Anthony Cole Training

JULY 25, 2024

As sales manager, business line leader, or CEO, is your team finding, qualifying and closing as much business as you think they should? Most say "No" when we ask that question, which means that something in your client outreach and sales process has to change. And that change, we believe, starts at the very beginning.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I’ve been trying to find a way to tie cooking to sales management. I love to cook (and eat) and I love selling and coaching sales management. Thus my attempt to find another way to explain concepts of sales management: COOKING! I think so… and I think the entire process requires a “recipe” for success.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. 5 Sales Lessons for Sales Reps I Learned While on Vacation. Sales and a Fish Story. Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! managing sales (4). managing sales teams (18).

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. 5 Sales Lessons for Sales Reps I Learned While on Vacation. Sales and a Fish Story. Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! managing sales (4). managing sales teams (18).

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 30, 2012

Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. 5 Sales Lessons for Sales Reps I Learned While on Vacation. Sales and a Fish Story. Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! managing sales (4). managing sales teams (18).

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 19, 2011

Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. 5 Sales Lessons for Sales Reps I Learned While on Vacation. Sales and a Fish Story. Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! managing sales (4). managing sales teams (18).

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 5, 2015

As I continue to think about habits of sales people and the role of the sales manager in identifying, assessing and “correcting” habits, I keep looking for additional information that might be additive to this string of articles. Ike sent me a link to a survey that was done regarding the hunt for sales managers/directors.

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A Sales Guy

JUNE 28, 2012

The sales pipeline is the most important sales management tool there is. The sales pipeline is like the hard drive of a computer. Like your hard drive, if the pipeline gets messed up or filled with crap, everything slows down and in the case of sales that means revenue. Bad sales stages or poor sales process.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I just finished reading a chapter from the book – Harvard Business Review on Strategic Sales Management. The chapter is “Understanding What Your Sales Manager Is Up Against” by Barry Trailer and Jim Dickie. This article was no exception, especially when they were writing about the sales process.

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 29, 2011

Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. 5 Sales Lessons for Sales Reps I Learned While on Vacation. Sales and a Fish Story. Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! managing sales (4). managing sales teams (18).

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 10, 2014

CRM, as a sales enablement tool IS NOT SO important to sales success even though it does contribute, aid, help and enable sales people to manage prospects and accounts. We have a sales activities tracking tool called Success Tracker, and internally, we use BASE to manage our pipeline.

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 9, 2013

Sales people must be able to do this. However, the key to using the "marketing material" is timing in the sales process. Notice anything similar in each of the first 5 steps in the sales process? Unfortunately, most of the time and effort spent training sales people is spent on "us" rather than "they".

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A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 29, 2012

How many times have you heard this: “Just because he or she is your best sales person doesn’t mean they should be promoted to sales management.” A sales person is killing it. They are the top performer for years and when a sales management position opens up, BOOM! they get the job.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. 5 Sales Lessons for Sales Reps I Learned While on Vacation. Sales and a Fish Story. Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! managing sales (4). managing sales teams (18).

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Nuvho

APRIL 21, 2020

Many hotel and venue managers we speak to are frustrated. They keep experiencing low sales conversions and missed opportunities, and they are tearing their hair out wondering why their sales person or team is not performing. So do your sales processes support your sales team in each of these steps?

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A Sales Guy

JULY 11, 2012

Shitty sales management can kill pipeline movement. As sales leaders, we spend so much of our time evaluating our teams and the individuals on them, we often forget that our s**t can stink too. This is especially true with first line managers. I like how the book (The Challenger Sale) does this.

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A Sales Guy

MARCH 4, 2014

They manage to the quotas. They sit next to, talk with and are closer to the sales people than any other person (role) in the company. Sales managers are the lynchpins to success in sales organizations. Sales managers are the key to a humming sales organization. They distribute the quotas.

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 30, 2019

In this article, we offer solutions for your CRM system and provide 5 concrete steps in helping your salespeople improve their numbers and ratios so that a sales manager can more accurately identify choke points in the sales process.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 16, 2012

Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. 5 Sales Lessons for Sales Reps I Learned While on Vacation. Sales and a Fish Story. Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! managing sales (4). managing sales teams (18).

