August, 2021

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Best Sales Prospecting Power Tips

Score More Sales

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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How to be Successful in Sales in 2021

Anthony Cole Training

Here at Anthony Cole Training Group, we are always striving towards helping our clients achieve sales success. We interviewed our Sales Development Experts for a curated list of how to be successful in sales for 2021. Their advice includes successful sales traits, habits, and characteristics. Use this detailed resource to your advantage, and boost your sales success in 2021!

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Ghosted? Here’s what to do…

Mr. Inside Sales

Ghosted—just the sound of this is chilling. But when you’ve done a presentation and then don’t hear back from a prospect, it can often mean the kiss of death. What to do? Here are three things I do to avoid being ghosted: #1: Because prospects are pitched all the time, and because the majority of them are not going to be a buyer (at this time) for my services, a way I get them to reach back out to me is by offering them a way out.

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The Fearless Sales Leader

Steven Rosen

The Fearless Sales Leader. Fearless sales leaders know that business success is defined as achieving an objective or goal. Sales leaders are accountable for making the company’s sales objectives and sales objectives equal success. As part of their role, sales leaders set the direction, create the culture, hire, develop, and retain top sales professionals, aiming to create an environment that facilitates success.

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Evolving Beyond Intent: Create Customer Value with Signals

Speaker: Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing at ZoomInfo & guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester

Buying signals extend well beyond intent. They give go-to-market teams the chance to know everything about their customers. With buying signals, they can reach more customers and win more deals. Join Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing of ZoomInfo and guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester for this new webinar where you'll find out how marketing teams operate more efficiently and sales teams close more business when they act on buying signals, not just intent!

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Great, Great B2B Media Sales Opportunity

Sales and Marketing Management

If you like working on your own schedule, in your own digs, and make quite good dough at it, we have a fun and profitable opportunity for the right, qualified person. The post Great, Great B2B Media Sales Opportunity appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Follow This Advice to Schedule More Meetings and Spend Less Time Doing It

Understanding the Sales Force

Yesterday I watched a toad walk across the outdoor side of our kitchen window. Picture it! I wish I had video but it ran so counter to what I have observed toads doing over the past 65 years that I froze. I performed a google search and found exactly one image of a toad on a window. Please understand that the dirty window and sill are not mine - I found the image via a Google search.

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Building the Foundations for a Strong 2022: How to Align Role Profiles to Growth Plans

SBI Growth

While we all know the last 18 months have presented innumerable challenges, they have also highlighted how some individuals can thrive in digital or remote environments, flipping the script on the competencies many sales leaders thought were tried-and-true in their.

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Coaching Sales Behaviors

Anthony Cole Training

Coaching has become the single most important competency for sales managers to learn and optimally, they should spend 50% of their time coaching their salespeople. It is also the single most difficult sales management competency to learn and master. In this post, we will review the skills that contribute to sales coaching effectiveness and introduce a sales coaching process any sales manager can implement immediately to coach sales behaviors.

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The Sales Manager’s Success Checklist

Steven Rosen

Sales Manager’s Success Checklist. Do you have a success checklist to see if you are on track for a successful year? How can you assess if you are on track? It is far too early to look at sales early. Go through the checklist below and see how many items you have completed ensuring that you are on track. Here are the top 10 questions you should ask yourself and your sales managers to gauge if you/they have set the foundation for success.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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Don’t Make These 11 Email Prospecting Mistakes

Sales and Marketing Management

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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Prepare For The Post Labor Day Sprint

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. While the calendar may not agree, Labor Day, from a sales standpoint, is the end of Summer. Vacations over, back to work, finishing the year and setting the table for next year. While this year is no different, there is greater anticipation in light of vaccine and people’s back to work attitude. Much more than in other years, it is important to get ahead of things, and take steps to prepare for the post Labor Day sprint.

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Salespeople Will Close 50% More Business By Changing This One Thing They Do!

Understanding the Sales Force

We've gone from don't wear a mask, to wear a mask, to wear 2 masks, back to no need to be masked and now back to wear masks indoors, even if you have been vaccinated. CDC Guidelines change almost weekly, often lack the science to justify their recommendations, don't take local conditions into consideration and are usually very confusing to say the least.

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Get Busy Growing or Get Busy Dying: How to Evaluate Growth Levers for 2022

SBI Growth

Is your company enjoying the economic boom the economy is experiencing? 2021 has been a good year for the market with major stock markets up 15-18% year-to-date. This momentum has resulted in companies making bold moves to capture the opportunity.

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Don't Let AI Pass You By: The New Era of Personalized Sales Coaching & Development

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales & Devyn Blume, Sr. Account Executive

Are you curious about how artificial intelligence is reshaping sales coaching, learning, and development? Join Brendan Sweeney and Devyn Blume of Allego for an engaging new webinar exploring AI's transformative role in sales coaching and performance improvement! Brendan and Devyn will share actionable insights and strategies for integrating AI into coaching and development - ensuring personalized, effective, and scalable training!

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How to Prospect for Sales

Anthony Cole Training

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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Executive Coaching Gets Results!

Steven Rosen

Executive Coaching Gets Results. The Harvard Business Review reported that Executive Coaching is a $1 billion industry. In certain countries, as much as 88% of companies use coaching. A few years later, it seems that it’s not slowing down any time soon. So what’s driving this growth? Results. Plain and Simple. The case for executive coaching is that it’s working.

