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Why You Shouldn’t Hate Mondays

Iannarino

If you're the kind of person who hates Mondays , I've done some math for you. The average life expectancy in the United States is about 78-years-old, meaning you have 4,056 weeks to be alive in total. That's it, 4,056. And if you're reading this post, you have less than 4,056 because you're not a newborn. Let's look at the math and see what you've got left.

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Who Is a Datablazer? (And 6 Reasons To Become One)

Salesforce

Are you ready to unlock the full potential of all your data and join a community of like-minded visionaries? Welcome to the Datablazer community, where IT and business leaders, developers, and data practitioners come together to transform data into their most powerful asset. Imagine expanding your network with top leaders, sharing cutting-edge best practices, and getting exclusive access to resources that will elevate your data game.

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There Probably Is No Downturn in SaaS. It’s Time To Stop Waiting For It To End.

SaaStr

So the past 24 months have been such an odd time in SaaS and Cloud. Some parts of it are on fire, fueled by unprecedented AI spend. Other parts, more connected to the end-consumer economy, are seeing strong growth, from Shopify to Toast to Canva. And the parts that sell “classic” B2B2B into tech are often struggling the most. Many have seen NRR plunge well below 100%, net new customer count slow to close to zero, and growth fall to the teens or lower.

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Why Purpose-Built Agents are the Future of AI at Work

Salesforce

We’re witnessing a pivotal shift in artificial intelligence, where the sweeping scale of huge, all-purpose AI is giving way to the precision and finesse of purpose-built autonomous agents. This is not just a technical advancement. It’s a reimagining of how machines can augment a worker’s potential. Whether that’s helping sales reps nurture leads, brainstorming campaign ideas for product marketers, or deflecting customer service calls, these purpose-built agents are focused on one specific

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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 If Failure Was An Option?

Partners in Excellence

We never, purposefully, set out to fail. But our fear of failure prevents us from learning, improving, and growing. This fear of failure, whether self or organizationally imposed, actually condemns us to more failures over time. We create all sorts of mantras, suggesting we don’t fear failure. “Fail fast, fail often!” “Fail forward.” “Move fast and break things.” Yet when we fail, we tend to punish those we perceive to have failed.

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Dear SaaStr: Is a Strong Social Media Presence Important as a CEO?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: Is a Strong Social Media Presence Important as a CEO? Onestream is the latest SaaS IPO. Bootstrapped to $100m ARR. The CEO has never posted on LinkedIn. Not once. And he’s a 2x successful founder. Selling to CFOs and finance. On the other hand, if I were selling sales and marketing tools, I’d be all over social media, especially LinkedIn.

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How to build fast, effective feedback loops in an AI-driven world

Martech

According to the experience management company Qualtrics, 63% of customers believe companies need to get better at listening to their feedback. This aligns with my experience as both a customer and a marketer. As a customer, I’m regularly bombarded with requests to “rate my experience” or “provide my feedback.” But as a marketer, I see how rarely this feedback is integrated in a cross-functional way.

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Data providers: Google August 2024 core update was very volatile

Search Engine Land

Google’s August 2024 core update started on Aug. 15, 2024, and completed 19 days later on Sept. 3, 2024. Early on, we saw some signs of life for sites hit by the infamous September 2023 helpful content update. But honestly, most of those sites did not see enough traffic rebound to make a difference. While the August core update felt really big for us, Google told us the March 2024 core update was its largest core update ever.

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Using mobile measurement partners to drive bookings: Best of the MarTechBot

Martech

Best of the MarTechBot showcases the MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. See more about how marketers are using MarTechBot here. The language model is based on content from MarTech embedded on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content.

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How to create and optimize Google Ads custom segment audiences

Search Engine Land

Google Ads offers several ways to create audiences, with custom segments being the most flexible and powerful option. However, most custom segments we see are poorly created. Poorly created audience segments are impossible to refine or optimize since you do not know why the ad is being displayed. Well-crafted audience segments can be optimized similarly to how you optimize search terms.

