May, 2017

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Why Should I Talk to You?

A Sales Guy

Before any sale can begin, the target of your efforts has to talk to you. They have to engage. I know, this is the most remedial concept in theory, but in practice, it’s a b h. Making it worse, even though theoretically it’s simple, sales people continue to forget. They make this mistake over and over again, by not offering their target any reason to talk to them.

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What You Don’t Know Can Kill Sales Growth

Anthony Cole Training

I had a conversation this week with 3 executives that run bank-owned investment programs.

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These 3 Subject Line Tips Will Boost Your Email Open Rates

eTourism

Most of us already receive more emails on a daily basis than we can comfortably handle a fair chunk of which are marketing messages which are easier just to ignore, am I right?

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What is Your Sales Team's Motivation?

Anthony Cole Training

QUESTIONS THAT COMPANIES NEED TO ANSWER.

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Don't Let AI Pass You By: The New Era of Personalized Sales Coaching & Development

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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Why Great Sales People Make Assume When Selling

A Sales Guy

Too often people make the assumption, that in sales assumptions are bad. That is a bad assumption. Assumptions are great. We need to make assumptions. Assumptions assist us in setting a direction, they give us something to aim for or a place to go. Here’s a good example of what I’m talking about. Your product or service only solves a handful or substantial, relevant problems for you target customers, therefore, you have to assume they may be experiencing one or more of those problems

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Doing versus Keep Doing

A Sales Guy

You can’t get too far from the social media experts who tell you to, hustle, grind, put in the work, just do it. It’s a pretty popular message and it makes sense. You can’t finish unless you start. But, doing isn’t has hard as keep doing. It’s easy to write a blog post, it’s not easy to write one every day for a week or a year.

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Sales Coaching and Leadership – Straight Keenan 3

A Sales Guy

Back from my trip to Chicago. I had a blast and got to talk to a number of sales leaders for The Real Deal of Sales. Not only did I learn what many sales leaders are doing today, I did a kick ass sales podcast with Will Barron , I did a presentation with Steve Richard and I got to spend time with people I hadn’t spent time with in a while. Good times, it was fun.

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The Most Difficult Part of Sales Leadership

A Sales Guy

Yup, it’s that time again. A new Real Deal of Sales is up. In this episode we talk to Sales Leaders about the difficulties of being, well you guessed it, sales managers. The sales managers we talked to were huge people, people. They were motivated by helping others and making a difference in people’s lives. Go check it out and let me know what you think.

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How To Get Promoted In A Year

A Sales Guy

A few weeks ago I said the tell me economy is dead and I meant it. The ability to be successful today by telling people why you’re a bad ass is quickly being replaced by the show me economy. People are less and less interested in what you tell them and are expecting you to show them what you know, what you can do and how it affects them. This is truer when it comes to your career than ever before, and the people taking advantage of this right now are the ones winning.

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The Most Awkward Sales Moments

A Sales Guy

Every salesperson has them. You know, that awkward moment where you say something wrong, or the client does something crazy, or. You can fill in the blank. I remember my most awkward moment. It was my first sales job. I had been in the position for about a 4 months. I was just finishing up a great sales call and in an effort to cement the relationship, I asked the buyer.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Lesson 11: INSIGHT: Why We’re Not as Self-Aware as We Think

A Sales Guy

Dr. Tasha Eurich is an organizational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times bestselling author (Bankable Leadership) and she’s got a new book coming out: INSIGHT: Why We’re Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life. Research shows that self-awareness is the meta-skill of the twenty-first century—the foundation for high performance, smart choices, and lasting relationships at work and in life.

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Fixing a Broken Sales Environment with 3 Essential Sales Tools

Anthony Cole Training

The 3 Es.

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4 Social Media Myths That Are Jeopardising Your Hotel’s Campaigns

eTourism

Social media has been discussed at length for around a decade now. But despite the hold Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram have over most of our social lives, there still exists some pretty big myths when it comes to using social media for business.

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How To Improve Your Website's Bounce Rate (and Drive More Bookings)

eTourism

Representing the percentage of visitors who land on your website only to leave before checking out any other page, bounce rate is one of the few metrics you really don't want to increase.

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Diving into Diversity: Decoding the Foundations of Inclusion in Hospitality Talent Acquisition

Speaker: Lauren Fernandez - CEO & Founder, Full Course

Companies all over the world, including Marriot International and Hilton Worldwide, are aware of the value of including DEI in their talent acquisition strategy. However, despite these initiatives, there is still plenty that the hospitality sector can do to promote DEI. When comparing the hospitality industries in India, Iraq, the UK, and the US, you will see that there is a consistent underrepresentation of persons from different ethnic, gender, and disability origins across all levels of the i

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How To Climb The YouTube Search Results By Boosting Your Videos’ Watch Time

eTourism

Increasing the amount of time guests spend watching your hotel's YouTube videos not only ensures that more of your content gets viewed, it helps it get discovered by an even wider audience.

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5 Essential Hotel Blogging Tips For Beginners

eTourism

Engaging, SEO boosting, and powerfully promotional, blogging is a tool hotel marketers ignore at their own peril.