Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In this article, Tony discusses the Sales Probability Scorecard, the second tool in our 9 Sales Productivity Tools series.

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Anthony Iannarino

OCTOBER 5, 2019

You have existing clients that need your time and attention. You also need to prospect. Your current clients need things now, and you need to communicate with them to help them—and retain them. Because they have needs you need to address now, you neglect prospecting and creating new opportunities. You may not pay the penalty for having not prospected until some time in the future, but eventually, know for sure that you will indeed pay.

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A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 3, 2019

KEENAN LIVE kicks off today. I’m pretty excited, it’s going to be dope. KEENAN LIVE is going to be a live series dedicated to the interesting, the rebellious and the successful. I will be having conversations with some of the most unique, interesting and successful people, some you may know, others you may not, but they all have in common is a kick-ass story.

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Travel Media Group

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In this episode of the Suite Spot, we dedicate our time to helping hoteliers navigate through major changes and transitions that happen at their properties. Host Ryan Embree is joined by Client Success & Operations Manager Edwin Pomales to discuss overcoming 5 major challenges that most hotels face at one time or another. From planned changes like renovations and flag transitions to unexpected changes like employee turnover and natural disasters, Ryan and Edwin cover it all.

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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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Trivago

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The festive season is the busiest time of the year for most of the hoteliers around the world. Firstly, countless hotel marketing campaigns get launched every year, making the competition high. Secondly, the guests are the most prone to splurging on a premium stay experience, making it the perfect opportunity for the businesses to cash [.] The post ‘Tis the Season to Start Marketing Your Hotel for the Holidays appeared first on trivago Business Blog.

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Nuvho

OCTOBER 28, 2019

There’s no doubt about it. When it comes to sales, the fortune is in the follow-up. We can invite heaps of people to our hotel or venue for site inspections or famils. We can farm out proposals left, right and centre. But when it comes to closing the sale and confirming the business, follow-up is often the key. But often follow-up calls can be seen as too aggressive or spammy.

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Anthony Iannarino

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Much of what I write here is going to be anathema to a particular variety of sales experts and those who read too much into the idea that relationships are no longer critical in sales. Much of the dominant opinion that relationships don’t matter in sales stems from the book, The Challenger Sale. But were you to ask the authors, they would tell you that “challengers” had the second-highest score on relationships, and it was just a smidge behind “challenging.

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A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Lucid Chart and A Sales Guy teamed up to help layout the Gap Selling process and make it easier to leverage with your sales team. Using their amazing tool, it’ even easier to understand and align your sales process to a gap selling, problem-centric sales process. We used the process of buying a car as an example because it’s something everyone can relate to.

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eTourism

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Since the end of September, Facebook in Australia has seen a notable adjustment in which the number of likes, reaction emojis and video views is hidden from the public - only visible now by the original poster of the content.

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Travel Media Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

In this episode of Suite Spot, Ryan Embree discusses the importance of user-generated content in the hotel industry. Ryan shares where to locate user-generated content about your hotel online and how to leverage that information to better your business. He provides best practices on how to find issues shared in user-generated content like reviews and social media posts, and tips on how to fix the issues.

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MBA Hotels

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Everyon e agrees: the hotel industry growth is slowing, but this does not mean a downturn, at least not imminently. Occupancy remains high overall, though around zero growth nationally. Average daily rate is the main driver of revenue per available room (RevPAR) growth. Nationally, demand and supply are on par, about 2% growth each. STR forecasts RevPAR growth to be about 1.1% in 2020. [ STR RevPAR Forecast ] Slow and steady revenue growth is keeping the industry optimistic, but it’s the prof

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In this article, we discuss the Zero Moment of Truth (ZMOT) and the notion that significant changes have swept over the sales landscape these past 20 years.

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Anthony Iannarino

OCTOBER 9, 2019

You will inevitably run into clients who, as Oscar Wilde described the cynic, “knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” These prospective clients view everything through the narrowest possible lens, believing that a lower price is value. Of course, you can avoid those prospects who are blind to the real value you create, but what fun would that be?

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Experience Hotel

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Chers hôteliers, Il y a 3 ans, Experience a publié le top 20 des meilleurs services à fournir dans votre hôtel, qui plait aujourd’hui encore beaucoup. Mais nous sommes aujourd’hui dans l’ère de l’hyper personnalisation. Rester impersonnel n’est plus pertinent ; et une mise à jour s’impose. Les clients veulent plus que jamais recevoir des services conformes à leurs besoins et à leurs attentes.

