Anthony Cole Training
APRIL 9, 2012
Thank you in advance. Over the last several years our team at Anthony Cole Training Group has worked closely with David Kurlan in our attempt to help sales companies build and execute more successful sales team. We work with Dave because his company, Objective Management Group, provides the best analytics to determine the root cause of performance for sales team.
A Sales Guy
APRIL 11, 2012
Selling is a pretty cool gig. Sales people can make a lot of money. Sales people get to manage their own schedule and aren’t stuck behind a desk all day. Sales people have the luxury of controlling their income. There is no limit to what they can make, when they sell more, they make more. Sales people go to cool customer events, get to play golf (although this is changing a bit), sporting events and nice dinners.
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Score More Sales
APRIL 30, 2012
A corporate salesperson was telling me about his pipeline, and explaining all of the opportunities that were stalled. Nearly every one had what he thought were insurmountable problems. He was perplexed, frustrated, and in his mind, his career at a new company would be short-lived. We sat down and talked through every sales opportunity he had listed.
ConversionXL
APRIL 19, 2012
Planning to use video to increase conversions ? Good idea. . What’s the most important part? It has to be damn good. Like interesting to watch. Compelling. Quality = Attention span. Your promo video only does you any good if people actually watch it. And like it. As Seinfeld said , ” There is no such thing as an attention span. There is only the quality of what you are viewing.” This captures the essence of a great promo video.
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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.
Understanding the Sales Force
APRIL 9, 2012
Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan As part of its sales force evaluation process, Objective Management Group (OMG) conducts a pipeline analysis and determines both the quality of the pipeline and the quantity of the pipeline. We ask each salesperson to submit 4 proposal-ready opportunities and then we run the analysis. If we were reviewing a full pipeline instead of just 4 proposal-ready opportunities for each salesperson, an ideal sales pipeline would look like this: Because we are on
Partners in Excellence
APRIL 5, 2012
The other day, Charlie Green , Anthony Iannarino , and I had a discussion on handling the competition. Charlie posed the question, “Is it ever appropriate to bash the competition.” It was an interesting discussion, and I thought it worthwhile to share some ideas here. We all want to compete as aggressively as possible, OutPerforming the competition.
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A Sales Guy
APRIL 30, 2012
Do you want to know where the biggest opportunity for sales growth is today? Are you looking for a new, sure fire sales strategy that will increase sales, get you more leads, accelerate sales cycles, reduce cost of sales and improve close rates? Do you want to know what is the one thing you can do to blow out your number and crush the competition? It is to turn your sales organization into a teaching organization.
Score More Sales
APRIL 30, 2012
A corporate salesperson was telling me about his pipeline, and explaining all of the opportunities that were stalled. Nearly every one had what he thought were insurmountable problems. He was perplexed, frustrated, and in his mind, his career at a new company would be short-lived. We sat down and talked through every sales opportunity he had listed.
ConversionXL
APRIL 18, 2012
Should you say ‘read more’ or ‘product information’ in your product category view? Which is better – ‘add to cart’ or ‘buy now’? There’s a lot of information out there on call to action buttons (size, color, location etc), but with this post I want to focus on a single thing about them – the wording.
The Sales Hunter
APRIL 12, 2012
One of the biggest issues the sales community is dealing with is the lack of effective sales coaching. We can discuss as to why this is but instead let’s just cut to the chase. I want to give you what I see as 7 sales coaching tips you can use right now. Regardless of your sales position, these are 7 you need to know. 1. Consistently follow-up.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin
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.
Partners in Excellence
APRIL 12, 2012
I’ve been following a discussion on cold calling. The topic of “Interruption Based Selling” came up, with several people taking strong stands against this. Frankly, I think it’s our obligation to “Interrupt”–particularly if we want to create real value for our customers. Waiting for the customer to reach out, waiting for the customer to recognize a need is often too late–both for the customer and most of the time for sales.
Anthony Cole Training
APRIL 2, 2012
I am terrible with keeping up with other blogs. There are 3, that when I read them, I really enjoy and benefit from; Dave Kurlan - The sales assessment expert. Seth Godin - The purple cow autho r. Bill Ecstrom - The data and sales management piller guru. Here is Seth's recent post: The coalition of "NO". There are a million reasons to say no, but few reasons to stand up and say yes.
A Sales Guy
APRIL 25, 2012
How have you built your sales organization? How have you deployed your sales resources? What method have you used to make sure you have the best resources focused on the right things? How you structure your sales organization can be the difference between a successful strategy and a failed one. A brilliant sales strategy won’t amount to a hill of beans if you don’t build the best underlying sales structure to support it.
Understanding the Sales Force
APRIL 26, 2012
Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The statistics are staggering. In some sectors, fewer than 25% of all salespeople will make quota in 2012. Even best-in-class companies are lucky when fewer than 80% of their salespeople make quota. Are you OK with it when your own salespeople fail to make quota? There are a number of possible reasons for this widespread mediocrity and failure and, depending on the company, some or all of them may apply.
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!
ConversionXL
APRIL 25, 2012
No, it’s not a modern day phobia. It’s when people are not sure what will happen after they click. So in most cases they won’t. If you want to get people to click on your buttons, make them feel in control. It’s the uncertainty that kills the clicks. People like to feel in control. People feel much more comfortable when they know exactly what’s going to happen.
