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The 9th (and Final) Sales Productivity Tool: Performance Recording

Anthony Cole Training

In our 9th and final installment in the Sales Productivity Tools blog series, I dive into an essential item on the list: the Performance Recording tool.

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Why Discounting At The End Of The Year Fails

Anthony Iannarino

Every year, at about this time, salespeople and their companies begin the process of offering discounts to their prospective clients as a way to compel them to sign a contract before the end of the year. Those behind on their goal offer to lower their price in exchange for the possibility of making their number. Others do so to run up an already good result, punctuating their year with a strong closing number.

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Managing Hotel Reviews Part I - Make Guest Experience Your Top Priority in 2020

eTourism

Alongside room rates, closely followed by brand name and online images of your hotel, guest reviews play a big part in converting hotel browsers into customers, and generate an overall brand rating that, as we move into a new decade, is no longer possible

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39 – Prepping Your TripAdvisor Listing for 2020

Travel Media Group

In this episode of the Suite Spot, we share how to get your hotel’s TripAdvisor listing ready for the new year. Host, Ryan Embree, is joined by Respond & Resolve™ Product Manager, Kristeena Seckinger to walk through the process of claiming and optimizing your hotel’s Tripadvisor profile. Kristeena and Ryan tackle some frequently asked questions about TripAdvisor including: how to update your property’s photos, how to remove TripAdvisor reviews, and can you wipe your TripAdvisor account.

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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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How To Master The Art Of Being Lazy

Anthony Iannarino

It isn’t easy to be lazy. It is more complicated than you might believe. Those who have mastered being lazy have had to work very hard to maintain their slothfulness. What follows here is a primer on how you can master the art of being lazy. Avoiding Work. The lazy have found ways to avoid work of any kind, including the job someone is paying them to do.

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This Is What Happens When You Sell On Your Front Foot

Anthony Iannarino

In boxing, the aggressor is on their front foot, driving the action. Even though boxing is different from many other sports, being on your front foot indicates you are on offense. The opposite of being on your front foot is, naturally, being on your back foot. To fight from your back foot means you are moving away from your opponent as a way to create space, the strategy of a counter-puncher.

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How to Win Deals with a Higher Price

Anthony Iannarino

There is an inevitable confusion about price and its impact on winning or losing sales. The confusion over price begins when salespeople believe that they lost on price, especially when their prospective client tells them they went with a competitor who offered them a better price. The “ lost on price ” is almost always followed by the comforting statement that you were a strong second place, softening the blow and making sure you know it wasn’t your fault).

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An Instructive List of 10 Ways You Vaporize Your Deals

Anthony Iannarino

No one likes to lose. Nor does anyone want to be faced with the reality that they caused the loss, that what they did resulted in an L instead of a W. But sales success, even when played by a team, is individual. The following is a list of the things that might cause you to lose a deal. Playing the Wrong Game. Poor Targeting : If you go all the way through the sales process with someone who can’t or won’t benefit from what you sell, you lost because of your poor targeting.

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How To Steal Back Your Time For Selling

Anthony Iannarino

If you wanted the best possible advice for improving your sales, my instinct would be to tell you to improve your sales approach , develop greater business acumen, and learn to build consensus. Even though that is what I would want to say to you, it isn’t the advice I would give you. Instead, I will tell you to steal back as much time as you possibly can and devote it to selling.

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