Fri.Jul 12, 2024

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OutBound 2024: The Return of Cold Calling and All-Bound Sales Strategies

Iannarino

Unlock the secret to mastering cold calling and all-bound sales strategies with OutBound 2024!

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Effective Sales Meeting Strategies

Anthony Cole Training

Every salesperson has attended sales meetings and left thinking “Why do I have to go to these meetings? They are a waste of time and not helping me get better at selling.” Sales leaders and managers must own and address this problem.

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Why brand trust is declining and how marketers can earn it back

Martech

Brand trust is on the decline. The combination of rapidly emerging technologies, an abundance of misinformation and unethical data use have put consumers on edge. The trust metrics are proof. Only 30% of consumers trust companies highly, and only 61% trust business leaders to tell the truth. Trust is integral to long-term consumer loyalty. Without a relationship with a brand, what keeps customers returning or motivates them to advocate for your brand to their friends and family?

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OpenAI is ‘going to build a search product’

Search Engine Land

OpenAI didn’t launch its heavily rumored search product earlier this year, but it’s coming. This was confirmed in a new interview with The Atlantic’s CEO Nicholas Thompson. The quote. ChatGPT search could become “an important way that people navigate the internet,” so it would be “better for us to be in it than to not be in it, and also to help shape it than not help shape it,” Thompson told The Verge.

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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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3 strategies to navigate change as digital privacy evolves

Martech

The only constant in marketing is change. With new trends, technologies and techniques emerging almost daily, the importance of swiftly adapting only increases. Specifically, two connected areas in the marketing world have seen rapid evolution over the last few years: privacy and technology. The evolving landscape: Privacy regulations and technological advancements Privacy has become a growing concern in the global marketing landscape.

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65% of You Pay Your SF and NY Reps More

SaaStr

So I wondered how many of us still pay sales reps in SF and NYC more than the rest of the country. Or put differently, pay reps outside of the top most expensive tech centers … less. There are arguments on both sides on whether to pay reps the same everywhere across U.S. … or not: SF and NYC are much more expensive in terms of cost of living.

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Scaling to $150M ARR and Beyond with Grafana Labs and Lightspeed

SaaStr

Scaling to $150M ARR and beyond is no simple task. Grafana Labs co-founder and CEO Raj Dutt and Partner at Lightspeed Alex Kayyal answer the most popular questions about Grafana Labs’ rocketship growth journey at this year’s SaaStr Europa. First, let’s rewind the clock and look at Grafana Labs’ origin story. How did it come to be? Grafana Labs Origin Story Grafana Labs started as an open-source project back in 2014 with three co-founders, including Raj.

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Black women founders have to keep pushing

Martech

Entrepreneur and author Octavia Goderema When it comes to securing funding for a tech startup, we all know the depressing statistics. Men do better than women, white men do better than Black men, they both do better than Black women, and if you’re a Black woman who openly identifies as lesbian or queer, you’re likely at the bottom of the pile.

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The rise of forums: Why Google prefers them and how to adapt

Search Engine Land

If you own a niche site, there’s a pretty good chance that you saw something like this happen between late 2023 and today. This is Semrush’s report for one of my own niche sites. There’s not much to brag about these days on my site, but in 2022, there was. Google loved it. I ranked in the top 10 on my niche keywords and a wide range of related head terms.

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Salesforce’s Summer 2024 release features time-saving enhancements

Martech

Salesforce’s Summer 2024 releases will help teams work smarter, with new product innovations built on data, AI, CRM and trust. This edition’s enhancements save time for businesses and improve the end-user experience with better search results, individualized personalization and more. Here’s a recap of what’s new with Salesforce this season. Activate and publish a store without a custom domain B2B Commerce Lightning Web Runtime (LWR) previously required you to purchase and configure a custom co

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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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Amazon’s AI shopping assistant Rufus is live for all U.S. customers

Search Engine Land

Amazon rolled out its AI-powered shopping assistant, Rufus, to all U.S. customers in its mobile app. Why it matters. This move signals Amazon’s push into AI-assisted shopping, potentially transforming how consumers interact with ecommerce platforms. How it works. Rufus uses a specialized large language model (LLM) trained on Amazon’s product catalog, customer reviews and web data.

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Target audiences precisely to maximize reach and reduce spend by Edna Chavira

Martech

Imagine a world where your marketing message finds its perfect match. No wasted effort, no aimless casting of a net. Your ideal audience, captivated. This isn’t a dream. It’s Connected TV (CTV) advertising. Picture television’s massive reach, sharpened to a digital marketing laser. Join MNTN and MarTech for Everything You Need to Know About CTV Audience Targeting (in under 60 minutes) as they discuss everything there is to know about Connected TV audience targeting.

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How to remove court records from Google: 3 effective strategies

Search Engine Land

Legal issues can drag on for ages. That’s the simple, unfortunate truth. Worse, once a legal matter is filed in court, the case is highly likely to become visible on the web. Hundreds of websites now aggregate public court records and publish them for the world to see. The issue I commonly come across for clients is that court records tend to rank highly in Google search results for both individuals and businesses.

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The Need and Benefits of Digital Assessment Simulations

The Advantexe Advisor

Over the past year, Advantexe has had the privilege of working on several unique assessment simulation projects helping our clients reach new levels of effectiveness and efficiencies in their talent assessment processes. During the past long weekend, I took a moment to reflect on some of the key learnings to share with subscribers of this blog as there are some interesting insights that can be gained and used by our various business audiences.

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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

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Report: LinkedIn’s AI ad tool to launch globally this fall

Search Engine Land

LinkedIn is preparing to roll out Accelerate, its AI-driven campaign tool, to all advertisers globally by early fall. Why we care. By embracing Accelerate, advertisers can potentially improve their LinkedIn campaign performance while reducing time and resource investment, making it a tool worth exploring for B2B marketers. By the numbers: Cuts campaign creation time from 15 hours to 5 minutes.

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Sales Roulette: Why Hiring Salespeople is a High-Stakes Game (And How to Win)

Salesfolks

Hiring a salesperson shouldn’t feel like a game of chance. By using assessment tools and setting clear milestones, you can improve your odds and ensure that your new hires are more than just a roll of the dice.

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“Relationship” Selling….

Partners in Excellence

I was listening to a webcast recently and the “new” concept of “Relationship” selling came up. Apparently the speakers were noticing the fact that to develop trust and confidence with our customers, we have to build some sort of relationship. The discussion went further, discussing concepts around FOFU, sensemaking, decision confidence, all requiring some level of relationship in helping the customer understand and move forward.

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