Martech

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Now, 2025 will be the year humans wrest control of genAI to ensure it is properly used for its role to deliver real-time, precision marketing messages. With that said, as we look forward beyond genAI, the year 2025 will be the year of the human to bring strategy and judgement into marketing automation that will be further infused with AI.

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Sales Pop!

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In particular, the Philippines—a leader in outsourcing and customer service—has embraced AI technologies in its call centres, optimising efficiency while maintaining the crucial human touch. One of the primary benefits of AI in inbound sales is its ability to analyse vast amounts of customer data in real time.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The Real Truth About AI Data Privacy in 2025: What Every SaaS Company Needs to Know The explosion of AI adoption has created massive new privacy risks for SaaS companies. ” “How do you guarantee our data doesn’t leak into other customers’ outputs?” Remember: In SaaS, trust is everything.

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Martech

JANUARY 8, 2025

Whether thats adding complexity to a simple process or frustrating customers with needless back and forth, friction is bad news for deal velocity. Why it works Addressing these questions head-on builds trust and makes your sales process feel more transparent. Pro tip : Use customer feedback to regularly update your content.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Understanding the customer journey is essential for businesses looking to boost engagement and build loyalty. However, achieving a cohesive view is increasingly challenging, with customer interactions now spanning multiple channels and touchpoints.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

New year, time to take back control – 2025 is the year of inbox zero. Because I think when you start having the signal that, I’ve got a product market fit, I’ve got organic traction, I can win, I can keep my customer. It was the most seamless onboarding experience – everything in my inbox synced within minutes.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2025

Key characteristics: They should be capable of hiring and leading a cohesive team, ideally from their existing network, to ensure trust and alignment. Example: Outreachs first sales team comprised Marks trusted friends and acquaintances who stayed for years and contributed significantly to the companys early success.

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GTM Cross-sell Pipeline Strategize 108

Martech

AUGUST 20, 2024

If this trend continues, we might navigate through the trough of disillusionment by the end of 2025. It’s reasonable to infer that many of those laid off were in marketing and customer service roles, where AI is handling many more tasks. The hype cycle’s rapid pace is unsettling many companies and their marketing departments.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Today, the company has 7,000 customers using its Own Data Platform, which provides data archiving, seeding, security and analytics capabilities. Salesforce acquires Tenyx Earlier this week, Salesforce also announced a definitive agreement to acquire Tenyx, which develops AI-powered conversational voice agents for customer service.

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Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For example, instead of fearing customer reactions based on past experiences, sellers should prioritize addressing concerns promptly, reducing anxiety and maintaining customer trust. Action Over Avoidance: Procrastination in sales, such as delaying difficult customer conversations, can lead to missed opportunities.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

HG Insights has been writing market reports for years as the pioneer of tech adoption and market insights and is trusted by GTM leaders at the likes of Snowflake Five9 and Google Cloud to improve GTM efficiency. Defining sales enablement in 2025 Sales enablement remains a somewhat ambiguous concept. Why anything? The power of PLG.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

HG Insights has been writing market reports for years as the pioneer of tech adoption and market insights and is trusted by GTM leaders at the likes of Snowflake Five9 and Google Cloud to improve GTM efficiency. Pattern recognition: Manually analyzing buyer behavior or segmenting customer needs.

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Martech

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This innovation aims to foster trust and streamline access to vehicle ownership for Hispanic consumers, supporting their journey into the financial mainstream. These are good credit risk customers; they simply present in different ways. Hispanic consumers: An underserved market ready for innovation If U.S.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

HG Insights has been writing market reports for years as the pioneer of tech adoption and market insights and is trusted by GTM leaders at the likes of Snowflake Five9 and Google Cloud to improve GTM efficiency. It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This will affect sales and revenue and hurt the downstream effect of email marketing — capturing customers’ data and using it to market to them in highly relevant and convertible ways. Hire an email accelerant Not every digital marketing agency understands email, trust me, I know. The average marketing budget is 7.7%

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2025

You’ll walk away from this episode with some great ideas from top operators on how to increase revenue, align your teams, and make a huge impact for your company in 2025. Taking a customer-centric approach in your go-to-market strategy. 10:38) The third theme: Taking a customer-centric approach in your go-to-market strategy. (16:04)

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

What you actually need: Your existing customer base is literally pulling you upmarket. Enterprise buyers: Need predictability in pricing Want to buy solutions, not features Require modularity and customization Have completely different procurement processes The key is to repackage your components into enterprise-ready solutions.

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Hospitality Price Manufacturing Engineering 107

Martech

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Almost half of advertisers now “completely” or “mostly” trust AI adtech to make decisions about campaigns without human oversight — up from 25% last year, according to a report from Advertiser Perceptions, a business intelligence provider. announces AI for programmatic advertising: Two new AI tools are coming in January 2025.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2025

Instead, leaders need to plan from the start how customers will find, use, and grow with their product. Some products, like Twilio, naturally expand as customers use them more. Some products, like Twilio, naturally expand as customers use them more. What is your customer’s journey? Can your product grow on its own?

