June, 2020

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Why Are My Salespeople Not Perfoming as Expected?

Anthony Cole Training

Why do so many of my salespeople fail to perform as expected? It's a loaded question. Or, is it? In our corporate sales training experience, we've seen that evaluating underperforming salespeople in the pre-hire sales assessment is crucial for success in your business.

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How to Train Your B2B Salespeople

Anthony Iannarino

The following list of ideas about training salespeople is for those in B2B sales training or who aspire to train others. Many ideas come from my experience as a person being trained to sell, with a few coming from watching others, and more from my own experiences. Respect the Sales Force’s Experience: I once watched a sales trainer explain to the people in his training that the way they were selling was wrong, that it needed to change, or they would continue to struggle.

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Dentist in the 78247 Zip Code

Your San Antonio Dentists

Are you looking for a reliable dentist or dental service in or around San Antonio, Texas? Thousand Oaks Dental has got you covered. Here are some facts that make Thousand Oaks Dental an ideal choice. It is founded by Dr. Precious Thompson, to provide quality, convenient, and affordable dental care for San Antonio residents. Together with her team, they have garnered several positive reviews from visitors to their facility.

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How to Approach Social Media During COVID-19

BCV

As a hospitality marketer, it can be daunting to think about how to communicate to your guests during the COVID-19 pandemic. Where and how do you begin? What happens as markets start to re-open and travel begins again? We at BCV are breaking down a phased approach to social media marketing to make it easier for you to share your adjusted messaging during the crisis.

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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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7 Modèles de Mails hôteliers à Envoyer pendant une crise

Experience Hotel

Durant la crise du COVID-19, j’ai eu la chance de collaborer avec Fabienne Ardouin ( Co-Présidente de la Commission Europe Internationale et Numérique – GNI ) afin d’aider des milliers d’hôteliers à communiquer à leurs clients. Chaque hôtel étant unique avec une situation bien particulière, Fabienne et moi-même avons préparé plusieurs scénarios que nous avons par la suite traduits dans de nombreuses langues, avant de les distribuer à l’ensemble des hôteliers faisant partie de ce réseau.

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Boost Your Hotel's Online Visibility with a Solid SEO Strategy

eTourism

As restrictions ease and the general excitement of travelling again increases, making sure that your hotel and resort has a solid SEO strategy in place is more important than ever - especially if you're looking to get an edge over your competitors as tour

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How to Get Better at Active Listening

Anthony Iannarino

Of the many sales skills you need to succeed in consultative sales, the first ones on the top of any list will be listening skills. The stereotype that salespeople are good at speaking is true and accurate, but the best salespeople have listening skills that exceed even their power with words. Shows You Care. There are benefits to being a great listener outside of things like “ discovering the client’s pain points.” The most important outcome of active listening in sales is tha

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51 – COVID Hotel Industry Trends With Jan Freitag

Travel Media Group

In this special edition of the Suite Spot, we sit down with Senior Vice President of Lodging Insights at STR, Jan Freitag. Jan and his team at STR have been hard at work collecting and analyzing hotel data across the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jan and Ryan take a look at how the COVID-19 crisis compares to past industry crises and how to look for clues in other global markets to predict what we might see moving forward in the U.S. hotel industry.

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Evolving Social Media Landscape During COVID19

BCV

As the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our daily lives, it has also affected how we use social media. For instance, Facebook has reported an increase of 77 million more daily active users due to the stay-at-home orders and there has been a 20% year-over-year increase in the time spent on mobile apps. As a business, it is critical to understand how your consumers’ behavior is changing on social media as the usage increases.

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Things to Know Before Professionally Whitening Your Teeth in San Antonio

Your San Antonio Dentists

Wanting a brighter smile is not such a bad idea if you have all the information about what it takes. Indeed it is a very common request that dentists receive. Did you know that: 14% of the American population have had their teeth whitened. Teeth whitening does not damage your teeth. Teeth whitening effects can possibly last up to three years. Only a dentist can legally perform teeth whitening.