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6 Traits of the Modern Sales Presentation

Sales and Marketing Management

Organizations with modern sales presentations have a leg up in today’s selling environment. They meet establish trust and build confidence with buyers, and, ultimately, influence their purchase decisions. The post 6 Traits of the Modern Sales Presentation appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Usually The Best Choice Is No Choice

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. Choice , such a nice word, makes everyone who offers or receives one feel good: and for all the wrong reasons. But in reality, and in sales it will almost always work against you. I’ll go further, it is a clear indicator of laziness and lack of professionality. Yet for the all the usual reasons, salespeople and pundits swear by and depend on it.

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Increase Revenue With Better, Faster Sales Onboarding

Quotas need to be hit. Revenue goals need to be met. This reality makes shortening sales onboarding time a top priority. Organizations with a standard onboarding process boost employee retention by 58% and increase productivity by 50%. Unfortunately, many companies struggle with inefficient processes that lead to high turnover and missed revenue opportunities.

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Nothing Beats This One Tool When You Can't Sell Face to Face

Understanding the Sales Force

The "ABC's" is an alternate term for fundamentals. Unless ABC stands for Afghanistan, the Border, and Crime. The US Government has seriously botched the ABC's in 2021 and there's no way to easily undo what's been done. However, there are some misguided selling strategies that can be undone and in today's article we'll discuss the benefits of the single tool that is the real deal and a huge difference maker.

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Designing the Optimal GTM Model: 3 Keys to Success

SBI Growth

An effective go-to-market model has three primary benefits for a company. First, it supports a more efficient motion that minimizes your cost of new customer acquisition. Second, it enables your commercial team to capture greater wallet share from existing customers and grow their lifetime value. And third, it helps manage the expense-to-revenue (E:R) ratio of the business and ensure spend per segment is optimized.

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5 Keys to a Better Banking Sales Training Approach

Anthony Cole Training

The bank CEOs we work with know they know that a banking sales training approach will help them by putting a structure in place for all to follow. In this blog, we discuss the 5 keys to choosing and implementing a better banking sales training program.

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Top 10 Reasons to Set Goals

Steven Rosen

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100 Fastest-Growing eCommerce Companies to Boost Your Competitive Edge

Looking to sell your product to emerging eCommerce companies? To succeed, you need to know which companies are leading the way. With over 30 million eCommerce websites worldwide, identifying the key players can be challenging. That's why we've compiled a list of the 100 Fastest-Growing eCommerce Companies in North America & Europe, showcasing those with impressive year-over-year traffic growth.

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Is a Sales Manager Free-For-All Hindering Your Quota Attainment?

Sales and Marketing Management

The best sales teams get into an aligned operating rhythm of activities and meetings, and execute using agreed-upon best practices. The post Is a Sales Manager Free-For-All Hindering Your Quota Attainment? appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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In Sales Time Is Value Not Money

The Pipeline

By Tibor Shanto. Helping people adopt new skills and habits can take many forms. One proven way is to use analogies from different yet relatable practices. In sales the go to is often sports, and one can understand why. The stats, competitiveness, playbooks, execution, individual contribution to the team effort, and more. No issue with that, but I prefer to use investment and the financial markets, primarily because of the focus on value.

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Siri Can't Help You Close the Deal but Doing These Three Things Can!

Understanding the Sales Force

When it comes to navigation I usually opt for Waze but sometimes Siri can find a way out of traffic that Waze can't. On the other hand, try asking Siri to dial a phone number while she's navigating and you'll quickly learn that she can't multi-task. If you are navigating using Apple maps in CarPlay, then Siri will navigate to the address you asked her to call.

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How to Align Role Profiles to Growth Plans in 2022

SBI Growth

While we all know the last 18 months have presented innumerable challenges, they have also highlighted how some individuals can thrive in digital or remote environments, flipping the script on the competencies many sales leaders thought were tried-and-true in their world. As highlighted in our 2022 annual planning report , we see leading firms redirecting an average of 19% of their sales capacity from “Field Sellers” toward some combination of Inside Sales, eCommerce platforms, and Customer Succ

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Buyer & Customer Engagement: A Digital Exhaust Methodology

Unlock growth through customer-centric campaigns that deeply understand buyer journeys from awareness to post-purchase. This eBook shows how aligning marketing, sales, and customer service via an "outside-in" approach resonates with audiences, fosters trust, and drives loyalty - outperforming "inside-out" product-focused tactics. Gain a competitive edge through customer insights!

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How the ZoomInfo Mobile App for Sales Can Help Your Business

Zoominfo

The sales and marketing landscape has changed dramatically over the last year. At least 25% of you are reading this article from your smartphone—on the go or from your home office. You’re selling from your home office, too. With hybrid or fully remote models now the norm for you and your customers, the need to stay “mobile” and flexible is more imperative than ever.

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Sales are Down… What is the Boss Going to Say? Nothing!

Steven Rosen

Sales are Down. … What is the Boss Going to Say? I always hated having to explain why sales are down. There is never a good answer. Sales executives and managers have no shortage of challenges. I can remember numerous times. I faced challenges when sales were off. One year in February we were already behind budget in sales. I knew I had to do something.

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The Metrics That Matter Most in Sales

Sales and Marketing Management

In this post, I’ll focus on metrics for the sales force, prospect development and opportunity management. The post The Metrics That Matter Most in Sales appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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