September, 2013

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The Truth About Sales People #4 - They Don't Prospect Very Well

Anthony Cole Training

'Sales people have to prospect! At least that was the case in 1983 when I was selling Nautilus exercise equipment, and it still is today even as president of Anthony Cole Training Group. I know this is not a great revelation, and you are probably wondering why I would even add this to the list of truths about sales people. Honestly, I have to say I''m confused by this.

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6 Steps to Creating a Killer Sales Culture

A Sales Guy

'The five of us would sit in the cafeteria every day, eating lunch together. Everyone in the company knew who we were. There was an energy you could feel. We were a small team, but a team we were. We were at 200% of quota. We had secured 90% of the market. We devastated the competition. We were thought leaders in our space. We all loved going to work.

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How To Build Your Resort’s Blog Readership

eTourism

Your resort's blog is the ideal platform to showcase your property, draw attention to interesting local events and demonstrate the more human, less corporate face of your business.

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The Truth About Sales People #3 - They Are All Terminal

Anthony Cole Training

'In the book, "Tuesday''s with Morrie", the author, Mitch Albom, makes a comment about Morrie''s terminal condition. Morrie responds with, "Mitch, we are all terminal; it''s just a matter of when.". And so it is with your sales people. This is even true for you - the owner, executive, founder, partner of the firm you lead. Everyone associated with your team today will one day NOT be there.

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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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Make Prospecting Fun!

Anthony Cole Training

'Sales people have to have prospects - that''s the truth. Sales people can find those prospects in lots of different ways: Introductions, direct mail, internet offers, net working, internal referrals from business partners, cold calling, pre-approach mail, association memberships, business networking groups. This is all true. What is also true is that, no matter how a sales person gets a name, the next step is to contact them.

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Upgrading Your Salesforce - Improve Success of New Sales People

Anthony Cole Training

'Upgrading the sales force is the responsibility of every sales manager, sales leader and sales executive. Upgrading the sales force , in my opinion, simply means this: developing and building a team that is better this year than they were last year. "Better" can be defined in many ways, but for our purposes, let''s define it this way: Selling more business, more quickly at higher margins.

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The RIGHT Way to Ask to Connect on LinkedIn [Don't be a Hack!]

A Sales Guy

'I get tons of LinkedIn requests every day. I’m not a LION , but I do try to accept most request from everyone who asks. That being said, I have 100′s of unaccepted requests in my LinkedIn box. I haven’t accepted them yet because I don’t know them, why they wanted to connect and I can’t find any common ground. I get a s**t ton of connection requests because of this blog.

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Why Sales People’s Product Demo’s Suck and What to Do About it!

A Sales Guy

'Product demos and trials seem to be the thing these days, especially in the world of SaaS (Software as a Service). Everyone wants to get there hands on the product before they buy. So much so, it has become part of most sales cycles. Customers want to see, touch and feel the product now. They want to experience what they are going to buy. They want to experience how it feels and how complex or easy it is to use.

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Quitters, Dabblers, Hobbyists and Superstars — The Path to Greatness

A Sales Guy

'Greatness is hard. Many of us think we’ve attained it in some way or another but the truth is we haven’t. We haven’t even touched the surface. This is a simple fact. Most of us who think we’ve attained greatness are really just hobbyists. Achieving greatness goes against the grain of society. Society ingrains us in the concept of ROI (return of investment) or ROE (return on effort).

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What the Best Sales People Know, the Rest of Us Don’t

A Sales Guy

'When it comes to selling and closing deals, there is something the best sales people know, the rest of us don’t. This knowledge is, at the core, why the best sales people spend less time on deals that won’t close, why they are able to close deals other sales reps can’t and why they have the ear the most influential decision makers in their accounts and opportunities.

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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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The 3 Key Elements to Killer Sales Coaching

A Sales Guy

'Sales coaching has one purpose and that is to make the sales person better. It’s that simple. Coaching is about analyzing what a sales person is doing in order to enhance their skills and improve their capabilities. Considering coaching has specific outcomes their needs to be a specific process or structure to make sure the goals are achieved.

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Sunday Morning Blog – Addicted 2 Success

A Sales Guy

'This blog is the s**t. With the exception of it’s occasional references on how to make a s**t load of money or post insinuating that money is a satisfactory measure of “success,” Addicted 2 Success is a kick-ass blog. I found it a few weeks ago via my LinkedIn stream. Not sure how I’v missed it this long, but hey, better late than never.

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Success Saturdays –The 10 Things Successful People Do To Reach Their Dreams

A Sales Guy

'We all have dreams, we all “dream” of more, better, higher, faster, etc. Dreaming of attaining more than we currently have is part of human nature. What isn’t as much human nature is achieving the dreams. I think that’s why we call them dreams. Calling them dreams allows us to avoid chasing them. If dreams aren’t real,it’s OK not to chase them.

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3 Myths to Identifying the Killer Sales Manager and What You Should Really be Looking For

A Sales Guy

'Note: This post targets sales managers and sales directors primarily (first and second line managers). The success criteria for this group is different than that of VP’s, SVP’s EVP’s, CSO’s (third line managers and above). I will do a sales leadership post in the future addressing this group as well. But for now, this post specifically addresses the misconnections with hiring sales managers/directors. . ———— Sales managers are the lynchpin between

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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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Success Saturdays: What Do You Give Your Audience?