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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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Les règles du Covid-19 : l’astuce QR Code !

Experience Hotel

Chers hôtelières et hôteliers, Voici un article très court qui est plutôt un tutoriel qu’un de mes articles classiques. Mais, comme un nombre important d’hôteliers m’ont posé la question dans le cadre du Covid-19 (et des nouvelles normes de sécurité), j’ai pensé que je devais en partager la réponse. Vous serez sûrement intéressé(e)s. Comment rendre vos divers documents facilement accessibles en ligne, via des QR codes ?

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Develop Your Sales Pipeline to Increase Sales

Anthony Cole Training

Sales pipelines are similar to the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears. " This one is too fat, this one is too skinny, and the rarest one of all; this one's just right.

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How You Sell Is the Key to Winning Big Deals

Anthony Iannarino

One of the critically important, yet neglected, concepts in sales is the idea of “ creating a preference ” to buy from you and your company. Not only do you need to create a desire to work with you, but you must also create a preference for your solution and all that that entails. Without meaning to, a high focus on “product” can cause people to believe that sharing their solution is how they are going to win.

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50 – 1st Impression Score®

Travel Media Group

In this episode of the Suite Spot, we celebrate another hotel digital marketing innovation created by Travel Media Group’s product development team led by VP of Product & Technology, Jason Lee. Host Ryan Embree is joined by Jason to discuss 1st Impression Score®, a first of its kind hospitality and reputation metric. Jason shares what separates 1st Impression Score® with other reputation metrics in hospitality and why it was necessary to create it now.

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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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Hospitality Social Media Marketing During A Crisis

BCV

According to a survey of more than 25,000 consumers in 30 markets, Facebook and Instagram saw a 40% increase in usage during Q1 of 2020. For many brands and businesses, this usage uptick provides a greater opportunity to connect with consumers and build community. But you may be wondering: What type of content should be published during a crisis and where should it be distributed?

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How Veneers Compare To Other Dental Procedures

Your San Antonio Dentists

Dental veneers (sometimes known as porcelain laminates) are one of, if not the best solution to most dental problems – particularly those that are aesthetic in nature. Below are some facts that attest to this: Veneer installation is irreversible, painless and gives a natural look. It can also withstand the effects of most diets. Some dentists agree that porcelain veneers look and feel less bulky than lumineers (composite veneers), even though lumineers are actually thinner than porcelain.

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Negotiating on the First Tee (Part 2)

Anthony Cole Training

In Part 1 of "Negotiating on the First Tee, we discussed the practice of negotiating with your prospect before you begin your presentation. In Part 2, we continue this discussion and add more to the conversation.

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Call a Sales Audible!

Anthony Cole Training

In today's blog post, we discuss the importance of calling a sales audible at the line of scrimmage. Like an elite Quarterback, an elite salesperson must be willing to change things up when they're not working and be open to trying something completely different in the field.

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A Buyer’s Guide to Future-Proofing Your Restaurant Tech Stack

The race to 100% digital is on. With the restaurant industry still in the early innings of its digital transformation, brands need an airtight strategy when it comes to building out their tech stack. Download the buyer’s guide to learn where to prioritize your efforts and get the most out of every investment.

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The Wisdom of the Ages and the Fast Track to Success

Anthony Iannarino

The neophiliac is one who loves what is new and novel, finding what’s new and now to be more valuable than what came before it. One can, however, take this preference to an extreme, believing that something new and novel is better than old things, a common mistake when one is young and resists the idea that because something is old it isn’t valuable.

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What You Can Accomplish in 26 Weeks

Anthony Iannarino

Twenty-six weeks is a lot of time. That number multiplied by five working days minus six holidays gives you one hundred and twenty-four working days. That’s enough time to rack up a tremendous amount of accomplishments. The variable is what you decide to do with the time you have available to you. Some are going to decide their year is shot by this point because of the crisis.

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What is the Most Effective B2B Sales Prospecting Method?

