Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 22, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. I wrote this article on the difference between Sales Process and Sales Methodology and this article on how Sales Models are different from Process and Methodology. Let's use Algebra to get a better handle on sales methodology and where it fits in the grand scheme of things.

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Sports Sales Methodology Consultative Selling Video 201

Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 24, 2021

We are finally doing things we haven't done for quite a while including dining inside restaurants, flying, staying in hotels, going to and hosting parties, attending packed stadiums for sporting events and more.

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Hotels Sports Groups Objections 274

Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2020

Over the last few weeks, we have tracked ZoomInfo’s database of over 14 million companies and +30,000 technologies to see what digital tools companies are adopting. Digital Tools Growing During Coronavirus (and Post-Pandemic Predictions). Since January 30, we have seen a 21% increase in the adoption of electronic signatures tools.

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Tools Real Estate Travel Face-to-face 179

Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the 2nd post in our "2020: The Year for Sales Growth" blog series, our Founder and CLO Tony Cole, discusses the importance of maintaining core sales values within an organization, how these values relate to organized sports, the erosion of these said core values, and the impact they have (or can have) on your attempt to grow your sales organization (..)

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Sports Hiring Sales Relationals 183

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 1, 2019

I have often said that the schoolyard taunt “ sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me ,” doesn’t hold up in sales. We don’t want that, so to help, here are four four-letter words to banish from your sales vocabulary. Words can kill you, your pipeline, and career. Just A Sec. I’m in the latter.

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Objections Sports Up-Sell Buyer 291

Hubspot Sales

MAY 23, 2019

HubSpot Research found that 82% of consumers rate an "immediate" response as important or very important when they have a marketing or sales question. Web chat tools can be used at almost every stage of the customer lifecycle. Take your pick from some of the best chat tools. Speed is everything for today's buyers and customers.

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Tools Lead Qualification Hubspot Social Media 138

The Sales Hunter

MARCH 4, 2013

Welcome to Sales Motivation Monday! Each Monday I will be dedicating my blog to providing you with a quick tip or idea to help you with your sales motivation. The Sales Motivation Monday blog will provide you with another tool to go along with the Monday Morning Sales Video I release each Monday.

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Motivation Sports Video Sales 191

Zoominfo

JANUARY 28, 2021

Is it possible to replicate the infectious energy of the sales floor at the end of a quarter in a virtual world? That was the challenge ZoomInfo faced as 2020 drew to a close in December, which is typically a great month for B2B sales teams. Breaking News: Broadcast Sports Sales Updates Live. We will find deals at 10 p.m.

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Hiring Sports Nonprofit Segment 228

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 24, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I was listening to a Boston Sports Radio Station, the same one I wrote about here. It got me thinking about the road most often taken to sales management. Compared to the rocky road to coaching in the NFL, the road to sales management absolutely sounds like a road paved with gold!

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Sales Management Webinar Metrics Coaching Sports 222

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Author: Charles Brennan One of the fastest-growing sports in America is pickleball. However, many people are not familiar with the sport. Pickleball is a paddle sport that combines elements of tennis, badminton and table tennis. This can be a very powerful approach if combined with the right skill sets, resources and tools.

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Sports Call-back Pivotal Intent 184

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 18, 2014

Eye contact can make or break your sales effectiveness. Unfortunately, it’s become acceptable in some circles to answer the phone or check sports scores at dinner. Unfortunately, it’s become acceptable in some circles to answer the phone or check sports scores at dinner. You only need 20 seconds. Look at Me or Lose Out.

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Customer Journal Sports Cold Calling 244

The Pipeline

JULY 7, 2021

Want to split a room of salespeople, just ask if “sales is a numbers game or not?” Full disclosure, I came from the sales is a numbers game camp. While it is safe to say I have evolved, I have not abandoned my “sales is a numbers game” friends. But as is the case when we evolve, one can emerge with a third, better alternative.

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Discount Quota Sports Objections 361

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Most would agree that sales is not strictly a numbers game, but as with other issues such as closed ended questions , the pendulum at times seems to swing too far in one direction. Walking away is not forever, it for your sales success. Sales Success Tibor Shanto'

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Top of Funnel Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Insurance 282

The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 4, 2013

The information might be something pertaining to the industry they’re in or economic news or even a sporting event. The options are varied and the beauty is that with search engines, Linkedin and other tools, you can uncover information quickly. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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Cold Calling Referrals Sports Engineering 242

SBI

JANUARY 16, 2018

Sales is a sport. Just like a sports team, great sales teams are built with an obsessive focus on stats and success metrics. Sales needs the right players, and those players need the right tools. Who are the sales MVPs? Frequently, sales teams bring apps on board to improve their performance.

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Sports Analytics Follow-up Tools 139

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

You might not think that automatic sales dialers have that much to offer you. What Is A Sales Dialer? A sales dialer is pretty much what it sounds like: technology that automatically dials numbers for salespeople. You’re a sales representative. Here’s where the sales dialer comes in. You have hundreds.

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Closing Call-back How To Outbound 264

Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

It is my goal now each week to focus in on one of the 9 football related tools that can be applied to selling. I started this series of articles by relating my experience coaching football to selling.

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Tools Relationals Coaching Sales 124

Pointclear

MARCH 19, 2013

With his team at Waldschmidt Partners, Dan uses his EDGY Strategy to help sales teams exceed their goals. Dan calls giving out bonuses during sales cycles “tactical stuff.” For too long, sales has been this machismo sport of sleeping with clients, drinking way too much whisky, and buying tickets,” Dan says. Connections.

