Mon.Mar 18, 2024

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Leaders, Don’t Play Super-Rep! When Helping Your Team Actually Hurts

Cerebral Selling

Some of the most common and innocent interactions between sales reps and their managers can also be the most harmful. For example, reps often come to their leaders with questions like: “My customer went dark on me. What should I say to get them back to the table?” “This customer is asking for a 30% discount to get the deal done. Should we agree?” “I asked for a discovery call but the customer just wants a demo.

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A Category of One in B2B Sales

Iannarino

Much of what you read here involves sales strategies designed to help you win your dream clients. These strategies are also designed to differentiate you from the many competitors who happen to sell the same thing you do. Without being different in some significant way, you will be one of the crowd, with no reason for anyone to prefer buying from you.

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It’s Not How, It’s What, Why, Who!*

Partners in Excellence

We have become masters at describing our “how.” That is, we present all the capabilities of our products and solutions, the “how” of achieving a goal or solving the problem. We provide endless content, demos, and discussions focused on the capabilities of our products. But are we addressing the most important issues our customers face?

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3 proven ways to use ChatGPT to beef up your content strategy

Martech

ChatGPT has solidified its position within the marketing community, and the mass adoption proves it’s not going anywhere but up. While most view it as a way to generate new content, I look at it to help streamline and organize my own brainstorming — especially for enhancing my content strategies. Here’s how marketers like you can leverage ChatGPT and take your content strategy up a few notches without any additional investment. 1.

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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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Google promotes Liz Reid to head of Search

Search Engine Land

Google is making a number of changes to its executive team running Google Search: Liz Reid , who was leading up core search experiences, will now be the Head of Search at Google. Cheenu Venkatachary will be the new lead of Search quality and ranking. With these changes, Pandu Nayak is stepping down as lead of search quality and ranking and will become Chief Scientist of Search.

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Dear SaaStr: For High Dollar Vertical SaaS, Does The First VP of Sales Need Domain Expertise?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: If you were hiring a head of sales for a high-priced, niche B2B SaaS product, would you focus on general B2B SaaS sales experience or on market/customer knowledge, assuming it will be very difficult to find a candidate with both? This is the scenario when the trade-off is the most acute. Imagine you are selling a $100,000+ product and you yourself as CEO/founders have limited knowledge selling to the customer base.

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SEO planning: Your one-page SEO plan

Search Engine Land

This article will show you how to create a simple SEO plan. This plan focuses on a single group of related keywords applicable to your business’s primary offerings or individual products/services. The plan is concise and fits onto a single page. SEO planning vs. SEO strategy SEO planning is often conflated with SEO strategy. Although they are related, they are different parts of your overall SEO process, so they should be considered separately.

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The false allure of B2B intent data

Martech

What has more allure in martech than a tool that promises to grant remarkable advantage over the competition? And among such tools, what could be more powerful than one that tells you who is ready to buy? Intent data has become a big category with various sources, all of which promise visibility and focus that can change everything. These days, a marketing program that isn’t leveraging intent data of some description is seen as flying blind and hoping to hit the target with luck and timing on it

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Google Ads Report Editor exporting zeros; Google is investigating

Search Engine Land

Advertisers attempting to export reports from Google Ads Report Editor are experiencing issues where the data is showing zeros instead of the actual numbers. Google is aware of the issue and is working on a fix to resolve it, but there is not estimated time for a fix at this time. What is the issue. Greg Kohler, aka PPCGreg posted a screenshot of a sample report export filled with blank data and/or zeros.

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Retailers struggle with basics for generative AI

Martech

Although the overwhelming majority of retailers (93%) report using genAI in some form to improve in-store and online CX, many are struggling with access to siloed data. Only 17% think they have a unified view of the customer, while almost half are in the early stages of (or still considering) building customer profiles. The statistics are based on a survey of 1,300 retailers by Salesforce and the Retail AI Council.

