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Personal Branding Services for Industry Domination

Iannarino

Want to stand out, attract clients, and become an industry authority? Learn how personal branding services can turn you into the go-to expert.

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Why modern ABX is the future of enterprise GTM

Martech

In B2B, the account-based strategies that delivered results just a few years ago are now table stakes. In a world where buyers expect authentic, personalized experiences at every touchpoint, static target account lists, surface-level personalization and overreliance on third-party data no longer cut it. The truth is uncomfortable but necessary: Traditional ABM is becoming a commodity, not because it doesn’t work, but because everyone is doing it.

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LinkedIn Restricts Data Scraping, Removes Seamless.AI and Apollo.io Pages

G2

LinkedIn has intensified its enforcement efforts against companies accused of violating its data protection policies, with Seamless.AI and Apollo.io becoming the latest casualties. Removing their LinkedIn pages has sparked industry-wide discussions on the impact of data scraping, automation, and LinkedIns evolving enforcement strategies.

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Building Product in the Age of AI with Plaid’s President and Brex’s President

SaaStr

The Top 10 Product Leadership Lessons from Plaid’s and Brex’s Presidents Product leaders often ask me what it takes to build successful products in the age of AI, especially in fintech where the stakes are incredibly high. At SaaStr Annual we recently had the chance to do a dive deep with Jen Taylor (President, Plaid) and Karan Nangia (President, Brex) on this exact topic.

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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.

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Where Is The Customer?

Partners in Excellence

I speak with lots of leaders about their GTM strategies. My social channels are dominated by experts suggesting the GTM strategies. One of the things I’ve started doing is counting how many times they use the word, “Customer.” It’s surprising how seldom the word is used. When it is, it’s used in the context of the customer being the target of a set of strategies and activities.

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A Manifesto

Iannarino

We reject the old and outdated sales approaches that are still being used by many sales organizations and their sales teams-as they are no longer effective in the third decade of the 21st Century. We recognize that most of B2B Sales Training is a rehashing of others work with a small number capable of creating a true paradigm in sales. We reject the idea that more is the way to improve sales results.

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The President’s Club Vulnerability Paradigm (Money Monday)

Sales Gravy

No matter if you've had a great month, closed a big deal, or made it to the winner's circle at President's club, winning makes you more vulnerable to losing. A Winning Message for Sales Winners Last week I delivered a keynote at a large company's Presidents club event. It was fun! Great hotel. Tropical destination. People were upbeat and happy because they were celebrating success.

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The Top 10+ Questions to Ask a VP of Sales / CRO During an Interview (with New Cheatsheet)

SaaStr

One of the classic original SaaStr posts was on the Top 10+ Questions to Ask a VP of Sales Candidate. All the questions still hold today, but I wanted to update them for 2025. It’s a different world today, AI-fueled, often distributed and hybrid, and with inflation both in titles (CRO or VP Sales) and compensation expectations. Use this updated script for hiring that first VP of Sales.

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Latest Podcasts: Leading Complex Revenue Processes

Force Management

This month, the Revenue Builders podcast shared some detailed breakdowns of complex sales processes, growth stages and leadership challenges. Seasoned Chief Revenue Officers shared insights on how they create process rigor to ensure their organization handles high-stakes deals with tact to maximize returns. From complicated deal negotiations, to identifying influential champions, to handling your board of advisors, these episodes deal with some of the biggest execution challenges facing revenue

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How Personal Growth and Lifelong Learning Boost Brain Health and Neuroplasticity

Iannarino

Unlock the power of lifelong learning and personal growth to rewire your brain, improve cognitive function, and reach your full potential.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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4 expert-backed ways to get more from HubSpot AI

Martech

We see it all the time our clients invest in HubSpot but barely tap into its AI capabilities. Its like buying a high-performance car and leaving it in the garage. If your team is still doing things the hard way, youre missing out on easy wins. HubSpots AI tools are making workflows faster and more efficient. From contact records to workflows, AI removes tedious tasks so you can focus on what really matters.

