Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 12, 2015

Some of your sales people are selling as expected… and some of them are not. Occasionally, someone (me) writes about this principal as it applies to selling and sales teams. My purpose over the next several blog posts will be to answer the question: Why Are Your Sales People Not Selling As Expected. Interviewed great.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Sales Tips: How to Earn the Right to Discuss Offerings Using Diagnose and Prescribe Approach. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. It would allow you to tailor or position your knowledge and experience in a way that better aligns with their requirements.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Fail to provide that guidance and the purchase decision likely stalls (where 58% of the deals end up according to Sales Benchmark Index) or the decision goes to your competitor who does a better job at facilitating the buying decision. At this stage, the question to answer is “ Why Change? ”.

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EyesOnSales

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

As a sales manager, you have a million plates spinning. Harvard Business Review says the sales industry sees a pretty consistent turnover rate — up to 30 percent of sales employees annually — and it's due, in part, to subpar talent. What do you look for in a high performer, relative to your needs?

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 3, 2018

Having a successful sales enablement program is one of the most beneficial things you can do to increase revenue. Melissa an expert on sales enablement programs, has some insights for SalesPOP! This two-part interview explores some of the most common questions surrounding creating a sales enablement program.

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ExecVision

APRIL 9, 2018

(This post features content originally written by Matt McDarby and Dan Smaida, published in ScaleX: Multi-Channel Sales Acceleration , by Chad Burmeister, January 2018.). Their experience tends to sound something like the following: “We knew it was time to train our sales force. The traditional approach is not working.”.

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Sales Evangelist

JANUARY 14, 2020

This time around, the sales spotlight is on Benjamin Franklin. We will explore five reasons why. Sales Spotlight - Benjamin Franklin One of the founding fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. There are five reasons why Benjamin Franklin was so effective: 1.Problem-solving

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Sales Tips: How to EARN the Right to Talk Product with Buyers. I hope you’d agree the interview would go better if you heard about the position and requirements the company felt were necessary before explaining your qualifications. Sadly, in the context of sales, many salespeople begin by talking about their offerings first.

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Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 5, 2015

Sales Tips: How to Avoid Premature Product Discussions. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Many sellers and vendors believe part of a seller’s job is educating buyers (even though few executive buyers want to learn all about offerings).

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2017

A common mantra for many sales strategies is to "Engage earlier and higher". So does this strategy have real merit, and if so, how do you best enable your sales reps to be successful? First, does it really make a difference if sales reps engage earlier? Execs don’t want a sales rep that shows-up and throws-up.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 15, 2014

An interview with Dario Priolo, Chief Strategy Officer for Richardson, a leading training and sales effectiveness firm. Research indicates that sales reps are being engaged later and later into the decision making process? In this “do more with less economy”, buyers have less resources and budget than ever to apply to new proposals.

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Customer Centric Selling

JUNE 17, 2015

Sales Tips: Patience Is a Virtue for Sellers. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Early in my sales consulting and training career I encountered an irreverent, funny and deceptively intelligent person named Bob Populorum. He defined selling as a hurt and rescue mission.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 6, 2017

This post is based on a podcast with Jordy Brazier, VP of Sales Operations for Qubole. Qubole is the largest cloud and diagnostic big data service, providing businesses with a self-service data platform to help them make data-driven decisions. By sales productivity, we mean the productivity of our reps. outlines Brazier.

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 6, 2017

This post is based on a podcast with Jordy Brazier, VP of Sales Operations for Qubole. Qubole is the largest cloud and diagnostic big data service, providing businesses with a self-service data platform to help them make data-driven decisions. By sales productivity, we mean the productivity of our reps. outlines Brazier.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

I recently had the opportunity to interview Dario Prolio from leading sales training and performance management firm Richardson. Here is an abstract from that webcast interview session ( click here to access the recording ): #1 Issue – Inability for Sales to communicate value messaging? So there is definitely a value gap.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 12, 2012

With economic uncertainty still in play, it should come as no surprise that Executives’ top priority remains cutting costs / improving business efficiency versus growth. This got me thinking, not about the current pessimistic economic outlook, but about a potential recovery and what it would mean for B2B sales and marketing strategies.

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Cience

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Frank Cespedes teaches at Harvard Business School. His next book is Rethinking Sales: What’s Changing, What’s Not, And Why Knowing the Difference Matters (Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming). . Why has a multi-channel approach become more important? Consumers now routinely do lots of online research.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 4, 2024

Why am I obsessed with sales? Wrote: Haat Zvi category: General sales , March, 2024 Spoiler: This is not an article about advanced sales strategies or tactics, nor about recommended management practices or about advance planning and mapping of the decision makers. Do you have a phone in your hand? an armchair?

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Pipeliner

MAY 28, 2023

This article continues our series on mega-threats to the sales industry, inspired by the fascinating bestselling book by Nouriel Roubini entitled MegaThtreats: 10 Dangerous Trends that Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them. We would also want to know if we lost any customers in a given sales period. What Happened?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

We asked ourselves: ‘Would you rather have your competitor work remotely or be all huddled up in an office together?’ One thing we’ve learned in helping our founders and operators scale their businesses is that cash is one of their most precious resources. Cashflow is the lifeblood of a business. Our unanimous pick?

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Gong.io

JULY 18, 2022

Too often, sales reps jump straight into their pitch without even considering their prospects’ needs or asking what they’re looking for. And in most cases, that’s a losing sales strategy. Solution Selling is a customer-centric sales methodology. Instead, it takes a more consumer-centric approach to sales. .

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Recently, a reader wrote, asking a lot of questions about pipelines–what are they, why are they important, how do we leverage them, and so forth. For example, I know of very few sales training programs that teach pipeline concepts (we’ve been doing this for the past 30 years). Why is the pipeline important?

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Salesmate

AUGUST 7, 2020

A competitive market is a never-changing scenario, and so is the fight for having better sales than your competitor. Sales – is the world giving sleepless nights to millions of people around the globe. Coaching the sales reps is one of the most trusted sales leadership ideas. All they actually care about is sales.

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Gong.io

APRIL 6, 2020

Why is developing new leaders essential to scaling your organization? On a recent episode of the Reveal podcast, we connected with Lou Wolf, VP of New Business Sales at Zoominfo (powered by DiscoverOrg), for answers to these and other questions that are top of mind for revenue leaders. I knew I could do it.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Here are the notes from this compelling and important interview: One of the biggest issues for Sales is that according to several research firms, over 1/2 of a typical prospect’s purchase decision is already complete before your sales reps are even being invited to the table. Are more buyers really paralyzed by inaction and why?

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SBI

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Seismic , the market leader for sales enablement platforms, today announced the acquisition of Percolate, a leading marketing campaign orchestration and content management platform. Seismic Acquires Percolate to Create Exceptional Content Experiences at Every Point in the Customer Journey. Doug Winter, Seismic co-founder and CEO.

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Allego

MARCH 21, 2024

When you work in sales enablement , you need to be a bit of a psychologist. Whether you’re creating a training program or trying to get buy-in for new sales enablement software, there’s a science to it. And a lot of the time we ask what we want that experience to be like, and then we reverse engineer from there.”

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