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Three Ways The Ancient Art of Kintsugi Can Improve Sales Performance

Membrain

In Japan, there is an ancient art called Kintsugi. In Kintsugi, broken vases are repaired using a mixture of lacquer and gold or silver powder. The resulting artwork highlights the seams of the repair, and is more beautiful for having once been broken.

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Lessons from AI’s 2024 rise and a pragmatic path for marketing in 2025

Martech

As 2024 comes to a close, its impossible to ignore the central theme that has shaped marketing and technology this year: artificial intelligence. From breathtaking advancements in generative models to bold proclamations about the agentic era, the year has been dominated by promises of transformation. And yet, for all the excitement, theres a significant gap between these bold visions and the day-to-day realities of most companies.

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Build a Sustainable Sales Goal Plan for 2025

Anthony Cole Training

We know that salespeople who accomplish their goals do these things consistently: Their goals are written down and they have a plan to achieve them. They have a timeframe that they stick to and their goals are defined and measurable. Lastly, they have an accountability partner or a coach to keep them on track. A sustainable sales goal plan is more than just thinking about and writing down goals.

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Transform Your Sales Success: Avoid These Self-Oriented Strategies

Iannarino

Discover how to shift from a self-focused sales approach to one that builds trust and long-term success.

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Marketing Operations Efficiency: The Essential Checklist

As marketing becomes more tech-driven, the role of marketing operations (MOps) is getting more complex. Today, the discipline is increasingly interwoven with other vital go-to-market motions — including sales and customer support — and is responsible for all business elements associated with marketing, including the tech stack. In this eBook, we’ll show you how marketing operations can create efficiencies in your tech stack, reporting, and budget that will not just improve internal processes, bu

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Our Most Popular Resources for Sales Leaders in 2024

Force Management

As we wrap up another year, it's time to reflect on the resources that have resonated most with our sales leadership community. From actionable strategies to insightful discussions, these pieces have provided valuable guidance to help leaders navigate the complexities of sales leadership. Check out our top visited resources of 2024.

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Why Personal Goals are Essential for Sales Discipline (Money Monday)

Sales Gravy

Your personal goals are the aspirations that drive you, inspire you, and push you through the tough days. As you'll learn in this Monday Money podcast episode and article, these goals are essential to helping you maintain sales discipline throughout your sales year. Personal Goal Buckets When developing personal goals, I break them down into three buckets: To-Have Goals These are the things you want to acquire or buy.

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Revenue Builders: Our Top Podcasts of 2024

Force Management

As we wrap up another year of insightful conversations and invaluable lessons, we're excited to share our top podcast episodes of 2024. The Revenue Builders Podcast has continued to bring you the best in sales strategies, leadership insights, and industry trends, featuring some of the most influential voices in the field. From uncovering the reasons behind failed deals to exploring the journey of sales leadership, our episodes this year have been packed with actionable advice and inspiring stori

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What If Our Sellers Had More Autonomy?

Partners in Excellence

Reading a fascinating article in the NYTimes, Giving Kids Some Autonomy Has Surprising Results , got me thinking. What if we give our people more autonomy in how they manage their deals, days, what they do? In the past 5-7 years, we’ve seen a movement to be completely prescriptive with our people and their activities. We script every conversation, yet the customers we are engaging don’t have the same script.

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Customer experience and brand: 2025 predictions

Martech

In the new year, customer experience will remain a high priority for marketers. The aim will be consistent with previous years seamless omnichannel journeys that are flexible and responsive to customer preferences. Of course, those preferences change. One of the biggest changes next year wont happen on customer touchpoints. It will happen in how marketers and organizations view customer experience.

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10 Trade Show Lead Follow Up Strategies feat. Harriet Mellor

Sales Gravy

Discover the secrets to lead follow up and conversion after trade show, conference, and events. Onthis episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, Harriet Mellor shares proven strategies for maximizing trade show ROI with personalized outreach, leveraging CRM tools, and building lasting relationships that convert leads into valuable long-term customers. Key Takeaways: - Follow-up Touchpoints: An eight-touchpoint follow-up strategy is recommended, with touchpoints spread over a 12-week period, incorporat

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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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Most SaaS Apps Are Just Getting Starting With AI. 2025 Will Be Radically Different.

SaaStr

So I caught up the other day with the CTO of a leading SaaS company with tens of thousands of customers, growing quickly. AI is all over their homepage and website and comms. I asked him about a particular use case for AI, and his answer shocked me a bit: Honestly, our AI is basically still in beta. Its rolled out to about a tenth of the customers we plan to, and the uses cases are pretty simple today.

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The Art of Asking: Transforming Discovery Questions into Sales OpportunitiesAsking effective discovery questions

Eliminate Your Competition

Discovery questions are a cornerstone of the business-to-business (B2B) sales process. Unlike transactional sales, where decisions are often straightforward and impulsive, B2B sales involve complex decision-making, multiple stakeholders, and a longer sales cycle. Thus, the discovery phase is crucial for understanding the prospect’s needs, challenges, and goals.

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Minimum Viable Metrics

Partners in Excellence

One of the key strategies for very early stage companies, for new product developers, or lean practitioners, is the concept of the “Minimum Viable Product.” It’s a very customer centric approach in launching new products. It seeks to minimize the risk to the company by introducing a product with just enough functionality to gain interest, then to learn from that, quickly improving and enhancing the product.

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Customer experience tools and strategies: 2025 Predictions

Martech

Customer experience faced serious challenges during the pandemic. Now, theres no looking back. Customers want it all, and really theres no excuse for them not to get it. Digital, in-store, mixed phygital journeys theyre all on the table in 2025. The key to customer success will be maintaining a strategy for covering all bases. Many of this years predictions include specific areas where CX will get a boost.

