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Lunch and Learn - 12 Sales Lessons from Rich Ambrose

Anthony Cole Training

Learning about sales and selling is one of the things I enjoy most about what I do. I thought that was selling. In 1987, when I entered the life insurance business with David Zimmerman at National Life of Vermont, I learned that selling life insurance was truly "selling" and my experience with Nautilus had been merely "order-taking".

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The Truth About Sales People #4 - They Don't Prospect Very Well

Anthony Cole Training

At least that was the case in 1983 when I was selling Nautilus exercise equipment, and it still is today even as president of Anthony Cole Training Group. I grew up in a sales world where, if you called yourself a sales person, you prospected for leads. Sales people have to prospect! Honestly, I have to say I''m confused by this.

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Why Your Sales Team Isn't Performing As Expected (Pt.5) - WIT

Anthony Cole Training

Successful selling is a WIT profession. Here are some examples of doing WIT: Making calls – Regardless of how tired you are, how much you just sold last week, how difficult it is to handle the rejection – if you are going to be successful in selling, you have to pick up the phone and call someone. WIT = Whatever It Takes!

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Key to Sales Success: Find More Prospects - Duh!

Anthony Cole Training

Everyone in selling or managing a sales team knows that one of the most important keys to selling more is getting in front of more people. It reminded me of a pivotal conversation about prospecting that I had years ago when I was new to selling. Duh is right. I was talking to a prospect yesterday about this very thing.

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April 1st - A Day for Sales People to Remember

Anthony Cole Training

I got into the life insurance business as an agent with National Life of Vermont. Apparently, they didn’t want their prospects to think they were trying to “sell” insurance. As I began working with companies helping them improve the skills and processes of their sales teams, I experienced the same job title “cover up”.

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Why Your Sales Team Isn't Performing as Expected (Pt.5) - Selling is WIT!

Anthony Cole Training

Selling is WIT = Whatever It Takes! Successful selling is a WIT profession. Here are some examples of doing WIT: Making calls – Regardless of how tired you are, how much you just sold last week, how difficult it is to handle the rejection – if you are going to be successful in selling, you have to pick up the phone and call someone.

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Ben & Jerry's Complete Rejection Of Conventional Wisdom

Hubspot

Ben & Jerry's started in Burlington, Vermont, selling ice cream cones. The problem they quickly ran into was that no one bought ice cream cones in the winter in Vermont!! Once they started to get momentum in Vermont, they convinced some larger distributors to carry their products alongside Haagen Dazs. Fascinating!