March, 2013

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Predicting Sales Success: As SIMPLE as 1-2-3-4-5-6-7

Anthony Cole Training

Predicting sales success is something that many companies attempt to do, but they still struggle with forecasting accuracy. Over the last 10+ years, tools like SalesForce.com, ACT, SalesLogic and Base have been developed that provide capabilities for sales management and finance to gather data, gain insight, manage sales opportunities and predicit future sales success.

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The Indicators of Success – How Many Do You Have?

A Sales Guy

I saw this the other day and I thought it was great. I’d be a liar if I said I didn’t ask myself, as I was reading it, which of these indicators I possessed and which I didn’t. I had to account for how many I had on the left and how many on the right. Being as honest as I could possible be, I found I had more on the left than the right.

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Why Facebook Graph Search is Unique

eTourism

As we've discussed in recent blogs, Facebook has recently launched Graph Search, a move that suggests the world's favourite social network is at last getting serious about search.

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Top 7 Sales Lessons from BISA's 2013 Annual Convention

Anthony Cole Training

BISA is the Bank Insurance and Securities Association. During their annual conference, many topics, methods, strategies, and product evaluations are presented and discussed. There are several GREAT speakers in the general sessions, but it is not a conference where you will find constant discussions about the art and science of selling or sales management.

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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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Yoga for Jocks - Part 1

Anthony Cole Training

By Bob Wehrmeyer © 2013 Wehr Publishing. All Rights Reserved. I started doing yoga about 10 years ago and now I am a believer. I also like to lift weights, run and play basketball. Actually, I no longer really play basketball. I am more of a basketball watcher. But since I used to play basketball, I get to claim watching as a form of exercise. Generally, regular exercise is important to me, and I have been fortunate enough to make it a regular part of my life.

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Yoga for Athletes - Part 1

Anthony Cole Training

'By Bob Wehrmeyer © 2013 Wehr Publishing. All Rights Reserved. I started doing yoga about 10 years ago and now I am a believer. I also like to lift weights, run and play basketball. Actually, I no longer really play basketball. I am more of a basketball watcher. But since I used to play basketball, I get to claim watching as a form of exercise. Generally, regular exercise is important to me, and I have been fortunate enough to make it a regular part of my life.

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Don’t Suffer From Premature Explanation?

A Sales Guy

“If you’re clients are heavy Mac users you’re gonna love this feature.” “If A/B testing is important to you, then your going to like this.” “If you’re losing to the competition then we can help you gain share.” “If defect rates are high, we can save you money.” “If you’re network is suffering from latency we can resolve that issue.” “If your AR are outstanding longer than 30 days our service can help you.&#

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Do You Sell Simply?

A Sales Guy

That pretty much says it. Now sit down with your manager, a peer or a friend and simply explain: 1) What are your customers problems? 2) Why does your product or service solve them? 3) How does your product or service solve them? If it was simple, well done. If it wasn’t, try again. Simplicity is a powerful tool that is grossly under utilized in selling. understand it well enough.

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[Report] Social Selling Increases Sales Revenue

A Sales Guy

It’s almost here. The Social Media and Sales Quota Report will be released this week and boy are the findings interesting. Working with Barb Giamanco over at Social Centered Selling, we set out to find out what impact, if any, social selling, that is using social media as part of the selling process, had on revenue and quota attainment. The results are in and they are astounding.

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Sales Leaders – It’s Time to Get Rid of Performance Goals?

A Sales Guy

Ok, not entirely, BUT changes need to be made. Performance goals are not as effective as we think. How do you coach your direct reports? Do you set goals for them? Do coach them around their performance goals? Do help them become better at what they are doing? How often do you have coaching sessions? What happens in your coaching sessions? In 1988 Carol Dweck and Ellen Leggett put goal setting under a microscope.

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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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Survey Says. Social Media Improves Quota Attainment and More

A Sales Guy

Well it’s here. The results of the social media and sales quota survey. The results are pretty fascinating. . The goal of the survey was to put some real data behind this social media, social selling craze. At the end of the day sales people are responsible for making quota. Sales people don’t spend time on anything they doesn’t help them get make quota.

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What’s Your Candidate Minimum Hiring Score? — Stop Hiring C and B Players

A Sales Guy

We hire C players because we didn’t spot them in the interview process. We hire B players, because we believed we could get them to A players or because they were queen of the pigs. The pressure of getting new people hired can be huge. The feeling of losing revenue daily because you’re struggling to hire a new person can be overwhelming.

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Are You Going to Make Your Number This Quarter?

A Sales Guy

We’re two thirds of the way through the quarter. Are you going to make your quarterly number? If you don’t know with about a 90% certainty, you’re in trouble. To know if you’re going to make your number this quarter assumes you even have a quarterly number. Do you have one? How close are you to making it? What has to happen between now and March 31st to make your number?

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Is Your Linkedin Profile Link on Your Resume?

A Sales Guy

It should be! I have been doing more interviews over the past few months than you can shake a stick at and the single most annoying thing has been none, not one of the resumes I’ve seen contained the candidates Linkedin profile name and link. It drives me crazy. Rather than just clicking on the link in their resume, I have to search on Linkedin, hope I get the right person and get frustrated if I can’t find them.

