Sat.Jun 15, 2019 - Fri.Jun 21, 2019

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How Do I Hire a Sales All-Star?

Anthony Cole Training

Hiring an elite salesperson is tough work. It's not easy to find a sales all-star and it's even harder to keep them on board if you do hire them.

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How to Avoid Being a Slimy Salesperson

Anthony Iannarino

I recently had a client describe me as non-slimy. Those were the words he used to describe our interaction. For this to mean anything worth exploring, you would have to believe that there is a way to be slimy in sales. Naturally, I asked for clarification. Give Up Straight Pitching. The client’s version of slimy comes from his experience with salespeople that immediately started pitching him on why he should choose them over their competitors.

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Declare Independence From Your Own Obstacles

Anthony Cole Training

As we approach the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, our own Walt Gerano shares his thoughts regarding the obstacles holding us back from experiencing the sales success we desire.

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How to Be Intellectually Curious in Sales

Anthony Iannarino

If you want to develop your business acumen , your situational knowledge, and your ability to create value for your clients and your dream clients, you need to become intellectually curious. You have to seek to understand how things work, why people do things a certain way, why people want what they want, and when it makes sense to do something. When I was young and first started selling, I developed the practice of asking my clients questions.

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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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How to Create Your Transformational Breakthrough

Anthony Iannarino

If you have read this humble blog for a significant amount of time, you know I believe you can be more, do more, have more , and contribute more, mostly in that order. The starting point is becoming more than you are right now by creating a transformational breakthrough, which we might define as the point at which you stop being one thing and become another.

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How to Avoid Being a Slimy Salesperson

Anthony Iannarino

I recently had a client describe me as non-slimy. Those were the words he used to describe our interaction. For this to mean anything worth exploring, you would have to believe that there is a way to be slimy in sales. Naturally, I asked for clarification. Give Up Straight Pitching. The client’s version of slimy comes from his experience with salespeople that immediately started pitching him on why he should choose them over their competitors.

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How to Stop Asking What’s Keeping You Up at Night

Anthony Iannarino

One of the ways salespeople were taught to uncover a compelling reason for their dream client to change or the source of their dissatisfaction, was by asking the single question, “‘What’s keeping you up at night?” I am not certain where this question originated or who provided this as a choice for salespeople, but ‘it’s been around for as long as anyone can remember, and lately has fallen out of favor.

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Stop the Social Apps from Stealing Your Meaning and Purpose

Anthony Iannarino

I recently read that the average person spends 36 minutes per day on Facebook. If you are average, you spend 219 hours a year scrolling a site designed to keep your attention for as long as possible, and one using every psychological reward system available to do so as the foundation of their business model. It takes about 6 hours to read an average book.

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What You Should Worry About in Sales

Anthony Iannarino

We sometimes worry about things that are not nearly as important as what should command our attention. Automation. You should worry less about automating client acquisition and more about acquiring clients. There is too much focus on automation because it is possible, not because it improves effectiveness. Too much focus on efficiency comes at the expense of effectiveness.

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How to Stop Asking What’s Keeping You Up at Night

Anthony Iannarino

One of the ways salespeople were taught to uncover a compelling reason for their dream client to change or the source of their dissatisfaction, was by asking the single question, “‘What’s keeping you up at night?” I am not certain where this question originated or who provided this as a choice for salespeople, but ‘it’s been around for as long as anyone can remember, and lately has fallen out of favor.

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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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Stop the Social Apps from Stealing Your Meaning and Purpose

Anthony Iannarino

I recently read that the average person spends 36 minutes per day on Facebook. If you are average, you spend 219 hours a year scrolling a site designed to keep your attention for as long as possible, and one using every psychological reward system available to do so as the foundation of their business model. It takes about 6 hours to read an average book.

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