Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 9, 2024

In selling, you should have various rules of engagement when it comes to cultivating a prospect. Across the country, most salespeople just chase prospects. They fundamentally lack a process, a decision tree, if you will, for deciding yes or no in terms of determining if a prospect is truly a prospect for them.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Tis the season for prospecting, right? Actually, 'tis the season for every sales leader and company to wonder: Are my people reaching out to enough prospects and customers so that we can begin the year strong?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 30, 2025

Heres how some of todays top experts use AI to sidestep common challenges, encourage experimentation, enhance sales training, and create smarter prospecting lists. Lead Scoring and Intent Analysis: AI ranks leads and identifies intent signals to prioritize the prospects most likely to convert. Take email prospecting, for instance.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In Q4, we released enhancements to Copilot, our GTM Intelligence platform, that further empower enterprise GTM teams to engage prospects and customers with greater precision, speed, and intelligence. We believe these innovations will continue to revolutionize how teams identify opportunities, engage prospects, and close deals.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 25, 2024

It is good to remind your people that the prospects they are harvesting today are the ones that were planted some time ago. The goal is to find suspects and build them into prospects by fully uncovering and understanding their needs and goals. And that change, we believe, starts at the very beginning.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 10, 2024

In the highly competitive SaaS world, prospecting is often seen as the most challenging task—a test dreaded by many and mastered by few. However, the significance of prospecting is often overshadowed by the allure of the deal’s close, leading many sales managers to neglect to coach the top of the funnel.

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Sales Gravy

APRIL 23, 2025

Kyle, a field sales rep from British Columbia is struggling with a common prospecting challenge: how to consistently prospect when you're constantly on the move. He had read my book, Fanatical Prospecting, where I advocate for dedicated time blocks for prospecting. Sound familiar? So what's a field rep to do?

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2025

It can seem harder when we cant meet in person, but prospects dont trust you simply because you meet face-to-face, shake hands, or share a meal. This is true no matter how theyre connecting with prospects. At least, thats what many prospects have come to believe. I almost fell out of my chair when I heard a Sales VP say this.

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Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 5, 2024

You don’t want to look, act, or sound like every other salesperson when asking your prospect questions. There is an art and a science to being masterful at asking your prospect better questions and building a strong, credible relationship with them.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 30, 2025

Most salespeople face the same persistent challenge: Their prospects lack urgency. Im sharing my nine best sales email templates that encourage your prospects to buy sooner rather than later without resorting to discounting or manipulative tactics. Subject line : [Prospect's company] compared to average? The solution?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 18, 2025

A similar scenario where salespeople spend time getting ready before conducting an act happens with prospecting for new business. While not all salespeople are required to prospect, those who do often follow the gift giving ritual where they spend quite a bit of time getting ready before making their calls. So it’s the opposite.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Sales is, in large part, the art of developing trust in a tight window — making credibility one of the most valuable assets you can have when engaging with prospects. To help you out on that front, we connected with some sales leaders for the strategies they leverage to establish themselves as credible, consultative resources for prospects.

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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 28, 2025

to prospect consistently, these tips are for you. In this episode, I answer a question from Paul in Rancho Cucamonga, California, whos building and leading a remote sales team in the logistics industry and needs to find a way to get his salespeople to prospect consistently. Be like teflon: no excuses stick. Dont hide in your office.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Successfully executing a sales process is a lot like growing a flower, and in the context of this half-baked analogy, prospecting is like finding seeds. Anyway, this week's edition of The Pipeline covers some key mistakes experts say you need to avoid when prospecting. 7 Fatal Sales Prospecting Mistakes You Might Be Making 1.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 15, 2024

Here's a look at the “clear strategy” I use to ensure I get the most out of my LinkedIn prospecting efforts. Ingram's Tested, 10-Step Process for Nailing Prospecting on LinkedIn Your LinkedIn profile is your first digital impression, and you don‘t want to waste your shot with a lackluster profile. Unpack your ICP's pain points.

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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 7, 2025

If you want to get on the show with me and ask your question, sign up HERE Question One: Cutting Through the Noise When Prospecting Bob from Tullahoma, Tennessee (whom we affectionately call Outbound Bob because hes been to our Outbound Conference so many times!) Short-Burst Sprints Im a fan of high-intensity prospecting sprints.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 10, 2025

Our team of sales experts at Anthony Cole Training Group have compiled 25 sales tips to help your salespeople prospect smarter, plan effectively, and sell with confidence. As Sales Leader, it is your role to bring resources to your team to help them become even better.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Yet, too many sales leaders fall into the trap of believing the latest digital sales tools or automation platforms will solve their sales prospecting problems. Systematize Your Referral Process: Make referral selling a core part of your sales prospecting strategy, not just something that happens occasionally.

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Nutshell

APRIL 14, 2025

With the new Meta integration in Nutshell Engagement, your business can engage with prospects and customers through Facebook Messenger and Instagram DMs to expand its omnichannel engagement strategy even further. And now, two new channels have been added to your Nutshell Engagement inbox: Facebook and Instagram.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 31, 2024

It allows salespeople to approach prospects at the perfect time, with messaging that resonates with their current needs,” ZoomInfo Enterprise Account Manager Will Frattini says. Predictive Insights: Let AI Identify High-Value Prospects AI’s predictive capabilities are perhaps its most exciting feature for sales teams.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Focus on finishing up what’s already well along in your sales process and encourage them to spend the rest of their time thinking ahead and prospecting for 2025. 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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Smooth Sale

APRIL 7, 2025

Photo via Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Do You Play Games with Prospects for Business Growth? Our blog question is, Do you play games with prospects for business growth? Be Inspiring Conclusion: Do You Play Games with Prospects for Business Growth? appeared first on SmoothSale.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 2, 2025

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Know Your Prospects Well for Sales and Business Growth Many approaches and specific strategies exist for most endeavors, including attempting to sell. Our blog offers insights on how to ‘Know your prospects well for sales and business growth.’

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 31, 2025

Or, if those conditions do not apply, prospecting continues into perpetuity. Most salespeople who entered sales more than fifteen years ago and had to prospect for new business, have forgotten how to do it and if we are being honest, may not have been very willing or effective at this when they were expected to prospect.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 27, 2025

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Prospects Can Direct Us to A Better Path for Sales Long ago, salespeople were advised to generate many cold calls daily to find one or two interested parties. Its critical to realize that we are each unique individuals, prospects included, with varying thinking and abilities.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Ive gotten to the point in this project where I need to start building a list of prospects. Trying to build the prospect list that I need within the CRM would be too time-consuming, involving manually updating thousands of records and tens of thousands of fields. There is data missing and there are duplicate records.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Reaching the right prospects at the right moment is often the difference between closing a deal and coming in second. Copilot’s insights are fueled by first-party customer and prospect data, ZoomInfo’s unparalleled business data, and the industry’s most extensive collection of buying signals.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 28, 2025

the numbers like prospecting dials) versus technique mastery (or how the activities are being executed). There are several components to being a good sales coach. Often, sales coaches do not understand the difference between holding people accountable to the sales activities (e.g.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 6, 2025

The isolated Bass/cello part is largely invisible to the audience but it’s foundational to the song, just as sales process, while foundational to the conversation, should be largely invisible to a prospect. A well designed sales process has so many benefits.

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Sales 2.0

APRIL 30, 2025

We are all on the receiving end of some truly strangle (bad) prospecting emails. Can you say it in a normal way Next time youre writing a prospecting email, or outlining a call script, think about the real human being that will be on the receiving end. When we are selling, we tend to project some odd traits onto buyers.

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