Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 31, 2023

Today's topic: March Madness, the ongoing search for bracket and sales pipeline predictability. In the world of sales forecasting, you have the same problem! The March Madness tournament can be somewhat predictable, but upsets are expected.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Step 1 – Have the Sales Team Evaluated We leverage the gold standard of sales team evaluation tools to determine what the team’s full sales capabilities are today, and where the biggest gaps are in all 21 Sales Core Competencies. Throughout the training, we focus on the competencies with the biggest gaps.

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

How can your sales reps stand out from the crowd and start building their sales pipeline ? Prospecting is the process of starting sales conversations. For that reason, we teach sellers in our LinkedIn training to subscribe to omnichannel prospecting for the best sales success while prospecting.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 27, 2019

Author: Brad Wilsted Note: This is part 3 in a 3-part series on the powerful role sales management plays in driving sustained revenue growth – and how companies can better leverage this critical position for improved top-line performance. Hire the right sales managers. This doesn’t happen by accident.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Because sales managers are not coaching – still – at least not consistently or effectively. It’s simply incomprehensible that sales managers aren’t picking up the clue phone. Sales Managers don’t want to coach because it takes away from personal sales.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 2, 2019

Author: Brad Wilsted Note: This is part 2 in a 3-part series on the powerful role sales management plays in driving sustained revenue growth – and how companies can better leverage this critical position for improved top-line performance. What does great front-line sales management actually look like?

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 1, 2020

Sales pipelines are similar to the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears. This one is too fat, this one is too skinny, and the rarest one of all; this one's just right.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 27, 2013

There are certain trainings that can produce these results. Register now for our How to Make Your Number in 2014 : A Sales Strategy You Execute. By registering, you will get our Quarter 3 Pipeline Strategy Assessment. It will help your team determine: What deals can close quickly in your pipeline.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

We all know how challenging it can be to manage a constantly changing pipeline, but it's essential for reps to stay organized to ensure their opportunities are moving forward. So, how can you ensure that your reps keep their pipeline current? Here are four tips to help them stay on top of their deals.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 26, 2014

The Pipeline Guest Post - Butch Bellah. How would you like to be able to easily (almost effortlessly) track your ten hottest prospect and keep them moving toward a sale? The key is to understand each of these ten is at a different stage of the sales process and they have to be handled as such. Well, you’re in luck!

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 18, 2013

If you’ve read our blog lately, you’ve noticed sales execution is a popular subject. The Death of Event-Based Training. Each of these articles focuses on your sales reps. Effective ways to enable your sales reps to make the number. Today’s post focuses on the missing link: Enabling your front-line sales managers.

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Allego

JULY 9, 2020

Traditional training and sales enablement approaches won’t solve this challenge. Today, a key factor for success is sales enablement technology that allows teams to train, coach, and collaborate virtually. Here are eight essential elements of a virtual training program that will help your organization succeed.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Recently, a reader wrote, asking a lot of questions about pipelines–what are they, why are they important, how do we leverage them, and so forth. For example, I know of very few sales training programs that teach pipeline concepts (we’ve been doing this for the past 30 years). Why is the pipeline important?

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SBI Growth

JULY 22, 2013

There are 10 best practices Sales VPs have taken to ensure this doesn’t happen. Below are five of the 10: Sales Manager/VP field sales rides : Participating with your sales reps on more field calls leads to increased revenue. Make the sales job fun. Sales people get referrals more often through Linked In.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This is the first in a series of interviews with sales management subject matter experts, examining the current and future states of AI in sales. This first interview is with Oliver Churchill , the founder and CEO of Acuity Sales Decision Science. I was curious to hear what he thinks. These are just the Insights portions.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 14, 2014

Examples in sales may be lead to opportunity conversions, or proposals to close. You often hear sales managers and director speak of how they are doing against their KPI’s. I was recently contacted by a sales director about training the team. What’s in Your Pipeline? What do you want me to cut?” “No

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 13, 2024

In the Sales Leadership Awakening podcast, Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley stress the lack of coaching and support for sales managers, underscoring the need for coaching for these managers. Evaluating sales managers’ success should exceed sales quotas and include turnover and team development metrics.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Do you have at least 3x quota in the pipeline? Do you have enough sales people to cover the new quota? Set up a planning session with your sales managers immediately. How can you build up to 3x quota in your pipeline? How many actual opportunities by sales person is that? Weekly training sessions.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a sales manager, I’m sure you have pipeline meetings often. But, do you ever ask yourself, “How can pipeline meetings be a coaching opportunity?” Let’s start with an analogy: You wouldn’t expect a rookie with no training to pick up a bat in a major league baseball game and knock it out of the park on his first try.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 17, 2014

But most sales reps enter the field without any formal training. Some of us get lucky and thrive under a brilliant sales manager. In fact, three out of four salespeople aren’t performing up to par, according to research from sales training consulting firm, Kurlan & Associates. You’ll be dead on.”.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Sales training can be a significant investment in your sales team. However, despite this, it would be a mistake for organizations to think they can just sign their team up for training and watch them succeed. To be successful, training cannot be a one-off event. What do you want reps to take away from the training?

