Anthony Cole Training
JANUARY 19, 2018
Whitey Kollmeier, my friend and greatest center of influence, told me a story about Coach Scolinos. In January of 1996 he was a speaker at the American Baseball Coaches Association. His topic: Stay at 17 Inches. He approached the stage with a home plate hanging from his neck.
ConversionXL
JANUARY 8, 2018
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the biggest levers that a business can use within their acquisition strategy as part of their Growth goals. You’re likely familiar with the different Growth frameworks like AARRR (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue). It all start with Acquisition. Getting users familiar with your product by visiting them on your site or in app.
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A Sales Guy
JANUARY 18, 2018
It’s a sales manager’s job to know whether or not a salesperson is going to make quota or not and part of the process is understanding what deals are real and will close, and which won’t. Deal reviews are the critical tool for sales managers to determine the probability of a salesperson is going to be successful or not in making quota.
Membrain
JANUARY 14, 2018
The Challenger Sale is essential reading for anyone in complex B2B selling and many enterprise sales organizations are embracing the concepts.
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Sales Hacker
JANUARY 8, 2018
What makes a killer sales kickoff meeting? Is the review of numbers? Sort of… Is it the announcement of a new product, service, feature set? Perhaps… Is it the Rah-Rah speech from the CEO? Maybe… Is it the announcement of new marketing initiatives to support lead generation and demand generation efforts? Getting warmer… What really sets the best sales kickoff meetings apart from the mediocre ones is making sure you provide your sales team with something more valuable
InsightSquared
JANUARY 29, 2018
During a recent analysis of the available “operations” jobs on LinkedIn, we discovered a significant number of “revenue operations” jobs — 59,110 to be exact. It sparked the question, “Is revenue operations just another word for sales operations, or are the roles fundamentally different?”. We spoke to several operations professionals to help us better define revenue ops, and understand how the role fits into an organization relative to sales ops.
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Openview
JANUARY 18, 2018
Every sales manager wants their team to close bigger deals. How much would revenue go up if your entire team was closing deals like your best sales rep? What if every rep was prospecting as well as the rep generating the most leads? Your team’s success starts with you. Let’s talk about how to become the manager of a sales team where every rep performs at their absolute best.
Hubspot
JANUARY 31, 2018
I’ve been selling for over 30 years, and it’s been a blast. I’ve seen some incredible changes, and I can say without a doubt that right now is the best time to invest in a sales career. Sales is fun, critically important to scaling businesses, financially lucrative, and intellectually stimulating. But being a salesperson in 2018 is very different than being a salesperson in 1987.
Outreach
JANUARY 18, 2018
How many opportunities are your reps managing at any given time? If you’re like most modern sales organizations, the answer is a lot. It takes time to cultivate those opportunities and build relationships with prospects, which means every second of your reps’ day is sacred. So why do so many reps burn valuable hours doing manual tasks that have zero impact on your win rate, customer satisfaction, and bottom line?
Sales Hacker
JANUARY 23, 2018
Before we get into our 2017 recap and 2018 road map, I wanted to provide some quick background on how Sales Hacker came to be. How It All Began: The Story of Sales Hacker. I can’t believe it’s been 4 years since we threw our first Sales Hacker Conference in September of 2013. 300 people showed up to learn about all the new advancements in Sales Technology.
Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick
Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.
Engage Selling
JANUARY 25, 2018
This is the hidden secret behind high sales performance. If you follow my content, or any other sales thought leader’s work, you’ll find a plethora of great strategies, practices, and ideas that you can apply in your business.
Anthony Cole Training
JANUARY 5, 2018
Of course you have sales problems. If it’s not a production problem, it’s a productivity problem. If it’s not a productivity problem, it’s a servicing problem. If It’s not a service problem, it’s a sales/sales support turnover problem. In the words of Rosanne Rosannadana, “It’s Always Something”.
A Sales Guy
JANUARY 4, 2018
LinkedIn is a great tool for selling, but most salespeople are using it wrong. They’re treating it it’s a telephone or email and spamming people. We’ve all gotten them (and many of you have sent them). I’m talking about the LinkedIn connect requests that are then instantly followed by some lame pitch or request for your time so push some irrelevant ware on us.
Hubspot
JANUARY 30, 2018
Influencer marketing has skyrocketed since it first made its mark. That's very much due to the way purchasing decisions have changed over the years. You might recall, for example, a story about how many women no longer trust celebrity endorsements. That's because most consumers, research shows, seek product and service recommendations from those who are, above all, knowledgeable and credible.
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Understanding the Sales Force
JANUARY 17, 2018
I was on the way to a meeting and the traffic was stop and go - not moving for a minute, then back up to 30 MPH, and then back to a dead stop. I've been driving since 1972 and have driven in all kinds of conditions. Pitch black on a moonless night on a narrow winding road with no street lights; on a 4-lane highway in white-out conditions where you can't see where the sides of the road are, down-hill on black ice with zero control of breaking and steering; snow-covered, two-lane road with cars st
Sales Hacker
JANUARY 11, 2018
At first glance, project managers and sales professionals don’t seem to have much in common. They inhabit different worlds and generally aim for different goals. Budget-conscious, time-crazed and snoopier-than-normal, the stereotypical project manager seems, at most, a very distant cousin of the freewheeling, outgoing and glib sales practitioner.
