Wed.Nov 27, 2024

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Mastering the Art of Selling Commodities: Proven Strategies for Creating Value and Winning Clients

Iannarino

Selling a commodity may seem like a losing battle, but it’s actually your gateway to mastering the most critical skills in sales —making yourself indispensable in a crowded marketplace.

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Holiday ecommerce start surpasses record-breaking forecast

Martech

Ecommerce holiday spending is higher than anticipated, according to Adobe Analytics. For the first 24 days of November, U.S. ecommerce sales were up 9.6% year-over-year. This exceeds the record-breaking 8.4% increase expected for the entire 2024 holiday shopping season. And all this spending — $77.4 billion thus far — comes before the biggest discounts take effect.

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Shift Your Perspective, Change Your Sales Landscape

Membrain

If you’ve been following me for long, you know I’m a student of systems thinking. I’ve been taking a training with Cabrera Labs , the think tank run by Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera of Cornell University. As I’m going deeper with their systems thinking framework called DSRP , I can’t help but notice all the ways their model can help us sell better.

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How to build AI strategies that prioritize people

Martech

AI continues to embed itself into the fabric of business. However, the conversation often neglects a key component in the shadows: people. Training people in prompt engineering and system integrations is not enough. Today’s “AI experts” are too focused on the technology and process sides of the “People, Process and Technology” paradigm.

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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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5 Customer Marketing Strategies to Drive Long-term Growth

G2

Discover five impactful marketing strategies that can drive long-term growth by boosting loyalty, engagement, and brand advocacy in e-commerce.

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Will big tech burst the AI bubble?

Martech

As artificial intelligence continues to reshape industries, a new battle is brewing between startups and tech giants. Companies like Perplexity are raising billions to challenge the dominance of Google, Microsoft, Apple and Meta. Still, the question remains: Will the AI wave create lasting winners, or is it a bubble waiting to burst? AI search wars: Perplexity vs.

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The Rise of Vertical SaaS: Achieving 110% NRR from SMBs with Mangomint’s CEO

SaaStr

SaaStr CEO and founder Jason Lemkin chats with Mangomint CEO Daniel Lang about why vertical SaaS is booming and how Mangomint got to 110% NRR. What was once considered too small or too niche, vertical SaaS has recently emerged as a hotbed of innovation and profitability. But it’s not, and it’s being reinvented, so what’s changed in the space with the introduction of automation and AI?

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A Guide to Pharma 4.0: Embracing Transformation in the Pharmaceutical Industry

G2

The pharmaceutical industry has undergone substantial changes in the past few years. Traditionally, pharmaceutical operations were conducted manually, which had several disadvantages, such as slowed processes, poor product quality, and patient safety.

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6 Tips to Make the Most of Small Business Saturday

Salesforce

All over the world, small businesses gear up to celebrate Small Business Saturday every year, a marketing initiative created by American Express to encourage holiday shopping. This annual event takes place after Thanksgiving, between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, encouraging consumers ‌to support almost 32 million independent businesses in the United States (U.S.) alone — helping small and medium-sized business (SMB) owners make a big impact.

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Say it Ain’t So! I’m Experimenting AI

Adaptive Business Services

I already have a number of books related to marketing. Now I’m reading them. I also have acquired more on this topic as well as on AI. I’m reading those as well. I have also joined a digital marketing mastermind group. I’m going all in! Today I just want to focus on AI and I am looking at this post as a salesperson as well as a budding digital marketer.

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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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You Have a New Sales Rep. Here's How to Win at Cold Calling Training

Hubspot

Let’s be honest up front. Cold calling is nobody’s favorite part of sales. In fact, LinkedIn data reports that a healthy majority of sellers (63%) say it’s the worst part of the job — and it’s not hard to see why. The same research indicates just 2% of cold calls result in a booked meeting, and other literature suggests that dismal figure might actually be on the optimistic side.

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Empathy in Sales Builds Long Term Success

Sales Nexus

Empathy in sales builds trust, promotes understanding and creates long lasting beneficial relationships for customers and sales people.

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How You Can Harness Automation To Ensure Field Service Compliance

G2

As business demands grow and regulations tighten, keeping up with regulations isn’t just a box to check – it’s a constant, complex challenge.

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The Digital Technology

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! The post Hello world! first appeared on thedigitaltechnology.com.

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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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5 Interesting Learnings from Zoom at $4.7 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

So Zoom has entered its mature stage, but it’s also now rebooting itself. It’s dropped “Video” from its name as it has gone communications and AI-first: $4.7B ARR 3.6% Growth Overall Very, very profitable — generating almost $2B in free cash flow a year Growth is up just 3.6%, but Zoom has raised guidance — and the stock is up a strong 20% this year.

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