July, 2010

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Why is Selling So Damn Hard?

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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Growing Revenues for Businesses, Raising Funds for Nonprofits.

Score More Sales

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Blog. About. Consulting. Training. Press. Speaking. Growing Revenues for Businesses, Raising Funds for Nonprofits. by Lori Richardson on July 29, 2010. Do you have a Mighty Cause you champion outside of your career? Perhaps your Mighty Cause is integrated into your work? For me, helping entrepreneurs and small business owners grow their revenues, and helping nonprofits grow funds IS my professional career and main cause.

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: TOP 20 GREAT SALES BLOGS

HeavyHitter Sales

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Recent Posts. A Salespersons Most Important Competitive Weapon. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. Why Year End Deals Dont Close: THE CESSPOOL! IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Are Top Salespeople Born or Made?

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Top 10 Reasons to Own Your Personal Domain Name

VuVan

'Have you ever checked to see if your name (first & last) is still available as a domain name? I feel that it is important to take ownership of your domain name, even if you don’t immediately have the need to develop a website at the current moment. Think of the domain name as real […]. Related posts: The Value of Developing Your Personal Brand We live in a branded world where we selectively choose.

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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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The Benefit Summary Close

Tom Hopkins

When the benefits of owning a product outweigh the benefits of keeping money in your pocket, the sale is made. Related posts: Knowing When to Close the Sale. Be Aware of Unique Cultural Needs in Sales. Closing Sales = Sweet Success.

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Sales Activity for Sales Success: No Excuses

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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The Biggest Issue With Communication ? Score More Sales

Score More Sales

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Blog. About. Consulting. Training. Press. Speaking. The Biggest Issue With Communication. by Lori Richardson on July 25, 2010. I’m in Austin today and heading to Dallas tomorrow to give talk at a leadership conference on communication and presentation. My big point, and theme for the talk is built around George Bernard Shaw’s quote, “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”.

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: The Seven Deadly Sins of Salespeople

HeavyHitter Sales

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Recent Posts. A Salespersons Most Important Competitive Weapon. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. Why Year End Deals Dont Close: THE CESSPOOL! IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Are Top Salespeople Born or Made?

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What is Personal Innovation?

VuVan

'Personal Innovation picks up where personal development left off. Personal innovation is about rethinking the ways you do things on a daily basis and to improve with each passing day. Maybe you have applied some personal development into your life, but as the times changes, what got you successful before might not work for the […]. Related posts: Why Personal Innovation is Important You might have heard this mantra before, “Innovate or Die”, Innovative Approach to Reboot You

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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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Survey: How World Class Sales Organizations Meet Quota, Speed Up Growth and Improve Lead Conversion Through Better Sales Training

Keith Rosen

Click Here To Take The Survey and Get A Complimentary Copy of This $399 Report That Benchmarks Best Practices. Would you like to learn how Best-in-Class sales organizations meet quota more frequently, speed up their revenue growth and improve lead conversion rates through better sales training? Aberdeen Group is conducting a survey that will help companies such as yours determine the Best-in-Class procedures for using sales training services and products to guarantee maximum revenue results and

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Emptying Your Sales Trash By Colleen Francis

Sales Training Advice

One day while I was out on my early-morning oceanside run in the South Beach neighborhood of Miami Beach, Florida, I passed a large group of city workers picking up trash from the waterfront. This is a daily routine in this well-populated area and their work is finished before anyone—well, anyone except the most die-hard running enthusiasts—hits the beach for a dose of sunshine, relaxation and fun.

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3 Lessons for Effective Communication in Selling

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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Know an Ethical, Great Auto Dealership? Need Your Input ? Score.

Score More Sales

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Blog. About. Consulting. Training. Press. Speaking. Know an Ethical, Great Auto Dealership? Need Your Input. by Lori Richardson on July 5, 2010. Having been contracted to find the “top” auto dealerships in five markets, it makes me curious to hear others comment on “what makes a great auto dealership?

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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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Sales Puny? Need a Workout?

Your Sales Management Guru

Is your organization and your sales team suffering from: Puny Revenues? Weak Results? It Maybe Time for a Sales Leadership Workout! A one & 1/2 Day Regimen for Getting Your Sales Organization in Shape . Build a proactive approach to Sales Management 2.0 that creates predictive revenue and a self-managed sales team. Learn how other top performing sales leaders have muscled up their teams to pump up predictable revenues.

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How to Wake Up Feeling Energized & Positive After a Holiday Weekend

VuVan

'Coming out of a long holiday weekend usually causes difficulty for us to wake up early and feeling energized from the extended day off. This is usually due to the fact that when we usually have a longer weekend than usual or if it is a holiday, we will either be at our family/friends place, […]. Related posts: 5 Ways to Enjoy a Holiday Weekend A balanced life is a life that is filled with.

