Tue.Aug 20, 2024

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Adapting Sales Strategies to Industry Tailwinds and Headwinds

Iannarino

Over time, the industries you call on will have periods when they face headwinds that cause significant problems. During other periods, the same industry will experience tailwinds, which are beneficial trends and events that companies must take advantage of to be competitive. As a B2B salesperson, you need sales strategies to sell when an industry is facing headwinds or tailwinds.

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What Happens When We Stop Talking To Each Other?

Partners in Excellence

This morning, going through my social feeds, I happened on this pronouncement: “If any of my friends are supporting, [Insert the other party’s candidates], please unfriend me. You are entitled to your opinions, but I have no desire to engage with you… ” While this was the most pronounced articulation, I see too much of the same thing happening.

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How wisdom makes AI more effective in marketing

Martech

Warren Buffett, a towering figure in the financial world, voiced his concerns about artificial intelligence during his annual meeting in May. He compared AI to the development of nuclear weapons: “We let a genie out of the bottle when we developed nuclear weapons. AI is somewhat similar — it’s part way out of the bottle.” This underscores the potential risks and benefits that AI presents to society.

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Prioritizing SEO strategies: Where to focus your efforts

Search Engine Land

The first half of 2024 in SEO land was never boring. Between algorithm leaks , a big core update , AI Overviews ( the debut , the blowback and the pullback ) and antitrust litigation hovering in the background, the headlines have created a whole lot of noise over the last few months. Forget the noise, though. What are the most important initiatives to tackle for the rest of the year?

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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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GTM 108: From CPA to CRO – Lessons from a 25-Year Software Sales Career with Matt Breslin

Sales Hacker

As Upland’s Chief Revenue Officer, Matt Breslin oversees customer success, demand generation and communications, sales, revenue enablement, and revenue analysis, supporting our Shared Services Organization. Matt has 25 years of experience in the software industry, most recently leading a $700 million business at Infor. Prior to that, he held senior leadership positions at SAP and Oracle, driving incredible results across the board.

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The 10 Rules of VC Fundraising — That Many Founders Just Miss

SaaStr

A few “rules” in raising venture capital that founders somehow … seem to constantly miss. Or get wrong: If your existing investors have a strong brand and aren’t positive on you, it can much harder to raise. At a minimum keep them in the loop. Don’t just ignore them after they write a check. The converse is also true. Your existing investors are often your best source of leads for the next round of funding.

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Ad engagement improves when kids and parents watch together

Martech

Over 90% of parents think brands that advertise alongside children’s and family content are more trustworthy than brands that advertise in other environments. That was the headline from a new study by Future Today, a provider of free ad-supported TV (FAST) channels such as HappyKids and iFood.tv. The trend of families watching streaming TV together was strengthened by the pandemic and persists today, the study said.

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Dear SaaStr: Is It Easier Being a Sales Manager — Or An Account Executive?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: Is It Easier Being a Sales Manager — Or An Account Executive? It’s easier to be mediocre at being a sales manager — as you can have everyone else do the work. It’s harder to be great at being a sales manager, especially as go up to VP level and beyond, as the bar goes up each and every quarter. I’ve seen this a lot lately. Many sales folks I know are tired of selling themselves and want to get into management … so they don’t actually have to sell.

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How to get faster SEO results

Search Engine Land

Many SEO professionals have been asked by managers or clients, “ How long does SEO take ?” Usually, the answer is “Somewhere between 4-12 months.” In some cases, it can take as long as 24 months to see a significant return on investment. This article discusses ways to get SEO results faster through what the late and great Hamlet Batista called “agile SEO.

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Isn’t Buyer Enablement Everyone’s Job?

Partners in Excellence

I read a fascinating discussion on LinkedIn. As with many discussions, there were many aspects I thought were enlightening, some I agreed with, many I disagreed with. But the post started with statements around “Buyers only engage with sellers after 80% of the buying process is done.” “Buyers don’t want to talk to sellers.” The ensuing discussion suggested we needed to focus on “Buyer Enablement.” People chimed in with lots of ideas and solutions, “

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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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Google’s Top stories looks broken: Are news publishers to blame?

