Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

"IN THE END, WE'RE ALL JUST FRUIT".

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Bo Bennett once said, “Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.”. Of course, affiliate marketing has this mysterious aura about it. Many of the top search results for the term are focused on what it is and whether you can make money from it. The truth is that it’s not all that mysterious. It’s nothing more than another marketing channel for you to experiment with, analyze, optimize and grow.

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A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

If you’re a salesperson, take a look at all the opportunities in your CRM. If you’re a sales manager, or the CRO, or even CEO, go look at the opportunities your sales people have put in the CRM. Comb through opportunity, look at the notes, next steps, past emails, look through the entire thing. I bet you can’t find it. I bet 90% of the opportunities you look through don’t have it and that “it” is costing you and your company hundreds of thousands if not millio

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Engage Selling

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

You have a few top performers on your sales team. That means they don’t need to be coached, right? Wrong. Your top producing salespeople need to be coached just as much as your mid or bottom performing reps.

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What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

What was the first social network you ever joined? While many people will recall it being Facebook or Twitter, others might remember some of the earlier, less popular social networks. You know, like Friendster, Open Diary, and Orkut? A lot these primitive social networks go forgotten, but that doesn't make their stories any less important. After all, these networks laid the groundwork for the social media giants we use today.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Image Copyright honglouwawa. By now, surely everyone has written their Super Bowl articles, drawing inspiration from the game, the comeback and the records to make their points. In my business, it's rare when someone isn't an optimist but I'm a realist and the realist in me kept saying how improbable it would be - even for Tom Brady and the Patriots - to come from that far behind and tie it - never mind win it - against a team as powerful as the Falcons.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Improving your Quality Score, increasing your clickthrough rate (CTR), reducing your ad spend without compromising results… these are all top-of-mind for PPC marketers using AdWords. Recently, we increased our CTR by 28.1%, improving our Quality Score from 5.56 to 7.95 (out of 10). How’d we do it? Through single keyword ad groups, a little-known tactic that smart marketers are using to maximize their PPC spend.

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A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

You wanna be successful? Do this. Be the absolutely fuckin’ best at what you do and spend every day making sure you stay the best. It’s that simple. I know, it’s not what you were thinking. You were expecting some earth shattering, intriguingly simple, yet profound insight. Nope, that’s not what I’ve got for ya. It may not be earth-shattering or profound, but it is simple.

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Engage Selling

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Do you ever feel as though you’re not doing quite enough for your clients? You’ve delivered everything that you promised to deliver, and the client seems to be happy with the services and products you have provided them.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Earning the trust of prospective customers can be a struggle. Before you can even begin to expect to earn their business, you need to demonstrate your ability to deliver on what your product or service promises. Sure, you could say that you're great at X, or that you're way ahead of the competition when it comes to Y. But at the end of the day, what you really need to win new business is cold, hard proof.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Rightfully, sales enablement gets a lot of attention these days. Dozens of articles and studies talk about the importance of sales enablement in developing the capabilities of sales people. Organizations like the Sales Enablement Society is bringing the discussion and frameworks for sales enablement to the front and center of our collective attentions.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

SCORECARDS DO NOT DRIVE SALES GROWTH.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

A good conversationalist knows that asking closed-ended questions is no way to make real friends. Similarly, in marketing research, there are certain limitations inherent to closed-ended questions. There’s a lot of value in asking both open and closed questions in a survey. This article, however, will dive into the intricacies of asking and acting upon open-ended questions in your research.

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A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

I have a friend who is contemplating starting her own business. It’s a good business. She has some good contacts in the industry. She has a good lead engine already established. Her overhead will be low in the beginning if she does it right. If she’s smart and leverages her contacts, there is no reason she can’t grow this business with nominal risk, and without putting herself too far out there.

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Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales & Devyn Blume, Sr. Account Executive

Are you curious about how artificial intelligence is reshaping sales coaching, learning, and development? Join Brendan Sweeney and Devyn Blume of Allego for an engaging new webinar exploring AI's transformative role in sales coaching and performance improvement! Brendan and Devyn will share actionable insights and strategies for integrating AI into coaching and development - ensuring personalized, effective, and scalable training!

