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Buyers Are Getting Better, Are Sellers?

Partners in Excellence

I’ve been a huge fan of Hank Barne’s research on buying and buyer regret. Over years, he showed increasing frustration in buying teams, resulting in regret. The primary observations had been frustration over the buying process, less with solution selection. In Hank’s latest research he reports that buyers are getting better in navigating their buying process.

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5 Nonobvious Learnings from Atlassian’s Path to The First $10B in ARR With Ex-CRO Cameron Deatsch

SaaStr

As we gear up for 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay , we wanted to do a deep dive on some of the best sessions from past Annuals. As Atlassian was crossing $10B ARR, CRO Cameron Deatsch came to SaaStr Annual to share how they build a platform and ecosystem to fuel that growth. 5 Nonobvious Learnings from Atlassian’s Path to $10B 1. The “Anti-Enterprise” Enterprise Model Most surprising insight: Atlassian’s growth challenges conventional enterprise wisdom.

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Flood Your B2B Pipeline: Fix Your Lead Generation B2B

Iannarino

Struggling to book meetings? Drowning in bad leads? Its time to fix your broken lead generation B2B strategy before your sales team quits. Keep reading!

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Gaming The Numbers

Partners in Excellence

Some years ago, the leader of an outbound SDR team had set very aggressive call goals. This leader held the people accountable for making their goals, but they struggled. But one person consistently beat the goals. The leader held this individual up as a high performer. But when I started looking at the performance, I realized, despite consistently meeting the goals, the number of qualified leads this person was developing was about the same as his peers.

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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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The Ultimate Laptop Bag: My Quest For Perfection

Neuromarketing

In this article, I obsess about my hunt for the perfect laptop bag, with a little "paradox of choice" psychology thrown in. The post The Ultimate Laptop Bag: My Quest For Perfection appeared first on Neuromarketing.

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How ChatGPT search reshapes the B2B buyer’s journey

Martech

Generative AI is transforming how B2B buyers research and make purchasing decisions. Tools like ChatGPT search, Perplexity, Gemini and Meta AI are no longer just novelties theyre becoming essential to the buying journey. Up to 90% of B2B buyers already use generative AI tools , according to Forrester. Even more are planning to integrate it into their decision-making process in the coming year.

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Closed Doors Lead to Better Opportunities for Growth

Sales Pop!

The sales profession can teach us excellent life lessons when we allow it. We only earn a fraction of the business that we attempt. Our best foot forward is to remain calm and professional and remind ourselves that closed doors often lead us to better opportunities for growth. Experience Losing a client early in a sales career or business endeavor can be nerve-wracking and lead to the idea of quitting.

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New Data: The Top 5 Unacceptable Sales Performance Findings

Understanding the Sales Force

I read the majority of the reports, studies, white papers, and books related to sales development because others in the field might stumble onto a trend, an insight or a statistic of which I was not aware. That’s why I downloaded Xactly’s 2025 Sales Compensation Survey. I was hoping to see statistics about actual compensation but there wasn’t much substance in the area of compensation.

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I Compared 6 GIS Software to Find the Best for Mapping

G2

Here is my analysis of 6 best GIS software in 2025 to remote manage geographical projects, design disaster management workflows, and optimize risk handling.

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How Do I Earn Respect When Selling to People Who are Older Than Me? (Ask Jeb)

Sales Gravy

Ellie in Galveston, Texas, faces a scenario that many young sales professionals know all too well: How do you earn respect and project confidence when youre selling to people who are older and more experienced than you? Ellies question highlights a universal issue in sales. Whether youre dealing with age differences or expertise gaps, its easy to feel anxious if your buyer is decades older or has been in the industry for a long time.

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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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Podcast - Sales Trends and Strategies for 2025 with Mike Stokes

Membrain

In today's episode of The Art & Science of Complex Sales, we're thrilled to welcome Mike Stokes the Founder of Indicator. With a strong connection to sales leaders in New Zealand and Australia, Mike will share insights from the 10th annual Mood of the Sales Leader Survey, offering practical advice and real-world examples to navigate economic shifts and technological advancements.

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How To Fundraise in The Toughest Market in Two Decades (i.e., Relationship Selling 101).

Sales Hacker

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. GTMnow highlights the strategies, along with the stories from the top 1% of GTM executives, VCs, and founders behind these strategies and companies.

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From Data to Delight: Why Hyper-Personalization Is the Future of Business

Salesforce

Every day, consumers are flooded with ads, emails, and notifications. For businesses, this creates a critical challenge: How do you capture your target audiences attention and keep them engaged? The answer lies in hyper-personalization, a strategy that uses AI , data analysis , and business intelligence to deliver experiences that feel uniquely tailored to each individual.

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Can AI Sell? I Tested 8 Best AI Sales Assistant Software

G2

I went down another rabbit hole of AI tools a few months ago. But it wasnt for writing, design, or analytics this time. It was for something outside my expertise: sales.

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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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How Do I Earn Respect When Selling to People Older Than Me? (Ask Jeb)

Sales Gravy

Ellie in Galveston, Texas, faces a scenario that many young sales professionals know all too well: How do you earn respect and project confidence in selling when youre dealing with people who are older and more experienced than you? Ellies question highlights a universal issue in sales. Whether youre dealing with age differences or expertise gaps, its easy to feel anxious if your buyer is decades older or has been in the industry for a long time.

