronto insurance agency, BKIFG, provided every account executive with a $25 allowance to spend monthly on customers. That asset is the customer. . .

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Allego

JUNE 14, 2022

Hybrid work has disrupted traditional training and the financial services industry—with its emphasis on personal relationships—faced unique issues. As Voya’s one-person training team, Voya Financial ’s Jeff Lovanio has his work cut out for him. Allego: How did you get to be the person in charge of training and development at Voya?

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The Science and Art of Selling

JANUARY 12, 2015

The average insurance agent can remark that he or she can never launch forth into a presentation without fear of encountering some opposition, and that no sale is made without meeting objections. If there were no objections it wasn’t a sale at all; it was an order. The big question, then, is how to meet objections.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 27, 2019

Most salespeople have been trained to handle these objections and put-offs and therein lies the problem. When you hear a phrase like the hard sell , do you instantly think of car salespeople? Replacement windows? No offense intended to those of you in one of those three industries!

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The Science and Art of Selling

JANUARY 5, 2015

A prospect may flatly refuse to consider life insurance, as such, because the idea does not fit in with his existing fund of experiences. He may have the habit of shopping around before he buys, and will, therefore, not close the insurance deal until he has had the opportunity to look over other propositions. However, in.

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The Science and Art of Selling

JANUARY 21, 2015

The members of any profession, since they constitute a specifically trained group of people, are looked upon to assume the responsibility of leadership in work allied to their own. The social significance of this function of the insurance agent should be praised. The insurance agent is really a teacher and promoter of frugal ideals.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

We had a call from a company recently, trying to sell us business insurance. They had cold-called our support team and wanted to know if we already had business insurance for various aspects of our company. MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image courtesy of Big Stock Photo. Happy Selling! Sean McPheat.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s The REAL Problem with Sales Training. Stored in Guest Post , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Training , e-book , execution. December 2007. The Pipeline Guest Post – Jonathan Farrington. And actually I agree.

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Engage Selling

OCTOBER 30, 2020

I recently referred a friend to my insurance provider. Disappointingly, when she called the insurance provider, the receptionist provided wrong information and told my friend that no agents were available to further assist her because everyone was working from home. … Read More »

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 27, 2017

I’ve been working on growing sales for over 30 years. First with Nautilus Exercise Equipment, then in the insurance business and for the last 23 years with Anthony Cole Training Group. It’s been at least 25 years since I heard David Sandler, on a cassette tape, say; “there’s no such thing as bad prospects, just bad salespeople.”

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BrainShark

MARCH 2, 2012

I’ve been a Brainshark customer for several years and even introduced my new colleagues at Combined Insurance (an ACE company) to the product when they needed a platform to create and deliver training videos to their field sales force.

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MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

People who manage sales have to achieve growth. For many people in sales the challenge is to grow their customer base by finding new customers. Many people in sales find this approach pushy and uncomfortable. This is because they feel they need to do a sales pitch on an additional product then go for a close.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 1, 2019

Author: Chris Mason So many of us begin our sales careers as representatives of a company, product, service or all the above. Others opt for the management route, taking on leadership roles and overseeing teams of sales reps. How will a leadership role differ from being a sales rep? But what does it take to make that jump?

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Allego

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Once upon a time, “personalized training” meant printing the names of workshop participants on their handout folders. Today, this key component of modern learning means exactly what it says – sales training that is genuinely personalized , genuinely “just for me.”. What are the advantages of personalized sales training?

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Smooth Sale

MAY 17, 2022

But aside from basic health insurance packages, what should you be considering? The Additional Insurance They Might Need. Many employers cover basic health insurance, but there is a lot more that you could potentially do for your employees. Life insurance is a highly-desired option, especially in long-term permanent positions.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 2, 2021

Elevator pitch example #2: “ _, we make inside sales teams as much as 33% more productive by providing them with a best practice approach that helps them cold call more effectively and close more qualified prospects. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Your customers (and your bank account) will thank you for it!

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Global commercial insurance rates increased 9 percent in the second quarter of 2022. As inflation soars and commercial claims increase in frequency and severity, insurance carriers are forced to increase rates, raise deductibles, and tighten underwriting standards. This increase marks the 19th consecutive quarter of increases.

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Showpad

JANUARY 8, 2021

Hiring and onboarding new members of your sales team can be complicated. Research from Clearslide and CSO Insights found that, on average, it takes new reps between six and nine months to get fully ramped up to the performance levels of established sales agents. Focus on industry specifics. Establish clear goals and KPIs.

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Smooth Sale

JUNE 6, 2022

Your Business Insurance. Finding the right business insurance for your venture is no easy task. It’s no surprise that platforms such as coterie , which make insurance purchases fast, effective, and data-driven, are backed by A-rated licensed insurers. So find yourself an insurer that’s got your back!

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Smooth Sale

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

My differentiator in corporate sales is to use a polite and inquisitive tone to bring negotiations to a successful conclusion. I sold long-term care insurance long ago, and people told me then that the new concept was ridiculous. However, the irony came decades later when the same people purchased the insurance at a much higher rate.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 2, 2023

Sending cold emails, leading prospects through sales calls, and following up all take time and articulation. Sales teams everywhere are starting to use AI to streamline these processes and craft better pitches. If you’ve been hearing about the iconic ChatGPT platform for sales and want to give it a spin, look no further.

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Jeff Shore

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I am going to propose three scenarios that are similar to ones you might come across fairly often in your sales career. ??Scenario Scenario #1: You sell life insurance. You are having a conversation with a friend in a social setting, and the talk turns to your friend’s insurance coverage. Your customer is a sales person.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 31, 2010

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 3, 2021

Alcohol and drug abuse deeply impact the business, from lost productivity, injuries, less effectiveness with clients and an increase in health insurance claims. CPRCs are well-trained, deeply experienced substance abuse experts who: Focus on what matters most to the individual, business, family, and others seeking help.

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