SBI Growth

JANUARY 28, 2013

In the sports world, we often hear this from athletes. Training needs. Take a read through some attributes of the top 10: “Sports contests”. day of sports, mental challenges and laughs. He made more money than your sales leader. He hit the top commission rate. Yet, he left. Why did you lose your top rep? Step it up!

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Sports Compensation Lead Scoring Lead Rank 332

The Pipeline

AUGUST 12, 2013

Add to that many are offered little training or leadership in their formidable years (which again could be their first 12 years on the job). Based on stats, only about half of B2B companies offer formal sales raining, and some that think they are delivering sales training, are in fact focused on product training, or order processing training.

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Quota Sports 305

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Sports have trade deadlines, sales organizations have trade season, usually at the start of the year, just after bonuses are paid. I once had someone who was on their third tour with the company I was training and had done stints with three other. Unlike sports, there is no free agency where top players can go to the highest bidder.

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Hiring Wireless Sports Territories 254

The Pipeline

JULY 3, 2014

Most major sports have significant dates through the year when it comes to proactively developing the team, building a roster that will help you win now and into the future. While some “leaders” feel hampered by their targeted headcount, feeling that if they are at full count there is little they can do other than train.

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Hiring Sports Sales Talent Territories 275

Sales Gravy

JANUARY 16, 2025

Energizing Through Friendly Competition: Workplace challengeslike those inspired by sports or creative competitionsinject energy into teams. Leaders must instill a growth mindset in their teams, encouraging training and practice to refine techniques, build confidence, and maintain a competitive edge. -

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Coaching Sports Pivotal Energy 98

Anthony Cole Training

MAY 31, 2024

A sales leader’s primary responsibility is to put the BEST team into the marketplace.Much like a general manager in sports, a director of a theatre company or an orchestra leader of a symphony, you have a job and a responsibility to hire and use the best performers.

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Hiring Sports Sales Management Company 242

Steven Rosen

APRIL 3, 2013

Coaching is a “one to one” sport. Training is a one size fits all activity. Today I want to talk to you about a very important aspect of coaching. The tip of the week is “Customise Your Coaching”. It has to be specific and delivered in a way that best speaks to the individual.

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Sales Management eBook Sports Coaching 272

Jeffrey Gitomer

JUNE 14, 2011

Online Training. Sports events. And for the competitive sports nut within you, play The Networking Game. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey? BEST Places To Network. Gitomer | June 14, 2011 | 2 Comments. Here are the 21.5 BEST places to network: 1. In Charlotte, it’s the “Y.” Share this Post.

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Networking Hiring Trade Show Social Media 325

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

While it is true the professionals who are known to be consistent top performers, be they in sales, sports or finance, that top 10%, the ones in the rest of pack aspire to be, are often said to have a winning attitude. The key is that it is created and maintained in a proactive fashion.

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Fashion Sports Motivation ACT 303

Sales 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

I know that you train startups on sales as well as doing your “day job” What do you see as the main sales challenges for startups? I want the guy/gal who went to a state school, played competitive sports, and has something to prove. Are Sales 2.0 I want a hustler.

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Hiring Jigsaw Social Media Cold Calling 384

Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 14, 2018

ow”, as sports psychologists describe a state of alert concentration in which the body moves by pure instinct, like a ?sh It’s the point before the point of no return. Under the cold shower I enter a new space in which I feel my power and resilience grow. I’m a different man when I emerge. I’m activated. I’m in “the ?ow”, sh in a current.

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Competition Decision Maker Sports Sales Leadership 355

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 189

Sales Gravy

JANUARY 19, 2025

Golf, for me, is more than a sport; its a metaphor for sales and life. They sit in training sessions or roleplays with their arms crossed, telling themselves that they dont need this. Golf, for me, is more than a sport; its a metaphor for sales and life. Look at any elite athlete, and youll find a coach nearby.

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Sports Coaching ACT Sales Coaching 98

Steven Rosen

MARCH 23, 2022

Coaching is a skill that takes time to perfect, and unless expertly coached or trained, managers can make all types of blunders. Coaching is a skill that takes time to perfect, and unless effectively coached or trained, managers make all types of blunders. Coaching differs from training. Coaching is a one-to-one sport.

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Coaching Sales Management Face-to-face Sports 292

Smooth Sale

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Realize the Commonalities Between Sports and Effective Selling? Competitiveness applies to sports and sales; however, the ‘Commonalities between sports and effective selling’ offers much more. Your Story: Commonalities Between Sports and Effective Selling.

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Sports Hiring Lead Rank Competition 78

Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

This time I had a stake in it – although I now live in greater Boston, my birthplace was Seattle - the sports-tortured city. The December issue of Sports Illustrated has an article penned by Lee Jenkins on Peyton Manning being named SI’s Sportsman of the Year. Superbowl XLVIII has come and gone.

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Sports Lead Scoring Lead Rank Outbound 225

Steven Rosen

MARCH 23, 2012

Coaching is a skill that takes time to perfect and unless effectively coached or trained managers can make all types of blunders. Coaching is a skill that takes time to perfect and unless effectively coached or trained managers make all types of blunders. Coaching differs from training. Coaching is a one to one sport.

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Coaching Sales Management Sales Coaching Face-to-face 290

Pointclear

JUNE 11, 2013

Typically, spectators regard track and field as an individual sport; however, in the relay races we experience how those individual talents combine to create exciting and victorious team efforts. The training for relays initially focuses on building the individual runner’s abilities. Analysis, Coaching, and Adjustment. Celebration.

