February, 2012

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7 Great Coaching Tips for Great Sales Success

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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4 Myths to Identifying “A” Players in an Interview and What You Should Really be Looking For.

A Sales Guy

Hiring “A” players is without a doubt critical in building and maintaining successful sales teams. We all want the absolute best talent we can get. In the end, our job is to build teams, not find the best talent. But, finding the best people for your team is critical. There are a lot of misconceptions about what an “A” player or superstar looks like and how to spot them in an interview.

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6 reasons why your hotel or resort needs a blog

eTourism

When it comes to blogging, it's surprising how reluctant some hoteliers can be to get on board. Maybe you think your hotel doesn't really need a blog, or that maintaining a regular blog would just be too time-consuming.

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Fixing the Sharp Stick(s) in the Eye - 10 Obstacles to Sales Success

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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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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Sales Success - Any Success - Keep Your Eye on The Ball

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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The Politics of Sales Success

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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Sales Success? Evaluating the Why's and Why Nots

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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Be the Best You Can Be

Anthony Cole Training

We are all aware that our success begins with the stuff up top, what is in our head, our thoughts and our minds. About 18 months ago, I met Kim Ades who is the president of Frame of Mind Coaching. She taught me several great "mindful" coaching tips during our 10-week coaching program that impact both my coaching and sales success. I will share some of those with you today. 7 Great Coaching Tips for Great Sales Success.

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62 Reasons You AREN’T Going to Make Quota this Year

A Sales Guy

Quota is hard enough to make as it is. It takes hard work, focus, and commitment to honing your skills. Only 52% of sales people make quota. The reasons why vary, but I can tell you this. Doing these things will make for sure you don’t make quota. If you are dong these things, STOP! They just make things harder. Not work super hard claiming the economy is still slow .

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The Rain Maker is DEAD!

A Sales Guy

The Rain Maker is a dinosaur. The days of the kick-ass, lonewolf, rainmaking sales person is done. Sales has become too complex and too customer centric for a single sales person to make rain. Back in the day, selling supported a rain making person. Armed with determination, creativity, information, (lots’ of information) customers, prospects AND other sales people didn’t have, the rain maker was the king of sales.

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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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You Don’t Need the Best Sales Talent to Win

A Sales Guy

“ Our job isn’ t to assemble the best players, it’s to put together the best team” – Bill Belichick and Scot Pioli New England Patriots. I had to process this for a little while. For me it was a bit confusing. Doesn’t a great team require the best players? As I kicked this around my head I kept being reminded of all the amazingly talented teams that fell on their face and failed.

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How to Become an Expert?

A Sales Guy

Being bad it turns out, is what makes us good. So make as many mistakes as you can. You will eventually become an expert. Our minds and more importantly our feelings require mistakes to learn. When mistakes are made our mind reacts physically. Our minds are constantly searching its surroundings for subtle, predictable patterns we can’t consciously recognize.

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The Importance of a Sales Cadence and the 5 Critical Elements it Must Cover!

A Sales Guy

A cadence is a rhythmic sequence. In sales leadership a cadence is a rhythmic sequence for engaging with your team. A sales cadence is the frequency or sequence with which you meet with the team and individuals on the team. It’s how to monitor progress. A predefined cadence is a critical element to successful sales leadership. A good cadence is the glue that keeps the strategy in place, validates the structure, strengthens the people, and improves the processes.

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Charity Update

A Sales Guy

Only one week to go in the A Sales Guy Community charity (no pun intended, really! I’m not that cheesy.) effort. We started off with a bang, but have fizzled a little. We have one week to go. I thought I would have the Sader’s say a little something. It is pretty funny to look back on our lives and think about the ideas and plans you had for life in your teens and twenties.

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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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Drive By Selling is Dead. It’s all About Scale

A Sales Guy

Remember the old days of drive by selling? You’d roll up on a prospect, (by phone, or car, or email or direct mail piece) and hit them up with why your company, service and product was the shit and why they needed to buy it. Drive by selling was successful because there was nothing else. All you had was perseverance, a keenly refined message, some slick, glossy product sheets, a “special deal” of day, and maybe a demo.

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I Know! — It’s Not Your Fault

A Sales Guy

I played football in H.S. I was pretty good. I was often in the newspaper. My grandfather lived just a few houses down the street from us. He was a huge sports fan. He would read about me in the paper on Sunday’s after the game. I think it made him proud. During one particular week in the season, like a shit head, I skipped school. I got caught and was suspended for that Saturday’s football game.

