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My Upcoming Sales Training Courses for Negotiation, KPIs, AI, and Sales Management Templates

Iannarino

Today’s sales arena moves at breakneck speed, and standing still is a fast way to fall behind. If you're serious about winning more deals, capturing higher revenues, and boosting profit, then the smartest investment you can make is in a serious arsenal of advanced strategies.

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When and how to use images in B2B emails

Martech

Recently, I shared an example of a work email on LinkedIn, sparking a flood of opinions on whether images belong in B2B emails. It turns out, the question of “to image or not to image” is a surprisingly divisive topic in B2B. Here’s the email in question for reference. While the names have been hidden to protect privacy, the situation still reflects a poor experience for everyone involved.

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5 Ways To Build Trustworthy AI Agents

Salesforce

Imagine a world where AI agents handle many of your everyday tasks, freeing you up to focus on what truly matters — building relationships, making strategic decisions, and innovating. This isn’t a distant dream, though: It’s the reality we’re shaping in partnership with our customers at Salesforce. But the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) agents can only be realized if they’re trusted to act on someone’s behalf.

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6 outdated AI marketing trends you should retire in 2025 by Comarch

Martech

Much like an old engine that’s past its prime, some AI marketing strategies are sputtering as technology speeds ahead. What once seemed like cutting-edge solutions have now lost their edge. Let’s take a look at which artificial intelligence trends have fallen behind and why they’re no longer delivering the results you need. 6 AI trends in marketing you need to let go of 1.

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AI in Marketing & Sales: Today’s Tools, Tomorrow’s Potential

Speaker: Kevin Burke

AI is reshaping marketing and sales, empowering professionals to work smarter, faster, and more effectively. This webinar will provide a practical introduction to AI, focusing on its current applications, transformative potential, and strategies for successful implementation in your organization. Using real-world examples and actionable insights, we’ll examine how businesses are leveraging AI to increase efficiency, enhance personalization, and drive measurable results.

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50+ Crucial Questions You Can Ask in a Job Interview

G2

Read up on 40 crucial questions to ask in an interview as a candidate to make informed decisions, show your interest, and stand out to potential employers.

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The Dramatic Rise of AI Agents

Sales Pop!

AI Agents are becoming increasingly popular for several reasons, representing a significant advancement in artificial intelligence technology and offering numerous benefits for both businesses and individuals. Moreover, here’s a closer look at why AI Agents are gaining such traction: 1. Autonomous Action and Productivity Boost: First and foremost, AI Agents can work independently, handling tasks without the need for constant human oversight.

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10 Common Cold Calling Blunders You Need to Avoid at All Costs, According to Experts

Hubspot

Cold calls are awful. They're inherently intrusive, naturally uncomfortable, and — according to a study from Cognism — unsuccessful roughly 95.2% of the time. With that said, that same study found that 49% of buyers actually prefer to be contacted through a cold call. That‘s why they’re still central to many orgs' sales processes. If they‘re already a staple of your day-to-day, you can’t bank on them becoming obsolete anytime soon.

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5 Ways to Design for Neurodiversity with SLDS

Salesforce

About 20% of the world’s population is neurodiverse – and I’m one of those people. When I come across Salesforce pages and forms that are dense with fields and lack an easy-to-follow structure, it hurts my brain. And then the UX designer in me snaps to attention, listing all the ways to make the user experience better and more accessible – for everyone.

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Debt Ratio: Definition, Formula (+ Free Calculator)

G2

Find a company's debt ratio by dividing its total debt by total assets. Learn why it matters, what makes a good debt ratio, and manage debt effectively.

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Interpretable Counting for Visual Question Answering

Salesforce

Learning to answer open-ended questions about images, a task known as visual question answering (VQA), has received much attention over the last several years. VQA has been put forth as a benchmark for complete scene understanding and flexible reasoning, two fundamental goals of AI. But, apart from accurate answers, what would these milestones look like in a successful VQA model?

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Five Perspectives, One Mission

G2

This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, G2 brings you a comprehensive look at the state of digital defense through the eyes of five key industry roles. In this exclusive blog post, we'll explore how different professionals approach cybersecurity challenges and their solutions.

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The Dramatic Rise of AI Agents

Sales Pop!

AI Agents are becoming increasingly popular for several reasons, representing a significant advancement in artificial intelligence technology and offering numerous benefits for both businesses and individuals. Moreover, here’s a closer look at why AI Agents are gaining such traction: 1. Autonomous Action and Productivity Boost: First and foremost, AI Agents can work independently, handling tasks without the need for constant human oversight.

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15 Most-Asked Phone Interview Questions (+ Example Answers)

G2

Read these top xx phone interview questions and sample answers and make a great first impression in your next phone interview with confident responses.

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New Neural Network Building Block Allows Faster and More Accurate Text Understanding

Salesforce

In deep learning, there are two very different ways to process input (like an image or a document). Typically, images are processed all at once, with the same kind of computation happening for every part of the image simultaneously. But researchers have usually assumed that you can’t do this for text data: that you need to process it the way people read text: word by word, from the beginning to the end, taking context into account as you go.

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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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What Is a Pay Stub? Definition, Example, and Free Template

G2

Learn what a pay stub is, why it's important, and how to create one for your small business. Simplify payroll management with our easy-to-follow guide.

