Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Years ago, one of the lead execs from our client KeyBank shared an article called, “What it takes to be a Coach”. It began with: You must understand the game.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 28, 2023

This idea of reviewing what you should keep doing, start doing, and stop doing is borrowed from a past client of ours so we must give them credit. The process is worthy of your time to consider so please read on…

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Bernadette McClelland

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The Power of Taking Time Out: How Personal Interactions Can 10x Your Business One thing I have personally come to realise in this crazy, noisy and fast-paced world we now live in, is that it is so easy to become laser-focused and one-eyed on our business, and it is often at the expense of personal connections and downtime!

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As a [Your Position] at [Your Company’s Name and what it does], I’m often tasked with drafting sales proposals to potential clients. As a VP of digital at a small digital marketing agency, I’m often tasked with drafting sales proposals to potential clients. I fed this prompt into ChatGPT 3.5

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 14, 2020

Do you know where your clients are? Todd suggests we can actually read our customers’ minds. You’ve heard me say our clients aren’t mind-readers. When the market is on an upswing, our customers and prospects may be focused on a whole host of things. It’s not always about revenue growth. Wow, did I really say that?

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 8, 2023

Our goal was to identify urgent problems and decide how to fix them. Could it have unclogged our sales pipelines and prevented our teams from having to resort to hours and hours of needless, thankless cold calling ? Can you solve your sales problems before they happen? It was a weekly meeting of sales team leaders.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 23, 2020

As my sales force grew to over 250 salespeople, we applied each habit to our interactions with clients. We grew by leaps and bounds, and I attribute much of our growth to the mindsets and practices we developed using the 7 Habits to help our clients succeed. To be successful in sales, our attitude is critical.

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Jonathan Farrington

APRIL 9, 2014

I suppose another way of framing that question is to ask you if you think customers and clients still value long-term relationships? Equally, the customer, once convinced of our integrity, is able to enjoy consistent and continuous levels of customer service – well that’s the theory. So how does that work?

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 16, 2020

How do we get our arms around such an emotional word? Face Facts: The Client Is Not Always Right, and Your Sales Pitch Is Annoying. It means pushing back when a client tells you what they want, and you know the consequences will be dire if you don’t speak up. They understand that their job is to help their clients.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 27, 2023

referral sources), and nurture our networks with relevant content. Image attribution: icon1 ) CEOs and sales leaders across industries tell me that their people routinely email and send text messages to clients, and then complain that they can’t reach their contacts. Clients want our points of view. Not always.

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 5, 2021

Here at Anthony Cole Training Group, we are always striving towards helping our clients achieve sales success. We interviewed our Sales Development Experts for a curated list of how to be successful in sales for 2021. Their advice includes successful sales traits, habits, and characteristics.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 21, 2023

For more on referral selling, check out these blog posts from No More Cold Calling this quarter: Expand Your Sales Team By Asking Clients for Referrals One of the first things I ever wrote about was enrolling your clients as part of your sales team. By asking clients for referrals to their peers. How do you do that?

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

” That’s what a client asked me a couple years ago, and I was baffled by his revelation. Every client had a singular focus: How do we get referrals from our clients? I didn’t have time to catch up with clients and nurture my professional networks. Never lose touch with your contacts at client companies.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 23, 2023

There is no greater benefit than hearing from a client how they are implementing a sales development program in their bank and their culture. We recently had the benefit of 45 minutes of input from one of our valued banking clients and learned how they are building their team of successful, relationship building bankers.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 15, 2024

But as with any other skill, some salespeople have a better grip on prospecting than others — and we, here at the HubSpot Sales Blog, want to do our part to make sure you prospect as effectively as possible. I've noticed a few habits that set our team apart, such as utilizing advanced CRM tools.

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Jonathan Farrington

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I suppose another way of framing that question is to ask you if you think customers and clients still value long-term relationships? Let’s look at what we know: All of our […].

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 13, 2024

Preface : I met John Callies in our very first sales training class for IBM. Through our first year, every few months we’d see each other in Endicott at another class. We renewed our relationship, discussing things we had seen happen over our very different careers, periodically catching up an exchanging ideas.

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 28, 2024

It focuses on small and local businesses, where the process involves building relationships, offering effective solutions, and ultimately closing sales to secure clients. Before engaging potential clients, a marketing agency needs to first identify its target market and generate leads.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In this episode, we’re continuing our season-long deep dive into the latest Media Sales Report from The Center for Sales Strategy. Today, Trey Morris, VP/ Senior Consultant here at CSS, is joining Matt to help answer the question, “Why is it getting harder to convert prospects and renew clients?”

