No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Yet, too many sales leaders fall into the trap of believing the latest digital sales tools or automation platforms will solve their sales prospecting problems. They will only do that if referral selling is built into the sales processwith training, metrics, and accountability for results. Emphasize mentorship and coaching.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Sales training can be a significant investment in your sales team. However, despite this, it would be a mistake for organizations to think they can just sign their team up for training and watch them succeed. To be successful, training cannot be a one-off event. What do you want reps to take away from the training?

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2025

It seems the word “Coaching” has become one of those fashionable words, permeating every discussion. Go back 15 or more years, and we barely saw the word coaching. Today, we find coaching applying to about everything we do, both in business and in our personal lives. It provides coaching on how I spend my time.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 30, 2025

Heres how some of todays top experts use AI to sidestep common challenges, encourage experimentation, enhance sales training, and create smarter prospecting lists. Lead Scoring and Intent Analysis: AI ranks leads and identifies intent signals to prioritize the prospects most likely to convert. Heres how AI can help: 1.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 20, 2025

The email came in, “We need training. We’ve seen your programs before, can you talk to us about a training program?” ” I quickly arranged a discussion, “What kind of training do you need?” ” “We need sales training,” came the response. “We provide sales training!

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 24, 2025

I asked Bob why he thought negotiations would be required and he told me that his prospect said they didn’t want to spend more than $50,000. Bob’s prospect might have been bluffing, lying, testing, hoping, or making a first offer. You read that right. And 92% of the bottom half of salespeople need to be liked.

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Sales 2.0

JULY 8, 2022

This post describes a framework that I have found over the last two decades can really change the math on prospecting. They could be what Miller Heiman call a “ coach ”, someone that will give you information on what is going on in the account– the kind of information that can massively increase your chances of winning a deal.

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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. How do sales leaders create and balance the core element of a fine-tunes prospecting machine?

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Steven Rosen

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Awesome Virtual Coaching Creates Master Virtual Sellers. Sales organizations have had to adjust how they prospect, sell, and interact with customers and each other. . The two critical activities are selling and coaching. . You need to coach them ! Virtual Coaching. COVID has impacted everyone. Virtual Selling.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In Q4, we released enhancements to Copilot, our GTM Intelligence platform, that further empower enterprise GTM teams to engage prospects and customers with greater precision, speed, and intelligence. We believe these innovations will continue to revolutionize how teams identify opportunities, engage prospects, and close deals.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 10, 2025

Our team of sales experts at Anthony Cole Training Group have compiled 25 sales tips to help your salespeople prospect smarter, plan effectively, and sell with confidence. As Sales Leader, it is your role to bring resources to your team to help them become even better.

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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 16, 2025

In this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount is joined by Charley Bible of KaTom to discuss key strategies for sales leaders, focusing on teamwork, skill refinement, and the power of effective coaching. The Power of Fundamentals: When performance dips, returning to the basics can help sales teams regain their footing.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Sales coaching is one of the many key responsibilities of a sales leader and is one of the most effective ways to increase sales performance across your team. In fact, 65% of high-impact sales organizations (75% or more of reps achieving quota) report that sales managers spend 20% or more time coaching. What is AI Sales Coaching?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 21, 2019

Accordingly, video coaching has become a popular tool for driving readiness in sales organizations of all sizes and across industries. Typically, a coach (often a rep’s manager) will issue an activity: for example, “Show me your 30-second elevator pitch.” Validate training and certify reps. million words. Here’s How it Works.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Finding commonality and relating to a prospect is an important first step. The checklist below can help you, the coach, ensure that your salespeople are ready to build confident and trusting relationships. An effective sales pitch should begin with the early "bonding and rapport" part of selling. Dont confuse this with being liked.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

To be successful, sales professionals need to be experts in many different areas at once: their product’s strengths and weaknesses, their prospects’ pain points and needs, and the broader economic and competitive landscapes. Sales engineering, customer success, and support teams all require content and training.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Let’s be honest: Reaching positive results while coaching salespeople isn’t instantly gratifying or easy. Instead, over time, coaching builds a stronger sales team of people equipped and motivated to achieve their potential. In most situations, the key to effective coaching is diagnosing the issues. 5 Keys to Effective Coaching.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 23, 2019

Prospecting is not an afterthought. Prospecting is the foundation sales should be built upon. If you remove prospecting from the equation, business and in turn the economy will be affected very quickly. ” To be successful, you cannot rely solely on others, however, when it comes to prospecting, many salespeople do.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 22, 2019

That’s why I decided to host summer sales training courses this year. If you decided to run a marathon, you’d invest in many pairs of running shoes and a running coach, and you’d invest months of your time. And it took training and practice. Referral Sales Training Courses. A marathon is 26.2 It took seven hours.

