Anthony Cole Training
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Sales leaders must be both effective managers and great coaches by arming their salespeople with the skills to be successful and managing their strengths. This week, we identify the final 5 keys to success in leading a sales team.
Iannarino
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Sales professionals realize that staying ahead in this fast-paced business world is about continuous grooming. The difference between hitting the target and missing it is Sales Training. The B2B selling landscape has changed, and with it, everything related to methods and strategies to drive results. Let's take this opportunity to discuss how sales professionals can elevate performance and why sales training, particularly in B2B sales, is more important than ever today.
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Membrain
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
If you’ve been following me for long, you know I’m a student of systems thinking. I’ve been taking a training with Cabrera Labs , the think tank run by Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera of Cornell University. As I’m going deeper with their systems thinking framework called DSRP , I can’t help but notice all the ways their model can help us sell better.
Force Management
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Sales talent is a cornerstone to a best-in-class sales organization. As a sales leader you need the right people on board if you want to hit your revenue goals every quarter. Without a process to attract, hire and retain top sales talent you will waste money on mis-hires, lose talent to the competition and have no way to build a bench strength for growth.
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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
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Randy Newman has written a lot of hit songs. The two most popular were probably Short People and I Love LA but he also wrote the music for Toy Story and Monsters, Inc. In 1970, Three Dog Night recorded one of his songs called Mama Told Me (Not to Come). If you don’t remember or weren’t around to hear one of the first hits of the 1970’s, you should probably watch/listen to the song, Mama Told Me (Not to Come) below and pay attention to the words in the chorus.
Martech
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
“I am excited to introduce our next step in this journey,the Webex AI agent. This is in pilot right now, it will be available to our customers in an early calendar quarter in 2025. This AI agent brings together conversational intelligence and generative AI to deliver natural conversations with hyper-personalization.” Those words came from Cisco, the enterprise digital communications and technology company; specifically from Anurag Dhingra, SVP and GM of Cisco Collaboration.
Technology Sales Today brings together the best content for technology sales professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Iannarino
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Why You Are the Key to Client Success in Modern Sales When you secure a first meeting with your dream client, neither your company, your clients, nor your solution is enough to cause your client to buy from you. Instead, you and you alone are responsible for creating the value that causes the buyer and decision makers to buy from you.
Membrain
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Often, when I talk to managers, they tell me how much time they spend coaching. They tell me stories of meeting, weekly, with their people, doing reviews, pipeline discussions, activity discussions—all sorts of “coaching meetings.
Force Management
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
A well-defined negotiation strategy is a critical component of an organization’s success. A great negotiation strategy goes beyond individual seller skills - leaders should create a repeatable framework to ensure negotiation is being executed consistently across all deals to ensure maximum revenue. If your team repeatedly loses margin on deals, loses to competitors based on price or struggles to expand deal sizes, it may be time to assess your negotiation strategy.
Understanding the Sales Force
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
In Central Massachusetts, the 2024 Foliage season was dramatically different from a year ago when the leaves turned late in the fall, without much color, and they didn’t drop until the second half of November. Long Foliage Cycle. This year, much like when I was growing up, the leaves turned in mid-October and had mostly fallen from the trees by the end of October.
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.
Martech
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
What makes content go viral? According to our latest research, the key lies in triggering specific emotions, publishing at the right time and telling stories that resonate. By understanding the emotional drivers behind viral content, brands can create campaigns that reach wider audiences and inspire real engagement. The viral emotions driving brand engagement Up to 70% of journalists say PR pros are important to the success of their jobs, yet 49% of journalists seldom or never respond to PR pitc
Anthony Cole Training
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
There are few responsibilities in life more important than being a coach, whether for a sports team, teaching mastery of a musical instrument, or serving as a sales coach. Consider the impact a coach has on their students: helping them uncover problems, discover opportunities, enhance their approach, improve their skills, and achieve success. This also makes coaching one of the toughest roles, as those responsible for it often juggle numerous other tasks daily, including operational, administrat
Iannarino
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
More sales organizations use a legacy approach than a modern sales methodology. Some of these sales managers may not be interested enough in studying the various ways to approach the sales conversation. As a sales leader, you need a modern sales methodology that teaches clients why they need to change and how they can make key decisions for their business.
Partners in Excellence
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Since Paul Graham’s fascinating article on Founder Mode, I’ve been reading/rereading his article and listening to Brian Chesky talk about his re-wiring of AirBnB. I’ve also been wary of way too many pundits jumping on the bandwagon with their thoughts about Founder Mode as the miracle cure to our business woes. (Let me be clear, neither Paul, nor Brian talk about it in that way.
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Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten
Salesforce
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
It was Sept. 12, a week before Dreamforce, our biggest event of the year. I was Slacking at work as usual (no pun intended), when I received a ping from my manager, Claire Cheng, vice president, software engineering: “Hi, Robert. We’d like your help on something.” “Sure,” I replied. “Don’t tell me this is for the Dreamforce keynote, please. That might be a bit rushed.
