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How Do You Determine the Success of Your Sales Managed Environment®?

Anthony Cole Training

First, it makes sense to define a Sales Managed Environment ® (SME™). For the last 15 years, we’ve built, developed, refined and implemented the principles we associate with a sales environment that is “managed”. The major components of SME™ are as follows:

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Sales Managers – Why Isn’t Goal Setting Easy?

Anthony Cole Training

I was first introduced to goal setting in sales when I was an insurance agent with National Life of Vermont. The General Agent was Dave and his manager was Bob. I never did write 100 lives but, based on the sales activity reporting I did every week, I should have. Tom introduced me to an idea of a sales cookbook.

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Curiosity Is A Way Of Life

The Pipeline

And the one thing in abundance in B2B sales, is talk, often just for the sake of talk, not communication. Curiosity is not a sales skill; curiosity is a way of life. As an SME, you don’t need to hold on to your product for security, you are free to truly explore. Curiosity is not a sales technique, but a way of life.

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Grab The Right End of the Problem For Effective Sales Management

Anthony Cole Training

However, once I got into sales, sales management, sales training and became a president of a company, I think I finally understood. Not Hiring – We are not hiring better sales people AND we don’t have replacements, therefore we feel trapped in a bad situation. Workshop on “Why Aren’t My Sales People Selling?”.

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5 Keys to Building a Successful Sales Team/Career

Anthony Cole Training

The program, delivered in a 45 to 90 minute segment, is an overview of our Sales Managed Environment (SME) program. SME is one of our corporate coaching/consulting deliverables for companies trying to get the answers to the big question: How do we drive more sales growth? o Consistent sales growth.

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How to Build the Guidance That Turns Strategy into Action

Highspot

Take, for instance, the task of creating a play to help your account management (AM) team increase partner license sales. Answer: Increase partner license sales and expansion ARR. Building a play relies on three different subject matter experts (SMEs). Each SME should be one person. WHO (Audience).

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6 Priorities of Sales Enablement Evolved

Allego

The era of rep-centric sales enablement has arrived—and it couldn’t have come at a better time. With the uncertain economy, the rise in remote teams due to the pandemic, and tightening budgets, it’s more important than ever for companies to equip their sales teams to produce at the highest level. The Downside of One-Size-Fits-All.