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How to Get Ready for Quota-Busting Sales Success

Understanding the Sales Force

Treat that appointment as you would a sales call and don’t cancel it or reschedule it. For example, keeping the math simple, if you need to close $100,000/month in new business, you have a win rate of 50%, and your average sale is $25,000, then you must close 1 sale per week.

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How to be a Consultative Sales Coach

Anthony Cole Training

Most sales managers spend less than 10% of their time coaching their people, and only one-third coach their people on a weekly basis. Yet, the coaching competency is the most critical part of a sales manager's responsibilities. It is also the most difficult skill set to learn and master. And remember, not all coaching is effective.

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How To Double Your Sales Pipeline in 30 Days

Understanding the Sales Force

Even the people who provide the services promising inbound leads, meetings, and sales increases are struggling to generate inbound leads! Today, there is only one effective, manageable and controllable way to quickly build a quality sales pipeline. It’s April Fools every day! It’s true. And that’s the problem.

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Building Tomorrow’s Success: How to Capture New Sales Opportunities for 2025

No More Cold Calling

If your focus is on winning as much business as possible before year-end, you’ll be starting 2025 in a losing position—with a lackluster pipeline and few new sales opportunities for the New Year. Referrals = New Sales Opportunities It’s tough to focus on prospecting when you’re working on a massive project or closing a big deal.

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From Sales Enablement to Sales Performance: Moving the Needle on the Metrics That Matter

Speaker: Mike Kunkle, Founder & Sales Transformation Architect, Transforming Sales Results LLC

More than 8 analyst firms, the Association for Talent Development, and the Sales Enablement Society have all defined “sales enablement” – each slightly differently. In hundreds of organizations, the sales enablement function is run differently, with a different focus, responsibilities, and initiatives.

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Sales Signals: How to Leverage Data & AI to Reach Prospects First

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Instead of waiting until buyers are clearly in-market, sales teams now can rely on a layered, AI-fueled analysis of multiple high-value signals to zero in on prospects who are strong fits for their product or service but not yet showing classic signs of interest. How do they do it? The advantage is clear. Something’s not working.

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How to Motivate Your Sales Team

Anthony Cole Training

Most sales managers say that one of their greatest challenges is their ability to motivate and set goals for their salespeople. If a sales manager can figure out what makes their people “tick,” they can better help them hit their goal numbers. Sales motivation seems like hard work because salespeople often value different things.

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The Best Learning Methodologies for Developing Elite Sales Leaders

Speaker: Steven Rosen MBA, Author, Executive Coach, Speaker and Top 50 Sales Influencer

It is well recognised that the frontline sales managers are the key to driving performance in sales organizations. If you had to choose between investing in sales manager training vs sales rep training what would you do? The challenge is, that the road to success in developing your sales leaders is fraught with pot holes.

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The Ultimate Sales Coaching Guide

Sales coaching is a training format that allows the leaders in your organization to share their valuable experience with the rest of your sales teams. It’s an interactive approach to sales training where sellers get to practice what they’re taught and use information in real-life scenarios. Why is sales coaching important?

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The Modern Essentials for Sales Onboarding Effectiveness

Speaker: Mike Kunkle, Founder & Sales Transformation Architect, Transforming Sales Results LLC

Traditional sales onboarding methods have not produced a strong return on investment or moved the needle on the sales metrics that matter. Modern learning methods reflect how today’s workforce prefers to interact with the world, and are driving greater ROI.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. Intent data can be overwhelming if you don’t know how to use it.

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Sales Training That Gets Results – With or Without Classroom ILT

Speaker: Mike Kunkle, VP Sales Enablement Services, SPASIGMA

Most sales ILT (instructor-led training) has historically not been very effective, if we consider “effective” to mean “changes behavior, improves results, or produces a ROI.”. In this webinar, sales enablement expert Mike Kunkle will: Explore how you can deliver real results with sales training.

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Buyer's Guide: Best-of-Breed Sales Enablement

The results are in—companies who have sales enablement consistently report higher win rates than companies who don’t. This guide will help you understand: The subcategories of sales enablement. How to set up your best-of-breed sales enablement ecosystem. The best-of-breed and single-vendor approaches.

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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails. Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong.

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Reinforcement: The Key to B2B Sales Rep Training

Will your B2B sales rep training program result in long-lasting sales performance improvement? Download this whitepaper – Training Reinforcement - Critical For B2B Sales Reps – to learn how to strategically develop your B2B sales training reinforcement and maximize sales rep behavior change (and your ROI).