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Image Copyright BeeBright. Readers are always referring me to articles that list top sales traits, that discuss what makes salespeople great, that name the most important selling skills, or that otherwise contradict the science-based findings and statistics that I share in my articles. In that regard, today was very much the same when a reader referred me to this LinkedIn article that revealed the Top 5 Traits of the Best Salespeople.

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Engage Selling

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Closing rates are ALWAYS the “topic of the day” during workshops, coaching calls and strategy sessions. What is yours? Is that high or low compared to average? What would you expect it to be? How can we make it better?

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

As sales people, we want to make it easy for our customers to buy. We have endless amounts of data sheets, cases studies, presentations, and information about our products. We seek to be super responsive to our customers informational needs, immediately burying them with information, conducting endless demos to respond to their questions. Marketing helps us, both with the content and making vast arrays of information available through multiple digital and non-digital channels.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

So, this morning, Linda and I were watching Morning Joe while talking business. We were discussing our brand promise of, “When you lie awake at night worrying about sales growth, we lie awake at night.

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Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

User experience is a nebulous term. What defines a “good” UX from a “bad’ UX, and what do the gradations look like between the two poles? The challenge comes in testing and measuring UX. Can you do it in a rigorous way and are there tools that can help you? Yes you can, and yes there are. That’s what this article is about: measuring and testing UX. If you’re an experience UX or conversion optimization person, this might be basic to you, but it will be a good overview for those new to the field.

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A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

What happens when you Google your name? What comes up? You’re Facebook page, your LinkedIn profile, what? Do you like what you find? Is it consistent with who you are and how you do your job? Is what you find when you google your name, consistent with who you are? If someone had to make a split decision on hiring you or not, based on your social presence would you get hired?

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Image Copyright OcusFocus. Ryan changed jobs and companies this week when he started in his new role as Business Development Manager. When I congratulated him on his new job he wrote back the following: "You were 110% on the money back when I became a first time sales manager. You told Stuart and me that my biggest challenge would be in not being able to understand why the hell sales reps working for me just didn't do what I did when I was selling, and what I asked them to do, since I always did

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

When you start an online business, there are thousands of questions that need answering. How much money do you really need to start a business? How do you register it with the government? How do you build a website? Who’s your target customer, and what tactics and messaging should you use to reach them? You’ll quickly find that coming up with the idea for a new business is the easy part.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

I’m tempted to paraphrase the old Carly Simon song, You’re So Vain. Too often we think our customers’ buying cycles are about us, at least a choice between us and our competitors. We may be very customer focused in our sales process, trying to understand and align ourselves with the customer buying process. But still, our strategies tend to focus on a singular part of the customer buying cycle, “What does it take to select us?

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

YOUR BIGGEST UNDETECTED CHALLENGE.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Retention is the key to building a great business. When your core product experience brings your users back time and time again, you gain some incredible advantages. You spend less on acquisition, learn from your users faster, and start building a community through word of mouth and referrals. If you can’t retain your users, you’re going to spend more on acquisition while not growing as quickly.

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A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

My new Forbes post is up. Like most of my posts, the ones I think are just OK, do really well, and the ones I think are homeruns, fizzle and die a painful death in obscurity. This post has been fairly popular. I knew it was an important topic, but I didn’t realize how much it would resonate with sales leaders and sales people alike. Enjoy and let me know what you think.

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Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

There are a lot of sales books out there and it is SO easy to skim them quickly and summarize that they are like other books I read about selling every month.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

We spend a lot of time on social media sites -- globally, it’s around two hours per day. But for all of that time spent social networking, we may not always know what’s going on behind the scenes with the sites themselves. To help you save time while staying informed, we’re launching a monthly social media news roundup. This month, we’ll discuss Snapchat’s growth and content diversification, Google’s step into live-streaming, and other changes worth knowing about.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

We can learn a lot about value propositions by looking at the vast new array of personal services available through the web. For example, I have a Virtual Assistant. This person spends a few hours a week doing things I used to do. They are a lot of the administrative tasks that used to take some of my time. I’m paying this person to do these things, but what she does frees up time for me to invest in things that are more important.

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

It’s this simple: If you want great barbeque ribs, brisket or chicken, the key is low temperature and slow cooking. Having said that, if you want maximum flavor and tenderness, make sure you sear or char the meat first, then go low and slow. This is an undeniable truth. Just read the Science of Cooking and discover all the neat things you can do to improve the outcome of any meal.

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