Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 1, 2024

To compete in any marketplace, especially the competitive arena of financial services, advisors, producers, lenders, and relationship managers must have a strategy for success. The top 7% of salespeople, the elite producers, certainly follow a sales strategy and can articulate what they do consistently to find and develop client relationships. There are many ways to differentiate and compete but there are 3 key areas to developing a competitive sales strategy.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 1, 2024

We walked by a brackish pond and one morning it appeared that two of the fish had babies. Not just a few babies. Not a lot of babies. There were two schools of baby fish which, at first glance, appeared to be underwater swarms of bees! There had to be hundreds of thousands of them! My first thought was to calculate the percentage of baby fish that would survive their first year.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 31, 2024

Our family of three walked into a store where we were invited to recline in an amazing smart chair. It had every bell and whistle you could imagine in a $10,000 massaging recliner. Aggressive salespeople are no more effective than passive salespeople but if I had to choose one over the other I would take my chances with the aggressive salesperson and attempt to get them to tone it down.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

AUGUST 1, 2024

Every year, a major Greek Festival attracts around 20,000 food and culture enthusiasts. The festival team diligently works with nearly 100 vendors to ensure the event runs smoothly. While all vendors are eager for business, many fail to fully understand the event's needs or follow up on the results. Post-festival, the organizing team conducts a thorough review of all purchases to determine which investments were worthwhile and which could be eliminated.

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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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SBI Growth

AUGUST 1, 2024

Now that half of 2024 has passed, your executive leadership team will likely want to start thinking about starting the annual planning process for 2025. However, to know how to move your organization forward with your goals for next year, we need to look at how things have been going so far. Understanding where your business is on its growth plan at present is the first step to achieving commercial success in 2025.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 29, 2024

Sales pipeline maintenance takes effort and discipline, but the payoff in terms of increased efficiency, accuracy and revenue makes it well worth the investment. The post 6 Keys to Effective Pipeline Management for B2B Sellers appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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SBI Growth

JULY 29, 2024

For years, there has been skepticism about whether top sellers can become great coaches. While promoting top sellers into frontline management positions has historically carried some risk, today’s top sellers are far better prepared to become great coaches.

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SalesFuel

AUGUST 1, 2024

It’s virtually impossible to MAKE someone like you. However, with practice, you can be an immediately likable person and in sales, that may be enough. Likability is among the most basic effective sales techniques, but it develops only with consideration for your prospect’s personality. Early life encounters and social interactions are the trial-and-error method of getting along with others.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JULY 31, 2024

As sales leaders, we've all noticed a shift in buyer behavior over the past few years. At The Center for Sales Strategy, we've been tracking this trend closely, and it's clear that the landscape has changed dramatically. Recent studies, including one from HubSpot , suggest it takes anywhere from 12 to 15 touches before a prospect is ready to meet with sales.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 31, 2024

By integrating AI insights with the nuanced understanding and empathy of human sales coaches, organizations can foster deeper connections, trust, and mutual respect among team members. The post AI is a Game Changer for Sales Coaching appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 31, 2024

Our family of three walked into a store where we were invited to recline in an amazing smart chair. It had every bell and whistle you could imagine in a $10,000 massaging recliner. Aggressive salespeople are no more effective than passive salespeople but if I had to choose one over the other I would take my chances with the aggressive salesperson and attempt to get them to tone it down.

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Steven Rosen

JULY 29, 2024

Emotional intelligence (EI) has emerged as a critical skill set for effective sales leadership. The ability to understand and manage one’s own emotions and those of others can significantly impact a leader’s effectiveness, team performance, and overall sales success. Here, we explore the top five emotional intelligence skills that highly effective sales leaders possess and how these skills can transform their leadership approach. 1- Emotional Regulation Emotional regulation refers to

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Zoominfo

JULY 30, 2024

Revenue operations (RevOps) professionals are an increasingly important voice on go-to-market teams, with analysts predicting 75% of the highest-growth companies will soon employ a RevOps strategy. The reasons are clear: RevOps pros are the experts in streamlined processes and consistent, sustainable growth. And one of the clearest ways to deliver that value is through evaluation of a company’s go-to-market technology stack.

