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Creating a Winning Sales Pitch

Anthony Cole Training

Creating a winning sales pitch is a presentation that ends with a decision being made. That is our definition. When presenting to get a decision, it is important to understand this: Theoretically speaking, if a salesperson has done everything correctly up to the point of presentation, then their prospect should be in a position to make a decision at the end of the presentation 100% of the time.

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How You Are Perceived

Iannarino

One of the biggest mistakes that salespeople make is leading with their product. To understand why, you need to be aware of the four levels of value.

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Essential Qualities of Highly Effective Leaders for Building Successful Teams

Iannarino

Discover the 10 key leadership qualities that differentiate average leaders from highly effective ones and learn how to inspire your team toward greater success.

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The Execution-Driven SKO: Lessons from our Conversation with Tim Caito

Force Management

This week, we hosted a webinar with Force Management Senior Partner Tim Caito. Tim is our resident expert on sales negotiation and has years of experience planning and leading sales kickoffs. He joined us to share his do's and don'ts when it comes to planning a sales kickoff that drives measurable results on company strategic goals and revenue objectives.

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Building Your BI Strategy: How to Choose a Solution That Scales and Delivers

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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Improving Win Rates! Posted on September, 2024

Partners in Excellence

Win rates are critical to driving performance and achieving our goals. Win rates are critical to our understanding of our pipelines. We leverage them to help us understand whether we are working a sufficient volume high quality opportunities to achieve our goals. The higher our win rates, the more we shift the pipeline numbers in our favor. As a simple example, today, we settle for 15-20% win rates.

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How marketers can go beyond random acts of AI and why they should

Martech

I’ve just returned from MAICON 2024, one of the best, if not the best, conferences focused on AI and marketing. MAICON didn’t disappoint: I’m full of ideas to help our clients improve their marketing by applying AI. At the same time, it became evident to me that many organizations are far from being able to maximize AI’s impact on marketing. Let me explain.

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Who Is a Datablazer? (And 6 Reasons To Become One)

Salesforce

Are you ready to unlock the full potential of all your data and join a community of like-minded visionaries? Welcome to the Datablazer community, where IT and business leaders, developers, and data practitioners come together to transform data into their most powerful asset. Imagine expanding your network with top leaders, sharing cutting-edge best practices, and getting exclusive access to resources that will elevate your data game.

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SaaStr Annual 2025 is May 13-15 in SF Bay!!

SaaStr

So you may have noticed there are now a ton of events in September. This year SaaStr Annual was the week before both Dreamforce and HubSpot’s Inbound, as well as Oracle’s big event. As well as many other super cool events, from The All In Conference to Acquired podcast’s cool SF event. There are a lot of reasons to do an event in September. The #1 reason is it’s the best reason to help influence and close pipeline So most B2B vendor events will stay around that time.

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How to make the jump from product-market fit to platform-market fit

Martech

Jason, director of product marketing at a global cybersecurity company, celebrates a big win. His product ranks as the third-fastest growing in the company. But there’s a problem — the company operates in silos, treating all products as separate cost centers. Vanessa, his no-nonsense VP, demands change. “We need a scalable platform. Get this right, and we’re set for success.” Jason’s mission is clear: Lead the company through the final stage of go-to-market maturity, platform-m

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Top 7 Google Ads and SEO synergies you should act upon

Search Engine Land

Throughout my career, I’ve noticed SEO and PPC teams rarely sync and share data and strategies to support each other. This is a major missed opportunity that limits each channel’s full potential. This article highlights seven practical synergies both your PPC and SEO teams can implement to drive even more revenue for your business. Ultimately, both are focused on increasing conversions from Google and other search engines, so it makes sense to bring these teams together for greater success

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Beyond the Basics: How to Develop and Retain a Top-Performing Sales Team

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales at Allego

Maximizing sales rep performance is no easy task. 📈 Traditional sales training methods focus heavily on the first few weeks in the sales role. Companies dedicate time, resources, and budget to onboarding new hires, only for them to forget what was learned in those first few weeks, lose motivation, and struggle to come to grips with their role.

