MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 7, 2011

The prospect shows up 30 or 45 minutes late for the meeting. You do not have enough time to do a proper sales interaction and you feel the prospect has complete disrespect for your time. In Part I and Part II of this article, we began to focus on the following solutions to use the prospect’s tardy incident to your advantage.

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Awarathon

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In todays fast-paced insurance industry, staying ahead requires more than just traditional sales tactics. AI coaching for insurance agents is transforming the way agents improve their skills, manage time effectively, and close more deals. However, insurance agents still face several challenges that hinder their productivity.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The company that provides us with cyber-insurance required that our entire team watch a series of 21 training videos to make us more aware of how hackers operate, how easy it is to be hacked, and what we must do differently in order to protect our data, privacy and accounts. I found it challenging to write this article.

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Salesmate

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Amidst the ferociously competitive market in the insurance sector, you need a way to stay on top of your game. When you’re on the path of growth, you need to capture and nurture every prospect. Insurance agents deal with multiple tasks and clients every day. What is Insurance CRM? There’s close competition.

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Insurance Insurance CRM Policies 128

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Every salesperson has had at one time or another a prospect who just won’t move forward and buy. To create an engagement you might provide to the customer 2 websites you want them to look at to review what insurance companies look for in security systems. Again, what you’re doing is engaging the prospect.

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The most reliable and scalable approach to finding new B2B customers is outbound communications, whether by mail, phone or email, to potential prospects, using rented or purchased lists. B2B marketers typically select targets from prospecting lists based on such traditional variables as industry, company size and job role, or title.

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Harte Hanks Lead Rank B2B Data 232

Sales Gravy

MARCH 18, 2025

Gaius, who runs an insurance brokerage in Ohio wants to know how to get his new sales agents cold calling and building pipeline earlier in their training cycle, without making them feel overwhelmed and sabotaging their confidence. The question is, how soon can they start generating leads and setting up sales conversations?

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday, I received two assessments for the same candidate: one from Objective Management Group (OMG) and one from Caliper. Caliper's is a personality test adapted for sales. Caliper's is a personality test adapted for sales. The candidate scored 60% on Caliper and 92 on OMG.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Learning about sales and selling is one of the things I enjoy most about what I do. When I started my personal quest to improve my understanding of sales, my ability to execute a sales process effectively and to ultimately improve my sales results, there was much for me to learn. in Dallas, Texas. in Dallas, Texas.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 10, 2020

The use of Zoom and other face-to-face applications to carry out sales calls instead of doing them in person is the new normal. Encouraging the Team Through Changing Sales Climates. To me, the most important role of management is to motivate and remove obstacles for their sales teams. Shifting Messaging .

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 3, 2013

For a prospect making a decision to buy means taking the risk of a competitor coming by soon after with a better proposal that is a better fit to the prospects situation. How do we insure that we are. [[ This is a content summary only. Sales Tips closing the sale indecisive clients selling skills'

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 16, 2014

Everyone in selling or managing a sales team knows that one of the most important keys to selling more is getting in front of more people. I was talking to a prospect yesterday about this very thing. It reminded me of a pivotal conversation about prospecting that I had years ago when I was new to selling. Duh is right.

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Prospecting Insurance Insurance Cold Calling 159

Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2025

Sales is no longer about dialing faster or pitching harder. Today, it all comes down to using smarter sales coaching techniques. Using AI sales tools can help teams level up by analyzing real sales conversations, identifying what works and what doesnt. Sales teams need every advantage they can get.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

A sales enablement software company can now create an audience consisting solely of sales employees at companies with 20+ people in sales. For the first time ever, optometrists can actually place targeted ads to audiences consisting of employees at companies with vision insurance.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 20, 2025

” “We need sales training,” came the response. “What kind of sales training do you need?” “Sales training, our people aren’t performing the way we expect,” came the response. “We just need sales training, our people need to sell better, how much does your training cost?”

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 18, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Today, more than ever before, strategic partnerships, both formal and informal, are an important element of conducting business. The referrals and introductions which happy customers make for their sales reps. And everyone needs to make the most of their prospecting time.

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Sales 2.0

MAY 14, 2020

And I’ve done this many (many) times in my sales career and used many (many) hours of time on this. And I know many senior sales people that have spent lots of time on this too. Sales people should sell. Apparently, a lot of sales people think researching this kind of contact data is the price of doing business too.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I’ve been in the sales and sales management consulting business for 21 years. Prior to that, I was an insurance wholesaler, an insurance agent, a Nautilus Regional Sales Manager, a Nautilus Regional Sales Rep and collegiate athletic coach. I have come to this realization based on my last 4 sales.