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B2B Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Lead Scoring 247

The Pipeline

MAY 3, 2018

The differentiators continue to be execution, made up of a dynamic process as James highlights, and skills training. For disruptive learning in sales, I like to look to music and sports; partly art, partly not. In sports, it is better to look at something better replicates ale than the usual. What’s On Top.

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Airlines Sports Health Care Analysis 206

The Center for Sales Strategy

JULY 12, 2023

It is usually something that we undergo when we begin a new position or new company, but the best sales organizations, like the best sports teams, are constantly training all of their people. Simply put, well-trained salespeople drive more revenue.

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Revenue Training Sports Positioning 96

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 22, 2014

Do Technical Salespeople Need Sales Training? Getting a Sales Organization to Buy-In to Sales Training. If we refer to baseball, the best sport for sales analogies, there''s a word that ball players and managers use quite often: Execute. You could substitute most any sport and the dialog would be similar.

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Proposal Sports Sales Qualified Lead Scale 235

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Whether you’re welcoming a new person to your sales team or helping develop skills among your current staff, sales training is a very important part of fostering a successful sales program. Studies show that sales teams who complete highly-rated sales training programs see a 10% higher win rate and are at least 10% more likely to hit quota.

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Hubspot Training Hiring How To 135

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. Planning Versus Strategy.

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Sports Call-back Pivotal Intent 184

MTD Sales Training

APRIL 12, 2020

When I work from home I work out of my home office and there’s lots of movie and sport memorabilia on the wall. If you’re looking for Online Sales Training solutions to help you deliver more impactful online sales presentations then our Sales Webinars can help. MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image at Bigstockphoto.com.

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Sales Meeting Meeting Face-to-face Skype 194

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

I often see it in a different form while training, people who put in just enough. It is not a lack of ability, they are educated, trained, and enabled for success. The realty of B2B sales is that it is a contact sport. Couple that with a distracted buyer who is also challenged to concentrate on one thing till it’s done.

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Sports Intent B2B Quota 188

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 27, 2024

Wouldn’t it be cool if, instead of the news that currently appears in your feed, or the sports analysis you just heard, you could read the news of your last few days of selling, or hear the play-by-play analysis of your sales call from earlier today? Most sales training is product-focused instead of sales development.

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Sports Analysis Outbound Examples 188

The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 21, 2014

Men also have a desire to compete, which means a lot of time a conversation in their mind turns into a sporting event where someone will come out a winner and the other a loser. Blog Sales Motivation Sales Training salespeople' My second opinion is on the topic of being able to develop and close a sale. ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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Hiring Negotiation Sports Motivation 278

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 3, 2019

When it comes to hiring, training, managing and coaching salespeople, there is actually a formula for success with some science behind it. Predictive analysis can help sales managers make better decisions on how to hire, train, develop, coach, and lead their sales teams. The Value of Predictive Analytics.

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Hiring Lead Scoring Lead Rank Analysis 222

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 14, 2014

This also had a math equation within it: Sports is to Selling as Baseball is to Consultative Selling as Pitching and Defense are to Baseline Selling. If you''ve been exposed to one of these trainings ( SPIN, Sandler, Solution Selling and Strategic Selling) , then you know that they''re all good.

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Sales Methodology Negotiation Proposal Analysis 271

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 17, 2017

Why some of us can learn languages easily and yet others can pick up any sport and excel.”. Want your account based sales reps to devour information and training, and to have passion for growing their skill sets? And now this idea helps us to understand why some children can thrive in traditional education settings and others don’t.

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Account Video Cold Calling Webinar Metrics 291

Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 24, 2014

That’s like passing out participation trophies in youth sports (you don’t want to get me started on THAT discussion.). Talking about results only when positive results aren’t there. Create opportunities to recognize success. I don’t mean that you have to fawn over them because they prospected.

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Motivation Hiring Sports Compensation 221

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 23, 2020

That’s for sports. Illig helps to train, consult and coach leaders at Fortune 500 companies on how to win more profitable business and build sales cultures that win. It means having a balanced program for self-renewal. I find that many salespeople fall short on this one. They’re getting better at their profession every week.

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Real Estate Webinar Metrics Intent Quota 320

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. Just as sports has been “ Moneyball-ed “, sales is being scrutinized in new ways to arbitrage the best people and tools. Think about it. Who are the sales MVPs? Do you have the right equipment?

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Sports Analytics Follow-up Tools 139

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. And they must put their existing sales leaders through comprehensive, on-going training and coaching to develop their coaching skills. What Does it Take to Become a Sales Manager?

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Sales Management Webinar Metrics Coaching Sports 219

MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Not just children’s names and favourite sports; information that will help you share relevant information. MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image courtesy of Big Stock Photo. The post Be More Successful With These 10 Cold Calling Alternatives appeared first on MTD Sales Training. Happy Selling! Sean McPheat. Managing Director.

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Cold Calling Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Face-to-face 169

The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Also, sales is a team sport; it’s not a solo activity. This is where the team sport of selling comes into play. How do I Overcome my Lack of Confidence When Prospecting: It’s sad to say, but this situation is a major issue and one of the biggest reasons why there’s such a high turnover in sales. Sales is merely a mind game.

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Selling Skills Telemarketing Sports Motivation 175

Smooth Sale

MARCH 24, 2025

9 Ways to Empower Your Sales Team Image, Geralt, Pixabay In-Depth Training Its no secret that the better trained your employees are, the better they can do their jobs, making it a wise investment. In-depth training is to occur when the employee first joins the team, but it shouldn’t end there.

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Hiring Incentives Incentive Lead Scoring 78