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 13, 2014

I read the white paper, and it clearly identified common problems with CRM tools such as SalesForce.com, ACT and other pipeline management tools. And, because of these problems, there are challenges in the predictability of future sales. Sales people are more passionate about success when it has something to do with them.

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A Sales Guy

JULY 30, 2012

The single most important element of account management and one of the most critical sales skills is proactivity. Yet, unfortunately, far too many farmers or account managers leave too much to reaction or reactivity. The great advantage to account management is your access to data. Manage them proactively.

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Lure Agency

JULY 20, 2023

In the world of sales, there are two distinct roles that professionals often find themselves in: the sales manager and the trusted advisor. Cory Falter recently invited hotel sales consultant Kristi White on the InnSync Show for a discussion on the differences between the roles of a sales manager and a trusted advisor.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 19, 2015

The companies who have had the most success with our programming have followed the process: Test, Train and Track. They have also adopted the Sales Managed Environment® and Effective Sales System as their own. Can we close more sales? Do our systems and processes support a high performance sales organization?

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A Sales Guy

AUGUST 21, 2012

I don’t give a rats ass about a sales opportunities status and as a sales manager you shouldn’t either. ” Status is the lame update sales people share during the weekly pipeline meeting. Sales Manager – “Hey Bob, what’s the status on the Techform opportunity?

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 27, 2010

Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. 5 Sales Lessons for Sales Reps I Learned While on Vacation. Sales and a Fish Story. Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! managing sales (4). managing sales teams (18).

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Anthony Iannarino

JUNE 11, 2019

I have spent much time studying time management, or something I often refer to as Me Management since you can’t control time, but you can control what you do between the ticks of the clock. Calibrate Your Priorities : There is nothing more critical to effective time management than determining your priorities.

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A Sales Guy

AUGUST 16, 2013

I’m a big fan of training, it’s true that most sales people wing it; they need structure and discipline in how to go about organizing their work. If management can’t be bothered to get their act together, can we really fault sales people/team? Sales structure, systems and discipline can help.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 21, 2010

Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. 5 Sales Lessons for Sales Reps I Learned While on Vacation. Sales and a Fish Story. Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! managing sales (4). managing sales teams (18).

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 17, 2010

Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. 5 Sales Lessons for Sales Reps I Learned While on Vacation. Sales and a Fish Story. Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! managing sales (4). managing sales teams (18).

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A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Unfortunately, despite everyones best intentions, unless you are at the very end of the sales cycle and everything has been completed, this is a fruitless questions, with a very low probability of being answered correctly. Yeses are the activities, deliverables, agreement or commitments your prospect makes during the sales process.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 6, 2012

As part of my visit I spent some time with Mark Trinkle, one of our sales development experts, during one of his sales training sessions for new hires. Our client has an 'immersion program' designed to help new hires get up to speed quickly in execution of their sales process and sales managed envirionment.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I’ve been in the sales and sales management consulting business for 21 years. Prior to that, I was an insurance wholesaler, an insurance agent, a Nautilus Regional Sales Manager, a Nautilus Regional Sales Rep and collegiate athletic coach. Guaranteed! Did you like today’s post?

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 2, 2010

Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. 5 Sales Lessons for Sales Reps I Learned While on Vacation. Sales and a Fish Story. Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! managing sales (4). managing sales teams (18).

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Maximize the Initial Sales Call: The 3 rules. 5 Sales Lessons for Sales Reps I Learned While on Vacation. Sales and a Fish Story. Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! managing sales (4). managing sales teams (18).

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I’ve been in the sales and sales management consulting business for 21 years. Prior to that, I was an insurance wholesaler, an insurance agent, a Nautilus Regional Sales Manager, a Nautilus Regional Sales Rep and collegiate athletic coach. Guaranteed! More Resources: Why is Qualifying Prospect So Hard eBook.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 18, 2018

When a company first starts out, there probably isn’t much of a sales process, or team, in place. Of course, as the business grows, sales leaders must implement a repeatable, scalable process to turn a trickle of income to a steady, predictable stream. What’s the secret to accelerating sales growth?

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 18, 2012

Again, I will reference a fine book by Gary Mack - Mind Gym - to help sales managers understand how to better coach sales people to higher levels of personal and professional sales success. Let's translate this to sales and sales management. The list could probably be longer but this is enough.).

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