Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 12, 2020

In this blog article, we discuss the best advice sales managers can give their salespeople, and that is to "keep moving." If you want to increase sales within your organization, you must keep moving throughout the ups and downs, the missed opportunities, the clients who "ghost" you, and more.

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Steven Rosen

MAY 28, 2014

The answer that traditional sales leaders have used in the past is to throw more money at their team to drive performance. The researchers at MIT in a 2005 study for the Federal Reserve Bank concluded that : As long as the task involved only mechanical skills, bonuses and rewards work. The higher the pay the better the performance.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 17, 2023

From a sales strategy and process perspective, positioning value not only requires a great VALUE PROPOSITION but also supporting Will to Sell, Sales DNA, and Sales Competencies. Using data from just one of our dozens of community bank clients, this is what we found out about top 25% of the team vs the bottom 25% of the team.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 25, 2018

I know, you fell into sales, and perhaps from there, sales management. Bank on it! A good sales job interview question is, “Will you bank-roll me at relevant conferences 100 percent?” If hesitation, don't work there - that's an anti-sales culture. Your net worth is the size of your network. (h/t

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

However, I wrote to Gerard, who told me that he first heard this nugget of wisdom from Ed Clark, former CEO of TD Bank, but he doubts Clark is the original source. I worked there for eight years in sales and sales management positions. One could argue that sales managers don’t know how to coach.

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Referrals Ideal Customer Profile Banking Lead Generation 320

Increase Sales

MAY 8, 2014

Math sometimes seem to be a poison to those in sales management. These industrious folks have a tendency to jump on board with the latest so called best practice without actually doing the math to see if their sales team can meet the goals. Then visit 10 of the home encircling the open house home. Share on Facebook.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! building sales relationships (7). Sales Coaching (40). sales coaching skills (10). sales competencies (12).

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 6, 2012

It is your job to equip sales management with these figures. Sales Resources are focused in the wrong markets. You have ten sales resources focused on a $20M saturated market while only three are focused on an $80M growing market. They have 8 NYC banks as customers, 4 of which spend an average of $70K.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 28, 2020

The sales management activities that we perform today create the results that we achieve today. What activities are you doing now that are creating your current unsatisfactory results? How can you change them?

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Bernadette McClelland

JULY 8, 2012

Those who struggle with their finances I bet almost never open window faced envelopes or reconcile bank statements. Sales people who don’t measure prospecting or know their ratios or numbers are the ones who fall behind the 8 ball – but it’s too competitive out there to do that today.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 10, 2013

and France, has enjoyed a longer, more successful sales career than most, and he fully understands the power of referral relationships. In this month’s guest blog, he reinforces the referral message I’ve been spreading for years and presents hard data you can bank on. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Small Business'

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Increase Sales

MAY 9, 2014

After a extremely cold and snowy winter, sales people are out in force attempting to achieve the sales goals set by sales management. The problem is many of these sales managers have failed to do simple math to learn if these goals are realistic. By doing the math, probably2 sales people could be terminated.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 28, 2013

They’re trying to make in-roads and are banking on the fact that parents don’t make enough time to be with their children—to play games, do homework with pencil and paper, fly kites, listen to music, work puzzles, and just be present. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Small Business' What about you?

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SBI Growth

JUNE 28, 2013

Sam, the VP of Sales is knocking at Kathy’s door. He said, “My sales managers pointed to the lack of leads as their downfall.” He was banking on a quarterly bonus to take his family to Disney World. He was getting beat up by the CEO. The Q2 review did not go well.

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Lead Gen Marketing Banking Social Media 319

Hubspot Sales

MAY 18, 2021

And it makes sense — tracking and pulling insight from sales calls manually is a frustrating, labor-intensive, often ineffective burden that can eat up sales managers' time without offering much return. Sales managers stand to gain a lot by incorporating this kind of tech into their teams' day-to-day and broader sales efforts.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 11, 2019

No deep geeky conversations to have that would surely persuade other brilliant techies to sign large contracts and make contributions to my firm’s and my bank account. That was when I realized what the sales people did that I had worked with in my first sales engineering job— they got meetings. Oh, so that was what they did!

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Engineering Small Business Small Business Banking 262

The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

At the end of a year, they don’t shut down because a number is in the bank. Nothing will frustrate a sales manager or senior management more than a salesperson who sees themselves as the only person they need to satisfy. For each person who may be hitting their number, there could easily be somebody who is missing their number.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 19, 2013

BISA is the Bank Insurance and Securities Association. There are several GREAT speakers in the general sessions, but it is not a conference where you will find constant discussions about the art and science of selling or sales management. Jim McNeil - Executive Director of BISA, – Scott Stathis – Managing Director and COO BISRA.