The Sales Hunter
APRIL 26, 2012
In my post 5 Sales Tips to Maximize Your Price , I promised to break down the individual tips even further. Here goes on the first sales tip: Sell the Outcome, Not the Activity. Anyone can sell features. Your objective is to focus on the outcomes the customer will gain in buying from you. You aren’t going to know what the expected outcomes are until you engage the customer in a conversation. .
Partners in Excellence
APRIL 19, 2012
A strong sales process is critical to our effectiveness as sales professionals. Without a strong process, it’s comparable to an aimless walk—we may reach our destination, but then again we may not. Or we may reach our destination after an overly long journey. As much as has been written about sales processes, I am constantly amazed by the number of organization that either have no process in place, their process is hopelessly outdated, or the sales people and managers don’t u
Anthony Cole Training
APRIL 9, 2012
When I was 42, my eyesight began to change. I was coming back from Manchester, New Hampshire where I had just spent 2.5 days working with a sales team to help them improve their cross selling process. It had been a long trip as I actually started in New York City on Monday and today was Friday. So, when the words in my document appeared to be blury, I just thought it was due to fatique.
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!
A Sales Guy
APRIL 3, 2012
This mornings Keynote at the Sales 2.0 Conference was by Jeff Hayzlett. Jeff is a dynamic, ball of energy on stage. He’s a killer presenter. He had me laughing through the entire thing. In his presentation Jeff talked about why we fail. I thought it was powerful because failure is what we all spend everyday trying to avoid. Knowing why we fail allows us to avoid the barriers and then we can hit change head on.
Score More Sales
APRIL 10, 2012
Track Your Sales Opportunities! Are you a sales data naysayer? Think that metrics and measurement are “too confining” (that was a National Safety Council ad campaign back in the ‘70s about wearing seat belts – because that’s how they were viewed, even though wearing them saved lives in most cases). Metrics and measurement save the lives of your sales opportunities.
Pointclear
APRIL 24, 2012
As much as marketing and sales best practices—not to mention just plain common sense—dictate that cost-per-lead not play a prominent role in managing and measuring B2B lead generation investments, the metric continues to prevail. I included the following in a blog on the cost-per-lead metric I wrote in the summer of 2010: “I continue to marvel at the high number of companies that only use cost-per-lead as a basis for lead generation buying decisions.
The Sales Hunter
APRIL 10, 2012
Here are 7 secrets you can use right now to improve your negotiating skills. 1. Sell first, negotiate second. Never go into a sales call expecting to negotiate, rather go in committed to sell and close the deal without making any concessions. It’s during the selling phase when you have the best opportunity to learn the most about what it is the customer needs and wants. 2.
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Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.
Partners in Excellence
APRIL 9, 2012
As sales professionals, we’re all very goal directed and measurement oriented. Managers leverage numbers heavily in managing and coaching performance. But there’s a fine line in using the numbers appropriately in coaching. Too often, coaching becomes about the numbers and not about what they mean. The real secret to effective coaching is understanding is causing the results, getting underneath the numbers.
Understanding the Sales Force
APRIL 24, 2012
Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Objective Management Group just completed it's annual international conference for Partners. Normally, I wouldn't write about it, but this event was different. Not most of it, but one magical hour of it. We have had great, world-reknowned keynote speakers in past years like, Guy Kawasaki , Dan Millman , Robert Kriegel , and Verne Harnish.
A Sales Guy
APRIL 13, 2012
Do you have a clear, defined, approach to identifying talent? How do you know when you have the killer candidate in front of you? What do you do to separate the good from the bad, the on paper superstar from the actual superstar? Do you have a talent identification process? The NFL draft is coming up soon and the talent identification process of NFL teams is unmatched.
Score More Sales
APRIL 27, 2012
In an inbound marketing world, is there still need to call people? This is the current question on many sellers minds and one that deserves some ongoing discussion. Of all the ways we have seen people actually talking to prospects, it most often is in a combination of the following: 1) Simple web research. 2) LinkedIn or other warm connection. 3 )Have data and knowledge of your prospect’s world. 4) Use of the telephone.
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
Engage Selling
APRIL 21, 2012
A client of ours – individual contributor – had a quota in 2011 of $7 million. She blew those numbers away hitting $12million by December 31. In 2012 her quota was set at $11.5 million. She manages 1 customer only, who completes multiple projects each year with her firm. What do you think of her 2012 target? Higher? Lower? and why? Cheers Colleen.
The Sales Hunter
APRIL 20, 2012
Have you ever stopped to wonder why some salespeople never seem to have to cut their price to close a deal and other salespeople offer discounts all the time? Yes, there are a lot of reasons why this can be the case, but one problem that gets overlooked too often is the source of the sales prospects. Doesn’t it make sense that cheap prospects would naturally become cheap customers?
Partners in Excellence
APRIL 16, 2012
I sit in hundreds of review sessions every year. Pipeline reviews, territory reviews, account reviews, opportunity reviews, call reviews. An odd thing happens in about 90% of the reviews, they all become deal reviews. Think about the last pipeline review you participated in. It starts out with a review of the pipeline, pretty soon, someone–perhaps the manager, perhaps a participant, perhaps the sales person doing the review, focuses on a particular deal.
Understanding the Sales Force
APRIL 3, 2012
Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Before I get into trouble for the title of this blog, let me 1.) explain from where it comes and 2.) direct you to another of my articles where I wrote that women make better salespeople than men. Objective Management Group recently evaluated a sales force of 24 women. While working on the analysis, one member of our staff remarked that it seemed that "women were far less trainable than men".
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