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Hiring Insurance Insurance Margin 204

Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 16, 2014

Prospecting, prospecting, prospecting. I was in my second year of my insurance career with National Life of Vermont. Tony, it''s prospecting.". After 30 years, it''s still prospecting! Even if I''m in this business for 30 years, prospecting is STILL going to be my biggest problem. The Fun Rule.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 27, 2017

I’ve been working on growing sales for over 30 years. First with Nautilus Exercise Equipment, then in the insurance business and for the last 23 years with Anthony Cole Training Group. It’s been at least 25 years since I heard David Sandler, on a cassette tape, say; “there’s no such thing as bad prospects, just bad salespeople.”

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

With raw honesty, he shares key mistakes made along the way and invaluable lessons learned about building a winning sales playbook, culture, and team structure. His path to Levelset was serendipitous he had tried to sell Wolf health insurance, thinking the company was much larger than it actually was. I’m competitive.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. First, it's important to know that OMG's assessment is sales specific - built for sales. Then modify the names of the findings to make them sound more like sales findings. Motivation (Caliper looks at motivation in general while OMG looks at sales motivation.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 244

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 9, 2012

He has carried a bag, been a sales executive, and actually provides tips we can use. I’m always learning—even when I’m writing about How to Attract Sales Prospects in a Tech-Focused World. So, I was surprised when a top salesperson I know told me he did not use LinkedIn for prospecting. That makes sense.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 8, 2018

Only good leads matter: If marketing provides thousands of unqualified leads that go nowhere, money disappears and the sales department feels slighted. They couldn’t identify the issue, but after some digging, we discovered a delay of three hours between receiving the lead and delivering the information to sales.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

No need to go to the gutter right away, there is a lot to be said for words in sales before we have to go blue. As long as companies fill their sales people’s heads with more “Product Knowledge” than business skills, the challenge will persist. By Tibor Shanto. Make them proficient in conversational in business.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 26, 2019

I was surprised to hear him talk about the fact that his company was now embracing specialist sales roles. The CMO said this “breakthrough” strategy was the foundation of the company’s sales and marketing plans. The CMO said this “breakthrough” strategy was the foundation of the company’s sales and marketing plans.

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Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Customer Lead Rank 229

Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In this blog, we discuss why prospects object when it comes down to buying time, and why we can't always blame the prospects in these situations. Overall, salespeople must ask better questions to help increase sales, build better relationships, and help uncover their prospect's compelling reasons to buy.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Have You Read The Sales Book About? Sales eXchange – 121. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Proactivity , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales eXchange , execution. Why not adopt that within sales organizations.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 8, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Inc. Forget for a minute that those of us in the sales development space (he calls us pundits) have been trying to help companies and their sales teams transition from a transactional to a consultative approach for years. Business, Auto and Professional Liability Insurance.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2024

One of the key promises of generative AI for business is the ability to eliminate time-consuming, manual research and prospecting tasks for frontline go-to-market professionals. Existing or prospective partner companies could leverage this signal to proactively pitch their reach and engagement with key verticals to land a major investment.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 21, 2013

What does sales experience have to do with sales success? "It If your experiences in sales - the wins, the losses and the close calls - provide you with lessons that help you grow and change, then your experiences can have a significant impact on your sales success and the rate at which you achieve that success.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 5, 2014

Remote professional selling, or Inside Sales, is tough – lots of activity and not always a lot of revenue to show for it. Suddenly your first deal closes – or your first deal after a slump – or enough deals to get you to the next level in your comp plan – and wow, is sales great! He is known as the father of positive psychology.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 30, 2015

The biggest prospecting sin you can commit is not to prospect, but there are many others that are dangerous and can have almost as detrimental effect on your sales success, and more. People use this approach because they feel that it will make it easier for the prospect to accept a 15 minute meeting. Tibor Shanto.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 2, 2021

Remember, this is an “elevator pitch” designed to inform and grab interest in a prospect during the time you’re in an elevator together (or during that crucial 20 seconds you’ve got on the phone). ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Focus on the direct benefits to your specific type of customer.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 18, 2012

For years we - Anthony Cole Training Group - have taught and instructed our clients about sales and selling. What makes it so hard to qualify or disqualify a new prospect? When I first got into sales with Nautilus Exercise Equipment in Dallas, Texas I didn't know that I really wasn't in sales. But they are not alone.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 13, 2014

I was first introduced to goal setting in sales when I was an insurance agent with National Life of Vermont. I never did write 100 lives but, based on the sales activity reporting I did every week, I should have. I failed in the life insurance business. Towards the end of my career, I contracted with a sales trainer, Tom.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan We frequently discuss reasons why salespeople fail, the differences between successful and unsuccessful salespeople, and scenarios where salespeople make good versus bad choices. Take the case of the salesperson who targets hospitals, oil companies, banks and insurance agencies.

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