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Teaching Neural Networks to Point to Improve Language Modeling and Translation

Salesforce

Imagine you were a young child and wanted to ask about something. Being so young (and assuming you are not exceedingly precocious), how would you describe a new object, the name of which you have yet to learn? The intuitive answer: point to it ! Surprisingly, neural networks have the same issue. Neural Networks typically use a pre-defined vocabulary on the order of hundreds of thousands of words.

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How to Decline a Job Offer Politely and Professionally

G2

Getting my offer to work at G2 was one of the biggest reliefs I’ve had in my career. However, it also provided a unique challenge that I’ve never experienced up until that point.

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New Deep Learning Model Understands and Answers Questions

Salesforce

Today, we published new state of the art results on a variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Our model, which we call the Dynamic Memory Network (DMN) , combines two lines of recent work on memory and attention mechanisms in deep learning. Memory components give models the ability to store various facts internally, to access them later.

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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Internal Communications Strategy: How to Plan in 7 Easy Steps

G2

Effective internal communication is key to success, and developing a strategy is the first step in achieving it. Learn how to do it for your business now.

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Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering

Salesforce

Neural network architectures with memory and attention mechanisms exhibit certain reasoning capabilities required for question answering. One such architecture, the dynamic memory network (DMN), obtained high accuracy on a variety of language tasks. However, it was not shown whether the architecture achieves strong results for question answering when supporting facts are not marked during training or whether it could be applied to other modalities such as images.

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“Quid Pro Quo And Caring”

Partners in Excellence

Charlie Green wrote a stunning post, “ Relationships Are Everything ” Some of the ensuing discussion, both in the comments on the post and Charlie and my private notes to each other focused on the transactional nature of so much of what we do. “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine.” Quid pro quo is sometimes mistaken as a form of caring.

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MetaMind Neural Machine Translation System for WMT 2016

Salesforce

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems, introduced only in 2013, have achieved state of the art results in many MT tasks. MetaMind’s submissions to WMT ’16 seek to push the state of the art in one such task, English→German newsdomain translation. We integrate promising recent developments in NMT, including subword splitting and back-translation for monolingual data augmentation, and introduce the Y-LSTM, a novel neural translation architecture.

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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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What an honest MOps job posting looks like

Martech

I have chimed in about martech job descriptions in the past. It’s time to revisit the topic. Job descriptions typically range from specific to vague and reasonable to aspirational. (For example, an entry-level position requiring a graduate degree and several years of experience.) Many are understandably specific to an organization’s circumstances.

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Who Is an Agentblazer?

Salesforce

You’ve heard about AI agents that can take on tasks and innovate at companies in ways we never thought possible. But what can they do for you? How can they save your company money and make your operations more efficient? How will they shape the future? If you’re asking these questions, you’re an Agentblazer. And there’s a whole community of folks like you who want to connect and learn.

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Why is the IAB suing to block the FTC rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions?

Martech

Last week, in an unprecedented move, the IAB filed a lawsuit to prevent the FTC from enforcing its new “Click to Cancel” rule requiring companies to make it easy to cancel subscriptions. The suit, filed with trade groups the NCTA (The Internet and Television Association) and the Electronic Security Association (ESA), marks the first time the IAB has sued the government.

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The Natural Language Decathlon

Salesforce

Introduction Deep learning has significantly improved state-of-the-art performance for natural language processing tasks like machine translation, summarization, question answering, and text classification. Each of these tasks is typically studied with a specific metric, and performance is often measured on a set of standard benchmark datasets. This has led to the development of architectures designed specifically for those tasks and metrics, but it does not necessarily promote the emergence of

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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Reaching consumers in the age of AI: What you need to know about search and social media

Martech

Today, we’re pondering many important questions: Are search engines still at the core of consumer search, or is TikTok becoming the reigning platform? Have technologies like ChatGPT gone mainstream yet, or are we in an industry echo chamber about its adoption curve? Ultimately, how should marketers future-proof their strategies to remain relevant in the consumer buying process over the next 12-36 months?

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How Agents Can Take Smarter Actions With Prompt Builder

Salesforce

Agentforce is now generally available, empowering enterprises to build, customize, and deploy autonomous and assistive artificial intelligence (AI) agents. This technology helps you foster both customer and employee success. But where does Prompt Builder fit in? Does Agentforce replace Prompt Builder? Should you bypass prompt creation and dive straight into build agents?

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How to Power Customer Experiences with AI and Sub-Second Real-Time Data Sync

Salesforce

Delivering an exceptional customer experience hinges on unifying interactions across every touchpoint. Yet, many brands struggle with fragmented data spread across systems, channels, and clouds. Salesforce Data Cloud solves this challenge by ensuring a consistent customer data sync across all platforms. This allows brands to deliver personalized experiences in real time, no matter how or where a customer interacts with the brand.

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A Domain Specific Language for Automated RNN Architecture Search

Salesforce

When humans generate novel neural architectures, they go through a surprisingly large amount of trial and error. This holds true almost regardless of how much experience in deep learning that person might have! In an optimal world, the neural networks themselves would explore potential architectures and improve themselves over time. Without human intuition and insights however, automated architecture search is fraught with peril.

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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.