Mon.Aug 19, 2024

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Mastering the Sales Cycle: Beyond Cold Calling for B2B Success

Iannarino

Are you focusing too much on cold calls and neglecting the rest of the sales cycle that can make or break your deals?

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Thinking Outside The “Box”

Partners in Excellence

Recently, I attended a conference. I sat with a group focused on GTM strategies and how they were structuring their strategies to drive growth. A few of the panelists started showing organization charts, discussing how they were restructuring their organizations to improve results. Each chart showed hierarchies of boxes, each with a functional name.

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Dear SaaStr: I Have a Good Job But Am Not That Happy. Should I Threaten To Quit If It Doesn’t Get Better?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: I Have a Good Job But Am Not That Happy. Should I Threaten To Quit If It Doesn’t Get Better? If you’re unhappy at work, should you threaten to quit? I think you can do it once. Once. If you are truly a top performer, top 10%, folks will react. You may even get a raise. In fact, this is one of the easiest ways to get a raise in a BigCo.

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How to identify high-churn personas in B2B and mitigate their risk

Martech

Last week, Adam Robinson, the CEO of Retention.com, published a LinkedIn post that’s become all too familiar over the last couple of years. You know the one. Retention.com had to let go of staff. In this case, it was 15 people, which is about 40% of the headcount. These posts are met with a wide range of emotions, which is understandable. I’m not bringing it up to judge Robinson on his turn at this unfortunate ritual.

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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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Google Ads removes Audience Recommendations

Search Engine Land

Google Ads officially eliminated the audience recommendations feature from the Insights tab, a move that removes automated suggestions for targeting specific audiences. Why we care. The removal of audience recommendations from Google Ads’ Insights tab forces advertisers to take a more hands-on approach to audience targeting. Impact on advertisers.

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The small B2B marketing team’s guide to ABM

Martech

Reaching your B2B audience gets challenging each year as competition increases and digital trends evolve. New technologies and changing buyer behaviors demand that marketers stay adaptable and innovative. For small teams, account-based marketing ( ABM ) simplifies targeting and maximizes budget impact. The benefits of programmatic ABM for small B2B marketing teams ABM presents multiple benefits for small B2B marketing teams striving to optimize resources and drive engagement.

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Balancing Human Judgment and AI in Performance Reviews

G2

Learn how to balance human judgment and AI in performance reviews. Discover strategies for integrating AI tools while strengthening human connections.

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Google apologizes to advertisers for major Shopping Ads glitch

Search Engine Land

Google Ads experienced a significant system glitch affecting its Shopping product serving late last month. This error resulted in advertisers’ products being displayed in other merchants’ ad accounts, potentially exposing sensitive business data to competitors. The incident has left many advertisers frustrated not only by the technical failure but also by Google’s inadequate communication in its aftermath.

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Google AI Overviews have negligible impact on traffic say publishers

Martech

Two large publishers, Dotdash Meredith and Ziff Davis, say Google AI Overviews haven’t significantly impacted their traffic. Here’s what the IAC (owner of Dotash) wrote its Q2 2024 shareholder letter: “Google began to roll out AI Overviews in mid-May, the impact on our traffic has been negligible. Referrals from Google search queries produce less than half of our traffic, and based on our analysis, AI-generated answers are being served on roughly 15% of searches across our categories, with the h

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Secure AI Improves Efficiency and Customer Trust

Salesforce

Organizations are quick to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) for their automation, decision-making, customer support, and growth strategy needs. However, increased AI workloads come with important security and privacy considerations. Businesses can benefit from AI in a secure way with the Einstein 1 Platform. Its built-in Einstein Trust Layer addresses security concerns by ensuring robust data security, privacy compliance, transparent AI operations, strict access controls, and comprehensive aud

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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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The Top 3 Pieces of Advice for a First Time VP of Sales

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What Are Your Top 3 Pieces of Advice for a Young, First Time VP of Sales? I’m Just Turning 30 A few top mistakes I see with first-time stretch VPs of Sales. 1. Don’t lower the bar on hiring. The clock may be ticking to get some AEs and SDRs in the door, but you are still better off making sure whomever you hire is truly strong enough.

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Transitioning to a headless CMS: 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 Run Inclusive Meetings in a Diverse Workplace

G2

Workplaces today are becoming more diverse than ever before, bringing together a rich tapestry of cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives.

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The billion-dollar one-person SEO agency: Fiction or the future?

Search Engine Land

Sam Altman, cofounder of OpenAI, is in a betting pool with other tech CEOs. The bet is simple. What the first year will be for a one-person billion-dollar company? This article will examine whether a billion-dollar, one-person SEO agency can emerge. Is it pure fiction or is it the future? What Altman said If we look at what Sam Altman said, he initially stated that we would see the emergence of 10-person billion-dollar companies soon.

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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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5 Things You Need to Know about Devaluation

The Advantexe Advisor

Many of the blogs I write are based on real-world content that Advantexe is creating for our global clients. This week, we are launching a brand-new business acumen simulation on the topic of devaluation. The reason we are building this simulation is to help global leaders understand what devaluation is and what they can do about it in the short term and long term.

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Mastering the Art of Cold Calling: A Comprehensive Guide to Boosting Your Success Rate

Hubspot

Some might say cold calling is dead. However, it's far from the truth. Is it harder than it used to be? Yes. Is it completely dead? No. I still talk to teams today, converting at a high rate by leveraging cold calling. Yet, when I work with some teams I notice that they aren't making any calls. Why? It's because of the fear of rejection. Fear of rejection is why people believe cold calling is dead and avoid doing it.

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Canva Reviews 2024: What Do G2 Users Think?

G2

Check out user-generated Canva reviews on G2 to evaluate the software's benefits, features, pros, cons, and pricing to stay ahead of key market contenders.

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Mastering Sales Funnels: How Building Effective Funnels Can Transform Lead Management and Boost Sales

Sales Pop!

In the evolving digital landscape of 2024, sales funnels are more than just a buzzword—they’re a strategic necessity. As businesses strive to convert potential customers into loyal clients. The role of a well-crafted sales funnel has become increasingly vital. Sales funnels provide a structured approach to managing leads and driving conversions.

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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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Guidance and Best Practices for Implementing AI Within Your Contract Management

G2

Explore best practices for implementing AI in contract management. Discover how CLM software will enhance efficiency and accuracy in your processes.