Anthony Cole Training

JULY 14, 2022

Selling is a “slight edge business.” You can’t make them move forward in your sales process and you certainly can’t make them buy from you. By that, we mean that the line that separates high performers from mediocre performers is usually a very small difference. There is very little you can control in selling.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 11, 2013

When we deliver the results, or when the results are shared with the sales professionals, one of the common responses is "our business is different". And, yes, the actual business of their business may be different, but the nature of their business (selling) is not. Next, review your own process for purchasing.

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Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 29, 2013

I am proud to say that, as part of our overall approach to providing critical sales and sales management solutions, we have represented this resource for 18 of the 20 years that we have been in business. Online Resource - 9 Reasons Why Sales Management is So Damn Hard. Sales Process - Grading Your Current Sales Process.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I just finished reading a chapter from the book – Harvard Business Review on Strategic Sales Management. The chapter is “Understanding What Your Sales Manager Is Up Against” by Barry Trailer and Jim Dickie. The various contributors always get me thinking and re-thinking about what I think I know about sales and sales management.

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Anthony Iannarino

AUGUST 14, 2020

In August of 2017, I wrote about the fact that the linear sales process is broken. Because the sales conversation is nonlinear, it isn’t easy to follow a linear path from target to close. All of this is true, and none of it means you no longer need a sales process. What Is the Sales Process?

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Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 29, 2013

I am proud to say that, as part of our overall approach to providing critical sales and sales management solutions, we have represented this resource for 18 of the 20 years that we have been in business. He specifically built this solution-based product to answer the following 4 critical questions for a business owner: 1.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 10, 2014

CRM, as a sales enablement tool IS NOT SO important to sales success even though it does contribute, aid, help and enable sales people to manage prospects and accounts. But, clearly it has little or nothing to do with the execution of the sales process - from finding prospects to getting them to make a decision to buy from you.

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Hotel News Resource

APRIL 25, 2023

See how your hotel sales and marketing teams can work together to anticipate and adapt to booking patterns and guest behavior while making visibility and accountability top priorities at every step of the sales process.

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Nuvho

APRIL 21, 2020

Great sales people: LISTEN to their customer’s needs, UNDERSTAND the best solution for that customer, PRESENT the proposal in a way that makes the buying decision easy and FOLLOW-UP and ASK FOR THE SALE. So do your sales processes support your sales team in each of these steps?

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 16, 2019

A majority of sales people are so happy to get in front of a prospect that they sometimes allow them to control the sales process.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 7, 2014

if you are missing critical pieces of the process. For most people, the success formula is a new exercise designed to create a logical and systematic approach to their sales process. The sales person has to be willing to do everything possible to succeed. It doesn’t always work that way.

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 1, 2015

Look at why others are doing business with you. It’s a critical part of every effective sales process, and yet, sometimes that very discussion causes us to get “off track” and lose focus on the objective of the call. Realize that there can be times where making a price-based sale could be bad for your business.

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Social Tables

APRIL 17, 2019

Especially in a climate where venues have to win repeat business for success, the process of event proposals needs to evolve beyond a bidding war to one showing a different kind of value. Venue sales reps need to pinpoint the purpose of a meeting and use it as the fulcrum for all communication.

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 7, 2019

There are many instances throughout the sales process where trial closes are appropriate to identify the prospects true compelling reason to make a change. Great salespeople are masterful at asking open-ended, courageous questions of their prospects that either lead them towards, or away, from saying "yes" to their solution.

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Closing Sales Process Sales Business 149

Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Listen to Tonys Live Interview with Business Expert Radio! Click here to see Tony Cole "LIVE" on Business Beat! building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). Business Development (4). close more sales (21). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6).

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

When I started my personal quest to improve my understanding of sales, my ability to execute a sales process effectively and to ultimately improve my sales results, there was much for me to learn. My first introduction into sales was with Nautilus Equipment Inc. Set Expectations about the process.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 19, 2015

The companies who have had the most success with our programming have followed the process: Test, Train and Track. They have also adopted the Sales Managed Environment® and Effective Sales System as their own. They have made a cultural shift; a decision to do business differently now and in the future.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 16, 2012

Listen to Tonys Live Interview with Business Expert Radio! Click here to see Tony Cole "LIVE" on Business Beat! building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). Business Development (4). close more sales (21). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6).

