Fri.Oct 27, 2023

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The Value Of Creating Value

Iannarino

Salespeople looking to succeed must go against the current fashions in B2B sales. For reasons that are difficult to understand, there is an overemphasis on creating opportunities, even false ones that the salesperson won’t ever win.

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7 Sales Coaching Best Practices

Anthony Cole Training

If you are in charge of managing a sales team to reach sales goals, you must ask yourself this critical question; “Am I an effective sales coach?

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Mirroring

Partners in Excellence

Early in my selling career, I was in a short training class. We were being taught how to “mirror” our customers. The concept of mirroring is it was a means of better connecting with the customer. We learned that if a customer leaned forward in their chair, perhaps indicating interest, we should lean forward. Likewise, if they leaned back we leaned back; if they swore, we swore; if they farted…… OK, I’m getting carried away with this explanation.

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Chrome’s IP address protection initiative presents new challenges for marketers

Martech

Google is preparing to test a new feature in Chrome that will allow users to hide their IP addresses by using proxy servers. Initially this will be an opt-in feature like Apple’s Ask App Not to Track. The concern is that IP addresses, like cookies, can be used to track online activity and create persistent user profiles. The logic is that, if cookies are a threat to privacy, IP addresses are too.

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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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Best of the Bot: Create an SEO plan for a digital marketing agency

Search Engine Land

Best of the Bot showcases Search Engine Land Bot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. The language model is based on content from Search Engine Land layered on top of ChatGPT. The editors of Search Engine Land selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am the first generative AI chatbot for search marketers.

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Making sense of composable CDPs: What martech buyers need to know

Martech

Where there’s hype, there’s curiosity. But in marketing technology, hype is often accompanied by confusion. Martech buyers continually work to stay on top of what’s new and exciting. This requires cutting through the product marketing vocabulary and understanding what a particular topic or trend can do to create value and how it applies to your organization’s needs.

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Amazon ad services revenue up 26% to $12 billion in Q3

Martech

Amazon generated $12.06 billion from its advertising services in the third quarter of 2023. The figure marks a 26.3% increase from the same period in 2022 – a result significantly better than forecasts predicted by Wall Street. Why we care. Amazon’s exceptional performance is the latest sign digital advertising is experiencing a robust resurgence following the economic downturn.

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8 surprising social video trends

Search Engine Land

Halloween is traditionally the perfect season to anticipate unexpected shocks. But eight surprising social video trends should astound even the most unflappable digital marketers. 1. The number of creators on YouTube is exploding YouTube.com is the second most visited website in the U.S. and worldwide, behind only Google.com, per Similarweb and Semrush’s data.

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How to Navigate Strategic Change for Growth with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin (Video + Podcast)

SaaStr

Welcome to Part Two of SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin’s Ask Me Anything session at this year’s SaaStr Annual. Catch up on part one here , where he deep dives into what he really thinks about AI, Sales and lead Gen for SaaS in 2024. Jason re-takes the stage in Part 2 of the series to answer questions about the right time is to invest in a new product line, building vertical vs. horizontal, multiples in 2024, and much more.

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How to approach weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual PPC reporting

Search Engine Land

Paid media professionals are no strangers to reporting. However, not all PPC reports should be treated the same. Different audiences require you to focus on different metrics, and who receives your report should dictate the type of analysis you put together. Reporting also varies depending on the time frame you review, with the most common cadences being weekly, monthly, quarterly and annually.

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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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Dear SaaStr: What Mistakes Did You Make When Starting Your Business That, In Retrospect, You’re Glad You Made?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What Mistakes Did You Make When Starting Your Business That, In Retrospect, You’re Glad You Made? I think some of my biggest mistakes, at the time I made them, I had to make them to survive. Still, they were terrible mistakes ? My list: Launching too early. In both my start-ups, I launched too early. We almost always launch a bit too early, but I pushed too hard and the products in both cases needed another 3–4 months in the oven.

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Revive Stagnant Pipeline with These 6 Proven Tactics

Sales Hacker

The end of October already, which has me reflecting on the past year and beyond. We’ve witnessed a pervasive challenge sweeping through the industry: Sales cycles growing longer and more arduous. This pipeline slowdown calls for something other than ‘more of the same.’ It calls for extreme intentional in order to dislodge stuck deals and reinvigorate the pipeline – this week we’ve got you covered on core tactics that are working to move the needle.

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Remove Negativity From Your Life In 90 Days

Sales Gravy

This 90-Day Negativity Fast Will Change Your Life On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Anthony Iannarino discusses the importance of avoiding negativity and engaging in positive thinking. He suggests leaving phones behind to have meaningful conversations, consuming positive content, and practicing forgiveness to let go of anger and resentment.

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10 Step Positioning Process: An “Obviously Awesome” Book Summary – Part 3

Heinz Marketing

By Sarah Threet, Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing You might think you know everything about positioning, but you probably don’t know everything about how to DO positioning. For a myriad of marketing goals such as starting ABM, wanting to make better content, and growing revenue, the foundational input that we reference back to every time is positioning.

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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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Mastering Buyer Personas in Uncertain Times: A Strategic Guide

Sales Pop!

During economic downturns or recessions, connecting with buyers at the beginning of their decision-making process can be a significant challenge. In this blog post, we will delve into the intricacies of comprehending buyer personas, their priorities, success factors, perceived barriers, decision criteria, and the complex journey they undertake. Jim Kraus: The Voice of Experience At the core of our exploration is Jim Kraus, President of Buyer Persona.

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How to Delete Duplicate Photos in Camera Roll?

The Digital Technology

We capture a lot of memories on the go and in the lure of perfection, we capture multiple photos from the same angle. This process leads to accumulating duplicate photos and you run out of space soon. Taking a backup … How to Delete Duplicate Photos in Camera Roll?

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HubSpot and TikTok announce lead gen CRM integration

Martech

HubSpot has teamed up with TikTok to provide real-time lead synchronization between the social-media phenom and HubSpot’s Smart CRM. This is TikTok’s first CRM lead generation collaboration. The two companies are using a “no-code” approach, allowing businesses to deploy ads on TikTok and sync leads directly to HubSpot’s Smart CRM.

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