Iannarino

APRIL 25, 2024

Discover how to elevate your B2B sales performance and outshine the competition with these expert tips on boosting win rates.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 25, 2024

Focus on the top of the funnel and everything else will work out. This seems to dominate so much of the conversation I see. It’s not wrong, but it’s not completely right. But this thinking drives our focus on MQLs, SQLs and massive prospecting efforts. We seem to overlook the questions, “How do we know what ‘Top of Funnel’ we need?

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Martech

APRIL 25, 2024

Weeks before his 70th birthday, my colleague quipped, “I still don’t like being called a ‘senior.’ Unless there’s a good discount attached.” The joke leans on an aging, coupon-clipping stereotype that should be retired. My boomer colleague is part of an adaptable, active, tech-forward cohort who cannot be overlooked, largely because they also hold more than half of America’s wealth.

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2024

Dear SaaStr: When Do VCs Try To Replace Founders as CEOs? You’re worried about a bunch of VCs replacing you. That’s fair. You should be. It happens. Regularly — but not usually. A few high-level things to think about. First, if you really screw up, shouldn’t you be replaced? Second, if you don’t end up being a great CEO in the long-run, shouldn’t you be replaced when someone can do the next stage materially better than you can?

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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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Martech

APRIL 25, 2024

U.S. digital video ad spend is expected to hit $63 billion in 2024, a 16% increase from the previous year, according to projections from IAB’s “2024 Digital Ad Spend & Strategy Report.” For the first time, digital video — which includes CTV, social video and online video — will claim a higher share of budgets than linear TV. Why we care. CTV and other digital video channels have long promised better addressability and measurement than traditional linear TV.

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2024

We’re gearing up for 2024 SaaStrEuropa.com in London on June 4-5, which will be awesome. 3,500+ of the best in SaaS and Cloud together in London! See You There! But then comes The Biggest Non-Vendor SaaS Event of the Year! SaaStrAnnual.com 2024 on Sep 10-12 in SF Bay!! 12,000+ of the best founders, CEOs, CTOs, CROs, CMOs and more! 1,000+ Braindates, workshops, and mentorship sessions 800+ of the top VCs in SaaS and Cloud 250+ speakers and sessions Founder-VC matchmaking Awesome networking

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 25, 2024

Google will stop allowing publishers to add publications to the Google Publisher Center manually. Instead, Google will automatically add eligible publications pages later this year. This change will likely lead to even more confusion around Google News inclusion , which we have had for years since Google changed the inclusion process back in 2019. What Google said.

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Martech

APRIL 25, 2024

Marketers short on time and/or resources have developed shortcuts to produce emails and the most common of those can seriously hurt performance. Fortunately, there’s an alternative that can help you with this. Also, you can improve performance by modifying your approach based on whether your company is CPG, ecommerce or B2B. Common email shortcuts that hinder performance First, let’s look at what you might be doing wrong.

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Force Management

APRIL 25, 2024

Determining the budget line item for a sales initiative can be difficult until you start talking to vendors. There are a multitude of sales consultants out there with prices that vary just as much. Once you determine the key knowledge gaps you're trying to fill in your organization or the challenges you're trying to overcome, then it's time to connect with the right solution for your budget and pain points.

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Martech

APRIL 25, 2024

The use of AI by educators is not always a positive thing. This week a Maryland high school teacher was arrested for allegedly creating a phony audio recording of his boss saying very offensive things. Sadly, the fake audio went viral and the high school’s principal was “widely admonished,” according to one carefully worded news report. Eventually, investigators linked the email used to send the audio to an ISP registered to the teacher’s grandmother.

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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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Search Engine Land

APRIL 25, 2024

For a long time, optimizing webpages to rank for a single targeted keyword was a common SEO tactic. Marketers would carefully select a high-value keyword and optimize content and on-page elements to rank well for that term. However, this hyper-focused keyword approach is now considered outdated in many cases. Today, searcher behavior, query intent and the buyer’s journey are more important than targeting individual keywords.

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Martech

APRIL 25, 2024

What do you do if the vendor of one of your martech solutions gets bought? This can change many things, including price, customer service, contract enforcement and more. Here are 10 things that will let you be proactive if this happens. 1. Know what you need and why. The most important thing is to understand why you are using the solution in the first place.

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Salesfolks

APRIL 25, 2024

Storytelling in sales is a powerful tool that transcends the mere presentation of facts and figures, transforming the sales process into an engaging, memorable, and persuasive experience. Successful salespeople understand that at the heart of every purchase decision lies not just a need, but also an emotional and psychological connection.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 25, 2024

The rise of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) has opened the possibility of disrupting Google’s long-standing dominance in the search engine market. One such challenger is Perplexity, an AI-powered search platform that aims to provide users with summarized answers and cited sources instead of the traditional list of web page links.

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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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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 25, 2024

By Lisa Heay , Director of Business Operations at Heinz Marketing As part of my Marketing Operations role, one of my focus areas is to understand how our website is performing and where we have opportunities for optimization. Google Analytics can be intimidating. Sure, there are baseline metrics like visitors and views, and you can watch the numbers rise and fall over the months, but do you know what those numbers are really telling you?