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Do Your Employees Trust You? How to Build Trust – and Destroy It in an Instant

Keith Rosen

You Gotta’ Have Trust. At the conclusion of a training event that I delivered for a team of about 20 managers, one of their action steps at the end of the training was to introduce coaching to their team and enroll their salespeople in being coached on a consistent basis. About a week or so after the training was over, each manager emailed me to report on how their conversations went. 18 managers told me that their team was not only bought into being coached but were generally excited abou

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99% of Businesses are Being Stiffed! And You’re Probably One of Them.

SBI

Being picked last in gym class; standing by the punch-bowl while everyone else is dancing; or sitting alone at lunch-time in the school cafeteria; unfortunately, that’s what happens when the popular kids think you’re unworthy of attention. Software vendors are treating small business owners like the unpopular kids. While hundreds – make that thousands – of vendors offer exciting products, they’re intended only for the worthiest among us.

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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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Budget - #7 Sales Solution for Improved Sales Results

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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Deliver Personalized Screencasts to Your Clients in an Instant

Fill the Funnel

Custom, personalized screencasts delivered almost instantaneously to a client can help you win that next sale. Customers value an effective, speedy response to their requests. If you want to stand out from your competitors, one way is to deliver the information effectively and efficiently. That is where Screenr can help. Screenr is a web tool that creates and delivers a screencast over Twitter.

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It’s Almost August- 5 Steps to Finish Strong

Your Sales Management Guru

It’s Almost August-5 Steps to Finish Strong. As a strategic sales leader you need to be proactive in your thinking and actions. By now the summer is almost over and you need to be concerned about exceeding Augusts’ quotas, achieving September’s goal and the fourth quarter sales numbers. What should you be thinking and doing, here’s a quick checklist. 1) Ask each salesperson to identify if their top prospects/decision makers have vacations scheduled during the next 45 days and if they do, wi

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10 Valuable Personal Success Life Lessons

VuVan

'Learning from others is the best way to gain the wisdom from others successes and failures. In discussions with others who have been successful in life, I ask them about their top 10 best advice for personal success and have listed the best of them below. Most of these personal success life lessons are not […]. Related posts: The D Word for Personal Success Personal success is about achieving the goals and dreams we.

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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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Assumptions that Managers Make Which Fuel Mediocrity and Conceal Powerful Coaching Opportunities

Keith Rosen

If you’ve been following my blog and read my book on coaching, you may be asking yourself, “Okay, I get what coaching is, I realize that I need to upgrade not only what I do and how I coach but also how I need to think but wait; what, exactly, is actually coachable? Is everything coachable? Are some things ‘not coachable’?” The short answer is, everything is coachable.

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A Powerful Weapon for Hunters

SBI

If you’ve got a hunting territory, or you both hunt and farm for prospects, then you spend great effort searching for new sources of leads. And there’s no better place than the Web for coming upon a large herd of prospects gathered in one place. I’m talking about online directories. Whether it’s Hoover’s, JigSaw, the white or yellow pages, or association directories, there are hunting grounds where leads are abundant.

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Sales Guru Part II

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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Tips for Winning Voice Mail Messages by Jeb Blount

Tom Hopkins

The key to success with voice mail is to come to grips with the fact that on some level most of your buyers despise it and either ignore or delete most of their messages. It is wishful or, more likely, delusional thinking to expect your voice mail messages to actually be returned. However, with a [.] No related posts.

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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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Finding Opportunities

Your Sales Management Guru

Finding Opportunities. Last week I spoke at Microsoft’s World Wide Partner Conference, with 14,000 attendees it was a terrific event. The amazing action to watch was the volume of conversations taking place-not necessarily just on the Expo floor but EVERYWHERE! At this event Microsoft has created a software tool called “Connect” that allows anyone registered to search the registered list of attendees and arrange for a meeting in a predefined area for a 30 minute “speed date” or even to arrange a

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Innovative Approach to Reboot Yourself: Press Cntrl-Alt-Delete

VuVan

'Like our computers we have many things going on in our lives that can overwhelm us and cause us to crash or freeze things up to where we are in a rut or feel unmotivated. Like our computers, there are certain buttons you can push to get you out of that situation and by pushing […]. Related posts: How to Stay Motivated at Work: Reinvent Yourself Are you feeling un-motivated at work, not feeling the excitement.

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Recognize Those Defining Moments To Transform Your Team Through Coaching

Keith Rosen

Marco, a manager who participated in one of my management coach training programs, shared this story with me two days after he competed this training, right after a coaching experience he had with one of his salespeople. He told me he was at work, walking down the hallway towards his office. Miguel, one of his direct reports walked up to Marco and asked him if he could help with a problem he was having regarding one of his key accounts and moving this selling opportunity through his pipeline and