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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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 19, 2023

In this blog article, we discuss the best advice sales managers can give their salespeople, and that is to "keep moving." If you want to increase sales within your organization, you must keep moving throughout the ups and downs, the missed opportunities, the clients who "ghost" you, and more.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I’ve been trying to find a way to tie cooking to sales management. I love to cook (and eat) and I love selling and coaching sales management. Thus my attempt to find another way to explain concepts of sales management: COOKING! Let’s think about your relationship with your sales people.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Tony," you might be asking, "what does this have to do sales management and sales management tools?" Well, reader," I''m thinking, "it has a lot to do with sales management and sales tools, and it also gives me a chance to reflect on my dad and my youth spent on the farm." The key is to be effective.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 31, 2023

Developing strong development plans for your frontline sales managers will set an example for your sales managers to do the same with their salespeople. Based on my experience, you can provide your sales managers with workshops, online training, and leadership books.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 17, 2025

In this blog, we’ll explore why virtual sales programs, especially Vengreso’s offerings including our extensive blog resources and eBooks , should be integral to your business strategy in 2025. The evolution of virtual sales programs is not merely a trendits becoming the cornerstone of modern sales strategies.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 3, 2014

However, once I got into sales, sales management, sales training and became a president of a company, I think I finally understood. You generally end up hiring some marginal people – people that need coaching, feedback, mentoring and performance management. Brian Tracey describes it as “Eat That Frog”.

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Highspot

JANUARY 23, 2025

In fact, 64% of managers don’t think their employees can keep pace with future skill needs, and 70% of employees say they haven’t even mastered the skills they need for their jobs today. What is Soft Skills Training? Soft skills training helps sales teams learn to work well with colleagues and customers.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 23, 2014

Consider the length of time that a runner must train to prepare for running a 26.2-mile Someone training for a marathon should run up to 50 miles per week. So perhaps, our top 6% is the group that takes selling as seriously as those runners that train for a marathon. That won’t happen until we raise the bar on sales management.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 12, 2020

In this blog article, we discuss the best advice sales managers can give their salespeople, and that is to "keep moving." If you want to increase sales within your organization, you must keep moving throughout the ups and downs, the missed opportunities, the clients who "ghost" you, and more.

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Increase Sales

OCTOBER 22, 2014

People especially top sales performers leave rotten sales management more than money from my 30 plus years of experience. It is truly hard to believe with all the books, workshops, seminars, sales training and sales coaching, rotten sales management still exists, but it does and appears to be growing.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

I stopped reading, highlighted the passage and made the following note: “This pertains to sales managers and sales professionals in their relationship AND should also be applied to sales professionals and buyer relationships!”. How does this fit in sales and sales management? as our thanks to you!

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The Center for Sales Strategy

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The majority of participants that attend a “typical” training program or workshop will forget 70% of what they were taught within two weeks. Our goal for the Talent Focused Management (TFM) workshop is to provide clients with strategies and tactics that they can actually put into practice immediately.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Author: JIM NINIVAGGI, CHIEF READINESS OFFICER, BRAINSHARK “What’s your onboarding program for new sales managers?”. While most companies would agree that sales onboarding is a strategic priority, the focus of their processes is often only?—? Why you need to onboard sales managers. Manager onboarding is a must.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Competition, losing key sales people, pricing, economy, investment in bad hires? When I saw the list this morning, I felt comfortable that, as president of Anthony Cole Training Group, we are addressing many, if not all, of these items. Additional Resources: Personal Goal Setting & Work Plan Development – Schedule a workshop.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 7, 2019

Author: Rory Christian According to IDC , despite a "typical" $1 billion company spending a large amount of resources devoted to training for customer-facing people, poor sales enablement results in around $14 million of wasted sales and marketing expenses, and $100 million in lost sales opportunities.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Your top rep just completed a high-impact sales training session. This rapid decline in knowledge retention leads to inconsistent sales execution, wasted training investments, and a constant struggle to keep teams aligned on best practices. Highly effective sales teams are 4.8 Sound familiar? Theyre also 2.2

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Bernadette McClelland

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The same happens when you bring people together for a meeting, conversation, workshop or discussion. Too often I see team or workshop leaders who haven’t created a suitable environment or allowed time to help people ‘get into it’. I needed time to shift from one environment to another. Set the tone, pace and environment.