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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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The Rise of AI Agents: A Conversation with Tomasz Tungus

G2

In a fireside chat at G2 Reach with Theory Ventures' General Partner Tomasz Tunguz, G2 CEO Godard Abel explores how AI agents are poised to fundamentally reshape enterprise software.

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2025 Should Be Better Than 2024 For Almost All Leading Public SaaS Companies

SaaStr

2025 should be a good year for almost all leading public SaaS companies: 1 Overall, any downturn ended in Q324, if there was one at all in their segment. 2 Most SaaS leaders are now in market with an AI offering, and even if early and minor, its leading to a boost because there is incremental budget there. See Salesforce, Asana, etc. All getting a boost even though its early for AI. 3 Everyone got so efficient and at least non-GAAP profitable the past 2 years that they have room to hire and inv

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Why Your Artificial Intelligence (AI) Expert Doesn’t Exist (And Never Will)

Salesfolks

The demand for AI expertise isnt going away, but the way we define expertise needs a serious reboot. Stop chasing the mythical 5-year AI pro and start building a team of curious, flexible, and ambitious learners. They may not have all the answers right now, but give them six months and a budget for professional development, and theyll turn into the experts everyone else wishes they had.

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GTM 127: B2B Bull$ to Avoid

Sales Hacker

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube To wrap up 2024, we’ve got a spicy episode! Each week, host Scott Barker asks guests two key questions, and this week, we’re diving into their responses to: What is one widely held belief that revenue leaders have that you think is bull$** or no longer serving us?

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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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AI transformation: 2025 predictions

Martech

This past year saw lots of potential with all kinds of AI-powered tools and updates. Studies also show that marketers are upskilling and organizations plan to continue to invest in AI in the coming year. There’s plenty of transformation underway but what does this mean practically? It means many businesses will be making new hires to support change.

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What is Transformer Model in AI? Features and Examples

G2

Learn how transformer models can process large blocks of sequential data in parallel while deriving context from semantic words and calculating outputs.

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The Top SaaStr Posts and Pods of the Week: OpenAI on Pricing, HubSpot’s Chairman on AI, How to Sell to Developers, and More!!

SaaStr

Top Posts of the Week: #1: Salesforce: Actually Were Going to Hire 2,000 Sales Execs Now To Sell AI #2: Gong: $100k Deals Take About 70 Days to Close #3: Why The Greatest Sales Teams Just Kill It On Dec 31. When Everyone Else Has Gone Home. #4: 10 Simple Steps to Improve The Odds You Get VC Funded #5: Pitchbook: 30 VC Firms Raised 75% of All the VC Capital in 2024 Top Videos and Pods: #1: What It Really Takes to Sell To Developers and Engineers with Komodor CRO Jim Hunnewell #2: How to Th

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SalesHood’s Best of 2024: Trends, Insights, and Must-Reads

SalesHood

Discover SalesHood's top 2024 trends, insights, and resources, from webinars to blogs, to elevate your sales enablement strategy and drive revenue growth.

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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 Resources of 2024

RAIN Group

We saw three pivotal themes shape the sales landscape in 2024: the growing integration of AI, the ongoing drive to deliver measurable value, and the central role of continuous learning. These elements define how organizations adapt and thrive in todays evolving market.

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Google Ads rolls out Brand Report for enhanced advertiser insights

Martech

Google Ads recently introduced a new dashboard tool called Brand Report, and for brand advertisers, this could be a game-changer. Tracking reach and frequency across campaigns has been a frustrating puzzle for years. Data was scattered across various reports, making it a time-consuming and error-prone process to get a holistic view of campaign performance.

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What Is Recurrent Neural Network: An Introductory Guide

G2

Learn more about recurrent neural networks that automate content sequentially in response to text queries and integrate with language translation devices.

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Dear SaaStr: Is it Wisest to Approach One Investor at a Time?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: Is it Wisest to Approach One Investor at a Time? No. First, it takes too long. If a VC doesnt know you, and you arent a super hot start-up, even if you do get a term sheet it may take months. Yes, term sheets get done in one day. I havent done that, but Ive done handshake deals in one day in maybe 50% of my investments (i.e, if X, Y and Z are true then Im in).

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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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My 2024 Year in Review – What Now? – Personal Development

Adaptive Business Services

While my 2024 on a personal level was less than stellar (awful heat, area fires, & injuries), my business overall was pretty good. However, take away one large contract, and it was mediocre at best. What will 2025 look like? It will need to at least match my 2024 results in order to make it worth my time. Id be happy with this years dollar total. 2025 will be all about personal development.

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AI for Entrepreneurs: 5 Ways AI is Transforming Business

Hubspot

Like most people, my first real experience with AI was when ChatGPT was launched in 2022. At first, I was simply amazed by the wealth of knowledge it could provide. However, I soon realized that the true power of AI for entrepreneurs wasn't in accessing information but in how its capabilities could be applied across multiple use cases. The potential wasnt just exciting it felt limitless.

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Retail media networks continue to grow: 2025 predictions

Martech

Over the last year, the RMN space saw new in-store standards and solid growth. This is likely to continue. Here are a few ways we expect to see this dynamic space continue to mature. Growing in-store networks While retail media networks have gained some attention [in 2024], I believe their full potential remains largely untapped, said Melanie Babcock, Vice President, Orange Apron Media and monetization at The Home Depot.

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3 Secrets to Giving Coaching and Feedback in the Flow of Work

The Advantexe Advisor

The end of a business year is an important time to pause, reflect, and learn about the things that went well and the things that didnt so you can make the right adjustments moving forward. In reflecting on my year of successful projects utilizing our simulation-centric platforms , one of the most significant and impactful areas of work for me was the design, development, and delivery of a portfolio of coaching and feedback simulations that provided learners with the opportunity to step into a ro

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten