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How to Avoid Coaching Failure… More Lessons from the Soccer Field

Sales and Marketing Management

This is the equivalent of sales managers telling their salespeople that they “really need to make their quota.” But it’s the most classic of coaching errors and one that takes place every day in every sales force around the world: Asking for the outcome you want, rather than providing the insights that can actually affect the outcome.

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Get the Gatekeeper on Your Side

No More Cold Calling

Sage advice from a sales VP I used to work under: “Joanne, never leave a meeting without giving your buyer a task. Moving qualified buyers into your forecast and increasing your sales pipeline means addressing objections—without being defensive. Find out how you can have the best sales year ever, using referral selling.

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College Football Wagering and What It Has to Do with Sales

Braveheart Sales

In the sage words of my good friend and brilliant consultant, Casey Brown , follow the three P’s to deal with stress and anxiety in sellers. Plan how to handle the likely objections (even if convinced the opportunity will close). Sales success shouldn’t be based on an emotional wager for a desired outcome. So, What Can Be Done?

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5 Ways To Create, Develop & Maintain Optimism As A Salesperson

MTD Sales Training

It comes from the Latin ‘Optimum’ meaning ‘best’ and is often used by sales managers when they refer to their sales teams having the right attitude. You need to create a record of what you did that made you achieve a sale or record a goal or beat an objective. 4) Take personal responsibility for your results.

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18 Sales Podcasts Every Rep Should Check Out

Hubspot Sales

Learn about sales team management, creative business development strategies, time-saving sales tools, B2B strategic partnerships, aligning sales with marketing, effective prospecting, negotiation techniques, and more. Hosts: Sales trainer Bryan Neale and author, speaker, and coach Bill Caskey.

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Q3, Q4 and Beyond

Pipeliner

As sales managers everywhere offer their guidance and motivation that, even with these ends and beginnings that remain in the year, there’s still time to make good things happen. And we’re flooded with blogs sharing sage insights about how to do just that – close the year strong. And to make an end is to make a beginning.

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Live from Hollywood Florida: Sales Tips from Joe Scarborough

Anthony Cole Training

close more sales (21). consistent sales (4). dealing with objections (7). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6). evaluating sales teams (1). getting sales decisions (4). hiring sales people (6). Sales Coaching (40). sales coaching skills (10). sales competencies (12).

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