Fri.Dec 01, 2023

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Unmasking the Poseur: Why Being One-Up is the Key to Sales Success

Iannarino

The poseur looks the part: Mont Blanc pen, attaché case, tailored suit, and an excellent business card. They’re the image of competence and success. Initially, it's challenging to discern that the salesperson isn't truly a salesperson. However, as this person begins to speak, their true nature as something other than a salesperson becomes evident. The longer the poseur speaks, the more apparent it becomes that they fall short of what the buyer requires.

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Motivating Your Sales Team: A Guide for Sales Leaders

Anthony Cole Training

There are two sides to this topic of motivation. One side is how are your salespeople motivated and what motivates them. The second side is how effective are you as a sales leader at motivating your sales team? Both must be addressed to fully understand this topic of motivation and the impact on sales results.

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6 ways to use generative AI for your marketing

Martech

Generative AI is revolutionizing digital marketing by altering how we create, analyze and optimize marketing strategies. This technology leverages artificial intelligence for tasks like content creation, data analysis and customer engagement. Understanding and harnessing its capabilities allows marketers to achieve new levels of efficiency and creativity.

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4 Action Items The Best Do When They Lose a Deal

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What Do You Do When You Lose a Deal? #1: Put the company right back into your drip market campaign. But a special one for Lost Deals You Want to Win Back Later. Because you’ll have at least 3 more chances to close them — if you go long: 10 months out (Renewal #1). If your competitor really screwed it up. 20 months out (Renewal #2).

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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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9 SEO tactics for the holiday period

Search Engine Land

The holiday season brings a surge of searches around gifts, events, recipes and more. Savvy marketers can capture this traffic spike with targeted SEO strategies. Below are nine ways to optimize your website for the holidays and make the most of this high-traffic period. 1. Capitalize on seasonal topics Using tools like Google Trends and Semrush, look for trending keywords related to the holidays.

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How to optimize sales and marketing processes for efficient customer acquisition

Martech

There are two extremes when it comes to driving better customer acquisition results: Expanding the team, hiring more salespeople or business development representatives (BDRs). Cutting down costs on marketing and advertising. In some cases, each of these tactics may work. But strategically, cost-effective acquisition isn’t about spending less or increasing the team.

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Why a content gap analysis should be part of your SEO strategy

Search Engine Land

A content gap analysis is a valuable type of market research, helping you to discover opportunities you may have missed and improve your content marketing. But what exactly is a content gap analysis, and how do you do it? And more importantly, why should you? What is a content gap analysis? Content gap analysis is the process of identifying and addressing missing or underperforming content on a website, compared to competitors or market standards.

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AWS expands its martech competency program

Martech

AWS has announced an expansion to its program to help advertisers and marketers find competent partners with solutions built on AWS. Partners qualify for the program through demostrated technical competency and customer success. Previously known as the AWS Digital Customer Experience Competency, the expanded AWS Advertising and Marketing Technology Competency covers the following competencies in addition to digital CX: Audience & Customer Data Management.

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Google Merchant Center Next will soon support rules and supplemental feeds

Search Engine Land

Google Merchant Center Next will support rules and supplemental feeds early next year. The predecessor version, Google Merchant Center, is still used by some advertisers and already supports these new features. Google Merchant Center Next (GMC Next), a simplified version of Merchant Center, was unveiled in May. Advertisers that haven’t transitioned to GMC Next and want access to the rules and feeds should not upgrade to GMC Next.

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People or Process? Redefining Roles with EOS

Heinz Marketing

By Sarah Threet, Marketing Consultant Let’s say you’ve hired a consulting firm because you realize you keep hitting snags when trying to get your new marketing strategy out to market. Simply put, you’ve been in desperate need of a marketing orchestration overhaul. The consulting agency has helped you piece together a revamped holistic go-to-market process.

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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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? A Peek Behind the Curtains of 2 Companies Excelling Despite a Challenging Macro Environment

Sales Hacker

It’s no secret that this has been a tough year in the software and technology industry. However, there are companies excelling despite the challenging macro environment. How are they doing it? Is it their vertical? Are they simply ‘the lucky ones’? Most often, it comes down to go-to-market (GTM) execution. Take a peek behind the curtain with me on certain areas of insight into two companies that are excelling – let’s get into it.

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Meta to launch Threads in the EU within weeks

Search Engine Land

Meta is reportedly planning to launch Threads in the EU before the end of the year. The news comes after X’s biggest advertisers – including Disney, Paramount and Sony Pictures – boycotted the Elon Musk-owned platform following his endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory Why we care. Although Threads isn’t serving ads just yet, brands can still grow their audiences on the platform through influencer partnerships.

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Upcoming Event Example: Redirect to URL in Post Editor

Sales Hacker

Traditional outbound is delivering diminishing returns across the entire technology landscape. Not only has the function grown in popularity but automation has allowed us to increase the volume per rep dramatically which leaves prospects overwhelmed and unresponsive. Luckily, there is a better way. Join Lars Nilsson and GTMfund to learn how to implement Account-based Sales Development (ABSD) strategies in your sales playbook – foster meaningful customer relationships while delivering real measur

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The Top 10 Mistakes People Make When Hiring a VP of Sales with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Hiring a VP of Sales isn’t new, but the conversations have evolved as the world has. SaaStr’s own Jason Lemkin shares the top 10 mistakes he sees during the hiring process during Workshop Wednesday, held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. PST. Jason has written about the cheat codes for hiring VPs of Sales since 2012 and realized it was worth a deeper dive.

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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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How to Promote Youtube Videos in 2024

The Digital Technology

Here is an outstanding marketing fact to start with, your potential customers love video marketing more than traditional marketing.

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Navigating the Electric Vehicle Revolution and Renewable Energy Landscape

Sales Pop!

In today’s world, the transition to electric vehicles (EVs) and the adoption of renewable energy sources are gaining momentum. These shifts are crucial for addressing environmental concerns. Paving the way for a sustainable future. To delve deeper into this dynamic landscape. We had the pleasure of engaging in a conversation with Richard Flentge , an expert in the field.

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How to combine Google Ads with other channels to retarget, nurture and convert

Search Engine Land

Today’s buyers have thousands of options to choose from and hundreds of companies competing for their attention. Running an ad and expecting consumers to go directly to purchase isn’t a viable option. It’s entirely obsolete. A much more effective strategy is to retarget and nurture. The goal is to stay top of mind with your target audience until they’re ready to make a purchase.

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Reddit launches new Conversation Placement ad formats

Search Engine Land

Reddit has launched two new ad formats within Conversation Placement: Carousel Ads and Product Ads. Conversation Placement sits within a Reddit conversation thread, appearing below the original post and above the first comment. The rollout of the new ad formats within this placement is intended to offer advertisers the opportunity to interact with high-value users in a high-focused environment.

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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!