Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Are you doing everything possible to make your salespeople successful?

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Sales Consult Sell 26

Membrain

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Technology can be a double-edged sword for sales departments. The promise of greater efficiency and effectiveness is hard to resist, yet many technologies actually make things worse rather than better.

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Technology Technology Conversion Sales 117

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The “Net Promoter Score,” has been around for a long time. In 2003, Fred Reichheld introduced it in his HBR article: “ One Number You Need To Grow ” The concept of the NPS is simple, you ask a customer: How likely is it that you would recommend our company/product/service to a friend or colleague? The answer is usually rated on a 0-10 scale.

Promote 113

Promote Meeting Service Customers 113

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) but those that take it even a step further by being incredibly intentional about promoting the next generation of female salespeople and making their path a little easier.

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Inside sales Sales Cross-sell Consult 111

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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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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Coaching salespeople is hard work and it helps to have a consistent and effective process to help keep you on course. As a sales coach, there are five critical steps that you must know and execute in order to get the best effort and results out of your salespeople.

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Process Sales Growth Drivers/motivators 134

SalesProInsider

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Most people know who first responders are…those heroes that charge into danger to save the day! In selling efforts, though, we are more likely to run into non-responders. Those prospects who seem to run away from you after a conversation. The non-response reaction starts harmlessly enough. You have a meeting with a prospect that seems to go well.

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Follow-up Prospecting Conversion Pitch 110

Jeff Shore

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

By Jeff Shore. ?Question: What does success look like? What do successful people do? Answer: For one thing, successful people are confident! I think confidence is one of the most under-appreciated, underrated skill sets of great professionals. This is particularly true for you as a sales professional. That’s because, in the sales process, you need to have enough confidence for you and for your customer.

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Objectives and Key Results Technique Presentation Sales 109

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 31, 2018

It’s the early 1980s. You’re in charge of a fledgling ESPN, and you have two choices: Add more college basketball—you’re highest-rated programming—to the schedule. Stick with the skiing and billiards you’ve aired for years (because you couldn’t afford anything else). Which creates the more profitable programming bundle? ESPN stuck with the esoteric sports.

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Product Non-Profits Price Cross-sell 107

RAIN Group

OCTOBER 31, 2018

There are only 24 hours in each day. Some people are able to achieve incredible amounts in that time seemingly effortlessly. Others put in massive amounts of effort, but don't seem to get where they want to be. What are those in the more productive group doing differently? How are they able to achieve so much more?

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Product 104

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 29, 2018

There’s a disturbing trend in developing the capabilities of sales people. It’s the focus on providing answers, rather than developing skills. We see this manifested in all sorts of ways: Increasing focus on scripting–whether it’s written or spoken communications. This is often cloaked in interesting ways, “Tell me the questions I should ask… ,” but sales people don’t know what to do with the answers.

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High impact Conversion Sell Customers 104

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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Gong.io

OCTOBER 31, 2018

“Send us an invite for 3 PM next Tuesday,” said the VP of Sales. “I’ll get my CFO to join. But send your ROI study beforehand. He won’t join unless he knows how you’re thinking about ROI.”. I had just wrapped up a demo with a key account and could feel the momentum. I quickly sent the calendar invite for Tuesday. But while I juggled 30 other deals in my pipeline, I completely forget to send the ROI study.

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Follow-up Pipeline Meeting Conversion 103

Hubspot

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The thought of creating your own website may seem overwhelming. You might even think this task would be impossible for anyone but a developer or a person with a background in web design. Well, I have good news for you — there’s a software out there that’s so easy to use, virtually anyone can successfully create a unique and professional-looking website for their business, blog, portfolio, and more.

User Experience 101

User Experience Start-ups Follow-up Niche 101

CloserIQ

OCTOBER 30, 2018

If you consider sales training to be the first of several steps toward boosting profits, it’s easy to see why it’s such a crucial investment. Sales training lays the foundation for future revenues by increasing your team’s satisfaction, loyalty and competence, all of which improve their interaction with the customer. A satisfied customer is more likely to spend more, refer your business and generally serve as a brand ambassador for your products or services.

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Objectives and Key Results Objection handling Cold Call Cross-sell 98

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Over the last several weeks, I’ve seen a similar issue with 4 different companies. On the surface, each seemed to have a very disciplined approach to developing their teams and driving performance. Each spoke about the structured review process. They had pipeline reviews, deal reviews, 1 on 1’s, and others. I’d been asked to sit in on some of the reviews, helping the management team improve the results from these, as well as to help improve their coaching abilities.

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Sales Pipeline Meeting Start-ups 97

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

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Those are strong words and probably quite surprising coming out of my mouth but I'll explain it all. Earlier this week I was leading another Sales Leadership Intensive and during a break it came to me. I was emphasizing how important it is to role-play as part of every coaching conversation and that's when I realized that what I was sharing was a bunch of crap.

