Sat.Nov 16, 2019 - Fri.Nov 22, 2019

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A Pre-Call Checklist is Your 7th Must-Have Sales Productivity Tool

Anthony Cole Training

In our 7th installment of Football & 9 Sales Productivity Tools That Will Change Your Results, we bring you the pivotal and "must-have" Pre-Call Checklist. Going into a sales call without a plan is similar to going into a football game without a game plan; it's a recipe for disaster!

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The One Competitive Advantage Not Being Commoditized

Anthony Iannarino

Salespeople and sales organizations work very hard to differentiate themselves and their offerings as a way to create a competitive advantage. Many believe their company is the differentiation. Others think their solutions provide differentiation. Few would dare to describe their people as their competitive advantage, even when it is true. Even fewer would recognize caring as their competitive advantage and the superpower that it is in an age of commoditization and the conflation of everything t

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How To Make Motivation Last

Anthony Iannarino

Zig Ziglar said: “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” It’s a classic line from a legendary speaker. If I had to guess the cause of Zig’s zinger, my money would be that it was his retort to a challenge from a skeptical audience member. I want to take a slightly different view here to make a point.

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The 14 Tools You Need to Nurture Your Dream Clients

Anthony Iannarino

If you want to pursue your dream clients across time and space, you are going to need a professional pursuit plan that allows you to persist as a value creator and not a nuisance. Stringing together the 14 tools you need to nurture your dream clients will allow you to become known as someone worth a meeting. The Phone : You may not have expected this tool to be first on the list, but it belongs here.

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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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Why Success Rewards Persistence and Punishes Quitting

Anthony Iannarino

Success is an auditor. It measures the precursors to success to determine who gets to obtain it—and for how long. It is quite often that people misunderstand what success is measuring, mistaking luck and circumstances, things outside of their control with the things that are within their control. Talent : Some believe that talent is what is necessary for success.

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The Value of Learning from Other’s Mistakes

Anthony Iannarino

If you look at people who produce excellent results and lead their field, if you pay attention and look closely, you will notice that they do the hard things that others seek to avoid. If you look a bit longer and quite a bit deeper, you may catch a glimpse of why they choose to do hard things. What you will notice is that doing hard things prevents them from suffering the adverse outcomes most others experience.

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13 Colossal Inefficiencies That Destroy Sales

Anthony Iannarino

There is no end to the number of technological tools designed to create efficiency for salespeople and sales organizations. As useful as some of these tools are, there are greater and more challenging inefficiencies that result in poor sales results. Leaving aside the countless things that steal a salesperson’s time and the distractions they allow to steal what’s left, an even larger problem is the inefficiencies in the way they sell.

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