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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The Trends You Need to Succeed This Holiday Season

October Prime Day is usually an early sign of how consumer spending trends ahead of the holidays. This one was no exception. Our October Prime Day Report breaks down what’s working: the products flying off the shelves, the categories winning big, big brands, and the search terms defining demand. All brought to you via Similarweb’s Shopper Intelligence platform.

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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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Top 10 Reasons to Set Goals

Steven Rosen

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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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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Buyer’s Guide: 5 Tough Questions To Ask a Salesforce Managed Services Provider

This guide is for leaders who recognize the importance of Salesforce but would rather trust a team of external experts to do the heavy lifting. Choosing the right managed services provider is a significant decision that impacts your business's efficiency and success. In this 10-minute read, you'll find 5 essential questions to ask any potential provider.

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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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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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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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Beyond the Basics: How to Develop and Retain a Top-Performing Sales Team

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales at Allego

Maximizing sales rep performance is no easy task. 📈 Traditional sales training methods focus heavily on the first few weeks in the sales role. Companies dedicate time, resources, and budget to onboarding new hires, only for them to forget what was learned in those first few weeks, lose motivation, and struggle to come to grips with their role.

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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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7 Simple Ways Chatbots Convert Leads on Your B2B Website

Zoominfo

As a marketer, you know how to get your audience’s attention. You create engaging content and people click on your offers. But what do you do with the clicks you generate? How do you get visitors’ attention and start a productive sales conversation? Chatbots in B2B marketing and sales are the perfect lead generation tool for digital activities that lead prospects onto your website.

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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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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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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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Secrets of a Successful Sale: Optimizing Your Checkout Process

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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7 Tips for writing the perfect follow-up sales email (according to science)

Sales Pro Central Submitted Articles

This article is part of the Gong Labs series, where I publish findings from our data research team. We analyze sales conversations and deals using AI, then share the results to help you win more deals

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Podcast 211: Doug Landis on How Product-Led Growth is Shifting the Marketplace Copy

John Barrows

Doug Landis, Growth Partner at Emcap, joins John this week to discuss the shifting roles of sales due to product-led growth and how companies can adjust in order to evolve. This episode is especially important for the mid-tier 50% of reps that want to further their sales career. Doug and John discuss how over half of the reason people buy anything is due to the experience, and Doug talks about how he qualifies that experience.

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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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