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 4, 2021

For many sales reps, pipeline reviews are like meatloaf. However, with the right approach, a pipeline review is an opportunity. In addition to deal coaching and forecasting, managers should challenge reps to know their deals and develop plans to close them. As with much of sales, pipeline reviews should be routine.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

Do sales reps demonstrate product features, or do they discuss the benefits for buyers? What is their sales plan for following up? Don’t even think about training your sales team on closing the deal. They’re not closing sales because your prospecting system is broken. Save your money. And that’s referral leads.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

That’s why building and managing a sales pipeline is so important. . A well-defined sales pipeline makes your sales process transparent, allowing you to see your deals in the sales funnel, where they’re getting stuck, and how long the entire process takes. What is a sales pipeline?

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 14, 2015

Companies had no pipelines, and many businesses folded. The problem was that sales management had their heads in the sand. So, they neglected the strategies, sales metrics , and processes that could have kept their businesses strong, or at least afloat, when the going got rough. Then the recession hit. We need both.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Pipeline building is the single deciding factor that determines the long-term success of a salesperson. Good salespeople that consistently fill their pipelines with new opportunities will close a lot and strike out a lot. Salespeople who fill their pipeline but don’t disqualify are bad salespeople!

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Gong.io

JANUARY 31, 2022

While the exact list depends on who you ask, the following (alphabetized) traits are all critical for a sales manager: Able to coach, analytical, available, confident, empathetic, good listener, innovative, leads by example, loyal, motivating, passionate, positive attitude, serves vs. dictates, strategic vision, strong communicator, and thoughtful.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 24, 2019

In fact, for the last few decades, only about 50% of sales reps have achieved quota ( source ). For many sales managers, the solution to this issue lies within artificial intelligence—or AI. At the time, many felt it was quite a stretch to imply software could manage relationships, but nonetheless, CRM took off.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 30, 2013

The correct time to add sales people is when business is soft. More sales people means more sales calls. This means your sales force will be in more deals. This is how your pipeline gets built. Training organized in “sprints”. The sales manager owns the process and is paid on average ramp time.

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Membrain

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I recently attended a training with Jason Jordan (co-author of Cracking the Sales Management Code ), his Pipeline Management Training. I was happy to experience training that takes us back to what really matters.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 9, 2024

Metric Baseline 10% Better Opportunities (annually) 100 110 Pipeline $4 million $4.4 Lack of sales training. Sales Managers aren’t asking them to, requiring it, or leading them through it because they too don’t know what good sounds like. Lack of sales management training.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 7, 2018

At the Sales Enablement Society conference in Dallas this past October, the Definition Working Group unveiled their definition: Sales Enablement ensures buyers are engaged at the right time and place, and with the right assets by well-trained, client-facing staff to provide a world-class experience along the customer’s journey.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Accurate sales forecasting is essential for business success. But it can be difficult to get it right due to certain missteps. Here are three of the most common errors that lead to incorrect forecasting and how to avoid them.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

We want to get better at selling and as sales leaders we want our salespeople to improve. We hope that training and coaching and sales ennoblement tools will get us there. We need them to improve.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 20, 2017

According to SiriusDecisions, more than one in three (36%) high-performing reps cite a lack of role-based training as an impetus for leaving their company. Accordingly, sales teams will better commit to providing continuous training and coaching, and clear, learning-driven career paths. Management-augmenting technology.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 19, 2014

It’s easy to get sucked into solving everyone’s problems, but that’s a waste of your management time and doesn’t help your reps develop their own problem-solving skills. The better strategy (for everyone involved) is to give your team the tools and training they need to find their own solutions. Click here.

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Zoominfo

MAY 13, 2018

It’s also reported that, when a person suffers from stress, they’re unable to access previous knowledge or training and instead resort to an automatic response—typically shutting down, quitting, or losing confidence. In sales, this automatic response can be a career killer. Do yourself a favor and build up your pipeline as you go.

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