Tue.Nov 07, 2023

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Cleaning Up Your Pipeline Junk Drawer

Iannarino

Sales leaders expect their sales force to carefully qualify prospective clients , as they don’t want them wasting time on non-opportunities. These same leaders also insist every first meeting be logged in the CRM to ensure they have the coverage they believe is necessary to reach their goals.

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Is The “Buyer Journey” Even A Thing Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

Ever since I started selling–you know back in the old days when phones were still attached to cords–I’ve been taught, “Buyers have a structured buying process.” I’d see all sorts of block diagrams, showing how the buying process always, coincidentally, aligned with the customer buying process. On the selling side we would have perfectly structured steps like Qualification, Needs Identification, Solution Presentation, Closing.

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Google Performance Max adds new AI features

Search Engine Land

Google is set to roll out new AI features in Performance Max for all U.S. advertisers by the end of the year. Marketers will be able to use the technology to generate text and image assets for campaigns using prompts within a matter of seconds. PMax will take performance data into consideration when suggesting certain assets for campaigns to help ads perform across all of Google’s inventory and formats.

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How reducing your carbon footprint can save you money and increase ad impact

Martech

I started covering climate change, the increasing temperature of the planet as a result of human activities, in the 1990s. At the time the possible impacts seemed a long way off. “We have looked at how these things will impact us in 20 to 30 years,” said Yuri Staraselski, co-founder and chief technology officer at Crimtan. “Ten years ago, 30 years seemed to be far away.

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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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How Generative AI Will Turn Traditional SaaS Models On Their Head with AWS VP of Generative Builders Adam Seligman

SaaStr

Within the next 12 months, Adam Seligman, VP of Generative Builders at AWS, believes there will be an inversion of SaaS. What does that mean? That many of the standard assumptions and ways of doing SaaS will change a lot. Adam has one core belief above all else — “You don’t have to be *this tall* to ride the rides. Anyone should be able to build any Cloud solutions they want.

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Walmart launches shoppable ads on NBCUniversal’s Peacock

Martech

Walmart and NBCUniversal are launching a new commerce partnership that allows streaming viewers to shop items featured in a hit TV show. Beginning today, fans of Bravo’s “Below Deck Mediterranean” will have access to a new shopping experience on Peacock that allows watchers to navigate with their remote and buy products from Walmart that are featured in the reality series.

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Google rolls out new shopping features to boost conversions

Martech

Along with its annual Holiday 100, Google is rolling out a new deals hub and new pricing tools to help brands engage with shoppers this holiday season. Why we care. Marketers should stay current with Google’s new features to expand their avenues for reaching potential customers, broaden their reach, and potentially improve conversions for a better return on investment.

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LinkedIn Analytics: Leveraging Performance to Perfection

G2

LinkedIn Analytics can change your sales team by uncovering customer-centric insights, search query data and target base points to run effective campaigns.

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GTM 67: Stop and Celebrate Your Wins with Scott Gifis

Sales Hacker

Scott Gifis is currently the CEO at NoFraud , formerly the President and COO at frame.io (bought by Adobe) and prior to that, he was the president at AdRoll for 6 years. Scott is an experienced executive operator, investor, advisor, and board member with a proven track record of building and scaling great companies, globally, from near zero to $100M plus.

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How to optimize your content for social: Facebook, Slack and X

Search Engine Land

We all know what’s involved in crafting the perfect, most SEO -conscious article for the web. But how many of us really think about those crucial next steps – sharing them in the right communities to help ensure they reach our target audiences? This part of the post-publishing process is vital to ensure that you’re amplifying the content you create and should help it reach a wider chunk of your audience.

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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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Strategic vs. tactical decisions: How to find the right balance

Martech

I am fascinated by the interplay between strategic and tactical decisions. Neither is better than the other, and you couldn’t just adopt one type exclusively. My experience with marketing teams — and marketing in general — is that they spend most of their time on tactical decisions, like: How to optimize a specific campaign. How to improve the conversion rate by tweaking headlines.

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Why this advertiser doesn’t trust Amazon Ads

Search Engine Land

Amazon Ads should not be trusted – that’s according to digital marketing expert, Bryan Porter. The Co-Founder and Chief eCommerce Officer at Simple Modern claims his company has spent $14 million on Amazon ads over the years and describes the investment as a “waste” Explaining his comments, he says: “Amazon ads take credit for sales that would’ve happened organically.

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CRM Best Practices: How to Choose the Best Free CRM System

Hubspot

Your business is growing, and spreadsheets are getting frustrating to manage. You know you need a CRM, but there are hundreds of CRMs and hundreds more features available. How do you decide which is the best option for your business? This CRM best practices guide will walk you through how to evaluate a CRM, from how it will help your business and how to map your needs to core features.

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Microsoft patent on website and site content reliability scores for Bing Search ranking

Search Engine Land

Microsoft has released a patent named Web Content Reliability Classification that talks about how to develop a reliability score for a website or content on a website. The patent seems like it can be used by the Bing Search team for better ranking of websites and web content, but that does not mean it is currently being used in the Bing Search results today.

