Fri.Aug 09, 2024

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The Rules: How to Engage with the Right Prospects

Anthony Cole Training

In selling, you should have various rules of engagement when it comes to cultivating a prospect. Across the country, most salespeople just chase prospects. They do not follow any rules of engagement. They fundamentally lack a process, a decision tree, if you will, for deciding yes or no in terms of determining if a prospect is truly a prospect for them.

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The Silent Threats Undermining B2B Sales: Tech Overload and the Remote Work Dilemma

Iannarino

Struggling to hit sales targets despite leveraging the latest technology and remote work strategies? Regardless of all the fancy technologies and remote setups, you have been sold a bill of goods. Here's why your B2B sales efforts might be missing the mark.

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Google rolls out new features for Local Service Ads

Martech

Google unveiled new features for Local Services Ads (LSA) this week. One automatically selects profile photos to display in advertisements, while the others give advertisers more control over their spending. Profile photos This update aims to increase ad engagement and potentially improve ad rankings for local service providers. How it works: Google will choose photos from advertisers’ LSA profiles based on their likelihood to boost engagement.

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Effectively Balancing AI and Human Touch in Marketing

Heinz Marketing

By Carly Bauer , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the marketing landscape, offering businesses unprecedented opportunities for efficiency, personalization, and scalability. However, as powerful as AI is, the human touch remains irreplaceable in fostering genuine connections and building trust with customers.

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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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Urban digital transformation: Insights for marketers from global smart cities

Martech

As the CEO of a marketing and PR agency, I’ve observed a fascinating trend in recent years: Major cities around the world are undergoing digital transformations, not unlike the shifts we’ve seen in businesses. These urban centers are leveraging technology to modernize their infrastructure, preserve their rich histories and rebrand themselves for the future.

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What Is Your Value Proposition?

Partners in Excellence

We know value propositions are critical to our success with our customers. Without a differentiated value proposition, perhaps the only way we can win is on price. And we know that competing only on price is an unsustainable strategy. We know that value propositions are not just an “end.” “Buy our product, you will see these results……” We know that we have to create value in every interaction with the customer.

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TikTok partners with Amazon for in-app shopping

Search Engine Land

TikTok is set to integrate Amazon shopping directly into its platform, allowing users to make purchases without leaving the app. Why it matters. Advertisers having access to TikTok’s massive, highly engaged user base could be a game changer and reduced friction between discovery and purchase could boost conversion rates. How it works: Amazon product recommendations will appear in users’ “For You” feeds.

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Transform content creation with AI and automation by Edna Chavira

Martech

Are you tired of content creation bottlenecks and struggling to keep up with audience demands? It’s time to revolutionize your approach. Join Deloitte Digital and Adobe for Start Your Content [R]evolution: Leading a new era of customer engagement with GenAI and automati on where they’ll unveil how AI and automation can transform your content creation process.

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BVP: The Top Unicorns Are Still Raising at 23x ARR

SaaStr

So there’s a curious thing anyone close in venture capital fundraising and rounds today: Valuations for Hot VC Deals remain far higher than pre-March 2020 … even though growth for the overall public SaaS and Cloud companies has slowed to … all time lows. The latest Bessemer data proves this out in a very helpful chart and summary: Now the BVP Cloud 100 of course represents some of the best of the best in SaaS, from Wiz to Stripe to Figma and more.

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Evaluating technical SEO data: Key segmentation approaches

Search Engine Land

When training new technical SEO s, I find they struggle to identify action items from tools like Google Search Console and site crawlers (e.g., Screaming Frog, Lumar, OnCrawl). I presented on this topic at SMX Advanced 2024. For those who missed it, I’m recapping the presentation as a mini-series here on Search Engine Land. Commonly used data segments When looking for action items in technical SEO data, you need to be able to segment the data.

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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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50+ of The Best Chief Product Officers, VPs of Product and More at 2024 SaaStr Annual!!

SaaStr

This 2024 SaaStr Annual Sep 10-12 in SF Bay is ending up with our highest concentration of Product leaders ever. Just some of the epic ones presenting, speaking, and/or doing braindates, workshops and/or mentorship sessions: SVP Product, GitHub VP Design, Ramp CPO, Calendly CPO, Rubrik Head UX, Calendly CPO, Procore CPO, Skyflow VP Product, Dialpad AI Product, Figma SVP Emerging Tech, Cloudflare Head of Product, Loom Head of Pricing, Miro Head of AI, Zoom And that’s just. a subset!

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Google rolls out Structured Data Files QA format for Display & Video 360

Search Engine Land

Google announced the general availability of the Structured Data Files (SDF) QA format for Display & Video 360, enhancing bulk review capabilities for advertisers. Why we care. This update simplifies the process of reviewing resource settings in bulk, making campaign management more efficient for advertisers using Display & Video 360. Key details: The SDF QA Format was initially released in open beta on May 30, 2024.

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From Startup to $500M CARR: How Braze Scaled a Growth and CS Team

SaaStr

From startup to $500M CARR, Spencer Burke, SVP of Growth at Braze, shares how Braze scaled a growth and customer success team. We’re in a platform shift, just as in 1988 with the rise of computing in corporate environments. A case study in the book In the Age of the Smart Machine, The Future of Work and Power discusses work at paper mills in the mid-1980s as that wave of computation came into industrial processes.

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Making Sense of this Week in Business

The Advantexe Advisor

This has been “one of those weeks” for the business world. We all woke up on Tuesday with fears that the markets were in for their worst performance since the crash of 1987.

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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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Transform content creation with AI and automation by Edna Chavira

Search Engine Land

Are you tired of content creation bottlenecks and struggling to keep up with audience demands? It’s time to revolutionize your approach. Join Deloitte Digital and Adobe for Start Your Content [R]evolution: Leading a new era of customer engagement with GenAI and automati on where they’ll unveil how AI and automation can transform your content creation process.

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Is Sales Today Nothing More than its Tech Stack?

Understanding the Sales Force

SalesProCentral.com aggregates Blog posts and sends a daily newsletter highlighting the selected posts. While articles from my Blog are often included and highly rated with their readers, I was shocked by some of the other titles from their July 9 newsletter : Tailored to Succeed: How Personalized Learning Transforms Sales Teams Sales Talk for CEOs: From Engineer to CEO: Marko Dinic’s Unexpected Journey in Tech Leadership (Ep127) 10 Best Practices for Conducting a Great Candidate Interview 5 Th

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Why the Google Cookies News Shouldn’t Alter Your Data Strategy

Salesforce

Google surprised a lot of people when it announced in a recent blog post that – after more than four years of saying the opposite – it was not going to phase out cookies in its market-leading Chrome browser after all. Instead, it would ask users to opt in to tracking and focus on developing post-cookie solutions. No timelines were given. Reactions ranged from coffee-spilling shock to languid bemusement.

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