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 25, 2024

Meta’s ad revenue increased 27% in Q1 2024, a significant improvement over the 4% growth it saw in the same quarter a year ago. Advertising revenue was $35.6 billion in Q1 2024 compared to $28.1 billion in Q1 2023. This success helped drive total Meta revenue to grow 27% year-on-year from $28.6 billion in Q1 2023 to $46.4.1 billion in Q1 2024. “If you look at our two end-to-end AI-powered tools, Advantage+ Shopping and Advantage+ App Campaigns, revenue flowing through those has more than

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SalesLoft

APRIL 25, 2024

In this three-part series, you’ll learn how a Salesloft AE lands multiple mega deals — from prospecting to selling to power, to delighting them as customers — so you can replicate his success. The customer is on board. The contract is signed. The team is popping champagne. Now what? In this last interview of the 7-figure deal series, Salesloft’s Director of Product Marketing Albert Rhee asked Corey Goldstein the tactics he uses to maintain value after a big deal is done.

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G2

APRIL 25, 2024

Unlock innovation and boost collaboration with agile workspaces. Learn how to design and implement a flexible workspace that fuels agility and empowers your team.

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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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SalesLoft

APRIL 25, 2024

If revenue pros are thinking it, we’re saying it. Join us live as go-to-market experts share their best advice and insights from the frontlines of revenue — with tactics you can immediately implement at your organization. Chris Turner and Rebby John get this question a lot: what does a sales engineer do? In Episode 3 in our RevTalks series, you’ll hear the experts define the sales engineering role in their own words, how they think AI will change sales engineering in the future, and what i

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Sales Pop!

APRIL 25, 2024

Are you feeling like your APPEALING CONTENT is getting lost in the jungle of search engines??? You spend a significant amount of time writing awesome articles & blog posts, but … no one is seeing your hard work! Very frustrating!!! Don’t worry because the majority of writers have been there. Listen up because today we’re going to provide you with the SECRET RECIPE for getting your content discovered by people who want to see it & digest it.

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SalesLoft

APRIL 25, 2024

In the first three episodes, join Salesloft security leader Mike Meyer for an inside look at why we keep seeing CISOs in deals, what’s on security’s mind during the sales process, and what’s ahead of data protection. In Episode 3 of Technically Speaking, sales leader Asa Winchester and security leader Mike Meyer sat down to discuss which security risks to look out for today, the elements of a world-class security program, and what the heck SOC 2 is — all through the lens of a curious sal

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G2

APRIL 25, 2024

We’ve all used a PDF at some point. However, PDFs have a lot of disadvantages. Find out more in this blog.

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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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Salesfolks

APRIL 25, 2024

In the past, aggressive sales tactics were often employed to close deals quickly, with salespeople sometimes prioritizing their own interests over those of the customer. This approach, while it may have led to short-term gains, often left customers feeling deceived or manipulated, leading to a general distrust of salespeople.

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Salesforce

APRIL 25, 2024

Good customer service is important — whether we’re receiving or providing it. But what is good customer service, anyway? Good customer service means meeting customer needs and expectations consistently. This can lead to business growth — even when you’re not at your best. Our research found that 88% of customers say good customer service makes them more likely to purchase again.

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Salesfolks

APRIL 25, 2024

The mantra 'things are sold, not bought' has again become relevant. This paradigm shift signals a resurgence for sales professionals, heralding a period where the art of sales is not just about transactional exchanges but about building relationships, understanding nuanced needs, and offering bespoke solutions.

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Salesforce

APRIL 25, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here to redefine the tech world, poised to revolutionize small and medium-sized businesses ( SMBs ) through optimizing operations and enhancing employee efficiency. Although originally explored by large enterprises, AI is now also transforming the way small businesses work. While it might seem daunting, getting started with AI for small business is actually much simpler than it seems.

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Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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Salesfolks

APRIL 25, 2024

This article explores the essence of sales liquidity, its significance, and its transformative potential for businesses striving to optimize their operational expenditures (OpEx) while maximizing return on investment (ROI).

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Salesfolks

APRIL 25, 2024

Many seasoned sales professionals are contemplating a significant career pivot: transitioning from permanent employment to independent sales contracting. This move, often seen as a leap towards greater autonomy and flexibility, comes with its unique set of opportunities and challenges.

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Salesfolks

APRIL 25, 2024

In the face of economic recessions, businesses often find themselves in a precarious position, forced to navigate the challenging waters of maintaining or even growing sales with limited resources. One solution is the strategic use of on-demand sales contractors and virtual sales teams.

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Salesfolks

APRIL 25, 2024

This article delves into the hidden challenges of hiring full-time sales employees and proposes an alternative approach that mitigates these risks while maximizing the potential for revenue growth.

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Are your sellers unsure about using AI in their day-to-day workflows? Or are they eager to try but uncertain where to start? They might be asking: Which tasks are best suited for AI? How will using AI affect my relationship with my customers? With so many tools available, which ones are the most useful to me? To help answer these and other common questions about using AI during the sales cycle, we surveyed B2B sellers who were early adopters to get their insight and advice about how to use gen A

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