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GTM 136: How Asana & Calendly Scaled: PLG to SLG Playbooks That Work | Jessica Gilmartin

Sales Hacker

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Jessica Gilmartin has nearly 20 years of go-to-market leadership experience, most recently serving as both the Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Calendly. Prior to that, she led marketing teams at an impressive array of companies, including Asana, Honor, Google, and Microsoft.

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The 10-Point Checklist For When You Sell Your Company With Founder Collective

SaaStr

David Frankel is Managing Partner at Founder Collective, a successful seed fund with investments in companies like The Trade Desk, Olo, and Coupang. With decades of experience as both a founder and investor, David brings a unique perspective to the often-misunderstood process of selling a company. He openly admits that many of his past exits were mistakes, which makes his advice on the topic particularly valuable.

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Why Cheatsheets And Hacks Don’t Deliver

Partners in Excellence

My feeds in social media are filled with Cheatsheets, Hacks, Templates—all sorts of tools. They attract lots of interest, lots of requests. People are looking for anything they can do to help them do their jobs, to find the shortcuts or secrets to success. I look at them, most are pretty good, there are always interesting ideas and approaches.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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7 Brutal Truths About Being an Outside Sales Representative

Iannarino

So you're considering becoming an Outside Sales Representative ? That's gutsy! You must love a challenge. Perhaps you're an adrenaline addict. Perhaps you simply prefer a career where you don't have to pretend to be busy sitting at a desk for eight hours a day. Either way, congratulationsyou're about to leap into one of the most unpredictable, untamed, and rewarding careers on the planet!

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AI-powered martech news and releases: March 6

Martech

Want to make your product seem like its on the cutting edge of trendy? Add agent to its name. Demandbase (see below) just launched Agentbase. Salesforce is 100% into Agentforce. No doubt AgentSpot, AgentCanva, AgentZapier and AgentAlgolia are on the way, Marketers love a bandwagon, and this one definitely has wheels. The nice thing about trends like this is they make life easy for anthropologists to date technologies.

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Podcast - Breaking Stereotypes in Sales with Leslie Venetz

Membrain

In this episode, Leslie Venetz founder of The Sales-Led GTM Agency joins us for a captivating discussion on her journey into the sales profession and her pivotal role in the Women Sales Experts Conference. Once viewing sales as merely a temporary gig, Leslie discovered her true passion when she embraced her ability to help people solve their problems.

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CRO Confidential: How Codium Built A Billion-Dollar AI Company and a Winning Sales Machine with VP of Worldwide Sales, Graham Moreno

SaaStr

Codium is one of the fastest-growing startups in the AI coding assistant space, having scaled its go-to-market team from 3 to 75 in just under a year. Recently valued at over $1 billion , Codium is proving that AI-driven software development is not just the futureits the present. In our most recent episode of CRO Confidential , hosted by Sam Blond , Graham Moreno , VP of Worldwide Sales at Codium, shared invaluable insights on what drove this growth, the challenges they faced, and how other SaaS

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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S**t We Have To Stop!

Partners in Excellence

This week, two separate conversations with CROs. Completely different markets/industries, both high performing in their segments. But they were deeply frustrated. “We’re struggling to make our numbers!” As we dove into it, their markets were OK, customers were still growing and investing. Then we dove into the data, pipelines very anemic, but win rates, average deal sizes, sales cycles were reasonable. “What are they doing to find and qualify new opportunities?

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How a Growth-Oriented Mindset Can Help You Sell More

Sales Gravy

Youre stalled. Youre stuck. Youve plateaued. No matter how you put it, youre seeing your sales hit a rut. And lets face it, youre in a rut, too. So, how do you pull yourself out of it? The answer: invest in yourself. The Power of Personal Development In sales, it's easy to get caught up in the grindcalls to make and deals to close. But if you dont make time to invest in yourself, sooner or later, youll hit a wall and fall into a rut.