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Why You Shouldn’t Hate Mondays

Iannarino

If you're the kind of person who hates Mondays , I've done some math for you. The average life expectancy in the United States is about 78-years-old, meaning you have 4,056 weeks to be alive in total. That's it, 4,056. And if you're reading this post, you have less than 4,056 because you're not a newborn. Let's look at the math and see what you've got left.

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GTM 112: The Ultimate MarTech Guide and the Great Contraction with Austin Hay

Sales Hacker

Austin Hay is the Co-Founder of Clarify, a new intelligent CRM built as a platform that developers love. He is also a Partner and MarTech Teacher at Reforge, as well as a MarTech Advisor and GTM Investor at HBE Ventures. With a background leading marketing technology teams at high-growth startups like Ramp, Branch, and mParticle, Austin brings a wealth of expertise on the evolving MarTech and RevTech landscape.

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The 3 Types of Hires You Just Can’t Make Today: The Jaded, The Broken, and The Done

SaaStr

There are 3 types of hires you may be tempted to make now, but you just can’t: The Jaded, The Broken, and The Done They’ve always existed, it’s just there are so many more folks with great LinkedIns and experiences in these categories in SaaS. We’re 20+ years into SaaS, and especially the past 4 years have taken their toll on many of us.

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How CX transforms marketing from cost center to revenue engine

Martech

As CMOs, we’re constantly trying to balance driving growth with the fact that marketing is often seen as a cost center. But what if we could change the narrative? What if marketing were viewed as a revenue driver instead of a budget drain? One of the most effective ways to shift this perception is by using customer experience. Below, I’ll share strategic insights on how customer experience can transform your marketing department into a profit center.

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How To Speak The Language Of Financial Success In Product Management

Speaker: Jamie Bernard

Success in product management goes beyond delivering great features - it’s about achieving measurable financial outcomes that resonate across the organization. By connecting your product’s journey with the company’s financial success, you’ll ensure that every feature, release, and innovation contributes to the bottom line, driving both customer satisfaction and business growth.

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4 initiatives to combat AI-driven SEO traffic losses

Search Engine Land

There seems to be a consensus in SEO that AI Overviews ( AIO ) and other AI-driven content will reduce traffic to external websites. Even Google is open about AIO’s goal of keeping users on the SERP longer, which means more time with Google and less time with your business. No matter how good your SEO strategy is, you’re likely heading toward (or already experiencing) erosion of traffic beyond your control.

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Your Sales Potential in a Meritocratic Environment

Iannarino

If you're in sales you're part of a meritocracy. What that means is that you're going to succeed or fail based on your abilities, your attributes, your work ethic, and your traits. Those are the things that are going to determine whether you go up or down in a stacked ranking.

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Control Disguised As Coaching

Partners in Excellence

Often, when I talk to managers, they tell me how much time they spend coaching. They tell me stories of meeting, weekly, with their people, doing reviews, pipeline discussions, activity discussions—-all sorts of “coaching meetings.” They say, “Dave, coaching is important and we are spending a lot of time coaching… ” I often ask, “How’s it working?

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Do Angel Investors and Seed VCs Ask for Detailed Budgets Before Investing?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: Do angel investors or seed venture capitalists normally ask for detailed budgets including cash flow analysis before investing, even though most of the numbers will be pure speculation? Many do. Why? Even if you are very early stage, It’s really one of the best ways to learn. To learn what in the founders’ heads: How long do they want the cash to last?

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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Google adtech antitrust trial: Everything you need to know

Martech

Google is on trial for allegedly abusing its dominance of the $200 billion digital advertising industry. The U.S. Department of Justice claimed that through acquisitions and anticompetitive conduct, Google seized control of the full advertising technology (“adtech”) stack: the tools advertisers and publishers buy and sell ads and the exchange that connects them.

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How Google Search uses AI

Search Engine Land

Are your SEO efforts not delivering the results you expect, and you can’t figure out why? Traditional SEO tactics are becoming less effective by the day. While you’re focusing on keywords and backlinks, Google’s AI is evolving rapidly, fundamentally changing how search results are ranked. This shift is happening behind the scenes, making it increasingly difficult to understand why your content isn’t performing as well as it should.

