Partners in Excellence

MARCH 20, 2025

The email came in, “We need training. We’ve seen your programs before, can you talk to us about a training program?” ” I quickly arranged a discussion, “What kind of training do you need?” ” “We need sales training,” came the response. “We provide sales training!

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

With ZoomInfo, your go-to-market team can easily identify website visitors , engage prospects with website chat , and optimize web forms to transform anonymous visitors into actionable prospects. The key is to find a solution that aligns with your specific business goals and sales processes.

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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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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Ask any group of salespeople why they don’t like telephone prospecting, objections or rejections are number one on the list. While every cold call or prospecting call will result in an objection, the objections are not all that different. Your question can be a key to unlocking a train of thought. Changing Focus.

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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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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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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. They will only do that if referral selling is built into the sales processwith training, metrics, and accountability for results.

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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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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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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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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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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In analyzing those salespeople who are successful year after year, we find significant consistencies in prospecting behavior and practice management. These top sales producers adhere to “The ONLY "A" priority is prospecting” principle. But nothing gets in the way of consistent prospecting.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 12, 2024

Who do you think knows why your prospect buys? Who do you think knows when your prospect is going to buy? The answer, of course, is your prospect! The problem for many sales reps, is that they prefer to pitch and talk at prospects more than they actually ask questions and listen. Or who they like to buy from?

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Vengreso

MARCH 26, 2025

Whether you’re new to the field or looking to close more sales, online sales training offers a flexible and effective path to success. Through virtual instructor-led training, professionals can now master the intricate selling process without the hefty price tag of traditional programs.

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Allego

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Sales training can deliver a staggering 353% return on investment, according to a study by Southern New Hampshire University. This gap leaves sales managers asking an essential question: How do you demonstrate the ROI of sales training in a credible, reliable way? Proving the impact of sales training is no small feat.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 16, 2025

But I long ago committed to becoming so good at prospecting that it wouldnt take much time, it wouldnt be frustrating or demotivating, and it wouldnt be exhausting and boring. When a salesperson commits to becoming great at prospecting, all of the conversion ratios change for the better. Excellence is a game changer!

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Vengreso

JANUARY 22, 2025

Our list of the best sales training blogs offers expert tips and practical advice to help you succeed. Introduction to Sales Training Blogs Sales training blogs are an essential resource for sales professionals looking to improve their skills, stay up-to-date with industry trends, and learn from experienced sales leaders.

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The Digital Sales Institute

APRIL 9, 2025

Sales training programs fail due to not understanding the pitfalls in selling to todays connected buyer and the solutions they expect, which go way beyond the product. Read on to why many sales training programs fail and why. One of the reasons sales training programs fail is the lack of relevant (and updated) content.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

To be successful, sales professionals need to be experts in many different areas at once: their product’s strengths and weaknesses, their prospects’ pain points and needs, and the broader economic and competitive landscapes. Sales engineering, customer success, and support teams all require content and training.

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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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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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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. Todays buyer is more sophisticated and has access to all the information they need at their fingertips, so how do your salespeople differentiate?

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Vengreso

OCTOBER 23, 2024

We disagreed on many points and had the same opinion on only a handful, one of which is the potential of video prospecting to generate leads and close more deals. Then and there I decided to write a guide on video prospecting. Let’s start your video prospecting journey. What Is Video Prospecting?

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

No matter what you’re selling, the phone is a vital touchpoint in any proactive outreach campaign, which means it’s critical to include some cold calling training whenever you’re onboarding new sales reps. Here are a variety of proven call scripts for your cold calling training. Calling strangers to sell them something.

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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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Allego

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Sales training has never been more criticalor more challenging. This groundbreaking technology is transforming how enablement teams create, update, and personalize sales training content atunprecedented speed. Generative AI is enhancing sales enablements agility in delivering training for critical commercial initiatives.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 9, 2020

You could add people to your team to do things like: Post content for you on social media Look for content from others that you can curate on put on social media Research prospects lists Research account information for you so you can make customized approaches to prospects Update the CRM for you Help you write and edit your proposals.

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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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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

You get an introduction to your prospect, and you get a meeting with the decision maker. They believe a call isn’t cold because it’s a marketing-qualified lead, because the prospect downloaded a whitepaper, or because they have a mutual connection on LinkedIn. Referrals help you ace Part One and set you up for success in Part Two.

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SalesFuel

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Training the existing workforce to fill these roles can be beneficial. Communication and Training Shortfalls In addition to a lack of communication, many first-line managers have not received the kind of training they need. However, only 37% have been trained to handle change management.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system, your sales reps will continue to struggle with closing the deal. Other reasons why salespeople fail to close sales include: The initial prospects were unqualified. This is not how you wow buyers, build relationships, and convert prospects into clients.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 15, 2025

These tools help streamline day-to-day tasks and offer actionable insights into prospect behavior. Larger Deal Sizes : 70% reported an increase in deal size, likely attributed to better prospect insights and tailored outreach. Higher Win Rates : AI-powered tools contributed to a 76% increase in win rates.

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