Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Many companies monitor their pipeline opportunities with the use of a CRM in order to have information about the opportunities being created by the sales team. Companies want to know:

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Do you partake of dessert prior to eating your appetizer? Do you eat your dinner in the morning and have breakfast at night? Would you prefer to have the builder complete the finish work on your new house prior to framing it and installing the roof? Would you back your car out of the garage before opening the garage door?

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 8, 2021

On average, salespeople possess only 15% of the attributes required to sell consultatively.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 9, 2020

Forget Consultative Selling, Value Selling and Sales Process - the things I talk about most often. Most companies expect their sales teams to be not only active, but proactive; to replace face-to-face meetings with virtual meetings; and to continue pipeline building so that there is business to close when we return to work.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Sales organizations continue to invest in customized sales training but are often challenged when it comes to demonstrating that the training had a lasting impact on how their sales team sells. According to ATD Research, sales organizations invested an average of $2,326 per salesperson annually on sales training.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 21, 2022

Check out our best inside sales training available on the Internet: On-Demand Training! Here’s an example of a training tip that you’ll learn, and that I used, to handle a frustrating objection I used to get all the time: “The price is outside of our budget.”. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 4, 2024

How to train your sales team to sell to highly technical buyers and decision-makers. Applying the concept of neural networks to enterprise sales processes. 19:06) Applying the concept of neural networks to enterprise sales. (25:25) 25:25) The importance of comprehension and curiosity in sales hiring. (27:55)

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

This is the frustrated lament I hear regularly from sales leaders. But not closing sales is never the real problem. The problem is that sales reps neglect important activities during earlier stages of the sales process. No wonder these folks are not closing sales. Why Your Team Is Not Closing Sales.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

You need to develop a culture of coaching and that begins with requiring it, and having an expert, like me, train and coach sales managers to do it effectively and get an instant revenue bump. Sales Managers don’t want to coach because it takes away from personal sales. It’s low hanging fruit.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 28, 2023

Creating a structured sales process is one of the most effective ways to boost your sales teams’ efficiency and results. With a formal sales process in place, your sales team has a framework to follow, and it’s much easier to stay on the same page, track results, and onboard new team members.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

There are two parts to the sales process: Part One: Getting meetings with decision makers. Try these tips for reaching the decision maker: Make referrals a process and a priority: Referral selling must be your #1 business-development outreach. A referral is the best way to get a meeting with the decision maker.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 10, 2024

Indeed, 40% of salespeople cite it as the most challenging part of the sales process, more daunting than either closing or qualifying. This paradox has far-reaching implications, resulting in underdeveloped strategies that can stunt the growth of an organization’s sales pipeline.

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Coaching Sales Management Top of Funnel Prospecting 334

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This means that, in total, 44% of businesses have not aligned their sales processes to the customer journey in any meaningful way. Streamlining the sales process. Another important aspect of making your enablement strategy more focused and simple involves streamlining your sales content. Download the Full Report.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They’re trained to sell to anyone who wants to buy and facilitate a quick buying process — but as inbound salespeople, we know who our products are made for, and we should only be selling to customers who are going to leverage value over time. The prospect wants to run the sales process themselves and won’t compromise on anything.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 5, 2024

In today’s complex selling environment, Generative AI rapidly changes how sales teams operate. While using GenAI can produce significant efficiency gains for sales teams, it can accelerate a sales organization’s bad processes without regard to accuracy, relevancy, or security.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 31, 2021

Author: Brian Trautschold As a new hire, structured training and onboarding programs are expected. Today, it is rare to see a company that doesn’t have a strict training program in place from the moment a new hire walks through the door. That’s where sales coaching comes in. In a week, that average increases to 90 percent.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 24, 2019

Today John Holland, Chief Content Officer of CustomerCentric Selling, helps us cover the other side of the coin—artificial intelligence within the sales process. The Problem with B2B Artificial Intelligence and Sales. Only a mere 13% of the modern sales force consists of ‘A Players’ – or reps who consistently exceed quota.