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Salesforce & Microsoft square off with new AI sales agents

Martech

Salesforce and Microsoft unveiled new AI sales agents yesterday, fueling a fiery corporate grudge match. Salesforce announced the upgraded Agentforce 2dx, while Microsoft introduced its AI Accelerator for Sales alongside new Sales Agent and Sales Chat agents. While all these tools aim to boost sales productivity and efficiency, they have distinctly different strategic approaches.

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Nimble CRM Tips & Updates – March 5, 2025

Adaptive Business Services

My apologies as this is going to be long. I have now completed my first large scale test of the email marketing feature and I survived. I did run into a few bugs that are in the process of being squashed. This is why they call it beta testing. I sent the messages in groups of 500 so that I could easily monitor and manage the results. I sent some batches with both open and link tracking and others with link tracking only.

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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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Dear SaaStr: How Can a New VC Build Relationships With Top Founders?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Can a New VC Build Relationships With Top Founders? Screenshot Be where the founders are. Go to events, dinners, meet-ups, demo days, etc. Go where your prospects are. This always works. But you really have to hustle for this to work. A random cocktail party here or there is unlikely to work. Network with VCs a stage earlier than you or your peers.

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Create Your Dream Team with These 7 Agentforce Skills

Salesforce

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming customer interactions, but success isnt just about technology its about the people behind it. Building a team well-versed in Agentforce skills ensures that your AI investments deliver real value. Heres how were doing it at Salesforce, and how you can too. Consider Your Use Case It all starts with understanding your Agentforce use case.

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How to Find Time to Cold Call So Your Pipeline Doesn’t Run Dry (Ask Jeb)

Sales Gravy

Matt from Grand Rapids says, If I dont make my cold calls, our pipeline will go dry. He is juggling everything from operations to customer service escalations, all while trying to generate fresh leads through cold calls. Sound familiar? In this Ask Jeb segment of the Sales Gravy Podcast I walk Matt through practical strategies to carve out time for prospecting and target the right prospects so that he can keep his sales pipeline fulleven while being pulled in a dozen directions.

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Why digital brands like Netflix and Wayfair are betting on physical stores

Martech

Ecommerce may be thriving, but brick-and-mortar retail remains a critical brand touchpoint. Companies like Netflix and Wayfair are proving that physical stores arent just about transactions theyre influential brand ambassadors that shape perception and loyalty. The challenge is clear: How can brands create in-person experiences that draw people in and build lasting connections?

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AI in Marketing & Sales: Today’s Tools, Tomorrow’s Potential

Speaker: Kevin Burke

AI is reshaping marketing and sales, empowering professionals to work smarter, faster, and more effectively. This webinar will provide a practical introduction to AI, focusing on its current applications, transformative potential, and strategies for successful implementation in your organization. Using real-world examples and actionable insights, we’ll examine how businesses are leveraging AI to increase efficiency, enhance personalization, and drive measurable results.

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Copying Your Competition

David Meerman Scott

By measuring yourself against the competition, you risk becoming a slightly better version of what already exists.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Snowflake at ~$4 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

So Snowflake looked immortal in 2021, looked a little more mortal in 2024 … and is now, like many of the best in Cloud and B2B, reacclerating in 2025! And come meet and hear from CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy LIVE at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! Snowflake is on a tear again: $4B ARR (just about) 28% revenue growth 44% free-cash flow last quarter (WOW!

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AI BDRs: A Game-Changer for Sales Teams or Just Hype?

Heinz Marketing

By Maria Geokezas , Chief Operating Officer at Heinz Marketing AI is rapidly transforming sales and marketing, and one area getting a lot of attention is AI-powered Business Development Representatives (BDRs). But what does that really mean? Are companies using robots to replace human reps? Can AI actually engage and qualify leads effectively? And most importantlydoes it work?

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What is the Purpose of Your CRM System?

Membrain

It may seem obvious on the surface what the purpose of your CRM system is. Its to help your teams increase efficiency, provide insights into data, drive behaviors, and improve overall sales effectiveness. But what if the purpose of a CRM system is not what we want it to do, but what it is actually doing? Would you still say that the purpose of your CRM is to improve the effectiveness of your teams?

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.