Tue.Jan 16, 2024

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Start the Year Strong: Resolutions for Each Member of Your Revenue Team

Force Management

There’s no doubt that the way sales organizations and their customers interact has shifted in the past few years. From a new remote-first approach to rapid digital technology advancement, the customer journey is new and requires active participation from more than just your sales team. The companies that succeed in 2024 will be those who adopt a cross-functional revenue mindset , equipping every customer-facing role to articulate and negotiate on the value of their solution.

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What We Miss About Value

Partners in Excellence

The majority of sellers don’t understand value. As a result, the only thing they talk about is the product–it’s features and functions, customers using the solutions, how great their company is, and how the product is better than competition. They don’t understand the customer, as a result, can’t translate what the solutions mean to the customer.

Trust 146
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Venture Backed or Bootstrapped? There’s a Third Way. Just Raise One Round.

SaaStr

There’s so much debate on social media and elsewhere on bootstrapped vs VC. Bootstrapped you maintain control, and the unit economics. But many see it as so much harder. And it’s almost always longer. VC can let you go faster, but it can become an addiction. And the dilution all-in generally ends up being 60%-70% by the time you approach an IPO.

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How to harness storytelling’s impact in B2B marketing

Martech

Storytelling might not be the first tool that springs to mind in B2B marketing. But let’s rethink that. Crafting a resonant narrative is just as crucial in a boardroom as in a book. The art of storytelling can be the key to unlocking meaningful connections with your business audience. Think about it — a well-told story can captivate, engage and leave a lasting impression, even on the most analytical minds.

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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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SaaStr Has 1,500+ No-Cost VIP Equality, Inclusion and Balance Passes for 2024. Apply Now!!

SaaStr

For the 8th year in a row, we’re expanding our Equality, Inclusion and Balance program. We are proud that the 2023 SaaStr Annual featured a combined 60% women and multicultural speakers and have had over 60% women and multicultural speakers at each SaaStr Annual since 2018, and we hope to do even better in 2024! Our core goals and values at SaaStr include: Putting on the most inclusive events in the industry and Being as inclusive a community as possible.

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Marketers fume as Google Ads’ customer service hits ‘all-time low’

Martech

Google Ads customer service has plummeted to an unacceptable all-time low, according to marketers. From incorrect account suspensions to sales calls “aggressively” pushing automation to confusion over the platform’s products, advertisers are exasperated by the lack of help from Google. And the problem only seems to be getting worse. A ‘brutal’ process Mike Kelley, chief marketing officer at Sylvan Learning, has been working in marketing for almost 20 years.

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Can tech companies protect elections from AI-powered manipulation?

Martech

This year’s elections are the first with generative AI tools that can be as easily used by individuals as large organizations to produce misinformation at scale. Even as tech companies push out ways to prevent and detect false content, there are serious concerns that they won’t be enough. Why we care. The impact of this is unlikely to be limited to political marketing.

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Want to set your 2024 SEO priorities? Run these GA4 reports

Search Engine Land

We entered 2023 talking about GA4 and we’re doing the same thing in 2024. Frequent readers of Search Engine Land – and all SEOs, for that matter – know why: GA4 wasn’t ready for prime time when Google forced us to make the switch, and we’re still working through kinks months later. Having said that, I have managed to hone in on a few extremely valuable GA4 reports that I’m using to help my clients set their course for organic growth in 2024.

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Webinar: AI-forward marketing in 2024

Martech

The new year has just begun, and the digital marketing landscape continues to evolve rapidly. AI will play a pivotal role in sculpting the future of customer acquisition, but it is still an uncharted realm of strategies and tactics. Join experts for an unmissable webinar designed specifically for digital marketers who drive offline sales and conversions.

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What Is Sales Revenue? How to Calculate and Examples

Salesforce

I’d like to think I took a page out of T. Pain’s book when I transitioned from sales to sales operations. I’ve closely followed his career from rapper to singer, and just like rap continues to influence T. Pain’s music, my sales background affects how I approach the world of sales ops. In fact, one of the biggest impacts my sales background has on my sales ops success is how I understand sales revenue — not just a top-down view of a key sales metric, but a measure of coll

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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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Growth marketing 2024 playbook: Focus on customer lifetime value

Search Engine Land

Forget flashy ads and vanity metrics. 2024 is all about strategic growth marketing focused on building real customer loyalty. Leading brands know the most valuable customers aren’t one-time buyers, but passionate fans who provide recurring revenue. Here’s how to structure marketing experiments that move users through the AARRR funnel, from acquisition to revenue and beyond.

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Orchestrate Your Entire Sales Process with AI

SalesLoft

In Qualified’s latest video series GTM AI , host Sarah McConnell sits down with leaders from the most cutting-edge SaaS companies to learn how their AI-fueled products can modernize your GTM motion. In a recent episode, Sarah talked with Kristin Swindle , Salesloft’s Manager of Enterprise Sales Engineering, about how Salesloft AI, including their new product Rhythm, can be the AI co-pilot sellers need to be more effective.

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YouTube denies ad blocker crackdown is causing browser slowdowns for Premium users

Search Engine Land

YouTube denied further intensifying loading speed issues as part of its efforts to discourage ad blocker use. However, both Premium users and those using ad blockers have reported problems with the platform, such as lagging, higher CPU usage, and delayed load times. Why we care. YouTube’s intensified efforts against ad blockers, at the potential expense of user experience, could discourage platform usage, impacting the reach of your advertising campaigns.

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“The 2080 Problem” is your biggest revenue blind spot

SalesLoft

2,080. After weekends, holidays, and vacations, that’s how many selling hours there are left in a year. Multiplied across your whole team, you might think that sounds like ample time for your reps to hit their number and gain some major wins for your sales org. But the reality for most go-to-market teams is that only about a third of that is spent engaging customers and prospects.

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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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Webinar: AI-forward marketing in 2024 by Cynthia Ramsaran

Search Engine Land

The new year has just begun, and the digital marketing landscape continues to evolve rapidly. AI will play a pivotal role in sculpting the future of customer acquisition, but it is still an uncharted realm of strategies and tactics. Join experts for an unmissable webinar designed specifically for digital marketers who drive offline sales and conversions.

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There's No Such Thing as Writer's Block with Honorée Corder

Sell Or Die

Honorée Corder is the author of more than 50 books, publishing consultant, TEDx speaker, and the Founder of Indie Author University. Honorée passionately turns aspiring non-fiction authors into bestselling and best earning authors (and so much more)! She also runs the Empire Builders Mastermind, does all sorts of other magical things, and her badassery is legendary.

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Best of SearchBot: Create a social post for a vehicle recovery company

Search Engine Land

Best of the Bot showcases Search Engine Land Bot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. The language model is based on content from Search Engine Land layered on top of ChatGPT. The editors of Search Engine Land selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am the first generative AI chatbot for search marketers.

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Trump, The Iowa Caucus, and Sales Improvement

Understanding the Sales Force

Regular readers know I like to start my articles with an analogy. Baseball analogies appear more than any other but analogies from politics are my favorites. I have used them very sparingly over the past fifteen years or so and for those who don’t share my political views, I would never try to convince you that I am right and you are wrong. I just make observations which you don’t have to agree with, and if we can leave it at that, you don’t have to stop reading my articles

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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!