Anthony Iannarino

The question as to which prospecting method is the most effective can be answered in two ways. The first answer is that cold calling is the fastest and most direct method to acquire a meeting in B2B sales, even though many salespeople wrongly believe that email alone is a better choice. The second, and more important answer, is that the most effective approach now takes a longer view of the problem of gaining appointments with your targeted clients.

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How Do You Deal with Rude People When You Cold Call?

Anthony Iannarino

What makes a call “ cold ” is that the person you are calling is not expecting your call. Because they are not expecting your call, you interrupt their day, even if they aren’t doing anything important when you call them. You can never know who you are calling, and even looking at Linkedin before dialing the phone doesn’t provide any information about their general disposition or their current mood.

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Beyond The Meeting Room: Luxury Magazine Resource

Escape into a world of luxury and dive into the future of tech, fun takes on the American pastime, and many inspirational individuals. With engaging reports on fashion, food, travel, finance, sports, and more, download now and enjoy the read!

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Why Are Your Sales Not Growing?

Anthony Iannarino

Some factors lead to stalled or declining sales. They are known, as are the remedies that would result in increased sales. Only those willing to acknowledge the root causes of poor sales results and changing their actions have any hope of turning things around. Too Few Opportunities. Like it or not, the first reason your sales are not growing is that you are not creating enough new opportunities to generate incremental growth.

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When Is the Best Time to Make a Cold Call?

Anthony Iannarino

There can be no doubt that making an effective cold call isn’t easy. It isn’t easy to get the contacts that work for your dream client’s company to answer the phone, let alone agree to a meeting. When people ask this question, they are looking for help in two areas. First, they want to make their calls when they are most likely to answer the phone.

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My Proprietary Strategy for Gaining a Meeting

Anthony Iannarino

There aren’t too many things more important in sales than gaining first meetings with your dream clients. Nothing happens until you can meet and explore change. This post is unlike my usual Sunday offering. Instead of my usual focus on personal leadership, I want to give you a major strategy from one of my methodologies, something that found its way into The Lost Art of Closing and Eat Their Lunch.

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Why Johnny and Jenny Are Struggling to Produce Results

Anthony Iannarino

There are many reasons salespeople and sales organizations struggle to produce better results. There aren’t any secrets that allow some sales organizations to perform better than their peers. Because what you need to know is already known, what you need to improve your results is already available to you. The following five ideas are the minimum requirements for building a modern salesforce with a modern sales approach.

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Beyond the Basics: How to Develop and Retain a Top-Performing Sales Team

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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9 Rules for Competing for New Business

Anthony Iannarino

Much of the time, those of us in B2B sales find ourselves competing with a rival for a client. Someone wins, and someone loses. Because this is true, you have to play the game to win. Here are nine rules to help you compete and beat your competition. Respect Your Competition : One of the worst mistakes you can make when competing for business is underestimating your competition.

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Spend More Time Selling and Less on Everything Else

Anthony Iannarino

Most of the activities around sales are necessary (some more than others) but don’t improve your sales results. Sales results are only generated by creating and winning new opportunities. You can easily spend too much time on things outside of opportunity creation and opportunity capture. Better sales results start with your spending more time selling.

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Close the Distance Between You and Your Dream Clients

Anthony Iannarino

The whole social distancing thing hasn’t been great for salespeople or their clients. But the distancing started long before the global pandemic of 2020. It started when we began to expect that the tools would somehow replace face-to-face human interactions. The more important the outcome, the less transactional you should be in sales. The more important your client believes the outcome to be, the less transactional they will want you to be.

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The Two Most Dangerous Hours of the Day

Anthony Iannarino

How productive you will be on any given is most at risk during the most dangerous hour of the day, the first hour after you wake up. It sets the standard for the rest of the day, ensuring your success, or limiting the quality and the quantity of your work. The second most dangerous hour of the day is the first hour of your work, another hour that either fuels your productivity or squashes it.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.