Search Engine Land

News publishers have been working harder than ever to squeeze search traffic out of Google. Just when editors start to feel confident that they’ve perfected a winning SEO formula, the game changes. From supposedly “helpful” algorithm updates to site reputation policies enforced by manual actions to the lurking threat of AI Overviews , the pressure is constant.

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Improve your website’s accessibility in just three months by Edna Chavira

Martech

Ensuring your website and digital content are accessible is an often-overlooked brand strategy. However, a perfect web-accessibility implementation doesn’t need to be perfect from the start. Join us for an insightful webinar, “ Achieve Near-Perfect Accessibility ,” and discover how to balance ideal web accessibility standards with practical implementation.

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Improve your website’s accessibility in just three months by Edna Chavira

Search Engine Land

Ensuring your website and digital content are accessible is an often-overlooked brand strategy. However, a perfect web-accessibility implementation doesn’t need to be perfect from the start. Join us for “ Achieve Near-Perfect Accessibili ty ,” and discover how to balance ideal web accessibility standards with practical implementation.

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How to choose a data enrichment solution

Martech

The focus of most B2B companies is developing products and services customers need. Selling them requires detailed customer information. It falls on marketing to get that data, usually via event registrations, website forms and the like. Sometimes that isn’t enough, which is why data enrichment providers exist. The types of data they can provide include job titles, department, location, seniority, email addresses, phone numbers, companies to target, financial statements, sales figures, customer

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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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The 8-Step Guide to Create the Perfect Marketing Automation Workflow

G2

Ever find yourself caught in the never-ending "bureaucracy" of marketing processes? Leads slip through the cracks, conversions falter, and you're left feeling defeated.

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6 Ways to Help Customers Avoid Choice Paralysis and Boost Your Conversions [+Examples]

Hubspot

When was the last time you really looked around the toothpaste aisle? It’s overwhelming. You’re faced with a huge amount of choices — possibly even dozens depending on the store you’re in. Imagine having to actually make a buying decision purely by shopping through the toothpaste aisle. My guess is that you’d either get overwhelmed and choose something that you later regret, or you’d choose to buy nothing at all.

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App Performance Is Key to Your Mobile App Growth Strategy

G2

Discover how mobile app performance lays the foundation for a successful mobile app growth strategy and how it directly affects your business goals.

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AI Marketing Statistics 2024

Sales Pop!

10 statistics about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Marketing: 1. 48% of marketing leaders prioritize AI and machine learning [CompTIA] 2. $107 billion: Global market revenue forecast for AI in marketing by 2028 [ WebFX ]. 3. 64% of businesses believe AI will increase productivity [ Forbes] 4. 55% of marketers use AI for audience segmentation and targeting [ Statista ] 5. 26% of B2B marketers saw a 10-20% increase in sales with chatbots [ Sixth City ] 6. 300% growth in businesses using AI in 5

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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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9th Edition of The New Rules of Marketing & PR Publishes Today

David Meerman Scott

It’s the new, new! The 9th edition of my international bestseller The New Rules of Marketing & PR is available today in print and ebook editions the USA and Canada and will soon be available in other countries! First published in 2007, in the same month as the iPhone 1 was released, New Rules has been completely updated with new stories and strategies to reach buyers directly.

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Equate Fear with Fairly Easy and Resource-driven

Sales Pop!

A new career or business requires adapting to varying thoughts and ideas that seem insurmountable at first. Next, hesitation to proceed enters our hearts and minds, raising the question, ‘What was I thinking?’ Sadly, the next typical thought is, ‘I’m not going to proceed.’ Finally, quitting soon follows, leaving the idea of achieving our fondest dreams in the rearview mirror.