Iannarino

APRIL 30, 2024

Discover how to thrive in the unpredictable terrain of modern sales by mastering decision making.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 30, 2024

All credit for this post goes to Scott Gillum and his fantastic post: Why Relying on AI Won’t Improve Customer Experience. Reading it caused me to start reflecting on how much we misunderstand about AI and how we leverage it in selling. Without a doubt, AI will have a huge impact on both how we manage/lead our organizations and on how we effectively and efficiently engage our customers in their buying process.

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Martech

APRIL 30, 2024

Developing an effective email marketing strategy requires being aware of the constant change while continuing to strategize around the best way to bring value to your audience. Among the areas of change: Data privacy regulations, which remain a patchwork on a global and national level in the United States. New email regulations from companies like Google and Yahoo, which are trying to reduce spam and protect their email revenue stream.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 30, 2024

Google’s new Search spam policy around reputation abuse – or what SEOs have referred to as “parasite SEO” – will take effect “after May 5,” according to Google. May 5 is this Sunday. We knew this was coming. Google told us this change was coming in March, when Google announced multiple search enhancements , which also included the March 2024 core update (which completed April 19 ) and spam updates (which completed March 20 ).

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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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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2024

How do you build GTM efficiency in SMB sales? The CRO at Owner, Kyle Norton, shares his learnings and strategies for building better efficiency into your GTM motion at Workshop Wednesday, held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. PST. While this title is SMB-oriented, the advice applies to Mid-Market and Enterprise, too. The three topics we’ll focus on are: The importance of staying focused and how to say no.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 30, 2024

The Google interface we know today will be gone in less than three years. As ridiculous as this prediction may seem, I remember back in 2004 when Google.com finally overtook Yahoo.com. For eight years, no one thought that would ever happen, but it did. Why? Simply put, Yahoo had the best user experience on the web for 10 years, but Google provided a better one.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 30, 2024

If you’ve ever tried using avatars or buyer personas to write a Google Ads headline, you know it can be frustrating and fruitless. You try to define your target market, only to be told, “Our audience is anyone who wants our product – we don’t exclude anyone.” Persist a bit and you might refine it to “Ages 25-45 in metropolitan areas.” Eventually, you craft a detailed persona : Alex, 37, from Chicago, who enjoys protein smoothies, drives a Lexus and dreams of traveling to Asia.

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Martech

APRIL 30, 2024

Marketing technology is the backbone of marketing operations, enabling organizations to efficiently and effectively manage campaigns, analyze data and engage customers. However, as the martech landscape evolves, your stack must remain optimized for maximum efficiency and effectiveness. Here is why and how to do it. What is martech optimization? Martech optimization is a systematic and ongoing process of evaluating, adjusting and enhancing the components of a company’s marketing technology stack.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2024

So averages can be a bit misleading, especially once you are looking at the Best of the Best. The SaaS companies that actually IPO’d. But those ones are the ones we have great data on. And how old is the average SaaS CEO at … founding? The answer is 33: Some were younger, some older, of course. Scott and Michael were 22 when they started Atlassian.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 30, 2024

Google Ads will automatically pause low-activity keywords, starting in June, according to an email sent to advertisers by the Google Ads team. What is low activity? Campaigns that were created more than 13 months ago and that have had zero impressions in the past 13 months. Why we care. Navah Hopkins explained it well on LinkedIn: “Keywords with no impressions in your account are dragging down your account performance.

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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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The Advantexe Advisor

APRIL 30, 2024

If you are listening carefully to the business news, you will have heard the experts talking about the impacts of a “soft landing” and how that will affect business performance from now until the end of the year.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 30, 2024

Google has replaced First Input Delay (FID) with a new Core Web Vitals metric called Interaction to Next Paint (INP). This change aims to better measure a website’s responsiveness and overall user experience. This article explains what INP is, why it has replaced FID, how to check your site’s INP score, and various techniques to improve INP and enhance website responsiveness.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2024

Assume you can’t kick out investors. And plan accordingly. There are some limited exceptions, especially if you do nonstandard types of convertible debt or only raise a very small amount of capital. But for the most part, you are stuck with your investors forever. In the U.S. and Delaware and California, and under standard VC terms, it’s almost impossible not just to kick investors out — but even to deny them a vote.

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Martech

APRIL 30, 2024

Brian McKenna is the VP of CRM at DMi Partners, a Philadelphia-based marketing agency. As you’ll see, he kind of stumbled into a job and career he loves. In addition to being an email marketing savant, Brian has long been involved with The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. Founded by Paul Newman, the organization runs a residential summer camp, and year-round center serving children and their families coping with chronic illnesses such as cancer. ( Interview edited for length and clarity.

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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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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 30, 2024

By Win Salyards , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing When delving into B2B marketing, understanding the pivotal role of technical personas such as programmers, engineers, and IT professionals is key. Their specialized expertise and discerning preferences shape industries, making it imperative to engage them effectively. This necessitates a strategic approach that transcends traditional marketing tactics.

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Martech

APRIL 30, 2024

When many organizations contemplate the path forward for their martech stack, they quickly embrace a modern data stack as the foundation. They are anchored on a Cloud Data Warehouse and use tools and technologies that can scale and have interoperability within a composable architecture. The benefits of a modern data stack are justified and broad, such as speed to market, agility and lower costs from limited operations.

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SalesProInsider

APRIL 30, 2024

What you think matters. Your mindset becomes a driver or drawback to everything in your life, career, and business. Your mindset impacts: The life you lead – short- and long-term. Career and business satisfaction and success level. The obstacles you encounter. The goals achieved, or missed. The people who are drawn to you. The career and business you have.

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Salesfolks

APRIL 30, 2024

While the primary goal of any sales effort is to secure customers and boost revenue, there are occasions when saying "no" to a prospective customer is not only prudent but necessary for long-term success and team well-being

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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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SalesProInsider

APRIL 30, 2024

“How are you today?” “Sorry to hear about the Packer’s loss last weekend, what was your highlight of the season?” “How has your day been so far in the new location?” “How are the kids?” What do you think about those questions? Maybe you’re thinking, “Oh, the dreaded small talk!” Well, “small talk” is only small if you make it so. You see, each of those questions can be a powerful STARTER to a fuller sales conversation…if you guide the conversation in that direction.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 30, 2024

Regularly keeping track of incremental sales is one of the best ways of determining how best to allocate your marketing resources. In this article, you’ll find out how to calculate incremental sales for any given marketing campaign, as well as some useful tips and best practices on how to maximize this metric. Key takeaways Measuring incremental sales helps improve your marketing strategy.

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Salesforce

APRIL 30, 2024

Behind every customer experience is a set of fine-tuned metrics. Customer service metrics are the performance indicators you use to measure everything from agent efficiency to customer satisfaction. It’s what every successful company tracks and monitors to improve service quality – and quality is imperative. According to our research, 80% of customers say the experience a company provides is just as important as the products and services it sells.

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Highspot

APRIL 30, 2024

In fact, 71% of organizations don’t provide guidance to employees on how to use AI, and half of companies are skeptical about its impact. As such a hot topic with little guidance on using it, you’re likely wondering: Does AI actually help boost your go-to-market productivity, and if so, how? Go-to-market teams can easily use AI to improve their workflows, especially when it comes to automation, co-creation, and insights.

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 30, 2024

We were away for most of April, watching our son play his senior year of college baseball. When we left Massachusetts, the calendar said early April, the grass and gardens were still dormant and the weather felt like mid-January with some games played in 25-degree wind chills! When we returned home three weeks later, we looked outside and saw life!

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