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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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Why the exact match keyword type in PPC is still relevant today

Search Engine Land

How often have you heard, “Use broad match along with smart bidding to get the best results?” Broad match can learn based on previous conversion activity. It can also use previous user search data, other keywords in your ad group and your landing page’s content to show your ads on relevant searches. Broad match has more learning capabilities than phrase or exact match.

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4 Powerful Pricing Tactics That Have Nothing to Do With Discounts, According to Yocale's CEO

Hubspot

Welcome to “The Pipeline” — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable insight from real sales leaders. This week's installment comes from Arash Asli, CEO of Yocale. Want more “Pipeline” Content? Subscribe to our newsletter. Research shows there is a weapon you can use to increase your sales performance — a sales strategy that's effective no matter where you work or what you sell.

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Google Search Ads 360 gains retail media capabilities

Search Engine Land

Google Search Ads 360 launched a closed beta for offsite retail media campaigns to help retailers and brands achieve common goals with shoppers, boost product visibility, and increase sales, the search ad company told us. Google announced these new features today in Search Ads 360: Google added offsite retail media capabilities to Search Ads 360 to help retailers and brands sell more products together by combining unique retailer audiences with Google AI and scale across channels.

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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Ned Miller

Partners in Excellence

Preface: Ned Miller is one of my closest friends/mentors. The first Saturday of every month, we reserve an hour or so to catch up on things, to share ideas. Ned’s always patient in listening to my horrible puns and jokes. Every Sunday, Ned takes the time to send me a quick reflection or thought. I do reflect on them, they help me pay attention to the important stuff going on.

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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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Katie Robbert: Spotlight on the expert

Martech

Contributor Katie Robbert is the CEO and co-founder with Chris Penn, of Trust Insights, a marketing analytics agency. She’s an authority on compliance, governance, change management, agile methodologies and dealing with high-stakes, “no mistakes” data. Before Trust Insights, she built and grew multi-million dollar lines of business in the marketing technology, pharmaceutical, and healthcare industries.

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How to Choose AI Sales Tools to Boost Productivity

Highspot

Sales teams often face hurdles in hitting targets and meeting revenue growth expectations. Luckily, tech advances have paved the way for new solutions to refine sales processes and improve performance. Enter Artificial Intelligence (AI) sales tools – a breakthrough development in the world of sales. In this article, we’ll share everything you need to know about using AI sales tools.

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Boost Ad Sales With Centralized Data Management and AI

Salesforce

Media ad sales have evolved considerably in recent decades, and more changes are happening every day. Gone are the days when you would sell time slots during primetime TV or a half-page ad in a newspaper or magazine and call it a day. New types of ads are now available. This includes highly targeted digital ads, sponsored products on ecommerce sites, and new out-of-the-home (OOTH) options such as video displays at the gas pump.

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5 Strategic Approaches to Enhance Efficiency in Heavy-Haul Trucking Connections

Sales Pop!

Efficiency is key in the heavy-haul trucking industry, where time is money and every minute counts. To stay competitive and profitable, companies need to constantly look for ways to enhance their operations and streamline their processes. Whether it’s optimizing routes, improving communication with drivers, or investing in technology. There are several strategic approaches that can help companies in the heavy-haul trucking sector operate more efficiently.

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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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Importance of Data Capturing for Business Owners

The Digital Technology

In today’s competitive world, information plays an important role in business’s success. But simply having data isn’t enough. There is NO use of having unstructured or raw data that can’t be processed in future.

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Discover the Magic of Morning Routines

Sales Pop!

In an enlightening conversation with Glenn Lundy, a luminary in the automotive industry, accomplished author, engaging speaker, and the visionary founder of the 800% Elite Automotive Club, we delved into the transformative power of morning routines. Broadcasting his wisdom from Kentucky, Glenn generously shared personal insights that shed light on the profound impact establishing a morning routine can have on one’s personal and professional life.