Understanding the Sales Force
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
The title of today’s article might be confusing, but it’s true. Phil told me so. But before I share what he said, I have some anecdotal evidence that supports the claim that I’m an imposter. Here are ten reasons why I could be an imposter: I stand tall but I’m actually just 5′ 6″ I’m a white collar professional yet I never wear a jacket or tie I have helped B2B sales teams for nearly 40 years but prior to that I sold only B2C I invented and perfected
Martech
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
The decline of marketing as an influential business function is well documented. Among C-suite roles, chief marketing officers (CMOs) are the least likely to advance to the CEO spot and the most likely to be dismissed. This unsettling trend is supported by the Fall 2023 CMO Survey, where most CMOs reported limited involvement in executive-level decisions.
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.
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!
Iannarino
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Sales managers and reps face immense pressure to deliver results—understanding how to operate within your Overton window could be the key to career survival.
Force Management
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
In the past month, the Revenue Builders Podcast has hosted some insightful conversations with experienced sales leaders. They discussed their sales journeys, critical career moves, management advice and emerging technologies. We also heard some great perspectives from our hosts, John Kaplan and John McMahon. Tune in below to hear 2025 sales best practices from a variety of established minds in the sales world.
Salesforce
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
In just one year, enterprise adoption of generative AI has nearly doubled , from 33% to 65%. And it’s not being used only as a side experiment: According to a recent McKinsey study, the majority of the 1,400 businesses surveyed have adopted artificial intelligence (AI) in at least one business function, and are regularly using generative AI in at least one function.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
So clearly AI is rapidly changing the way we do sales, but how will it all shake out? Over in the contact center and post-sales space, we can already see 20%+ of customer support execs been routinely replaced by AI. But what about the more personal sales side? AI SDRs have taken off more quickly than AI AEs (although personally, I suspect more value will be in AI SEs and AEs that can answer my deep product and pricing questions instantly, without games).
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Quotas need to be hit. Revenue goals need to be met. This reality makes shortening sales onboarding time a top priority. Organizations with a standard onboarding process boost employee retention by 58% and increase productivity by 50%. Unfortunately, many companies struggle with inefficient processes that lead to high turnover and missed revenue opportunities.
Martech
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
By now, you may have encountered SEO dashboards, such as those from Screaming Frog, which sync with Looker Studio. Perhaps you use an enterprise tool to track your technical SEO in the cloud. That’s all fine, but how helpful is it? Is it improving your rankings? If you’re managing 30-50 or even 100+ sites, does tracking technical SEO with cloud crawlers offer anything actionable?
Partners in Excellence
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Charlie Green and I had a fascinating conversation about a person he’s coaching. This individual is truly one of the world’s top performers in his area of expertise. He has years of experience, more data than ChatGPT would know how to deal with and more experience in solving these very difficult problems than 90% of the business world. Yet he’s struggling to get the attention he deserves to get.
Iannarino
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Sales is all about movement—movement through stages, movement toward a goal, movement from opportunity to revenue. The sales pipeline is the framework that drives this movement. Managing it well can turn chaos into a predictable, repeatable system. I’ve been in sales long enough to see that great salespeople and successful sales teams don’t rely on luck.
G2
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Challenging, unstable, disruptive – the words that describe the economic state of the staffing market this year. However, in business, one constant remains: change.
Speaker: Evelyn Chou
Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.
Salesforce
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
One of the great things about AI agents is that you can easily converse with the technology as if it were a person. Thanks to natural language processing, the artificial intelligence (AI) agent understands, interprets, and generates human-sounding responses. This begs the question: How human-like should an agent be? In short, not very. While agents may seem lifelike, designing them to feel overly human may frustrate users and lead to misplaced (and ultimately, unmet) expectations.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
A lot of SaaS companies have been experimenting with generative AI and LLMs over the last 12-18 months. And increasingly they’re asking, how are companies doing this in production at scale? Are they seeing the kind of ROI that we all feel could be there? As the leader of the Applied AI team at Google Cloud, Duncan Lennox sets out to answer these questions and shares six ways businesses are currently transforming their businesses at scale and with real ROI.
Martech
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Digital natives aren’t like the rest of us. They are bringing entirely new behavioral patterns into the B2B buying process, and experienced marketers and sellers ignore this at their peril. Call it “the consumerization of B2B.” We must treat buyers like the consumers they are in their personal lives, and develop new expertise in the media channels and messages that tend to work in consumerland.
Partners in Excellence
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Brandon Fluharty made a brilliant observation: Activities Don’t Drive Strategy! While no leader sets out to have activities drive strategy (at least I hope they don’t), too often we get distracted and activities take center stage. Stated differently, we stop seeing the forest and focus on the trees. Activities are the things we do to execute our strategies.
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Are your sellers unsure about using AI in their day-to-day workflows? Or are they eager to try but uncertain where to start? They might be asking: Which tasks are best suited for AI? How will using AI affect my relationship with my customers? With so many tools available, which ones are the most useful to me? To help answer these and other common questions about using AI during the sales cycle, we surveyed B2B sellers who were early adopters to get their insight and advice about how to use gen A
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