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Vengreso

MARCH 26, 2025

Whether you’re new to the field or looking to close more sales, online sales training offers a flexible and effective path to success. Through virtual instructor-led training, professionals can now master the intricate selling process without the hefty price tag of traditional programs.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Tis the season for prospecting, right? Actually, 'tis the season for every sales leader and company to wonder: Are my people reaching out to enough prospects and customers so that we can begin the year strong?

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Allego

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Sales training can deliver a staggering 353% return on investment, according to a study by Southern New Hampshire University. This gap leaves sales managers asking an essential question: How do you demonstrate the ROI of sales training in a credible, reliable way? Proving the impact of sales training is no small feat.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

When salespeople aren’t hitting quotas, companies need to hire more salespeople, which increases the cost of recruiting, salaries and benefits, not to mention the costs associated with hiring additional sales managers that won’t coach up their salespeople. Responsibility is 1 of the 21 Sales Core Competencies that OMG measures.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 2, 2025

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Know Your Prospects Well for Sales and Business Growth Many approaches and specific strategies exist for most endeavors, including attempting to sell. Our blog offers insights on how to ‘Know your prospects well for sales and business growth.’

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

However, the big question remains: Is AI truly th e future of sales coaching? In this article, I’ll define AI sales coaching, talk through its benefits and challenges, and share some examples of AI sales coaching in-action. Table of Contents: What is AI Sales Coaching? But don’t just take my word for it. I bet you didn’t.

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Sales Gravy

MARCH 18, 2025

Gaius, who runs an insurance brokerage in Ohio wants to know how to get his new sales agents cold calling and building pipeline earlier in their training cycle, without making them feel overwhelmed and sabotaging their confidence. That momentum helps them stick with the grind of more complex training.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Sales training has never been more criticalor more challenging. This groundbreaking technology is transforming how enablement teams create, update, and personalize sales training content atunprecedented speed. Generative AI is enhancing sales enablements agility in delivering training for critical commercial initiatives.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 27, 2025

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Prospects Can Direct Us to A Better Path for Sales Long ago, salespeople were advised to generate many cold calls daily to find one or two interested parties. Its critical to realize that we are each unique individuals, prospects included, with varying thinking and abilities.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 31, 2025

Or, if those conditions do not apply, prospecting continues into perpetuity. Most salespeople who entered sales more than fifteen years ago and had to prospect for new business, have forgotten how to do it and if we are being honest, may not have been very willing or effective at this when they were expected to prospect.

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The Digital Sales Institute

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Outbound sales prospecting insights that will assist any salesperson to connect and engage with target prospects in their sales activity. Our outbound sales prospecting course isn’t a mere refresh of past strategies; it’s a modern take on what it takes to win new customers. What Is Outbound Sales Prospecting?

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 16, 2025

In a recent episode of the expert interview series hosted by John Golden and guest Walter Crosby , a seasoned sales coach and founder of Helix Sales Development, delved into the intricate challenges of hiring, finding, and retaining top sales talent. This can provide valuable insights into their potential performance in real sales situations.

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Highspot

JANUARY 30, 2025

Only 22% of teams use analytics to measure training effectiveness Source: State of Sales Enablement 2024 Traditional training methods , often focused on broad knowledge acquisition, are being replaced with more targeted, competency-based models that directly align with real-world performance metrics. What is Skill-Based Coaching?

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Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Breaking Up with Prospects: One challenge for sellers is recognizing when to disengage from prospects who show little progress. Find strategies for professionally and respectfully "breaking up" with prospects to avoid wasting time on deals that are unlikely to close.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Your top rep just completed a high-impact sales training session. This rapid decline in knowledge retention leads to inconsistent sales execution, wasted training investments, and a constant struggle to keep teams aligned on best practices. times more likely to provide ongoing reinforcement training compared to less effective teams.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

me) to actually absorb your outstanding training materials, then put them into action to achieve the desired results? . You share these your people and train them in the implementation of these strats and tacs. I also spent the last 40 years training and developing thousands of salespeople and managers. Charbonneau.

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