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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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eTourism

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Early this year, Google officially stopped access to Website Translator - a valuable tool that allowed free content translation in a variety of languages.

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Travel Media Group

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In this episode of the Suite Spot, we help hoteliers prepare their properties for the slow season by discussing the best ways to optimize their hotel’s social media profiles. Kelly Albritton, Senior Product Analyst, joins host Ryan Embree to share insights from her experience working in Travel Media Group’s social media department. Ryan and Kelly cover important topics in this episode, from setting up automated messages on your social media accounts to leveraging social media ads to target new g

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MBA Hotels

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Current interest rates are at historic lows. Yesterday, the Federal Reserve cut the Prime rate to 4.75% and the 10-Year Treasury has been hovering around 1.7% to 1.8%. However, The Fed has indicated that it will pause any further rate cuts in the near term. Meanwhile, hotel values are strong, and hotel lenders are offering very competitive terms. CMBS loans offer numerous advantages to hotel borrowers; such as the ability to fix a low interest rate for a 5, 7, or 10-year term.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 11, 2019

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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Anthony Iannarino

OCTOBER 11, 2019

The statistics on employee engagement are not good. They often show that a large part of the workforce as actively disengaged, and many passively seeking a new opportunity. Much of what people write about employee engagement puts the onus on the employee, an unfair assessment, even when considering the negative social media filter bubbles and a general increasing sense of nihilism in our post-modern culture.

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Experience Hotel

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Cher hôtelier, Aujourd’hui je donne la parole à Connor Neeson avec qui j’ai la chance de collaborer au quotidien sur l’exportation de notre CRM Expérience au Royaume-Uni : « Mon parcours dans les ventes flash d’hôtels a débuté en 2011 chez Groupon, quelques années après la crise financière de 2009, pour s’achever en 2017 chez Travelzoo.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In our fourth installment of the 9 Sales Productivity Tools, we bring you the next tool in our series, Goal Setting. When we talk about goal setting, we start with personal goals and then help our clients convert those personal goals into business plans. Those business plans have goals for activities that need to be performed, as well as practice management objectives to be accomplished.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Throwback Thursday Post:

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 9, 2019

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Anthony Iannarino

OCTOBER 14, 2019

One of the reasons you might not be as productive as you want to be is because the idea isn’t well defined. Many people who believe they are productive, are not. Not To-Dos. It is not crossing off tasks off a to-do list. No matter how many tasks you complete during a given day, you still may not have been productive with your time. You might have cleaned your desk and cleaned up the files on your desktop before you started work.

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Anthony Iannarino

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Over the past couple of weeks, I have had occasion to watch and listen to salespeople enter the conversation from the Left. They start a conversation with their prospective clients with a story about t heir company and how their product might help the client. I am always struck by the fact that salespeople still believe people want to buy a drill when the truth is that they want to buy what the drill produces.

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Anthony Iannarino

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Today, October 11, 2019, marks three years since I published my first book, The Only Sales Guide You’ll Ever Need. My primary outcome when writing this book was to ensure that it would stand the test of time (which is why I don’t follow fads like social selling and look instead for trend-lines that provide a sense of direction and suggest an evolutionary change).

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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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Anthony Iannarino

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The competencies and character traits that make one an effective leader are too many and too varied to compile on a single list. While there are as many ways to be an ineffective leader, this list of ten missing ingredients is a good start to what matters and why. No Vision : A leader is responsible for the future. Creating that future requires a vision, as you cannot hit a target you cannot see.

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Anthony Iannarino

OCTOBER 7, 2019

How do you decide what to do with your time when confronted with more projects and tasks than one might easily complete in a full quarter of work? Fortunately, not all projects and tasks are equal, allowing you to make values-based decisions to determine what should command your time and attention. Sifting your projects through a set of filters improves both your choices and your overall results.

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Anthony Iannarino

OCTOBER 8, 2019

There are more ways to get a demo wrong than there are ways to make it compelling and useful. If what you sell requires you demo for your prospective clients, the following eight laws will allow you to rule your demo—and improve your odds of winning. A Demo is a Sales Call. The first—and most important—law when giving a demo is to operate as if it is a sales call (because it is a sales call).

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Anthony Iannarino

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Many people leave a job believing they will be leaving their problems only to find the same challenges somewhere else. When this isn’t true, the person who goes because they think it will be easier to work somewhere else is often surprised to find different—but equally difficult—circumstances. It’s easy to believe that things are better across the street, and sometimes that turns out to be accurate, but it’s not often the case.

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