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Awarathon

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Sales training in Philippines is a crucial investment for businesses looking to build high-performing sales teams. With an increasingly competitive market, companies must ensure their sales professionals are equipped with the right skills to drive revenue and customer engagement.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 28, 2020

The sales management activities that we perform today create the results that we achieve today. What activities are you doing now that are creating your current unsatisfactory results? How can you change them?

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The folks over at Insight Squared recently posted this interview with me. It touched on sales management but there wasn''t enough time to do it justice. In the context of best practices, the sales management role is now 50% coaching. Are you serious?

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Jeffrey Gitomer

APRIL 21, 2011

Online Training. Tweet Share Sales Truth: Salespeople become known by the questions they ask. Your pointed out my #1 hated smarmy sales question in “what would it take to earn your business?” ” I’ve been teaching sales workshops for 14 years and am still dumbfounded at how many people LOVE this question.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Imagine having a sales team that hits or exceeds their targets without fail. It might sound like a lofty goal, but there’s a proven way to get there with sales enablement training. 54% of enablement teams that manage sales training programs report a six-percentage-point increase in customer retention.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 1, 2018

Davis In a SMMConnect webinar I delivered to over 100 sales managers recently, I talked about eight instincts they developed as salespeople that are now harming their effectiveness as team leaders. Interestingly, about 30 percent of the participants said that the sales instinct they struggle with the most is “avoiding conflict.”.

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Awarathon

JANUARY 24, 2025

AI-based sales training platforms in the Philippines are transforming L&D with personalized, data-driven training experiences. Sales teams can enhance their skills using AI-powered roleplay scenarios, while LMS platforms offer structured learning paths. However, these solutions can be expensive.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 18, 2012

Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Force Alignment. Sales Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Meetings. Sales Process. Sales Strategy. Sales Success. Sales Technique. Sales Tool. Sales traiinng.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Force Alignment. Sales Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Meetings. Sales Process. Sales Strategy. Sales Success. Sales Technique. Sales Tool. Sales traiinng.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Force Alignment. Sales Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Meetings. Sales Process. Sales Strategy. Sales Success. Sales Technique. Sales Tool. Sales traiinng.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Force Alignment. Sales Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Meetings. Sales Process. Sales Strategy. Sales Success. Sales Technique. Sales Tool. Sales traiinng.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 22, 2011

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Cold calling , EDGE Sales Process , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales eXchange , execution. The other day I was talking with a couple of sales managers trying to help their people be more effective in prospecting. Sales Bloggers Union.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s The six elements of a perfect sales meeting. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Coaching , Emotional Intelligence(EQ) , Guest Post , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales Meetings. Do you dread the weekly sales team meeting? Sales Bloggers Union.

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The Pipeline

JULY 25, 2011

Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Force Alignment. Sales Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Meetings. Sales Process. Sales Strategy. Sales Success. Sales Technique. Sales Tool. Sales traiinng.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 4, 2013

Unfortunately, none of these apply to a modern sales organization. Meanwhile, Agile is spreading everywhere in Sales - to onboarding , sales management, and sales training. But they are exactly the professional development your sales team needs. Training classes and workshops won''t get it done.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 28, 2019

In a recent survey by D2L , an online survey company, 64% of men said that they received access to training resources, while only 48% of women said they did. Really the percentage should be 100% for both genders, but it’s telling that female sales reps feel short-changed on training more often than men do.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 9, 2011

Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Force Alignment. Sales Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Meetings. Sales Process. Sales Strategy. Sales Success. Sales Technique. Sales Tool. Sales traiinng.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 10, 2011

Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Force Alignment. Sales Leadership. Sales Management. Sales Meetings. Sales Process. Sales Strategy. Sales Success. Sales Technique. Sales Tool. Sales traiinng.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2019

And how do we, in turn, ensure our own sales kickoffs are effective? We recently completed our sales kickoff at InsideView. The three-day agenda combined information sharing, skills development, team workshops and fun, which I’m sure sounds pretty familiar. Incorporate different perspectives into training teams.

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