Iannarino

MAY 14, 2024

Last weekend we celebrated Mother's Day with our three adult Gen-Z children at Claudiana Italian Restaurant. The children came bearing flowers and presents. After ordering our food, we sat for more than half an hour, until our server reported that the kitchen had lost our ticket. We spent the time talking about our children’s work, their friends, and all sorts of topics, including my youngest's wedding this September.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 14, 2024

Recently, I’ve been noticing something new, something I haven’t been paying sufficient attention to. It struck me in a conversation with a colleague yesterday. We were talking about organizational design, performance, and a number of issues. She presented a chart, the one below is a cleaned up representation of the chart. The content of the chart is irrelevant to this discussion, but each block represented a different part of the GTM organization, their roles, responsibilities, and k

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Martech

MAY 14, 2024

Why is putting a figure on marketing ROI still a problem? While advances in marketing analytics and technology have been made, a significant portion of businesses still report facing difficulties in calculating ROI. In the fall 2023 CMO survey , CMOs report Increased pressure from the CFO to properly report and improve marketing ROI. The problem of marketing ROI is simple, but it’s difficult to solve.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2024

Dear SaaStr: Is It Common To Have a VC Fund a Seed Round in Milestones? It’s not common with typical Silicon Valley investors. But outside of that? It’s a little old school, but it’s not that uncommon. And run from a milestone-based “second check” Because really, it’s just a one-way option for the investor. If you had just one investor, then in a perfect world, this investor would get to dole out chunks of the initial investment and see how it goes.

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Martech

MAY 14, 2024

For years, marketers have bemoaned the task of producing compelling visuals at the quality, quantity and speed demanded by the organization. The traditional creative process of moodboarding styles, art directing a shoot and meticulously refining visuals isn’t something that scales easily — at least not to the volume and speed of today’s content cycles.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 14, 2024

Google is adding new AI-powered search features to Google Search and in Google Search Labs, in addition to rolling out AI Overviews to searchers in the U.S. this week. The new AI-powered features include the ability to adjust AI Overviews, multistep reasoning capabilities, planning capabilities, AI-organized search results and a new Google Lens ask-with-video feature.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 14, 2024

Holly Chen is the Managing Partner of ExponentialX, a Marketing and Growth Advisory Collective for high-growth SaaS startups, advising companies like Miro, Loom, ServiceNow, Appsflyer in their growth journeys. She also guest lectures at Berkeley and NYU, teaches at Section and Maven, mentors at First Round Capital, and is an active angel investor. Previously, Holly was the Global Head of Digital Marketing at Slack, helping it grow $100M to $700M ARR and going public.

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Martech

MAY 14, 2024

AI is increasingly being used by marketers to create content and experiences for prospects and customers. Recorded live during the Spring 2024 MarTech Conference, this episode features marketers discussing the ways they’re experimenting with and using AI in their work, with a focus on customer experiences. Join Alicia Arnold, MarTech contributor and Managing Director, ak arnold, and Mike Kaput, Chief Content Officer, Marketing AI Institute for a discussion about how AI can positively impact cust

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2024

At SaaStr’s inaugural AI Day, the Senior Director of Product Management at Panoptica by Cisco, its incubation team, Alex Jauch, talks about how GenAI is powering app security, how Cisco is using it, and how you can use GenAI to protect other businesses. Did You Say Hype Cycle? A lot of hype cycles have come along where people say, “This is going to change the world, and everything will be different.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 14, 2024

Google is rolling out a new search filter to show only text-based links in the search results. The filter is named “Web” Clicking it removes images, videos, or other forms of search results; only classic blue links are displayed. Web filter. You can find the web filter next to the other filters in the menu. Sometimes that means it is on the same line as the video filter, news filter and so on.

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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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Heinz Marketing

MAY 14, 2024

By Carly Bauer , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing In today’s dynamic and interconnected digital landscape, understanding the effectiveness of marketing efforts is paramount for businesses striving to thrive in competitive markets. At the heart of this understanding lies a well-crafted attribution strategy—a roadmap that illuminates the journey customers take from initial engagement to conversion.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 14, 2024

Responsive search ads (RSAs) are the bread and butter of Google Ads search campaigns. Launched in 2018 and originally a beta ad format, RSAs became the default ad format for search campaigns on June 30, 2022, when Google sunsetted Expanded Text Ads (ETAs). The magic behind RSAs is that by providing multiple headlines and descriptions, Google Ads will test different combinations and determine which combinations work best.

