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Why You're Selling Drills, Not Holes: B2B Sales Insights

Iannarino

If you want to improve your ability to sit across from leaders who you hope to help, you will need to recognize they have an easier time understanding outcomes (holes) and are bored by solutions (drills).

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Google starts testing AI overviews from SGE in main Google search interface

Search Engine Land

Google is now testing AI overviews in the main Google Search results, even if you have not opted into the Google Search Generative Experience labs feature. Google said this is an experience on a “subset of queries, on a small percentage of search traffic in the U.S.,” a Google spokesperson told Search Engine Land. In May 2023, Google opened up a Search Labs section for searchers to opt in to see and use the Google SGE results, that contained AI overviews.

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Redpoint: Seed May Still Be Strong, But There’s No Bounce Back at Series A. And the AI Premium is 3x.

SaaStr

So Redpoint Ventures published some of the slides they recently presented to their Limited Partners (their own investors) here. There’s a ton of good data there, but this one slide stood out to me, because it was put together in a really clear fashion, better than other data sources I’ve seen. And what it says is that even though Seed stage investing remains arguably as strong as ever … Series A hasn’t bounced back.

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What Google’s Privacy Sandbox means for the app ecosystem

Martech

Mobile advertising underwent an upheaval when Apple enabled the deprecation of the device identifier a couple of years ago. “We already lost about 50% of the ecosystem,” said Itai Cohen, SVP marketing and strategy at Digital Turbine. Now Privacy Sandbox for Android is coming down the road. Digital Turbine, a platform for programmatic and bespoke mobile advertising, has been around since 1998 (it started out as Mandalay Digital).

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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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The Path to CRO with TigerEye, CircleCl, Lattice, and Notion

SaaStr

The path to Cheif Revenue Officer (CRO) is different for many people. Tracy Young , CEO and co-founder at TigerEye, sits down with three CROs to talk about how they navigated the journey to revenue leader. Jane Kim, former CRO of CircleCl, Laurabeth Harvey, President of Field Operations at Lattice, and Erica Anderson, Notion’s CRO, all share the key decisions or events that shaped their careers.

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Transforming content marketing lifecycles with AI

Martech

As organizations continue embracing AI-driven approaches, marketing leaders should be empowered to push the boundaries of innovation and drive better results with less manual, time-consuming effort — but it requires thinking beyond basic applications. AI tools and large language models (LLMs) are changing the content marketing process, impacting how we conceive, produce and distribute content.

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Is ChatGPT the Google Search killer we’ve been expecting?

Search Engine Land

AltaVista. Lycos. Yahoo. Once upon a time, these were the most popular search engines in the world. Then along came Google. It did Search better. Since around 2002, Google has been the search engine – and its dominance has only grown year after year. It has ascended to monopoly status and 91.6% of the global search market share in February, per StatCounter.

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Dear SaaStr: How Do You Handle Customers That Want to Build It In-House?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Do You Handle Customers That Want to Build It In-House? Be “Cool”. What I mean is, we all go through this, at least, a lot of us. When you first build a start-up, it’s often feature-poor, with little-to-no brand. Internal IT teams sometimes think they can built it themselves. And we’re even seeing a bit of renaissance here again, as many try to build apps on ChatGPT and OpenAI themselves instead of through an established, pre-AI vendor.

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Google SGE a top threat to brand and product terms, study finds

Search Engine Land

You should expect to see “some erosion of current traffic levels” from brand-related terms as a result of Google’s Search Generative Experience, according to a new Authoritas analysis. Why we care. Google just today announced it is rolling out SGE to users who aren’t opted into Search Labs, under the name of AI overviews. We’re still in the dark about how large of an impact the AI-generated answers will have on organic traffic.

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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Spence Wixom

Partners in Excellence

Preface: “Yo dudes and dudettes… ,” in reading this I learned something new about Spence Wixom. I learned he is a surfer and that he was hitting the waves just about 30 miles north of where I was trying to hit the waves… Wish I had known back then, we could have had some great conversations waiting for the right wave. More seriously, Spence is one of a small number of people I include in my “kitchen table board of directors.

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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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How to create local business content that converts

Search Engine Land

With the rise of AI-generated content, Google is cracking down on low-quality, auto-generated copy in favor of high-quality, human-written content from real experts. This creates an opportunity for local businesses to stand out by producing authentic, helpful information that resonates with their audience and builds trust. This article covers strategies for creating localized business content that converts, such as: Providing transparent pricing details.

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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Sheevaun Thatcher

Partners in Excellence

Preface: Sheevaun Thatcher is a well known leader in the Rev Ops community. We were talking about this series, I said, “I’d really love your views on this, but you aren’t a ‘seller.'” Sheevaun quickly corrected me, “Dave everyone sells, every day!” This is such an important concept for everyone, yet too often we forget it.

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Bing Deep Search is officially live for all users

Search Engine Land

Bing Deep Search, an optional generative AI feature meant to help searchers with complex questions that don’t have simple answers, is now fully live for all users. Microsoft announced today that all users can now access Deep Search within Bing Search by clicking on the Deep Search button at the top of the search results page. Bing Deep Search was originally announced in December 2023 as a search engine that goes deeper on your queries using Bing’s index and GPT-4 to give you more tailored

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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Orrin Broberg

Partners in Excellence

Preface : Orrin Broberg has such a diverse and fascinating background in selling. He has worked in some of the largest organizations through starting his own companies. Whenever, I talk to Orrin, he is deeply thoughtful about all the business, strategy, leadership, growth issues that arise in our conversations. But the thing that’s always struck me is is deep involvement, in support of his teams, with the customers.

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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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Google publishes Performance Max developer guide

Search Engine Land

Google released a dedicated guide for developers called the Performance Max developer guide. The document is aimed at helping developers access the necessary information to build PMax integrations more easily. Why we care. For developers working on PMax integration, this guide consolidates all necessary information into one convenient location. Additional improvements.

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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Maddy Goldberg

Partners in Excellence

Preface: For those of you who are fortunate enough to know Maddy Goldberg , you might be asking yourself, “I didn’t think Maddy was a sales person… ” In reality, everyone sells! We are always trying to get others to buy into our ideas or strategies, to do things that are important to achieving our goals, to change and move forward.

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Unveiling virtual data rooms (VDRs) for due diligence processes

PandaDoc

Due diligence is an in-depth examination of a target company’s financial, legal, and operational aspects. It provides decision-makers with empirical insights to navigate through mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and other business transactions. To keep all your assets safe and sound during due diligence, you need a robust solution for secure document management.

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Ethical marketing in the age of hidden fees and deceptive pricing

Martech

Most of us crave genuine connections and experiences that hold lasting value. We yearn to build trust and engage in interactions beyond mere transactions. Unfortunately, the realities of commerce and associated marketing often pull us in a different direction. Many businesses, facing economic pressure, prioritize short-term gains over long-term brand health.

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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!