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I Want Doers

A Sales Guy

I want a doer. I want people who get stuff done. I want people who know how to get from point A to point B. I want people who, when given direction, take it and make it their own. I figure, if I have to give specific, step by step instructions, I might as well do it myself and I don’t need that person. I want doers because they bring their own style and approach to getting things done.

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Not one thing

A Sales Guy

If we could just get picked up by TechCrunch or Mashable, the company will blow up. If I can just get to the CEO, I’ll close this deal. If I could make Guy Kawasaki’s All Top list my blog will be huge. If product would just lower the price, I could sell more of this stuff. If I can just get a VC to invest, we’ll own the space. Unfortunately, accomplishing one thing rarely creates success.

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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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How Data Hurts The Sale

A Sales Guy

About 8 years ago I bought a ski home in Vail. I’m a huge skier and always wanted a second home in the mountains. When the time came to buy, I knew Vail is where I wanted to be. I knew my price range. I knew how many bedrooms and how big of a home. That was it. I didn’t know anything else. While driving a friend to California, I stopped and saw two places.

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Why Knowing The History of Manufacturing or How Attila the Hun Rose to Power Can Help You Make Quota!

A Sales Guy

I’ve long argued the best sales people are the best problem solvers. They bring an amazing creativity to solving problems. Great sales people identify unique, out of the box solutions to; getting deals unstuck, prospecting, getting to decision makers or solving product challenges. Great sales people are great problem solvers. It turns out problem solving is a skill.

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Where are the Sales Learners?

A Sales Guy

I teach skiing at Vail. Most of you know that. I teach private lessons. The price of a 1 day private lesson with me or any other ski instructor is $745.00. I regularly get individuals, families and groups who book me because they want to get better at skiing. They all have something they want to improve. They want to be better skiers and they spend a lot of money to get better.

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Brand Connectedness

A Sales Guy

This morning I read this quote from Burberry’s CEO, Angela Ahrendts and I couldn’t agree more. I’ve highlighted the money part of the quote for me. The experience would be that a customer would have total access to Burberry, across any device, anywhere. And they would get exactly the same feeling of the brand, feeling of the culture, regardless of when, where, how they were accessing the brand.

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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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Bring Charity Home — Update

A Sales Guy

It’s been a week since I shared with this community the Sader Family story. I’m amazed at the response. It has been phenomenal. We are over 20% of the way to our goal in the first week. We’re on track for quota. As I shared in the post last week , Rob Sader is an active member of this community and the father of two Down Syndrom girls.

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Giving — A Break From Selling

A Sales Guy

Meet Rob Sader and his family, he is an active member of this community. He’s been a regular here for awhile. Like most of you, I’ve yet to meet him in person, but I’ve always appreciated his comments and engagement here at A Sales Guy. Rob has beautiful family, two adorable daughters and a rock of a wife. The other day Rob sent me an email asking if I’d help him and his family out.

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The One and Only TRUE Path to Success

A Sales Guy

EXECUTION! Wes Welker dropped a pass that him right in the hands. Had he made the catch, it would have given the Patriots a first down on their 20 with only four minutes and thirty second to go, leading by 2. The Patriots lost. With only 4 minutes to go and only one time out, the Giants were pinned on their 10 yard line, when Marion Manningham made an unbelievable catch down the sidelines for 45 yards.

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Google +

A Sales Guy

I’ve been using Google Plus for the last few months. I’ve been using it half-assed. I’ve been trying to figure out where it “fits” with the other social networks. It’s been a weird relationship, but Google Plus has snuck up on me. I’ve come to like it a lot. What I like is it’s a full social network like Facebook, but doesn’t bind me to the “personal” nature. .

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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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Internet Users Uneasy About Personalised Search Results

eTourism

As Google begins to roll out its new personalised search results page, basic search and social media look set to overlap. Not everybody however, is happy about the increasingly personal direction in which search results are heading.

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Travel companies miss out on Facebook likes

eTourism

A recent survey of online travellers has revealed that when it comes to using social networks as a marketing tool, travel companies are getting left behind.

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Using the eTourism Online Request Feature

eTourism

We often get asked about our eTourism Online request feature and how this works so I thought it would be a good idea to write this blog post about it.

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Tablets lead the way in online retail

eTourism

Marketing experts have found that consumers using tablets are more likely to buy online than smartphone users.

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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.