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 18, 2018

When a company first starts out, there probably isn’t much of a sales process, or team, in place. Of course, as the business grows, sales leaders must implement a repeatable, scalable process to turn a trickle of income to a steady, predictable stream. Sales today is a far cry from what it was just 20 years ago.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I’ve been in the sales and sales management consulting business for 21 years. Prior to that, I was an insurance wholesaler, an insurance agent, a Nautilus Regional Sales Manager, a Nautilus Regional Sales Rep and collegiate athletic coach. I have come to this realization based on my last 4 sales. Guaranteed!

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 9, 2012

Critical conversion ratios improve in the steps of yours sales process. Growth of business. The number of failed new hires should decrease. The on-boarding time for new hires shortens. Overall pipeline volume increases. Turnover decreases. Personal compensation increases. Client retention improves.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I’ve been in the sales and sales management consulting business for 21 years. Prior to that, I was an insurance wholesaler, an insurance agent, a Nautilus Regional Sales Manager, a Nautilus Regional Sales Rep and collegiate athletic coach. I will illustrate this “secret” based on my last 4 sales. Guaranteed!

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 13, 2014

Pipeline management, although generally disguised as a financial tool to predict future revenue, is supposed to accomplish one major objective: Help sales professionals sell more business, more quickly and higher margins. Sales people are more passionate about success when it has something to do with them.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 18, 2014

Back in the day when the sales person initiated the sales process, that may have been true; but we no longer initiate the sales process. Don''t ask me why I decided to call it the Porpoise Rule - it was at a time in this business when I thought it was funny to be cute with words. In fact, I''m sure of it.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 21, 2022

In fact, three-quarters of surveyed buyers prefer virtual sales over traditional sales. If virtual selling is already part of your business strategy, you might want to ramp your efforts up. Here are 5 proven tips to help you increase virtual sales. Many people prefer purchasing things online nowadays.

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Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 18, 2011

Listen to Tonys Live Interview with Business Expert Radio! Click here to see Tony Cole "LIVE" on Business Beat! building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). Business Development (4). close more sales (21). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6).

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Sales Hiring Business Sales Process 170

Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Listen to Tonys Live Interview with Business Expert Radio! Click here to see Tony Cole "LIVE" on Business Beat! building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). Business Development (4). close more sales (21). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6).

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Sales Management Hiring Business 181

Anthony Cole Training

JULY 22, 2015

Are you still telling the prospect why they should do business with you or asking them why they agreed to meet with you? Asking good questions, asking enough questions, developing relationships early in the sales process, understanding why prospects buy and listening effectively? Are you selling consultatively?

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Closing Sales Sales Process Business 155

Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 13, 2011

Listen to Tonys Live Interview with Business Expert Radio! Click here to see Tony Cole "LIVE" on Business Beat! building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). Business Development (4). close more sales (21). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6).

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Sales Hiring Closing Sales Process 176

Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Listen to Tonys Live Interview with Business Expert Radio! Click here to see Tony Cole "LIVE" on Business Beat! building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). Business Development (4). close more sales (21). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6).

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Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 27, 2011

Listen to Tonys Live Interview with Business Expert Radio! Click here to see Tony Cole "LIVE" on Business Beat! building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). Business Development (4). close more sales (21). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6).

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Sales Hiring Business Sales Process 170

Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 19, 2011

Listen to Tonys Live Interview with Business Expert Radio! Click here to see Tony Cole "LIVE" on Business Beat! building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). Business Development (4). close more sales (21). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6).

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 17, 2010

Listen to Tonys Live Interview with Business Expert Radio! Click here to see Tony Cole "LIVE" on Business Beat! building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). Business Development (4). close more sales (21). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6).

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Listen to Tonys Live Interview with Business Expert Radio! Click here to see Tony Cole "LIVE" on Business Beat! building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). Business Development (4). close more sales (21). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6).

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Listen to Tonys Live Interview with Business Expert Radio! Click here to see Tony Cole "LIVE" on Business Beat! building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). Business Development (4). close more sales (21). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6).

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Anthony Cole Training

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Listen to Tonys Live Interview with Business Expert Radio! Click here to see Tony Cole "LIVE" on Business Beat! building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). Business Development (4). close more sales (21). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6).

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Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 11, 2011

Listen to Tonys Live Interview with Business Expert Radio! Click here to see Tony Cole "LIVE" on Business Beat! building sales relationships (7). Business Coaching (3). Business Development (4). close more sales (21). consistent sales (4). desire for sales success (6). driving sales (6).

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