Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. This is where lead capture software comes into play, offering a powerful solution for businesses looking to streamline their lead generation processes, boost their sales pipeline , and track key sales metrics.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 6, 2025

Although we’ve attended for close to 23 years, this year I noticed something different and that experience will help you better understand the important role that sales process plays in the context of a modern sales methodology. A well designed sales process has so many benefits. We are happy to help with that!

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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

Go-to-market teams that adopt AI-powered sales automation can reap major benefits: research shows they spend more time with customers, drive higher customer satisfaction, and most importantly, boost sales by up to 10%. But savvy sales leaders know that AI isnt a magic wand that can close deals for you. Heres how AI can help: 1.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 28, 2025

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. the numbers like prospecting dials) versus technique mastery (or how the activities are being executed).

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 31, 2024

It’s also raising big questions about the future of the sales profession — including lingering worries that many sales jobs could soon be replaced by machines. According to several top sales experts, it’s not quite that simple. This is what takes your sales process to the next level,” Frattini says.

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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. Indeed, 40% of salespeople cite it as the most challenging part of the sales process, more daunting than either closing or qualifying.

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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. And in the age of AI-assisted sales, what was once a long process of research, targeting, and crafting outreach has now become remarkably fast. What is AI Sales Assistant Software?

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2025

I almost fell out of my chair when I heard a Sales VP say this. 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. Trust is key in referral sales strategiesin any sales strategy, reallybut trust must be earned.

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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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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 30, 2025

Most salespeople face the same persistent challenge: Their prospects lack urgency. While this technique might result in an initial sale, I advise against it because the companys margins and the reps commission bonus both take a hit. Company] is doing some really interesting things around [business area prospect is interested in].

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 25, 2024

As sales manager, business line leader, or CEO, is your team finding, qualifying and closing as much business as you think they should? Most say "No" when we ask that question, which means that something in your client outreach and sales process has to change. And that change, we believe, starts at the very beginning.

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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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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. With that said, cultivating and projecting credibility can be extremely tricky in a sales engagement. Check out what they had to say!

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

They must have the skills to ask the right questions, listen to understand, position their value, and help a prospect self-discover the solution that makes sense. These are not elusive skills; they are identified by our partner and industry-leading sales evaluation company, Objective Management Group (OMG).

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

There is another one we should discuss, and that’s when a sales leader has a Non-Supportive Buy Cycle with an attribute of needing to think things over. Sure, they understand value from an intellectual standpoint, but they are asking prospects to behave in a way that contradicts how they normally behave. Want some help ?

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 31, 2025

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. Or, if those conditions do not apply, prospecting continues into perpetuity.

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 10, 2024

In today’s world of banking and insurance, it is increasingly more difficult to get the attention of a prospective buyer after only a few outreach attempts. So, how do you stay consistent (and persistent) in your outreach with a prospect while remaining sensitive to their daily lives and the distractions they face?

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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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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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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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. Kyle's situation likely resonates with many of you in outside sales. These micro-prospecting sessions add up throughout your day. You can make 10 dials.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 16, 2025

For example, if you sell capital equipment to the C Suite and you have a 2-year sales cycle for a 7 to 8 figure sale, the rate of conversion from dials to conversations to meetings could be 15 dials to 1 conversation and 10 conversations to 1 new meeting. That would be 200 dials for 1 new meetings booked – per week.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

An effective sales pitch should begin with the early "bonding and rapport" part of selling. Finding commonality and relating to a prospect is an important first step. An effective sales pitch should begin with identifying areas of connection, often achieved by doing research on the industry and client prior to the meeting.

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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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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.

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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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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 31, 2025

Many of my clients and prospects tell me that the 4th quarter is when they take time to discuss sales plans (goals) and business plans with their salespeople. The purpose, obviously, is to get everyone on the same page with expectations of performance for the coming year.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Digital isnt a sales strategy. A sales strategy isnt about tools or trendsits about how your company attracts and serves customers. 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.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 15, 2024

But even though having a productive LinkedIn presence is one of the bigger “no-brainers” in sales, a lot of reps struggle to leverage the platform to its full potential. Here's a look at the “clear strategy” I use to ensure I get the most out of my LinkedIn prospecting efforts. Engage your prospects by leaving active comments.

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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 7, 2025

Welcome to a new segment of the Sales Gravy Podcast called Ask Jeb! I believe sales professionals are the heartbeat of the economy. On this Sales Gravy Podcast segment, I answer your burning questions on driving revenue, growing your pipeline, leading your teams, and staying ahead of the competition. No Silver Bullet, But.

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