Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 19, 2021

Some major shifts have occurred in the way that you should be prospecting for sales opportunities. But has your prospecting plan changed with it?

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 9, 2021

In a recent post , I shared the calling strategy from Ryan Reisert that proves how your math of sales has been lying to you. If you are a sales leader that says more calls equal more meetings, that is not true. Ryan proves that time and time again.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The biggest challenge facing most sales people and small business owners is getting meetings with prospective clients. Cold prospecting techniques get harder-and-harder every day. Develop your relationships with other sales people or other small business owners that serve similar markets to you. Recruit your team.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 22, 2024

The key to success in sales lies in adapting and fine-tuning your approach. Like in fly fishing, where expert anglers "match the hatch" to increase their chances of hooking a trophy fish, sales professionals must align their strategies with what truly matters to their prospects.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In analyzing those salespeople who are successful year after year, we find significant consistencies in prospecting behavior and practice management. These top sales producers adhere to “The ONLY "A" priority is prospecting” principle. But nothing gets in the way of consistent prospecting.

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The Pipeline

JULY 27, 2021

While we should always be developing our skills, here are three prospecting fundamentals to practice during summer. Prospecting Fundamentals. Summer is a great time to update or develop a prospecting process, different from your sales process. Game Ready. Why lose momentum going into the fall? link]. .

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The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2021

There is always a lot of talk about Sales and Marketing , alignment, misalignment an more. Given that one attracts, and the other converts opportunities to sales, who is responsible for converting leads to opportunities. It’s gotta be the Vice President of Prospecting. But how many companies have a VP Prospecting.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 8, 2021

Kendra Lee, president of KLA Group, examines the differences between lead generation and prospecting, and which is more appropriate when sales teams need to fill their pipelines quickly. The post Prospecting Versus Lead Generation appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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The Pipeline

JULY 14, 2020

Anything worth doing is worth doing right, and in sales, telephone prospecting is something worth doing and doing right. And like with other hits, everyone piles on, including the pundits, all sharing how they feel about the phone and prospecting. Let’s look at telephone prospecting by the numbers. By Tibor Shanto.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Even that can be open to interpretation, I know a number of B2B sellers who have success prospecting on Saturday. I understand people trying to be as efficient as possible by pinpoint the best time to make prospecting calls. The idea is sound, but in many instances leads to less prospecting and an excessive amount of “figuring out.”.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

APRIL 16, 2024

Short and irritable prospects make it difficult to have any meaningful conversation and make your job much harder than it needs to be. Let's look at some simple techniques that you can use to improve a prospect's mindset so they're more comfortable and open to hearing what you have to offer.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 3, 2021

Given that sales is a science executed artfully, the best approach sales in a similar way. Given that prospecting is different than sales, they also master the Yin Yang dynamics of prospecting. Successful prospecting is about truly engaging the prospect’s thinking, not their heart. White Noise.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. What is Sales Prospecting? The ultimate goal is to guide your prospects through the sales funnel until they eventually make a purchase.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

From the time of the first salesperson, sales leaders have been trying to figure out how to get their teams to prospect. In a recent survey, 42% of sales and corporate leaders identified prospecting as a skills gap in their organizations. But while prospecting part/start of the sales cycle. By Tibor Shanto.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 10, 2024

In the competitive landscape of B2B sales, effectively qualifying prospects is paramount. However, many B2B sales teams struggle with inefficient qualification processes. In fact, two statistics cited in Spotio are eye opening: 46% of B2B sales reps list lead quantity and quality as their top challenge.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 3, 2021

We expect every member of our team to prospect every day as one of their sales activities. But now and then, it helps to put a focus on the effort and bring the team together on a call blitz. This works for many reasons.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 3, 2020

We see deals in our sales pipeline postponed or disappearing. Sales leaders: Lead generation must be your primary focus. What do businesses typically do when clients stop buying and the sales pipeline dries up? If You Freeze Up, So Does the Sales Pipeline. If You Freeze Up, So Does the Sales Pipeline.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I’ll explain how to always respond appropriately to Your Prospect. This is exactly what salespeople go through when a prospect pushes back, objects, displays lack of interest, or attempts to end the call. You are in your head instead of focused on what your prospect is saying. Your mind is wandering.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 8, 2021

The first interruption triggers the “sales-defence” mode, you need to interrupt that defence mode, move things to neutral ground. Here are 5 patterns to interrupt in prospecting outreach, phone, email, whatever. Salespeople see it as familiar, and take their eyes off the appointment, and go for the sale, mistake.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 18, 2021

Eighty percent of buyers prefer to be contacted through email, but your efforts could fall flat if you make these 11 email prospecting mistakes. The post Don’t Make These 11 Email Prospecting Mistakes appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Yet in sales, we want to pretend that we can in fact do that. Just like prospecting is not selling. See for yourself: Take the survey today and have your say about how we prospect through and past the pandemic. See for yourself: Take the survey today and have your say about how we prospect through and past the pandemic.

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Marc Wayshak

MARCH 13, 2024

One aspect that consistently sets top performers apart from others is their ability to ask quick questions that motivate prospects to open up. The data indicates that the more a salesperson can prompt a prospect to talk , the more likely they are to close the sale successfully. Check it out. Quick Opening Play.

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The Sales Heretic

MAY 13, 2020

Stories and case studies are powerful sales tools. They provide proof of our abilities and enable our prospects to see themselves benefitting just as our previous customers have. They give us opportunities to showcase how wonderful our product or service is. There’s just one problem with them. Everyone’s stories are the same.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 14, 2020

When the market is on an upswing, our customers and prospects may be focused on a whole host of things. Salespeople score meetings with qualified prospects in one call. My new question to clients and prospects: “Are you in minimizing-risk mode, cost-savings mode, growth mode … or just ‘leave me alone’ mode?”.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2021

If your sales pipeline is colder than a Siberian spigot in January, it’s time to rethink your sales prospecting techniques. Here’s the thing though, reps need actionable techniques and tips to make their prospecting systematic, smooth, and, of course, profitable. What are Prospecting Techniques? Let’s jump in.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 22, 2020

There are a lot of blurred lines in business and sales, leading to blurred conversations, and longer sales cycles. One blur is the line between who is a buyer and who is a prospect. Assuming buyers and prospects are the same and the words interchangeable perhaps explains the output numbers year after year. One Is Willing.

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Sales Pro Central Submitted Articles

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Most sellers will tell you that creating conversations with prospects is critical to greater success in sales, but the dynamics of how to do it can be baffling. Unfortunately, when sellers seek to understand it better, they often find conflicting advice.

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Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 8, 2021

The most successful salespeople are always challenging and adapting their personal sales process to be more effective and increase sales. However, they don’t challenge the notion of the importance of making prospecting their "A" priority every week.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 9, 2021

If you consider the tactics that are generally covered in sales skills training, you can probably think of a handful of happenings that can steal, or make you lose, your prospect.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

How important are prospecting insights to your sales strategy? Of course, your sales strategy’s success, including reaching your revenue goals, depends on the sales team hitting their numbers. It could be that their sales reps know how to prospect effectively. What are prospecting insights?

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