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Win Rates 101

Membrain

There is so much conversation about win rates. But in those conversations, theres a lot of misunderstanding. What we measure, how we measure it, varies tremendously. Some measure win rate from very first contact. Some measure it from the moment of qualification. Some measure it on a $ basis, some on a deal basis. Some measure win rates within live deals, some look at past deals.

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Before You Write That Email

Predictable Revenue

Most cold emails dont fail because of bad writing. They fail before theyre even created. Wrong audience. Weak timing. Poor deliverability. The post Before You Write That Email appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Top SaaStr Posts and Videos of the Week: Databricks’ and Notion’s CROs, Tunguz + Lemkin on AI, S-Tier AI vs. B-Tier Humans

SaaStr

Top Posts: #1. Its 2025. There Is No Downturn Anymore. Its You. #2. Lessons Learned Rolling out AI Agents to 16,000+ SMB brands with Gorgias CTO #3. From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship #4. The Arguments For Not Raising at a Unicorn Valuation #5. S-Tier AI is Coming For B-Tier Employees Top VIdeos and Pods: #1.

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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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No More Password Scrambling: 6 Best SSO Software I Tried

G2

In the pre-single sign-on (SSO) era, I never conveniently browsed an application as I got stuck in a loop of resetting passwords or recalling security questions to revive access.

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Why Salespeople are Afraid to Ask for the Sale

Sales Gravy

On the surface, youd think that selling and asking go hand in hand. In reality, salespeople at all experience levels often hesitate, tiptoe around, or dodge direct closes because theyre afraid of rejection, worried about coming across as pushy, or insecure about asking. On this episode of theSales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount explores why salespeople fear asking for the sale and what to do about it with author and Sales Gravy University instructor, Tony Morris Every salesperson starts somewhere.

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Which Sales Skills Do You Need to Master? Find Out in 10 Minutes

RAIN Group

Did you know that Top-Performing Sellers are 2.4x more likely to meet their sales goals? In a competitive sales environment, understanding and improving your selling skills can make the difference between hitting your targets and falling short. But how do you know which skills to focus on? That's where RAIN Group's free Selling Skills Self-Assessment comes in.

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What To Expect From Apollo Next with Tyler Phillips

Predictable Revenue

Tyler Phillips, Principal PM of AI at Apollo.io, explains how their latest AI power-ups transform outbound sales. The post What To Expect From Apollo Next with Tyler Phillips appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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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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Inside the MEDDPICC Methodology — Insights From the Sales Pros Who Use It

Hubspot

MEDDPICC is a game-changing B2B sales qualification framework. It will help you decide which leads to invest your time into and which leads dont help you achieve your business goals or may not convert. This way, you can focus your time on the most fulfilling leads that feel like the right fit for your business and motivate you and the sales team. Sounds like the dream, doesnt it?

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I Tested G2's 10 Best Marketing Automation Tools: My Review

G2

As a marketer, Ive often found myself buried under manual workflowssending follow-up emails, segmenting audiences, scheduling social media posts, and trying to personalize content at scale. The process was time-consuming, prone to errors, and, frankly, frustrating.

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17 Best Sales Productivity Tools Your Team Needs in 2025

Veloxy

Sales teams today spend 70% of their workday on non-selling activities a massive roadblock to hitting quotas. In my experience, the biggest culprits behind this inefficiency are bloated, disconnected sales tech stacks with poor training and low user adoption. When reps dont know how to use their tools properly, or when tools dont talk to each other, productivity takes a serious hit.

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GTM 133: Build your AI Outbound Machine with ChatGPT | Jordan Crawford

Sales Hacker

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Jordan Crawford is an AI innovator, the Founder of Blueprint, and one of the top go-to-market engineers working today. Jordan explains how to use AI tools like ChatGPT, Deep Research, and Claude to create your own AI workflow for prospecting accounts and creating highly targeted and extremely valuable messages for target decision-makers.

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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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Top 10 Sales Skills for Finding & Building Relationships

Anthony Cole Training

Todays buyer is more sophisticated and has access to all the information they need at their fingertips, so how do your salespeople differentiate? They must have the skills to ask the right questions, listen to understand, position their value, and help a prospect self-discover the solution that makes sense. This is very different than selling in the past when the seller controlled the information and buying process.

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Why Expensive Wine Tastes Better

Neuromarketing

For Neuromarketing readers, it’s not big news that the perception of wine drinkers is altered by what they know about the wine (see Wine and the Spillover Effect, for example). Now, researchers at Stanford and Caltech have demonstrated that people’s brains experience more pleasure when they think they are drinking a $45 wine instead of […] The post Why Expensive Wine Tastes Better appeared first on Neuromarketing.

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I Found 5 Best Vendor Management Software You’ll Love

G2

As a marketer, my primary focus has always been on executing creative strategies that drive business outcomes. However, as my responsibilities expanded, I found myself dedicating more time to managing vendor relationships.

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The top 50 genAI use cases in marketing

Martech

As genAI adoption accelerates, organizations must go beyond the hype to determine which use cases deliver real value. To provide clarity, we at MartechTribe surveyed 283 marketing professionals including CEOs, consultants, marketing directors and operations managers to understand how frequently marketers use different genAI applications. The use cases analyzed were carefully selected from our Martech Supergraphic, which tracks trends in marketing technology.

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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.