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GTM Cross-sell Finance Price 102

Adaptive Business Services

MARCH 5, 2025

These contacts are probably a mix of customers, prospects, vendors you name it. and telephony services or to a marketing professional who I know and trust or to an automated yet personalized and human-to-human LinkedIn prospecting system. They do, however, likely have one thing in common.

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Martech

JANUARY 8, 2025

A strong data governance structure is key to building trust in the numbers shared across the business. It also supports the creation of custom report dimensions, such as tactic, audience and channel groupings. It also opens the door for advanced applications like propensity scoring, media mix modeling and customer churn analysis.

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Government Retail CRM Trust 106

Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The model converts the search query into numerical embeddings that capture its meaning and searches a vector database containing trusted information sources. However, brands that are not invested in earning high-quality media coverage and links through digital PR should consider adding this to their 2025 budget.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

From demand gen to brand trust: A strategic shift In another part of the interview, I asked the CEO how he thinks about brand in the context of customer decision risk. They literally can’t afford it, given the shareholder scrutiny in many companies. Dig deeper: What are marketers’ investment priorities as 2024 winds down?

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GTM Drivers/motivators Legal Finance 103

Salesforce

JANUARY 9, 2025

In 2025, merchandisers find themselves at a crossroads between building commerce experiences of the past and creating deeply connected customer interactions of the future. AI agents should be partners to humans, and that partnership needs to be built on trust and reliability. Consider the following scenarios.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 13, 2024

A $1B Acquisition with a Singular Leader for Both Sales and Customer Success In 2017, tech leader Vikas Bhambry found himself at a crossroads. Kustomer, a SaaS startup navigating leadership changes, unexpectedly handed him the reins to both sales and customer experience/success. ” The dual role provided clarity for customers. .”

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Most of these LPs were C-Suite revenue leaders that Max Altschuler (GTMfund GP) and I had known for years so there was already a foundation of trust. You could think of this similar to a friends and family round or “founder-led selling because these people already knew, respected and trusted us. The trust hasnt been built yet.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Innovation demands, digital transformation imperatives and the complexity of connecting with customers across expanding touchpoints all drive this behavior. That customer data platform (CDP) you bought without a clear data strategy sits half-implemented, burning budget while your team searches for value.

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Martech

MARCH 5, 2025

The answer lies in what digital shopping lacks an immersive, customer-centric experience that deepens emotional engagement in a way online interactions cant. In todays digital world, its about branding and customer engagement. In todays digital world, its about branding and customer engagement. Processing.

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2025

All the questions still hold today, but I wanted to update them for 2025. How should sales and customer success work together? This will ferret out how well he/she understands the true customer lifecycle). Listen if they say unprompted that they’ll go visit customers that’s great. That’s what you want.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

From demand gen to brand trust: A strategic shift In another part of the interview, I asked the CEO how he thinks about brand in the context of customer decision risk. They literally can’t afford it, given the shareholder scrutiny in many companies. Dig deeper: What are marketers’ investment priorities as 2024 winds down?

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GTM Drivers/motivators Legal Finance 92

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 16, 2022

There’s more to ecommerce customer acquisition than increasing checkout conversion rates. For long-term, sustainable success, you must attract the right customers. In this article, you’ll learn how to gauge the effectiveness of any customer acquisition strategy. What makes customer acquisition different from marketing?

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Martech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A lack of resources in several key areas is hindering the ability of marketing teams to drive revenue, growth and customer acquisition, according to a new report from the CMO Council. The report suggests that the marketing’s rising influence in the enterprise should continue in 2025, with high-profile CMOs becoming CEOs.

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Salesforce

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

IMPORTANT: Starting May 1, 2025, Salesforce will phase out RSA Key Exchanges for TLS connections. Salesforce is enhancing Transport Layer Security (TLS) measures for customers. Starting May 1, 2025 , Salesforce will no longer support RSA key exchanges for all incoming TLS connections. Customers can still use TLS 1.2

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Transportation Networking Government User Experience 52

Highspot

JANUARY 27, 2021

Highspot connected more than three million salespeople, channel partners, services reps and customers in modern, digital sales experiences last year, representing a 100 percent increase in platform usage from 2019. 80 percent of business-to-business sales will happen digitally through 2025 (Gartner, “The Future of Sales”, M.

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 1, 2025

What will 2025 look like? 2025 will be all about personal development. If it doesnt, 2025 may be my last ride. I will also renew focus on the industry that I know best custom signage. Custom signage is custom manufacturing and, from experience, the processes are all very similar so add that to the mix.

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Salesforce

MAY 25, 2023

You can help your marketing team by getting your die-hard customers to spread the word about your offerings — sparking product-led growth. It puts your product at the center of the customer experience and buying journey. Here’s how: They provide a holistic view of the customer journey. What is product-led growth? The result?

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Salesforce

MAY 31, 2023

Regardless of industry or what you’re selling, delighting your customers is key to your success — where trust, personalization, and seamless interactions intersect. But pleasing your customers isn’t just about meeting their needs — you need to be one step ahead. They’ll rely on IT.

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