A Sales Guy

'What do you think selling is about? What do you think your “job” as a sales person is? Success in our jobs comes from what we believe our responsibility is to others, to those we serve. We have jobs because we serve others. With that obvious, yet often forgotten fact out of the way, being successful is being very clear and deliberate in knowing what you owe your audience.

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A Key Part of Sales Coaching Most Sales Leaders Don’t Do

A Sales Guy

'As sales managers, it’s our job to coach. Good sales coaching or sales people development starts with observation. I talked about the three steps to coaching a while back; observation, description, and prescription. When it comes to observation the key is knowing what you are looking for and therefore I wanted to touch a bit more on this. Far too often, I see sales leaders reacting to what they see in their people.

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No One is Coming

A Sales Guy

'When most of us get stuck, we look out. We say we need more support. We need more money. We need more resources. We need more leads. We need more named accounts. We need more time. We need more information. When we’re struggling most of us look out and ask; who is going to come? No one is coming. If you want to get unstuck. Start getting creative?

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Success Saturdays – 10 Million YouTube Subscribers

A Sales Guy

'Ryan Higa is a film-maker who started his entire career in H.S. posting videos to YouTube. Last week he received his 10 millionth YouTube subscriber. Ryan is an impressive kid. He did this video describing his life and how he got to where he is and I felt it was a PERFECT Success Saturday post. He had to overcome bullying, depression, lack of self-esteem, disapproving parents and more.

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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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Success Saturdays – 10.5 Sales Mistakes a Kick Ass CEO Made and How They Kept Him from Reaching His Goals

A Sales Guy

'Big shout out to my boy Kyle Porter, CEO and Founder of Sales Loft for pointing me to this presentation, it was awesome. Allen Nance is the CEO of What Counts , an email marketing company. A few weeks ago, Allen gave a powerful presentation on the 10 sales and marketing lessons he learned over the past 12 years that prevented him AND his company from reaching the 100 million dollar mark.

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Sales Can’t Save You!

A Sales Guy

'Blackberry is gonna be picked up for 4.7 billion dollars by Fairfax Financial. That’s down from an all-time market cap of 83 billion in 2008. That’s a serious decline in value. Ouch! Blackberry’s woes started in 2007, but they really starting tanking in 2010. Here’s why. Their product began to suck. Blackberry was the s**t for most of the 2000′s.

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Sunday Morning Reading – Allen Nance

A Sales Guy

'To keep with yesterday’s theme and reiterate how much I enjoyed Allen Nance’s Keynote at B2B camp , I’m making his blog today’s Sunday Morning Reading. Allen is a fantastically passionate speaker and CEO who combines that passion with impressive complex thinking skills. Allen brings to the table one of my favorite traits in a person, he looks at problems differently and dissects them from the angle others don’t see or chose not to.

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Sunday Morning Blog: The Whale Hunters

A Sales Guy

'Today’s Sunday Morning Blog is from The Whale Hunters and Barbara Weaver Smith. The Whale Hunter Blog keenly focuses on practical issues that can help your business today. With topics like Key Account Sales and Management, Narrow Your Service/Build Your Brand , and 7 Steps to Powerful Case Studies , Barbara delivers a blog that you can use, not just read.

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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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How to Generate More Guest Reviews

eTourism

There's no denying the power of the online review. Travellers are actively seeking the opinions of former guests when making a booking decision, which means you need to get proactive with your resort's reputation management if you want to shine online.

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Marketing Tips to Maximise Online Bookings This Festive Season

eTourism

If you want to maximise bookings this festive season, you've got to start now.With Christmas and New Year's fast approaching, here are some tips for making the most of the busiest booking period of the year.

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Boost your Local Search Ranking with YouTube Optimisation

eTourism

Uploading promotional videos to YouTube boosts your online marketing campaign by bringing your property's best features to life, capturing the attention and imagination of guests and getting them ready to make a booking.

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New eTourism Online Feature: Multiple Room Images

eTourism

At eTourism we're always trying to come up with new ways to enhance our systems. The latest update to the eTourism Online booking engine now allows you to upload multiple images to each of your eTourism Online packages.

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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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How to Keep Your Cool During a Social Media Crisis

eTourism

Whether it's a rogue tweet from an employee or guest negativity on Facebook, it doesn't take much to spark a social media crisis that can leave your resort's carefully honed marketing campaign in tatters if you're not prepared that is.

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Email Marketing - When Less is More

eTourism

No doubt you've heard the expression 'Less is More' numerous times in your life. When it comes to email marketing, it is surprising to see that a number of business and property owners think people are reading through their entire emails.

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How to Import Contacts into iLaunch

eTourism

Understandably, for some newcomers of the hotel, motel and resort game, using CMS's (Content Management Systems) can be a little daunting. Uploading, downloading, importing, exporting, it all takes a little patience and learning.

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SEO Health Check 2013

eTourism

Google has introduced a string of algorithm updates in the last few years in an attempt to banish spam and prioritise quality, freshness and social content on the search results page.

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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.