Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 8, 2024

Most sales managers spend less than 10% of their time on coaching, and only one third of managers actually coach their people on a weekly basis. Yet, the Coaching Competency is the most critical part of a sales manager's responsibilities; it is also the most difficult skill set to learn and master. There are many reasons for this, but among them are: the managers themselves were not coached or they had a bad experience with coaching; they were elevated to a team lead or manager position based on

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Iannarino

MARCH 8, 2024

Once, a friend invited me to a fundraising event for a politician. There were hundreds of people all vying for the politician’s attention. At some point, I had a few minutes with the politician, and I asked him a question. When he spoke to me, he blocked out all the people and noise around us. For those few minutes, I was his only focus. What was impressive was his ability to ignore the throng surrounding us and speak to one person.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 8, 2024

The day after Google released its new search spam policies , including the March 2024 spam and core updates, Google began penalizing websites that the search company felt violated those spam policies. The result of these search penalties was that some sites were completely or partially de-listed from Google’s search results, and all or part of their search traffic was wiped out.

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Martech

MARCH 8, 2024

As organizations grapple with the complexities of AI adoption, a strategic framework becomes essential for assessing readiness and ensuring successful implementation. Before introducing even more tech into your stack, you must know what you’re working with. How confident are you with your team’s readiness for change? Can you also sustain those changes?

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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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Search Engine Land

MARCH 8, 2024

In November, I conducted a survey aimed at SEO professionals, delving into their perspectives on climate change. This article unpacks the survey results, highlighting key findings and offering practical advice for SEO professionals looking to impact the environment positively. But first, let’s explore why the link between SEO and climate change matters.

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Martech

MARCH 8, 2024

The marketing industry is in an interesting position when it comes to women in the workforce. Women hold 60% of all North American marketing jobs, according to data from LinkedIn , and women now hold 52% of CMO roles. But modern marketing roles are incredibly diverse in their nature. As marketers know, the roles in the modern marketing organization include people who analyze data, create content, develop platforms, buy media and more.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter – read by over 50,000 revenue professionals weekly to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow is the media extension of GTMfund – sharing insight on go-to-market from working with hundreds of portfolio companies backed by over 350+ of the best in the game executive operators who have been there, done that at the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 8, 2024

Trends and hurdles are already taking shape for all PPC marketers in 2024. Changes in the privacy and data landscapes are dictating most of them, alongside continuing economic struggles. But what are those challenges and how can we prepare and react to them? Here are the five biggest I foresee for the rest of the year. 1. Audience targeting With the end of third-party cookies and stricter consent rules, website data coverage will decrease, limiting your leverage.

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Martech

MARCH 8, 2024

This is the 6th article in a series about how generative AI is impacting marketing. We are in a huge paradigm shift, as generative AI disrupts how we access, consume and create content. Both consumers and businesses are gaining access to the most powerful set of tools ever created. These tools will radically change how we engage with technology and force us all to acquire a new set of skills to thrive.

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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2024

So recently I caught up with a great founder and a beloved product. They rocketed to $20m ARR, and then … growth radically slowed. To 15% a year. From 100% growth at $10m ARR, to 15% at $20m ARR. That’s rough. But rapidly slowing growth has happened to many the past 24 months. The tough part? The burn and the churn. The burn was at a stunning $2m a month, and the churn had spiked.

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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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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 8, 2024

I’ve been getting a variety of people telling their stories on, “ Why I Am So Interested In Selling.” They are fascinating and compelling. I have dozens and will continue publishing them over the coming weeks. But I decided to do an experiment, I asked ChatGPT to put herself in the role of a seller, answering the question (I actually created several scenarios–a seller, a high performing seller, a manager.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 8, 2024

Reddit is piloting a free suite of tools designed to help businesses improve their engagement with consumers. The new feature, Reddit Pro, provides tools and insights to guide businesses on where, when, and how to effectively participate on the platform — whether it’s alongside their Reddit ads or by itself for more natural interaction. New tools and insights.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 8, 2024

Preface : Ron Guilbault has been a thoughtful sounding board for all sorts of ideas on selling. It’s become a fascinating process. I get a note from Ron. It’s about something he’s observed in his work, it may be something I’ve written that has generated more ideas. We’ll go through a few email exchanges, often jumping on calls to dive into the issues more deeply.

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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2024

With everything in AI moving so rapidly, what’s the best way to price Artificial Intelligence products or SaaS tools with custom AI features and integrations? Should it be subscriptions, usage, solutions, or something entirely different? While companies are scrambling to roll out these new tools, they also want reliability and predictability in the value they’re getting from your products, which can make pricing extremely difficult.

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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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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 8, 2024

Preface : Tom Pisello is a great friend and colleague. He’s probably one of the best thinkers on Value Based Selling. He, also, has another important mission, it’s his Growth Through Grief initiative. It’s an important resource for those who have lost loved ones. One of the lines in this story is so consistent with what we read in other stories: “What truly fuels my passion for sales is the opportunity to solve complex problems for my customers.

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APACSMA

MARCH 8, 2024

Introduction Supported by research insights from Gartner, APACSMA has observed the shifting preferences of B2B buyers towards seller-free experiences and the increasing reliance on digital channels. This shift not only affects marketing, sales, and customer service but also has a significant impact on sales enablement. Sales leaders see that fragmented processes hinder customer experience, while sales enablement faces challenges adapting to economic turbulence.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 8, 2024

Preface : Trust me, Charles Green is the master in all things Trust related. He’s written an number of books trust in selling, the most famous is The Trusted Advisor. Charlie has been a friend and mentor of years. He is probably one of the deepest thinkers on connecting in meaningful ways about trust. But I also know something about Charlie that very few people know.

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APACSMA

MARCH 8, 2024

Introduction Sales leaders understand that segmented commercial operations pose a barrier to delivering an exceptional customer experience. Compounding this obstacle, sales operations leaders are tasked with navigating a turbulent economic landscape characterized by inflation, talent shortages, and disruptions in the supply chain. These elements disrupt commercial organizations’ capacity to facilitate confident purchase decisions for buyers.

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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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G2

MARCH 8, 2024

As a consumer, you’ve been on the receiving end of a point of sale (POS) system thousands of times, but what do you do now that it’s your business? You’re just giving yourself more work to do if you stick to traditional pen-and-paper recording.

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Hubspot

MARCH 8, 2024

The women’s health and femtech space has boomed in recent years. Femtech alone is projected to grow globally from $47B in 2022 to ~$108.8B in 2032. Previously taboo topics like menstruation, fertility, and female sexual wellness have hit the mainstream, and institutional money has followed. In 2023: Women’s health companies raised $1.1B+ across 120 deals Their average deal size reached $10.4m, a historic record Source: Precedence Research Get more business ideas and trendy data in our weekly Tre

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Salesforce

MARCH 8, 2024

Imagine this. It’s nearing the end of Q4, and your team has met their sales quotas — maybe even exceeded them. Each one of your reps has consistently demonstrated product knowledge in meetings and built strong relationships with clients, leading 100% of your customer base to renew their contracts. By all accounts, your team’s performance meets (even exceeds) your expectations.

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Martech

MARCH 8, 2024

Marketers are engaging very different consumers depending on their political affiliation. How consumers vote informs several other behaviors, including where they shop and how they consume media. And the distinction isn’t only between Democrats and Republicans. A large cohort of independents makes the polarized landscape even more complicated.

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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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