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Jonathan Farrington

JUNE 18, 2013

I suppose another way of framing that question is to ask you if you think customers and clients still value long-term relationships? Equally, the customer, once convinced of our integrity, is able to enjoy consistent and continuous levels of customer service – well that’s the theory. So how does that work? Deliver on promises.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

We’ve been taught we have to create value with our customers. There are a lot of definitions to this, including: Proving our product is the best choice of all the alternatives. Tying the capabilities of our solutions to the needs our customers have prioritized. Assuring we help the customers solve their problems.

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Membrain

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Despite a difficult economy that continues to drag on, we doubled revenues from two years ago, launched several major additions to our product, and got in deeper with our partners to deliver big wins for clients.

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Nutshell

MARCH 25, 2024

Regardless of your business type or industry, a well-thought-out and structured client onboarding process is the secret to long-term customer retention. You may think that your welcome and monthly check-in emails are enough to keep your clients satisfied. Table of Contents What is client onboarding? But there’s more to do.

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Engage Selling

APRIL 19, 2012

Colleen explains that her best clients are not afraid of change – they measure results and are focused on numbers. Colleen explains that her best clients are not afraid of change - they measure results and are focused on numbers.

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Nutshell

APRIL 3, 2024

Either you focus too much of your resources on delivering to your current clients, sacrificing time that could be spent on new client acquisition. Or, in spending too much time on acquisition, you neglect to nurture current clients, and they end up dropping off. It is scalable and has many integration options.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 11, 2024

Rich media provides yet another option for reaching clients and building relationships. More Channels Provide More Personalized Choices for Sales Closing Finding a comfortable way to communicate with key clients is essential. However, the medium we use (HOW we ask) has underlying importance to our audience.

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Adaptive Business Services

APRIL 24, 2024

While I have spent most of my adult life hiring and training salespeople, it has been two years since my last new hire and that was for a client. Well, here I go again and once again for a client. People, and salespeople, are notoriously bad at the little things like being responsive and setting and then exceeding client expectations.

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Jonathan Farrington

JULY 1, 2012

I suppose another way of framing that question is to ask you if you think customers and clients still value long-term relationships? Equally, the customer, once convinced of our integrity, is able to enjoy consistent and continuous levels of customer service – well that’s the theory. So how does that work? Deliver on promises.

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SalesProInsider

OCTOBER 4, 2023

That’s what we want with our prospective clients! No, not for them to crash on our couch. We need to right-size certain aspects of our process to make it relevant, comfortable, and focused on what they need, when they need it, and how they need it to make that decision. It’s the same with prospective clients.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I’ll address the problems of these short tenures in a separate post, but this is just a simple example of too much of the flawed thinking I see expressed in our social channels. Most of my clients are among the highest performing in their sectors. ” Again, we have clients doing this. As a result, tenures are up.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

But each requires different approaches with our customers. Missed diagnoses represent a monstrous opportunity to create value with our customers. Missed diagnoses represent step function opportunities in creating value with our customers. We are helping our customers think differently about their businesses.

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Emissary

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

And while this isn’t bad (and is certainly preferable to not connecting with clients to refine their implementation), it’s superficial. With a vast majority of B2B revenue coming from existing clients, meaningful QBRs can produce real monetary impact. Clients keep rescheduling your Quarterly Business Review.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Several leading indicators contributed here, including product maturity, a better understanding of our customers and competition, and better coordination across sales and marketing. Each helped, but one “secret” weapon accelerated revenue and customers at an outsized rate: our highly technical Solutions Engineering team. The result?

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Engage Selling

APRIL 19, 2012

Colleen explains that her best clients are not afraid of change - they measure results and are focused on numbers. Colleen explains that her best clients are not afraid of change - they measure results and are focused on numbers. Sales Coaching sales quota selling The Sales Leader'

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BuzzBoard

APRIL 19, 2024

A solid understanding of these metrics equips digital marketing professionals, allowing them to make data-driven decisions that stimulate incremental growth for their local business clients. Thus, arm yourself with the correct knowledge, and let’s collaboratively drive measurable results for your local business clients.

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Jonathan Farrington

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

I suppose another way of framing that question is to ask you if you think customers and clients still value long-term relationships? Equally, the customer, once convinced of our integrity, is able to enjoy consistent and continuous levels of customer service – well that’s the theory. So how does that work?

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Marc Wayshak

MARCH 20, 2024

Unlike traditional concepts, such as a 30-second commercial or elevator pitch, our aim isn’t to deliver a rehearsed spiel. Start with what you help clients achieve. An essential element of an effective Opening Play is to start the sales conversation with what you help clients achieve. Develop your Opening Play.

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