Tue.Apr 02, 2024

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Accelerating Business Growth: Essential Strategies for Leading a Successful Sales Transformation”

Iannarino

We know why sales transformations fail. We also know why successful sales transformation strategies succeed. When a progressive sales leader recognizes that how they sell is no longer effective enough to allow them to reach their goals, they look for a new methodology.

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“Start With The End In Mind,” Our Disconnect With Customers….

Partners in Excellence

Habit 2 of Stephen Covey’s famous, “The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People,” is “Start (Begin) with the end in mind.” Covey writes about the importance of having a destination or a goal, Knowing what we are trying to achieve forces us to focus on the things critical to achieving the goal. Without this, we wander aimlessly, perhaps without understanding what we are trying to achieve.

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A CDP Is a Powerful Tool — Here’s How To Make It Work for You by Salesforce

Martech

The customer data platform (CDP) is one of the fastest-growing categories of business technology today. To understand why, you have to look at some of the underlying challenges across many industries related to data, AI and personalization. Customers want an experience that’s more tailored to them. They gravitate to companies that understand who they are and what they need.

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GTM 88: Know Your Numbers to Create Alignment and Unlock Scale with Kyle Lacy

Sales Hacker

Kyle Lacy spent the last 17 years building, scaling, failing, and winning in high-growth software. He is currently serving the Jellyfish team as their CMO, and before joining the Jellyfish ‘bloom’, He had the pleasure of building a company called Lessonly, employing over 230 people and changed the lives of many more after the acquisition. He has also been fortunate to lead teams at Seismic, OpenView, Salesforce, and ExactTarget.

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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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Dear SaaStr: What Do Founders Need to Know to Navigate a Merger/Acquisition?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What Do Founders Need to Know to Navigate a Merger/Acquisition? My #1 tip: Get Zen. Once you sell it, it is not yours anymore. And both your upside and your downside are now capped. You can no longer fail or run out of money, but really, you can no longer win in the same ways, either. You now have a much, much narrower role than you did before the deal, in most cases.

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Why influencer marketing is critical in B2B

Martech

What’s the key to B2B marketing success? Influencers. B2B influencer marketing involves collaborations between creators and brands to develop and share content that promotes the brand’s products or services. The same influencers you see on your personal social media feeds could be the missing link in your B2B marketing strategy. Whether you’re looking at big fish with millions of followers or investigating micro-influencers with fewer than a hundred thousand followers, the investment is worth it

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How & Why to Use Video in Your Social Selling Strategy

Hubspot

Social media has forever changed the way we market by giving us a way to build real relationships with the people we’re marketing to. With video now so shareable, it should be an essential part of everyone’s social selling strategy. After all, video is one of the easiest ways to fast-track those relationships because it mimics a two-sided conversation and helps people feel like they really and truly know you.

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How to improve your SaaS onboarding experience to retain more customers

Search Engine Land

A successful SaaS onboarding experience does two things: Quickly helps new users overcome a product’s learning curve. Demonstrates how well the product meets the user’s needs. A poor experience, on the other hand, is like a bad first date. You might have a great product, but if the initial encounter is unpleasant, you won’t get a second chance. This article explores how SaaS companies can improve customer onboarding to retain customers and achieve product-led growth.

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Top Virtual Event Trends Shaping 2024 and Beyond

G2

Understand virtual event trends, the evolution of virtual events & the role of technology in the future of the events industry.

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A CDP Is a Powerful Tool — Here’s How To Make It Work for You by Salesforce

Search Engine Land

The customer data platform (CDP) is one of the fastest-growing categories of business technology today. To understand why, you have to look at some of the underlying challenges across many industries related to data, AI and personalization. Customers want an experience that’s more tailored to them. They gravitate to companies that understand who they are and what they need.

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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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Thriving in a Digital World: Simple Truths from a Tech Guru

Sales Pop!

In a world buzzing with gadgets and gizmos, it’s easy to get caught up in the latest tech trend. But what does it really take to lead in the digital age? I had the chance to chat with Geoff Blaisdell , a seasoned digital expert, and his insights were like finding a map in a tech jungle. Tech Isn’t Just for Show First, we discussed how businesses and technology are buddies.

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How to use Google Gemini to improve SEO operational efficiency

Search Engine Land

Gemini’s integration with Google Workspace can improve SEO operations and align activities with management priorities. Key insights: Leverage Gemini integrated with Google Workspace for Sheets, Docs and Gmail to analyze documents and create content. Use Google Docs to identify leadership priorities and turn them into SEO action plans, aligning SEO with leadership goals.

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7 must-know marketing attribution definitions to avoid getting gamed

Search Engine Land

I’ve worked in the field of marketing analytics for nearly two decades. Lately, more and more programs are investing in more complicated and arcane measurement strategies. This is ultimately a net positive for programs and the industry in general, but an incomplete understanding of analytics leads to ripe ground for getting deceived. Whether it’s auditing accounts run by other agencies or hearing marketing partners give poor advice on joint client calls, I’ve seen plenty of instances where plat

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Instagram Stories: 6 tips to boost engagement

Search Engine Land

Instagram released a series of tips and tricks to help creators enhance engagement for their Stories. The latest guidance from Instagram doesn’t introduce any new features but does offer presentation tips, along with a couple of sharing notes to create more impactful Stories. Why we care. When you get more people engaged with your stories, you increase your chances of turning viewers into potential customers.

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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