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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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Hubspot Sales

JULY 30, 2024

As a B2B salesperson for companies like IBM and Open Text, scheduling in-person meetings or phone calls was often challenging, regardless of my prospect or client’s industry or business size. Then, the game changed when I leveled up my sales email writing game with curiosity-provoking subject lines, strong body text, and compelling closing statements.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 1, 2024

We want our people to take initiative. When they see opportunities to drive greater success, we want them to seize those opportunities. When they encounter a difficult customer situation, we want them to figure it out and resolve it. While we develop playbooks, processes, and methodologies to help our people perform and succeed, these can never anticipate everything that will arise.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 31, 2024

The future of sales engagement tools lies in their ability to adapt to the changing regulatory landscape while continuing to offer value to sales teams. The post The Rise and Fall of Sales Engagement Tools appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Grant Cardone

JULY 29, 2024

Between living expenses and bills to pay, no one can survive with no money. Nonetheless, people find themselves in that position at one point or another. The important thing is that you don’t stay there. Here are the steps I’d take to get back in the black — fast. 3 Steps to Take IMMEDIATELY If […] The post No Money? Here’s What I Would Do… appeared first on GCTV.

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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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Hubspot Sales

JULY 31, 2024

When you think about online checkout experiences, odds are retail comes to mind. But over the past several years, digital checkout for B2B has seen an explosion in growth. In late 2021, a Gartner study revealed that 83% of B2B buyers prefer placing orders or paying for goods through digital channels. B2B consumers want the same seamless, product-led experiences they’ve grown to love with their favorite B2C brands.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 2, 2024

It’s become the fashion to apply lean/agile manufacturing approaches to our selling and GTM strategies. There are some principles we can learn from manufacturing (just as there are some we can learn from design/development, procurement and other sectors). But after spending years working closely with manufacturing executives, going through “Black Belt,” lean, and agile training programs, I have serious reservations about the rigidity with which these principles are being applie

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 31, 2024

As CRM systems get smarter with integrated AI functionalities, sales reps will do fewer manual tasks and be free to engage their prospects and their teams. The post CRMs are Getting Smarter and Humanizing Outbound Sales appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Grant Cardone

JULY 31, 2024

John Stamos is known as one of the most recognizable actors on the small screen. But now, he is working behind the scenes with newcomer streaming service, Zeam. He has been appointed its Chief Innovation Officer. And, the story behind this unlikely collaboration sounds ripped from a primetime script… How a Sitcom Star Becomes a […] The post John Stamos’ Latest Move?

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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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Hubspot Sales

JULY 30, 2024

Thriving as an entrepreneur is an extremely attractive concept for many, and you can see why — the thought of applying your passion, dedication, and savvy to create and profit from something truly yours is starry-eyed daydream material. With that said, entrepreneurship is anything but easy to navigate (a wild take, I know) — and the life of a business owner comes with a host of challenges, choices, potential pitfalls, and common hiccups.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 31, 2024

For decades, tools/technologies have been developed with the promise of freeing up seller time to do that which is most critical–connecting with and engaging customers. We have 1000s of tools that demonstrably improve our efficiency. We can get much more done in much less time. In the past few years, AI and LLMs have amplified that. Not only do these tools enable us to accomplish more in less time, but they provide high levels of personalization and deep research on the organizations and i

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 31, 2024

B2B customers express increased interest in completing the sales process without contact from a salesperson. Can we be certain that AI won't completely replace reps? The post Will Your Next Rep Be a Bot? appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Smooth Sale

JULY 31, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay (inspiration) Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Crazier Ideas Yield Originality and Better the Outcomes Businesspeople know from the start that it is vital to build a standout brand to differentiate themselves from their crowded playing field. Doing the same as everyone else will only have them facing the need to quit. But if quitting isn’t in the cards, unique and seemingly crazy ideas become vital for long-term growth.

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Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 31, 2024

Think of the last time you wrote a check for something. Can you even remember? For many, the answer is a resounding no. In fact, nearly half of all Americans didn’t write a single check in 2023. Despite the preference for digital payments in our personal lives, 40% of all B2B payments are still made by check. And that’s because for decades, check payments have been the industry standard.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 30, 2024

I was tempted to title this post, Selfishness. But I realized I’m not really describing selfishness. Being self centered, we are focused on our own needs, desires, goals and aspirations. Selfishness, by contrast, is that same focus, but at the expense of others. The selfish focus on win/lose. It’s toxic and cannot be tolerated in any environment.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 31, 2024

Effective onboarding can be accomplished when much of the process is automated, but maintaining a human connection is essential. Building trust requires developing authentic relationships. The post Is Your Onboarding Process Over-Automated? appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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