Wed.Sep 18, 2024

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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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Win Rates And Prospecting

Partners in Excellence

Despite YoY plummeting win rates, based on my feeds, the biggest challenge facing sellers is not winning, but seems to be prospecting, engaging customers in conversations, hopefully finding and qualifying new opportunities. The data seems to support this, customers saying they don’t want to talk to sellers, outreaches to get a single response are 7-10 times what was required just a few years ago.

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HubSpot unveils Breeze, its ‘complete AI solution’

Martech

HubSpot opened its Inbound conference today by unveiling Breeze, the AI powering its customer platform. “Until now, we haven’t seen a complete AI solution for businesses,” said Andy Pitre, EVP of product at HubSpot. “There are consumer AI solutions that are super accessible and give results in seconds, but they aren’t connected to your business or your data.

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Google brings negative keyword exclusions to Performance Max

Search Engine Land

Google will launch campaign-level negative keywords in Performance Max (PMax) later this year. This will help brands better fine-tune ad targeting on Search. In addition, Demand Gen campaigns are getting omnichannel bidding and increased flexibility. Why we care. It’s finally here! Instead of having to go through a form or ask your Google account manager, you will have more control over negative keyword exclusions and how your ads appear, ensuring better alignment with brand and audience p

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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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Building Trust and Traffic with AI: Andy Crestodina on Modern Content Marketing

G2

Content marketing expert Andy Crestodina shares what works in the AI age and the pillars of an organic strategy. Know how thought leadership can drive sales.

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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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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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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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Using ChatGPT for marketing Mixed Methods Analysis

Heinz Marketing

By Tom Swanson, Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing Marketers love quantifying things, but what about the qualitative data? Things got a lot easier to analyze when GenAI came onto the scene. I will show you how to use ChatGPT to build some data visualizations, conduct deeper analysis in qualitative data and connect that to quantitative. Happy analysis!

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How to use podcasts for natural link building

Search Engine Land

Backlinks are still essential in SEO today, but there’s a stronger focus on their quality and strategic placement. The approach to acquiring links now mixes traditional methods with new strategies, resulting in a more natural online presence. One example of this blended technique is podcast link building , which moves away from the typical transactional nature of link buying and fosters a natural link attraction through engaging and value-driven podcast content.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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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Champions are Not Perfect and The Difference Is That They Know It

Membrain

In 2017, Roger Federer became the first man to win 20 major tennis singles titles. Largely recognized as one of the world’s top tennis players of all time, the 20-time Grand Slam champion was also known for his grace on the court and his philanthropic endeavors that address childhood poverty in Africa.

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New guide: Improve your Google Ads performance by Digital Marketing Depot

Search Engine Land

Discover actionable insights to optimize your Google Ads campaigns and achieve maximum ROI. This new guide from Instapage offers advice on: Improving Quality Score and ad relevance Targeting the right audience with precision Optimizing bidding strategies for maximum efficiency Creating high-converting landing pages Download the Guide to Cost-Effective Google Advertising today and start implementing these strategies to boost your Google Ads performance and drive more conversions.

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CTV viewership rebounds to near pandemic-era levels

Martech

This year, viewers are watching more CTV in longer sessions. Viewership now approaches pandemic-era levels after pulling back in recent years, according to a new study, “The CTV Trends Report 2024,” released by Wurl, an AppLovin company. Average daily hours of CTV viewing are up 5% year over year, according to the study, which draws on Wurl’s insights from more than 4,000 channels and 1 billion monthly viewing hours through its CTV marketing platform.

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What YouTube learned by analyzing over 8,000 top ads

Search Engine Land

YouTube recently analyzed over 8,000 top ads using AI to identify current trends in advertising. According to Anne Marie Nelson-Bogle , VP of Ads Marketing, key findings include: Increased representation : Brands are featuring more diverse characters and perspectives. Celebration of self-expression: Ads are focused on individuality and unique styles.

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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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Nimble CRM Tips & Updates – September 18 2024

Adaptive Business Services

This week, I am told, Nimble CRM will be releasing several updates that will provide for integrations between webforms and web hooks, workflows, and message sequencing. I am also expecting some additional modifications to message sequencing conditions. I am not going to discuss these further at this time. I would prefer to see the final releases and then test those prior to going into any detail but, from what I have seen, these are exciting introductions!

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Google wins $1.7B EU antitrust fine appeal

Search Engine Land

Google successfully challenged a €1.49 billion ($1.66 billion) antitrust fine imposed by the European Union in 2019. The EU’s General Court annulled the fine, citing the European Commission’s failure to consider all relevant circumstances. Why we care. This ruling marks a significant victory for Google in its ongoing legal battles with EU regulators and highlights the challenges faced by antitrust enforcers in their efforts to rein in Big Tech.

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Amid political ad blitz, brands can hack the media landscape by Optimove

Martech

The 2024 U.S. presidential election is set to break records for political ad spending, with projections estimating a monumental $12 billion by election day — more than a 30% increase compared to 2020. And it is not just traditional ad spending. Digital media costs will soar. Brands will be pushed to either spend more than they want and/or optimize so they are smarter about their deployment of digital marketing strategies.

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Amid political ad blitz, brands can hack the media landscape by Optimove

Search Engine Land

The 2024 U.S. presidential election is set to break records for political ad spending, with projections estimating a monumental $12 billion by election day — more than a 30% increase compared to 2020. And it is not just traditional ad spending. Digital media costs will soar. Brands will be pushed to either spend more than they want and/or optimize so they are smarter about their deployment of digital marketing strategies.

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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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How to use micro-moments to capture customer intent in real-time

Martech

Attention spans are shrinking and customers now have instant access to information. Marketers must capture “micro-moments” — those brief times when people turn to their devices for quick answers or decisions. Whether they’re searching for a last-minute gift, checking restaurant reviews or looking up how to fix a leaky faucet, these moments offer key opportunities for engagement and conversion.

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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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