Fri.Sep 20, 2024

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How to Acquire Large Clients: Strategies for Winning Major Accounts and Boosting Sales Results

Iannarino

Unlock the secrets to acquiring large clients and transforming your sales performance.

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Do Your People Look Forward To Meeting With You?

Partners in Excellence

If you are a manager, sit down, swallow hard, ask yourself this question: “Do your people actually look forward to meeting with you?” Perhaps ask yourself, “Do you look forward to meeting with your manager?” Alternatively, “Do they look forward to taking you on a customer call?” If you and your people are like 70% of the sellers I meet, the answer to this question is usually an eyeroll.

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How marketers can go beyond random acts of AI and why they should

Martech

I’ve just returned from MAICON 2024, one of the best, if not the best, conferences focused on AI and marketing. MAICON didn’t disappoint: I’m full of ideas to help our clients improve their marketing by applying AI. At the same time, it became evident to me that many organizations are far from being able to maximize AI’s impact on marketing. Let me explain.

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Top 7 Google Ads and SEO synergies you should act upon

Search Engine Land

Throughout my career, I’ve noticed SEO and PPC teams rarely sync and share data and strategies to support each other. This is a major missed opportunity that limits each channel’s full potential. This article highlights seven practical synergies both your PPC and SEO teams can implement to drive even more revenue for your business. Ultimately, both are focused on increasing conversions from Google and other search engines, so it makes sense to bring these teams together for greater success

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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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How to make the jump from product-market fit to platform-market fit

Martech

Jason, director of product marketing at a global cybersecurity company, celebrates a big win. His product ranks as the third-fastest growing in the company. But there’s a problem — the company operates in silos, treating all products as separate cost centers. Vanessa, his no-nonsense VP, demands change. “We need a scalable platform. Get this right, and we’re set for success.” Jason’s mission is clear: Lead the company through the final stage of go-to-market maturity, platform-m

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Hiring a Great VP of Sales: The New, Latest Edition with Jason Lemkin (Video + Pod)

SaaStr

What are the top 10 mistakes founders are still making today when hiring their VP of Sales? SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin, has done numerous surveys now that confirm that a startling 70% of first hires don’t make it. In this post, we’ll delve into the common pitfalls founders encounter when hiring a VP of Sales. Reflecting on twelve years of SaaStr’s hiring lessons, we’ll take a deep dive into Jason’s critical insights into why sales leaders fail and how founders c

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Do Angel Investors and Seed VCs Ask for Detailed Budgets Before Investing?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: Do angel investors or seed venture capitalists normally ask for detailed budgets including cash flow analysis before investing, even though most of the numbers will be pure speculation? Many do. Why? Even if you are very early stage, It’s really one of the best ways to learn. To learn what in the founders’ heads: How long do they want the cash to last?

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Mastering Performance Max using scripts

Search Engine Land

Quick question: What exactly does Performance Max maximize? I’ll let you go first. You: “Performance Max maximized my profits.” Me: “No.” You: “Ah, I see. I am tracking revenue, not profit. So Performance Max maximizes my revenue” Me: “Nope.” You: “Uhh, OK, then it must be conversions Me: “No, again.” You: “What? What else is there? Clicks then?” Me: “No, no, no!

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Could Lost Deals Correlate with Sales Success?

Understanding the Sales Force

The New England Patriots’ new head coach Jerod Mayo picked up his first win and loss in the first two weeks of the NFL season. I read in the Boston Herald that he is only 177 losses away from tying the NFL coaching record for most losses by a head coach, currently held by both Bill Belichick and Tom Landry. My first reaction was, do they expect him to be that bad?

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Fueling better marketing plans with Shell by Uptempo

Search Engine Land

Planning season is one of the busiest times of the year for marketers—and at Shell Mobility, it’s no different. Their team is in full planning mode from March to October. But disconnected spreadsheets and presentations made it hard to keep everything aligned across their 30+ local markets. On Sept. 25 at 9 a.m. PT, Mindy Smith, Global Brand Strategy and Marketing Performance Manager at Shell Mobility, will share how they solved these problems.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

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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Will Cutting Interest Rates Save 2024 Corporate Results?

The Advantexe Advisor

We just finished a Business Acumen workshop for one of our heavy manufacturing clients. During the 3 rd round of their customized business simulation , we had prepared a “wobbler” for the purpose of having the senior leaders feel and discuss the impact of a significant interest rate cut after a full year of near recession cooling down. We wanted the conversation and the actions to focus on “saving” the business year in terms of the guidance the simulated teams had provided to their simulated sha

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What to do when your vendor has a data breach

Martech

One of your vendors will suffer a data breach. It is a when, not an if. They may have already, but not yet know it. Because marketing handles so much customer data, it’s essential to know what to do when a breach happens. There will be a breach in 2023, 61% of companies reported a third-party breach , according to a study by Prevalent, a third-party risk management provider.

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Voice of the Customer Analytics: AI-Powered Insights for Better Business

G2

The business world is made of little experiences that shape customer centricity — a quick reply to a complaint, a tailored product suggestion, or a smooth omnichannel experience. These seemingly small stories are the building blocks of lasting customer relationships.

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Fueling better marketing plans with Shell by Uptempo

Martech

Planning season is one of the busiest times of the year for marketers—and at Shell Mobility, it’s no different. Their team is in full planning mode from March to October. But disconnected spreadsheets and presentations made it hard to keep everything aligned across their 30+ local markets. On Sept. 25 at 9 a.m. PT, Mindy Smith, Global Brand Strategy and Marketing Performance Manager at Shell Mobility, will share how they solved these problems.

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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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How To Leverage Qualitative Research To Unlock User Behavior

G2

Learn about different qualitative research methods and why user behavior analytics is a scalable approach to qualitative research.

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10 AI Tools for Sales to Maximize Your ROI in 2024

Predictable Revenue

As we finish 2024, the landscape of AI sales tools has evolved dramatically, offering unprecedented opportunities to boost your ROI. The post 10 AI Tools for Sales to Maximize Your ROI in 2024 appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Incubating a Company Inside GTMfund: Operator.ai and a New Era in Sales Tech

Sales Hacker

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter – read by over 52,000 revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies.

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