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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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No, Most “Pretty Good” Sales Reps Can’t Just Sell Any SaaS Product

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: Can great SaaS salespeople seamlessly switch between industries? No. They can’t, unfortunately. Well, the very best can — up to a point. And even there they have limits. A few learnings over the years: Only the very best reps can sell something more complex or harder to understand than the prior products they’ve sold. They just tend to melt when they have to sell a much more complicated product.

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Google rolls out new shopping features to boost conversions

Search Engine Land

Google is rolling out new features to help brands engage with shoppers this holiday season: A new deals hub. New pricing tools. The annual Holiday 100. Why we care. Marketers should stay current with Google’s new features to expand their avenues for reaching potential customers, broaden their reach, and potentially improve conversions for a better return on investment (ROI).

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14 Phrases That'll Instantly Sabotage Your Negotiation

Hubspot

A successful negotiation is like a tango. Both involve coordination, finesse, some degree of grace, and a reasonable amount of back-and-forth. Also — and perhaps most importantly — both can also easily be derailed if one of the people involved says something really off-putting or stupid while it's happening. Nothing ruins a good tango like one of the dancers saying something like, “You dance just like my mom.

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Digital Selling with Client Sites: A bite-sized blueprint

SalesHood

Get actionable tips to help your organization embrace digital selling and engage more effectively on client sites.

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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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Make Your Sales Kickoff the Party of the Year

Salesforce

It’s true: I once fell asleep during a sales kickoff. I didn’t mean to, but nature is bound to take over when you’re sitting through the sixth presentation in a row. When I came to, I made a solemn vow: When I became a sales leader one day, I’d never throw a boring sales kickoff. Today, I’m Head of Sales at Slack, and I’ve made good on that promise (or so my team tells me).

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Vital Importance of the Right Sales Mindset

Sales Pop!

In sales, the right mindset is everything. The mindset translates into some form of habits, which then translates into tasks and activities. At the end of the day, the mindset finally results in a person’s daily behavior. Starting Early In life, it is critical to begin forming a mindset as early as possible. I’ll take, for example, my own son, who is 15 and in high school.

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Revolutionizing Website Optimization with SEO Core AI

Lead Fuze

Imagine a world where your website isn’t just floating aimlessly in the vast ocean of the internet, but is sailing straight to its destination – high search engine rankings. This might seem like an unattainable dream for many, especially with ever-changing algorithms and stiff competition. What if I said there’s now a route to traverse these choppy seas?

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Leading & Understanding People in Todays World with Tony Durham

Sell Or Die

This week we have the pleasure of being with Tony Durham on the podcast. Tony is the CEO and President of Condustrial Inc. helping companies nationwide find the best talent in many industries and employing over 35,000 people in his own companies.

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Increase Revenue With Better, Faster Sales Onboarding

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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Transforming Business with the Power of AI Advertising

Lead Fuze

Ever wonder how the right ad pops up at just the perfect moment when you’re browsing online? It’s not magic, it’s AI advertising. This technological wizardry uses artificial intelligence to place ads with a precision that feels almost psychic. You’ve likely seen AI in action, even if you didn’t know it. Like an invisible puppet master, it pulls strings behind your screen—deciding which products pop into your feed and what content catches your eye.

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What’s the state of email beyond 2023? by Litmus

Martech

It’s been a strange year for digital marketing. Between the switch to GA4 and the wider implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools , marketers have had to stay nimble in 2023! Nowhere is this more evident than in the mysterious, often confounding world of email marketing. Litmus has brought back its “State of Email” report to help email marketers get the lay of the land after all this upheaval.

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What’s the state of email beyond 2023? by Litmus

Search Engine Land

It’s been a strange year for digital marketing. Between the switch to GA4 and the wider implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools , marketers have had to stay nimble in 2023! Nowhere is this more evident than in the mysterious, often confounding world of email marketing. Litmus has brought back its “State of Email” report to help email marketers get the lay of the land after all this upheaval.

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Transforming Online Engagement: AI and Social Media Tools

Lead Fuze

Have you ever stopped to think about the magic behind your personalized AI and social media experiences? That uncanny knack of your feed suggesting just what you were looking for, or even better, didn’t know you needed. The digital genie in the bottle isn’t pure chance—it’s artificial intelligence at work! From tailoring engaging content topics to managing customer service queries swiftly, AI is silently revolutionizing our daily interactions with social media platforms.

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Business Intelligence 101: How To Make The Best Solution Decision For Your Organization

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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Episode 30: The National Association of Manufacturers Looks to the Future

Spiro Technologies

Transcript Adam Honig: Deadpool definitely was going to come up at some point. You look like you’re a Deadpool fan. I don’t know if that’s your son’s influence. Chad Moutray: I’m a Marvel fan. Adam Honig: You are a Marvel fan in general? Okay. All right, we’ll work that in. What a lot of people want to hear about is the crystal ball kind of stuff.