Score More Sales
JANUARY 30, 2018
We walk away from sales opportunities every day - abandoned sales opportunities. You do it, I do it, and a few of us have the discipline to identify why our deal didn’t come to closure.
InsightSquared
JANUARY 8, 2018
There’s an African proverb that goes something like this: “When elephants fight, the grass suffers.” This scenario is beginning to play out in marketing. The big players — native reporting in marketing automation and cloud-based sales- and business intelligence (BI) vendors — have caused the ground beneath specialty marketing analytics vendors to shake.
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.
Outreach
JANUARY 17, 2018
How do you follow up last year’s inaugural Unleash, our game-changing customer conference attended by more than 250 highly successful sales leaders? That’s simple: double down and go twice as big this year! Unleash ‘18 is just a few months away, and this time we are headed to Paradise Point in sunny San Diego! Those of you who attended last year’s conference know what to expect — explosive energy, world-class speakers, and incredible networking.
Hubspot
JANUARY 29, 2018
How do you feel when your phone rings and you realize you’re receiving a call from a salesperson? For most business people, it’s interruptive, annoying, and distracting. But if it’s your job to call prospects , you don’t have to fall into the category of “pesky sales rep.”. To kickstart a productive, professional conversation, you need a strong opening.
Understanding the Sales Force
JANUARY 15, 2018
Last week I wrote about the deep freeze, why prospects suddenly go cold , and how you can prevent that from happening. That article was instantly as popular as any I have ever written. I also posted a 6-minute cold-calling rant on LinkedIn that had more than five-thousand views after just a couple of days. The video, like the article, was about mindset, not scripting and tactics.
Sales Hacker
JANUARY 23, 2018
Mistakes during your sales conversations cost you deals. Buyers have dozens of options and more power than ever before. That means you can’t afford to slip up during sales conversations. Your buyers won’t have it. They’ll move to another vendor faster than you can blink, leaving your pockets empty. Knowing the most common mistakes will help you avoid them.
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!
Score More Sales
JANUARY 10, 2018
It was time to visit a newer client of ours and this meeting would be at least two hours to go over our findings about their sales leadership, sales reps, sales process, and pipeline. Because we leave plenty of time as a buffer so that we are never late to clients, we ended up with thirty minutes to spare.
The Sales Hunter
JANUARY 2, 2018
Steve Dembo on episode 222 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Sometimes the best tools have been around awhile. Steve Dembo @ teach42 talks about the tried and true tools that teachers should still use. Richard Byrne, author of Free Technology for Teachers has several online professional development options to check out: GSuite for Teachers , Teaching History with Technology , and Practical Edtech Coaching.
Partners in Excellence
JANUARY 12, 2018
For some reason, articles on “Leaders must show vulnerability,” have been flooding my in-box recently. I get it, leaders must show vulnerability, but what does that mean? As I think of these articles and dozens of others on other leadership qualities, I wonder if we make this far more complicated than it need be. The authors of these articles are just describing behaviors they see in leaders, attaching multisyllabic words to them (because that’s what writers and consultants do
Hubspot
JANUARY 25, 2018
Case studies and testimonials are useful to have on hand. They help you earn a prospect’s trust, show them what life would be like as your customer, and validate that your product or service works. Consider creating a library of customer stories your sales team can use to share targeted and relevant content with your prospects via your website and sales proposals.
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!
Understanding the Sales Force
JANUARY 3, 2018
I receive so many unsolicited emails each day that it makes my head spin. Most of them, like the cold calls I get, are simply horrible. Delete. Delete. Delete. Junk. Block. Unsubscribe. This week I received the daily double - a cold call with an identical, corresponding email. The email read like this: Hi Dave, I hope this message finds you well. We spoke in the past regarding the copier equipment in your office.
Sales Hacker
JANUARY 16, 2018
A proper outbound sales strategy has real science behind it. You can’t just start pounding the pavement with no direction and expect to achieve growth. Wanna know the secret sauce behind a scalable outbound process that leads to significant growth? Market Segmentation combined with tailored messaging. The key to achieving explosive growth is to start by identifying your Ideal Customer Profiles (ICPs) via segmentation, reaching out to them with personalized targeted messaging while building
Score More Sales
JANUARY 25, 2018
Referrals in the sales world are the very best way to grow your sales book of business for many reasons. The first one is that if someone whom you respect refers you to work with someone else, nearly half the “work” in building trust has been done.
Membrain
JANUARY 10, 2018
In the five years since we launched the Membrain platform (time flies!), the sales industry has seen a lot of new technologies grow popular. Software like marketing automation and online collaboration tools, as well as better hardware like smartphones and tablets, have made a big impact. Some of these new technologies, when used as part of a solid sales effectiveness strategy, can be critical to improved performance.
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