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Conversion Automotive Face-to-face Decision Maker 264

Julie Hanson

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Yet actors, sports broadcasters, reporters and, news announcers are proof it is possible to connect and engage with audiences virtually. In this episode of “Sales Lessons from a Career on-Camera,” I speak with Jen Mueller, the Seattle Seahawks sideline radio reporter and member of the Seattle Mariners television broadcast team on ROOT SPORTS.

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Sports Customer Video Report 78

Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

There are usually a few events each year where this happens and in this case, it was Boston this week for the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals ( AA-ISP ). “A sales team with an Inside Sales Specialist model closes business 7 points higher than a team without specialists” – Ken Krogue, InsideSales.com.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 20, 2014

Whether you are ending your week, starting your week or somewhere in between you can put these 7 tips to score more sales into play at any time. Sales is such a mental game, and being able to tackle your day with an edge will assist you in big ways. FOCUS: A professional sales position is typically entrepreneurial.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 237

The Pipeline

MAY 3, 2018

The piece – SalesBlocks – Engineering Sales – starts by James sharing “I am an engineer who found sales and fell in love. For disruptive learning in sales, I like to look to music and sports; partly art, partly not. I still have an engineer’s mind, however. What’s On Top.

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Airlines Sports Health Care Analysis 206

Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan. I was listening to a conversation on Sports Radio about the desire to shorten baseball games in 2015. Not a day goes by when we aren''t talking with someone about their sales cycle and how long it has become. In selling, there are even more options for shortening the sales cycle.

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Sales Cycle Proposal Decision Maker Sports 209

Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

It’s the time of year when you might be thinking of something for your favorite sales professional or sales leader. THE GIFT OF RECOGNITION – Many in sales and in business want to be recognized and appreciated for our efforts. See a future post for the top tools we’d give out. your boss [professional, thoughtful].

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Outsourcing Services Policies Guidelines Sports 208

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 26, 2020

Yet, in the midst of all this, I laughed when a close member of my extended family wrote: “In more positive news, handbasket sales are soaring.”. Consider this: Sports teams are contributing funds to help support workers at their sports centers—without whom games wouldn’t go on. There Are Good Things Happening. Always free.

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Film Sports Cold Calling Compensation 38

Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2020

Over the last few weeks, we have tracked ZoomInfo’s database of over 14 million companies and +30,000 technologies to see what digital tools companies are adopting. Digital Tools Growing During Coronavirus (and Post-Pandemic Predictions) 1. Since January 30, we have seen a 21% increase in the adoption of electronic signatures tools.

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Tools Real Estate Travel Face-to-face 130

The Pipeline

JANUARY 2, 2017

As a result what follows are ideas I think people in sales should be thinking about, but rather than waiting to polish them up, I am putting them out their in their raw state, and set them free to grow and evolve with you. 2017 The Year Of Sales Enablement. veneer, is Sales Enablement. Despite efforts, Sales 2.0

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Sports Account Based Marketing Sales Enablement Exercises 209

The Pipeline

MAY 26, 2016

One of the great things in what I do is the opportunity to meet a range of thinkers and doers involved in sales and helping others sell better. Brock writes a book on a critical subject like sales management, it is an opportunity to learn and share with others in my circle. I love the line “Coaching is a contact sport!

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Sales Management Coaching Sports Promotion 180

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 23, 2015

Teaser: For insights on how sales and marketing can become stronger team players, look at some of the top characteristics for winning sports teams and determine how new sales engagement tools and more integrated systems can help foster these traits. Author: Micheline Nijmeh. read more

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A Sales Guy

JULY 30, 2019

Sales is suffering from 9 brutal ills: The Bro Culture , . Not enough salespeople understand the game/rules of sales. Too much reliance on selling tools. Most salespeople don’t understand the game of sales. Salespeople look at selling in a lot of ways, but few actually get what sales is all about.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

In some sports and other skills based endeavours, for example figure skating, you can score points for artistic merit, and you also get scored on execution. While I have always been a proponent of a good sales process, and having a playbook to assist and improve execution, let’s not lose sight of the overall objective: Revenue!

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Guidelines Sports 219

Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2021

No business can survive for long without a healthy sales pipeline. It’s what keeps your sales team organized and focused on managing opportunities to close deals. Unfortunately, many B2B organizations suffer from ineffective sales pipeline management. Good sales pipeline management can protect the health of your bottom line.

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A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sales is suffering from 9 brutal ills: The Bro Culture, Lack of Coaching Too Product-Centric Not enough sales people understand the game/rules of sales Too much reliance on selling tools. Sales is the greatest profession in the world in my opinion. Sales is the greatest profession in the world in my opinion.

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Sports Face-to-face Influencer Quota 150

SBI Growth

JULY 6, 2018

If you follow or have any familiarity with the sports world, you have heard the term. Home field advantage. It’s what teams play for on the road to a championship because of the competitive advantage. Comparisons exist when it comes.

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Comparison Sports Customer Competition 189

Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Ever wonder if your sales people are really listening to you? As a sales manager or sales executive, you have many roles to fill in order to get the most out of your sales team. I would say today your job/role as a sales manager is very much the same. Are the sales people all hitting their sales activity goals?

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Intent Motivation Coaching Sports 197

Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Although a sales team includes many different job titles, such as sales engineer, SDS, customer success, and sales admin, when it comes down to salespeople themselves, no matter if they are inside or outside sales, in my opinion, there are really only two major roles: the hunter, and the farmer. Down to the Numbers.

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Tools Sales Qualified Lead Quota Pipeline 98

Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Despite all the digital changes in in sales and marketing, if you’re running a business and trying to use outbound to grow it, the money is still in the list. What spectator sports do they like–sports and teams? “The money is in the list” is an old direct marketing adage going way back to the development of the envelope.

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Real Estate Sports Segment Outbound 195