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The Advantexe Advisor

MAY 14, 2024

One of the most frequently asked questions in our Business Acumen training sessions is about large companies selling off business units or brands. It inevitably happens after a discussion on frameworks of strategy where we share that the most successful companies on the planet choose a strategic value proposition to their customers, execute it flawlessly, and most of all, stick with it over time.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 14, 2024

A new era of customized AI models is emerging. Known as custom GPTs (generative pre-trained transformers), these tools enable SEO professionals to harness the capabilities of language models like ChatGPT and tailor them to their unique processes and philosophies. This article covers the benefits of custom GPTs and provides a step-by-step guide to building your own “Striking Distance Keyword Opportunity Analyzer” – a GPT specifically designed to identify high-potential keyword opport

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 14, 2024

Perhaps you thought I was going to write about the inflatables locations called Pump it Up, where young children go to birthday parties. I recall that we hosted a couple of parties there when our son was small and probably attended several more for his little friends. This is not an analogy about inflatable trampolines, but it is about the analogy between pumps and sales and for variety, it will be two separate stories instead of one culminating in pumping up sales.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 14, 2024

Unpredictable Google core updates can wreak havoc on your website traffic, leaving you struggling to keep up with the ever-changing search landscape. But what if you could future-proof your online presence and skyrocket your search rankings – even during the most volatile algorithm changes? This in-depth white paper reveals the essential technical SEO strategies you need to future-proof your online presence and skyrocket your search rankings – even during the most volatile algorithm

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Martech

MAY 14, 2024

Clean rooms are becoming essential for today’s marketers, offering access to critical advertising data and powerful customer insights. But not all clean rooms are created equal. Join the upcoming LiveRamp webinar Sweet Success: Hershey’s Recipe to Improve Advertising Effectiveness to hear how Hershey’s drives growth with data clean rooms as a key ingredient for unified measurement and insights.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 14, 2024

Clean rooms are becoming essential for today’s marketers, offering access to critical advertising data and powerful customer insights. But not all clean rooms are created equal. Join the upcoming LiveRamp webinar Sweet Success: Hershey’s Recipe to Improve Advertising Effectiveness to hear how Hershey’s drives growth with data clean rooms as a key ingredient for unified measurement and insights.

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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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Salesfolks

MAY 14, 2024

When it comes to understanding why people spend money, it’s essential to recognize that every purchase decision is driven by underlying motives. These motives are the psychological and emotional triggers that convince customers to exchange their hard-earned money for goods or services.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 14, 2024

Reddit named Jyoti Vaidee as its first VP of Ads Product, a newly created role overseeing the platform’s monetization engine. Vaidee joins from Google, where she spent over 11 years leading ads products and monetization, most recently as product lead for Google’s Display Ads business. She also served stints working at Microsoft on Xbox and Outlook.

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Sales Pop!

MAY 14, 2024

When people go online in search of a solution to their problem, they don’t want to spend days looking for a service that will meet their needs. Most simply shortlist a few services that catch their eye and opt for the one that feels right. This decision often comes down to which service is presented in the most clear, accessible, and engaging way. 94% of first impressions are design-related – that’s a big deal for brands selling services online.

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Salesforce

MAY 14, 2024

Planning can make or break a business. A good plan can become your lifeblood. If you’re wondering how to plan your finances, human resources, project management, inventory and sales all together — you aren’t alone. Enter ERP. In this complete guide, we will find out the difference between ERP and CRM, it’s benefits, and how to integrate it with Salesforce.

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Quotas need to be hit. Revenue goals need to be met. This reality makes shortening sales onboarding time a top priority. Organizations with a standard onboarding process boost employee retention by 58% and increase productivity by 50%. Unfortunately, many companies struggle with inefficient processes that lead to high turnover and missed revenue opportunities.

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SalesLoft

MAY 14, 2024

Sales forecasts are a critical business tool but many sales teams find them difficult to produce. With much of sales forecasting done in spreadsheets, incomplete data, lack of true pipeline visibility, it’s no wonder according to the 2022 Gartner State of Sales Operations and Revenue Operations Survey that 67% of sales operations leaders agree that creating accurate sales forecasts is harder today than three years ago.

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Salesforce

MAY 14, 2024

Change is constant in business. But when you aren’t transparent about change with your team, rumors can damage morale. That’s especially true when it comes to changes in pay. If you handle this sensitive communication with care, you can keep your top reps from heading for the exit. If you’re wondering where to start, you’re in the right spot.

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SalesLoft

MAY 14, 2024

Buyers and sellers are constantly engaging across a variety of channels. From web to phone and email to chat (think Drift!), each interaction is a critical point in time to capture valuable insights that sellers can act on to move a deal forward. So how do you make every conversation count? By making sure you’ve got an AI-assisted Conversation Intelligence (CI) tool in every aspect of your workflow.

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The Digital Technology

MAY 14, 2024

The insurance franchise has existed for many decades and offers people and commercial firms, protection and safety from the risks and uncertainties. On the other hand, the market does not escape the reach of technological changes.

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Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 14, 2024

AI Overviews is rolling out to all US based searchers in Google Search, making AI Overviews available to hundreds of millions of searchers by next week, Liz Reid, the company’s new head of Search , announced at Google I/O. AI Overviews will launch in more countries soon and be available to more than a billion users by the end of the year. Hema Budaraju, the Senior Director of Product, Search Generative Experience, Google, told us that the link cards within AI Overviews generate a higher cl

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The Digital Technology

MAY 14, 2024

Painter creates whatever comes to their minds by splattering shapes and colors all over the canvas. A graphic designer also works as a painter but they are more strategically driven and creative.

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Martech

MAY 14, 2024

The U.S. government is threatening to ban TikTok in the country if ByteDance, its China-based owner, refuses to sell. The loss of the hugely popular social media platform could mean big changes for brands’ influencer marketing in the United States. Status of the law. Last month President Biden signed a law requiring TikTok to be sold within nine months or be banned in the U.S.

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