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Forecasting B2B CRM Quota 272

Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 22, 2021

Here’s the solution: Make a list of three crucial questions to ask during each part of your sales process. If not, incorporate them into your sales process today, and you’ll become more confident as you learn about the true buying motives and potential objections from your prospects and clients.

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Sales 2.0

MAY 30, 2023

Once AI is implemented, she says, “The question then becomes, ‘do sales organizations that use technologies like this shift their time to higher value activities, like training, researching prospects and strategy, so that when they do get face-to-face time to sell, they show up prepared and better trained?’” Think about that.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Like a championship sports team that needs great athletes , exceptional salespeople are the lifeblood of a high-performing sales organization. Even during more favorable hiring conditions, hiring sales executives is risky.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 9, 2018

Instead, the most resilient and successful sales organizations are building programs that draw maximum value from more of their existing reps. This requires going beyond one-size-fits-all training and development programs that are measured by simple pass/fail certifications or completion rates. The Missing Metric.

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Sales Enablement Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 276

Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 22, 2024

Assessing their sales candidates, sales management and sales leadership candidates – They use they believe to be excellent gut instinct instead of reliable, predictive data despite a hit or miss track record.

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Sales 2.0

MAY 6, 2020

Consider some of these questions and think about where you can develop an even stronger sales organization. If parts of your sales process are not working are the people running it the problem? Hiring : How difficult is it for you to find good sales people for the roles you need? Do you provide product training?

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

That’s why we need sales managers. Actually, what we need is strong sales leadership. Whether you are a CEO, vice president, or sales manager, you have a central role in your company’s sales process and in the decision to transition from vapid outbound prospecting to selling through referrals. Think again.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 31, 2020

Companies spend billions of dollars each year on sales training and technology, yet sales effectiveness keeps declining. I completely agree that too many sales organizations operate on deadly assumptions that deny the essential human nature of their sales teams and their buyers. The Question.

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Learning how much influence they have is crucial to the overall sales process. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! If your team is struggling with call reluctance and is tired of the endless rejection they face, then get instant access to our On Demand training today.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 20, 2018

Referrals slow down the sales process. It’s a behavior change that takes training and accountability for learning. This training will help build your referral skills, and you’ll learn how to get referrals. Hiding behind technology is shameful. Get an introduction and you get the meeting in one call.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In July, I wrote about Dinger tearing his ACL , and how well the doctor executed her sales process. And that is a great analogy for what happens when salespeople are uncomfortable with certain aspects of the sales process. But when Sales DNA appears as a weakness, it serves to sabotage rather than support the salesperson.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Every time we onboard a new client, we have a kickoff event where we lay the foundation of the sales process we teach at Anthony Cole Training Group.Inevitably, at some point during that kickoff event we talk about dealing with the competition, specifically how to differentiate yourself from the competition you will face.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 4, 2024

How to Identify Candidates Who Will Succeed in Your Sales Roles Sales Process for the Anti-Sales Process Crowd How To Stop Sucking by Understanding and Changing Your Sales Metrics The Wrong Salespeople are Hired 77% of the Time Most Sales Processes, Funnels and Pipelines are How Old?

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Hiring Sales Leadership Sales Forecasts Forecasting 159

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A Sales Benchmark Index survey from 2017 reported that in nearly 75% of sales situations, customers prefer not to meet in person. What does it mean for B2B sales managers as they strategize for 2021? Is it necessary to train sales reps on new skills? What should sales kickoffs look like?

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

One of their issues was their 20% win rate was much lower than they thought it should be and they believed their salespeople needed some refresher training on closing. They also had a large number of opportunities stalled in the pipeline and they believed that training on more effective techniques to conduct follow up calls would help.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

However, working with them also lengthens the sales process. I think you even told me in one of my original trainings,’It sounds like you are not talking to the person who makes the decisions.'” Going right to the owner, and allowing him delegate it to the marketing team was the winning ticket.

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Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 19, 2024

From prospecting to closing, today’s mobile, social, big data, and cloud technologies are revamping the sales process in ways that would have been inconceivable a few decades ago.

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