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Zendesk Sell

JULY 16, 2019

To understand this concept more clearly, take a look at the main differences between a traditional “waterfall” sales process and an agile process: Agile sales management explained. So, how does agile management relate to sales? The benefits of agile sales management.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Targeting is a fairly simple practice, but when sales management doesn't perform this activity for their salespeople (as in, "Mary, call on these 27 accounts.") Take the case of the salesperson who targets hospitals, oil companies, banks and insurance agencies. They aren't being held accountable by sales management.

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Increase Sales

AUGUST 9, 2013

Believe it or not, many in sales management from the small business owners, C Suite executives all the way down to the sales managers have this hidden motto within their sales teams: Failure is Job #1! Share on Facebook.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 12, 2012

They didn't answer the question of how sales professionals stay motivated as much as they answered how certain salespeople motivate themselves and how certain sales managers motivate others. But salespeople who love what they do and love either the thrill of success or the sight of their growing bank account are pre-motivated.

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The Spiff Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

No matter how confident you are in your sales strategies, it’s crucial to develop contingency plans for if and when something goes wrong. Consider each scenario that might affect your sales team’s ability to hit its targets. What if you experience a period of high sales turnover? What if a valuable sales manager leaves?

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 12, 2024

Many or few, consistent or irregular, planned or impromptu, the sales performance management activities that we, as sales managers, use to motivate, train and hold our sales team accountable are at least partly responsible for the success or lack of success of those we manage.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 25, 2024

We rely on the pioneer and #1 sales management evaluation by Objective Management Group to help understand exactly what it takes to ‘motivate’ a sales team. What are the competencies and behaviors of those leaders who seem so talented at helping others achieve their very best?

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The Center for Sales Strategy

AUGUST 21, 2018

Well, this scenario is one managers often find themselves in. Even the most successful sales managers can find themselves in this situation if they aren't intentional with their management practices and focused on retention. Recruiting and filling your talent bank is important.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 16, 2012

We identify for the company the alignment between strategy and execution, the strength of their pipeline and the ability of the sales managment team to effectively: coach, motivate, mentor, recruit and manage performance of current sales people and new hires. Peter Jensen calls the 'coaching bias.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 21, 2023

Excerpt from Objective Management Group’s recent webinar on The Data Behind Sales Managers of Elite Teams. The second chapter of this guide addresses a fundamental question: how often should sales managers coach their teams?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 17, 2024

This applies to the C Suite and Sales Sr Sales VPs when considering the needs of their sales organizations, as well as to sales managers and salespeople when considering their own needs. Companies use insurance agencies, benefit firms, banks and more.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Sales organizations typically have plenty of sales data due to the growth and usage of CRM systems, critical to capturing the activities that are occurring with the sales team. But effective coaching with sales performance data often becomes the greater challenge with sales managers and leaders.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

MAY 16, 2022

As sales managers, we need to treat recruitment the same way. The most effective way to ensure you’re able to hire better talent is to build and maintain a strong talent bank. We are always asking our salespeople to prospect and keep their eyes open for new potential clients.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 19, 2017

I’ve written on this subject, talked about it at workshops/keynotes and presented it to our clients in our Sales Managed Environment ® Certification program for over 20 years. It’s still something that we get asked about when we present at the Community Bank CEO Network and other venues. It’s still in the news.

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Awarathon

APRIL 10, 2025

In todays dynamic landscape, Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) face growing pressure to convert faster, pitch better, and personalize every conversation. But with changing borrower expectations, regulatory scrutiny, and fierce competition, even experienced sales reps struggle to consistently close deals.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Whether they want a new accountant, a builder, a marketing firm, a lawyer, a technology solution, or a new bank, most people don’t pick one at random via Google. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Small Business' But when it’s time to narrow down the options, where do they turn? Comment Here.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Imagine similar spikes in your sales metrics and you’ll see the glaring imperative for setting goals. So yes — there are few things more important to you as sales manager than to set goals. Skip right to the 6 steps to influence outcomes as a sales manager >>> Having Goals is NOT Enough to Break Through.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 16, 2012

Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! building sales relationships (7). Sales Coaching (40). sales coaching skills (10). sales competencies (12).

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Sales Hacker Training

APRIL 1, 2025

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