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How to Acquire Large Clients: Strategies for Winning Major Accounts and Boosting Sales Results

Iannarino

Unlock the secrets to acquiring large clients and transforming your sales performance.

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Podcast: Why Authenticity Matters with Tom Starck

Membrain

Can you imagine the transition from professional athletics to becoming a top sales leader in the motorsports industry? Meet Tom Starck , Practice Partner of SalesStar Texas , who has done just that.

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The AI Superhero Approach to Product Management

Speaker: Conrado Morlan

In this engaging and witty talk, industry expert Conrado Morlan will explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, he’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in data management and reporting, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation.

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Dear SaaStr: We’ve Gotten a Good But Not Great Acquisition Offer. Should I Take It?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: We’ve Gotten a Good But Not Great Acquisition Offer. Should I Take It? Should you sell your startup if you get a good M&A offer? For years, while I pretended to be neutral on this question, I’d still quietly root for founders not to sell if growth was strong: Why sell at $10m growing 100%, if in 12 months, you’ll be worth twice as much?

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What If Failure Was An Option?

Partners in Excellence

We never, purposefully, set out to fail. But our fear of failure prevents us from learning, improving, and growing. This fear of failure, whether self or organizationally imposed, actually condemns us to more failures over time. We create all sorts of mantras, suggesting we don’t fear failure. “Fail fast, fail often!” “Fail forward.” “Move fast and break things.” Yet when we fail, we tend to punish those we perceive to have failed.

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The ultimate guide to HTTP status codes for SEO

Search Engine Land

404, 301, 500… No, these aren’t just random digits. They indicate how your website performs and how search engines like Google view and rank your website. Below, I’ll break down the most common HTTP status codes for SEO , including which status codes are crucial, why they matter and how to stay on top of them. In this article: Understanding HTTP status codes.

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3 ways to optimize your marketing automation beyond technology

Martech

Memo To : Marketing directors, VPs, SVPs and CMOs Re : Recommendations to optimize your automated marketing campaigns Your investment in technology to support marketing automation was smart. Automated campaigns increase relevance for your target audience and boost the productivity of your marketing team, which together should improve your bottom-line performance.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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The State of GTM Jobs: Sales

Sales Hacker

This is a special edition of The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by over 52,000 revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date on go-to-market and scale their companies and careers. GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies.

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There Probably Is No Downturn in SaaS. It’s Time To Stop Waiting For It To End.

SaaStr

So the past 24 months have been such an odd time in SaaS and Cloud. Some parts of it are on fire, fueled by unprecedented AI spend. Other parts, more connected to the end-consumer economy, are seeing strong growth, from Shopify to Toast to Canva. And the parts that sell “classic” B2B2B into tech are often struggling the most. Many have seen NRR plunge well below 100%, net new customer count slow to close to zero, and growth fall to the teens or lower.

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Helping Your Customer Imagine New Possibilities

Partners in Excellence

We are each consumed with problems. Problems we encounter in our jobs, problems our organizations have, problems in our industries and markets, problems in…… It’s overwhelming and exhausting. We can’t possibly address all of them, and too often, when we do, new challenges pop up. Too often, we push the problems to the side, just ignoring them, accepting the consequences.

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New data: Google AI Overviews show more often to signed-in users

Search Engine Land

Google AI Overviews are triggered 10-20% less for signed-out users. While this percentage varies by industry, it is particularly noteworthy right now for ecommerce queries, which trigger AI Overviews 90% less often for signed-out users. Why we care. We’ve been closely watching the evolution of Google’s AI Overviews because it has the potential to disrupt the amount of organic traffic you receive.

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Digital Adoption Platform Fundamentals: The Key To Product Innovation And Elevated CX

Speaker: Pulkit Agrawal

As digital transformation advances at a rapid pace, Digital Adoption Platforms (DAPs) have become essential tools for enhancing user experiences and redefining product management strategies. DAPs are no-code solutions that integrate seamlessly with various technologies, and by fostering user adoption, these platforms help organizations maximize the potential of their tech investments.