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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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Account Planning isn’t Enough — You Need an Account Cadence

A Sales Guy

You have an important account you’ve been managing for years. You’ve established a great relationship with your buyer and all of the stakeholders. You build a great account plan every year and execute it flawlessly. It’s been a fantastic partnership and one that’s produced year over year. However, in spite of the strength of the relationship and the consistency of the account, things seem to be different this year.

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There is NO Excuse Not to Know Me (or anyone else at that matter)

A Sales Guy

It’s not uncommon for me to get several emails a month asking to provide a guest post to this blog. They come from all types; individual bloggers, publishers, authors, companies, etc. The requests are similar. They start with wonderful platitudes about the blog, me and the content. They go on to express their confidence that their content would be a wonderful addition to the blog and something this community would find highly beneficial.

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Door to Door Sales People

A Sales Guy

I thought this type of selling was all but dead. With the exception of a few poor souls slinging Internet or cable services for ATT and Comcast, I was under the impression door to door sales people were a thing of the past. It looks like I’m wrong. At least that’s what Kristen from ITV Productions is telling me and she and her company want to make a TV show about them.

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Selling Fearlessly – A Newbies Bible

A Sales Guy

With sections like Mental Attitude, Work Habits, and Salesmanship, Selling Fearlessly gets right to the foundation of being a great sales person. Written by a life-long salesman, Robert Terson takes readers along his 40 year selling history in an effort to bestow upon the reader, what he’s learned over those years. . Robert is a colorful story teller and he has plethora of stories to share.

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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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Hey Marisa – It’s a Management Problem

A Sales Guy

I’ve been debating on whether or not I wanted to chime in on Yahoo CEO Marisa Mayer’s decision to ban telecommuting. I have had an opinion since it was first announced a few weeks ago, but I wasn’t sure if I wanted to toss it out to this group, but now that I’ve had time to think about it, I’m not sure why I had any reservations in the first place.

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The Best Brain Candy for the Intellectually Curious — EVER!

A Sales Guy

Do you know why a dog’s ears flop? There are no canines in the wild with floppy ears. Have you every wondered what happened to Henry Heimlich, the guy behind the Heimlich Maneuver? Believe it or not, he’s still alive, but the end of his career hasn’t been as celebrated as the beginning. Did you know that trees only account for about 50% of the oxygen put into the atmosphere.

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Adios Google Reader

A Sales Guy

In case you didn’t know Google is killing Google Reader on July 1st. There are 799 of you in this community who use Google Reader to read this blog everyday. After July 1 all 799 of you will no longer get this blog via RSS. That is, if you don’t find a new reader. I currently use Google Reader as my RSS tool and I’m going to have to find an alternative as well.

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A New Series on Selling

A Sales Guy

I’ve decided to do a series on this blog starting next week. It will be a weekly series tying together business and sales. Each week I will break down some aspect of business; accounting, supply chain, technology, human resources, government mandates, economics, business cycles, trends, etc and connect them to selling. My current thought is I will define a particular business topic and then challenge this community to identify how their product, services and selling process connect to that

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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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WITCE Wednesdays — The Balance Sheet

A Sales Guy

Last week on WITCE Wednesdays we went through the Profit and Loss Statement. This week we’re going to tackle the balance sheet. The balance sheet and the profit and loss statement go hand and hand and should be evaluated together. If you remember, the profit and loss statement shows the inflows (revenue) and the outflows (expenses) of a company over a fixed period of time, by month, by quarter, by year.

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WITCE Wednesdays – Profit and Loss Statements for Sales People

A Sales Guy

As I stated last week, I’m starting a new weekly sales series focusing on business concepts. Business is at the core of sales. B2B sales don’t happen unless there is a business reason. Therefore, I figured, what the f**k. Let’s start a series that strengthens all of our business acumen and challenges us all to connect what we sell to our customers business.

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Dispatch – A Killer Collaboration Tool

A Sales Guy

I’ve been using a new collaboration tool called Dispatch and it’s pretty frickin awesome. Dispatch allows multiple people, thus the collaboration, to easily share, communicate, engage, edit and collaborate in a single place. One of things I like most about dispatch is how well it integrates with all of my existing document locations; Evernote, Dropbox, Google, and my hard drive.

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Deliberate Inspiration

A Sales Guy

I’ve talked about deliberate learning a few times in the past few months. Deliberate learning is when we are conscious and deliberate in our learning. It’s when we seek out to learn something new. We don’t wait to learn as a part of our lives, but we actively chose to learn something specific, regularly. Deliberate inspiration is similar.

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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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Bing Incorporates 5x More Facebook Data into its Search Results

eTourism

Just a few days after Facebook unveiled Graph Search, its new Bing-powered product which uses 'Likes' to create a personalised social search experience, Bing announced that it willnow incorporate 5x more social content from Facebook into its own search re

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Creating Lovable Marketing

eTourism

When was the last time you heard someone say 'I really do love being marketed to'? Probably never. If you take a moment to think about the things you love.chances are your guests feel exactly the same.