Sell 97

Sell Up-sell Conversion Sales 97

Hubspot

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Writing a LinkedIn summary is incredibly difficult -- for everyone, but especially for salespeople. You're not targeting recruiters and hiring managers; you're appealing to buyers. That means on top of finding an interesting and genuine way to describe your professional background, you must also come across as a subject matter expert. In this blog post, we'll dig into what to include in your LinkedIn summary to make it stand out, as well as some examples to give you inspiration.

Contact 101

Contact Pitch Contract Prospecting 101

Engage Selling

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Ready to hire a new salesperson or salespeople for your team? I know, there can be a certain air of excitement surrounding hiring.

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Up-sell Clients Closing Quota 95

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

I”m on another 11 hour plane flight, encamped in my “pod,” I have my noise cancelling headphones on to help isolate me from the activities around me. At these moments, with relatively few distractions, I take some time to reflect and be a little more philosophical. I started thinking about the “expectation of reciprocity.” Stated differently, “You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.” How did I get to pondering this issue?

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Trust Networking Promote Follow-up 97

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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Membrain

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Sales automation is often touted as the next big thing for sales teams. It promises to increase efficiency, decrease costs, and improve bottom lines. And in transactional sales, it might even eliminate the need for human salespeople altogether.

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Process Sales 84

Hubspot

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In 2018, almost 75% of employers struggled to fill positions with the right candidates. Unfortunately, this talent shortage is only worsening -- research by Korn Ferry predicts by 2020, the technology, media, and telecommunications industries alone could be short over one million skilled workers globally. To succeed long-term, it's critical your business is able to hire and retain the best, most talented employees.

Networking 101

Networking Territory Campaign Strategize 101

Engage Selling

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

???????A couple of weeks ago, the Engage Selling Facebook page hosted one of my Facebook Lives.

Sales 92

Sales Sell Pipeline Clients 92

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 31, 2018

A sales manager was whining to me, “My sales people don’t do what I tell them to do! How do I get them to do the things I want them to do?” He went on a rampage describing how they weren’t meeting their commitments, how they weren’t doing the things that drove the best results, how they were not meeting the organization’s priorities.

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Meeting CRM Gaming Process 86

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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

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Selling Power

OCTOBER 31, 2018

If you want to avoid investing in useless sales enablement content, here are some questions to ask yourself.

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Sales 84

Hubspot

OCTOBER 30, 2018

As a marketer, data is your lifeblood. To gain support for your new idea or prove the value of your most recent campaign, you need data backing it up. But, for many people working in a primarily creative role, pulling and analyzing data can be a challenging task. Not only do you have to export your data, which really means opening up a jumbled spreadsheet bursting with an endless amount of metrics, but you also have to configure the data to report it correctly.

Campaign 101

Campaign Presentation Customers Process 101

Jeff Shore

OCTOBER 31, 2018

In This Episode of The Buyer’s Mind with Jeff Shore: Molly Jacobs discusses with Jeff the challenges of selling something that is easily commoditized. What makes the difference when you’re selling an item that cannot be distinguished? This is where the sales professional steps up and makes the difference. Learn how you are the sales difference maker from Molly Jacobs on this episode of The Buyer’s Mind.

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Referrals Up-sell Sales Follow-up 83

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Every time I meet sales enablement and sales executives, I ask, “What are the critical skills you are focusing on training and developing your people on? The answers are varied, but generally fall into very specific, and classic selling skills: Qualifying, questioning, listening, prospecting, objection handling, closing, call planning, deal planning, account planning, time/territory management, establishing rapport, communications styles, and so on.

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Cross-sell Objection handling Territory Up-sell 82

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.

User Experience

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Sales is an extraordinarily difficult job. It requires a level of mental toughness that many cannot even fathom. Because it such a challenging role, salespeople deserve the best sales resources and tools to help them succeed. Yet, they don’t get them. In fact, today’s sales resources are sorely lacking. Consider the centerpiece of any sales resource kit: the sales playbook.

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A/B testing Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Sales 76

Hubspot

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In 2017, 92% of marketers who used influencer marketing found it to be effective. Influencer marketing has grown steadily in popularity over the past few years, and for good reason -- oftentimes, customers trust influencers over celebrities when choosing which products to buy, or which brands to endorse. In fact, marketers have seen such success from influencer marketing that almost 40% of them plan to increase their influencer budget in 2018 and beyond.

Sports 101

Sports Trust Campaign Product 101

Jeff Shore

OCTOBER 30, 2018

By Ryan Taft. ?“Yeah… John got more sales than anyone else! Let’s all give him a hand.”. Cue the lackluster applause from the other sales people. “Now that we have finished that part, let’s have another department come in to the meeting and tell you what you are all doing wrong…except for John…of course.”. Have you ever been in that meeting before?

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Meeting Sales Strategize Consult 78

Score More Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Years ago, our company name was intentionally changed to Score More Sales because of the great analogies between professional, collegiate, Olympic sports and professional selling.

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Sports Sales Sell 75

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales at Allego

Maximizing sales rep performance is no easy task. 📈 Traditional sales training methods focus heavily on the first few weeks in the sales role. Companies dedicate time, resources, and budget to onboarding new hires, only for them to forget what was learned in those first few weeks, lose motivation, and struggle to come to grips with their role.

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