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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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How to align your martech COE with organizational and go-to-market goals

Martech

Establishing a martech center of excellence (COE) is essential for navigating modern marketing challenges. Think of it as the core of your marketing strategy, where all tools and processes support your business goals. But how do you ensure your martech efforts are in lockstep with the goals of different organizational and go-to-market functions? The answer is in understanding the unique challenges and opportunities each function faces and positioning martech as a strategic enabler.

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Google updates crawlers and user-triggered fetchers documentation

Search Engine Land

Google has made a series of updates to its crawlers and user-triggered fetchers documentation, mostly breaking out the single-page document into multiple pages and documents. But Google also expanded what product each crawler affects with a new section next to each crawler and added a robots.txt snippet for each crawler to demonstrate how to use the user agent tokens by each crawler.

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Common Business Email Mistakes

Sales Pop!

Writing business emails can be challenging to some people and there are a few common business email mistakes that can make one fail to communicate effectively. From what I have analyzed, the three biggest mistakes people make while writing business emails are: 1. Unclear and Wordy: Most business emails tend to have ambiguous or vague expressions. This leaves the recipient wondering what such an email intends to achieve or say.

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How to make your display campaigns profitable

Search Engine Land

If you use display campaigns correctly, they can be profitable. The problem is that most people use them wrong, turn them off and then claim that “display campaigns don’t work.” This guide will show you how to use display campaigns correctly in all stages of the funnel to make them profitable. Display campaign: Your targeting options There are two categories of how you can target people with display ad campaigns.

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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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Service as a Strategy: How Manufacturers Are Reimaging Success

Salesforce

The manufacturing industry is undergoing a significant transformation. In today’s digital and customer-centric world, manufacturers must evolve to remain competitive and drive growth. Many view service as a major opportunity. According to our research , almost all (97%) manufacturers are pursuing strategic changes to their service and aftermarket operations.

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CPCs keep increasing – here’s what you can do about it by CallTrackingMetrics

Search Engine Land

Cost-per-click (CPC) rates are rising across industries. In fact, CPCs are up by an average of 10% year over year, according to WordStream. It’s time to address this challenge. Lisa Salvatore, Sr. Manager, Lead Acquisition at CallTrackingMetrics , puts it this way: “You can give the digital advertising landscape credit for one thing: keeping us on our toes!

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Set Your Sights High: 5 Steps to a Rock-Solid Data Cloud Strategy

Salesforce

Imagine you’re a detective on a complex case with clues scattered all over the place, held by different teams. Each clue is key, but when they’re all over the map, piecing together the whole story becomes a real headache. This kind of fragmentation can make you second-guess the reliability of your information and slow down your progress, much like businesses dealing with data spread across different silos, which makes it hard to trust the insights you get and act on them effectively.

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11 Mistakes That Undermine Your Credibility With Buyers, According to Experts

Hubspot

I‘m going to level with you — the statement I’m about to make probably sounds like one of those meaningless platitudes about selling you‘d hear at some seminar that you were pressured by your employer to attend, but I swear I’m going somewhere with it. Ready? Credibility is the currency of sales. It's the most valuable asset you have to support your efforts, and without it, your engagements and relationships are almost bound to get away from you.

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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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How to Bridge the AI Trust Gap: 5 Data-Centric Tactics for IT Leaders

Salesforce

79 percent of IT professionals say business leadership is increasingly pressuring them to implement artificial intelligence (AI), and it’s no wonder. Generative AI is revolutionizing our work processes and sparking efficiency and innovation across sales, service, marketing, and commerce. However, there is an AI trust gap that IT professionals need to bridge.

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Four Pros and Three Cons of Usage-Based Pricing (and How to Know If It’s Right for You)

Salesforce

It’s easy to get caught up in what to charge. But how you charge for your products and services is just as important. With usage-based pricing, you actually do get exactly what you pay for. How do you know if it’s the right business model for your company? Let’s explore how and why companies turn to this model. What you’ll learn: What is usage-based pricing?

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