Tue.Dec 10, 2024

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How to Improve B2B Sales Effectiveness: A Consultative Guide for Engaging Modern, Empowered Buyers

Iannarino

The universe of B2B sales is evolving at an alarming pace. It's no longer enough to rely on legacy approaches and outdated sales tactics. Today, more than ever, salespeople and sales leaders must adapt to survive and thrive in this dynamic environment.

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How marketers can succeed with generative engine optimization

Martech

The digital landscape is evolving rapidly, and marketers are feeling the shift. Generative AI is redefining how people search and engage with content, reshaping traditional marketing strategies. Features like Googles AI Overviews now provide instant, generated answers for search queries. This transformation poses both challenges and opportunities for marketers.

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What It Really Takes to Sell To Developers and Engineers with Komodor CRO Jim Hunnewell

SaaStr

Selling to developers and technical audiences requires a different approach than traditional B2B SaaS sales. In a recent SaaStr Workshop Wednesday , Komodor CRO Jim Hunnewell who also previously led sales at companies like GitHub, shared his first-hand experience and insights for successfully selling to engineering teams. The days of pure top-down enterprise sales are over when it comes to technical products.

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From Flip-Flops to a $500M Exit as CRO: Lessons Learned from Taking a Startup From $0 to a Successful Exit with Martin Roth

Sales Hacker

Former Levelset CRO Martin Roth takes you behind the scenes of scaling a company from $0 to over $25 million ARR and a successful exit to Procore. With raw honesty, he shares key mistakes made along the way and invaluable lessons learned about building a winning sales playbook, culture, and team structure. The early days and career beginnings In 2012, Martin Roth joined Levelset (formerly ZLien) as one of the earliest employees, a time when the company was a mere side business for its founder, S

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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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Your Sales Team & Stress: How Providing Eye Care Resources Can Help

Sales Pop!

Managing stress is crucial for any workplace. According to Vivian Health, over 52% of employees take stress-related absences. Stress also leads over half of the workforce to apply for or consider moving to new jobs. Your sales team is likely to feel the strainespecially since sales is listed in the top ten of Vivian Healths rankings of the most stressful industries.

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“I’m Trying To Think, But Nothing Happens….”

Partners in Excellence

Too often, as I look at my feeds, or as I discuss many well intended enablement/training programs, or as I look at the technologies available to “help” our sellers, I’m reminded of the old Three Stooges scene where Curly is struggling, saying, “I’m trying to think but nothing happens!” While we genuinely seek to help our sellers improve their performance, there seem to be unintended consequences to what we are doing.

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Why your company needs a brand LLM to thrive

Martech

As businesses aim to deliver consistent, personalized engagement across multiple channels, a brand LLM stands out as a transformative solution. Powered by generative AI, a brand LLM ensures that customer interactions remain consistent, compliant and personalized at scale, effectively shaping every touchpoint to reflect the companys identity. What is a brand LLM?

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Automaker Website Frustrations Push Buyers Elsewhere

David Meerman Scott

Auto marketers at seem addicted to cookies and at the same time, they seem to assume that everybody visiting the site is ready to build a vehicle.

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Start 2025 with smarter, more impactful email marketing by Edna Chavira

Martech

Organizations face a balancing act: empowering teams to create impactful campaigns while maintaining brand consistency. Marketing teamsstruggle with inconsistent branding across channels, cumbersome list management and segmentation, or limited control over campaign creation. Add to that the challenge of identifying whats workingand what isntand the need for a more streamlined approach becomes clear.

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Dear SaaStr: What Was Your First Step When You Decided to Do a Startup?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What Was Your First Step When You Decided to Do a Startup? For me, both times, it was to find my co-founder. In my first start-up, arguably I invented the idea of the company , but my co-founder invented the technology. It was really all her. Step 1 was seeing if we wanted to do this crazy idea together. The second time, my first co-founder and I started working together before the idea came together.

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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 (Almost) Predict the Future With AI Financial Forecasting

Hubspot

Imagine if you could pinpoint when youll have the cash flow to hire another employee, or how a supply chain disruption would affect your business. As a small business owner, Im not a financial expert and I cant predict the future. What I cant learn or do myself, I automate. Thats how I started using AI for financial forecasting. While AI in finance is useful for entrepreneurs, its helping companies of all sizes make more accurate predictions and better, data-based decisions.

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Expect 60% of Your VPs to Work Out — And That’s If You Do It Right

SaaStr

So few things are more disruptive than when a VP doesn’t work out. Especially if they’ve hired a ton of folks under them that didn’t work out either. Millions are spent, so many mistakes must be undone, and so, so much time is lost. So: When in doubt, don’t make the hire. Push on. If they don’t have anyone great to bring with them, don’t make the hire.

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The 14 most impactful HubSpot updates from November 2024

Martech

HubSpot’s November 2024 updates focus on helping you capture cleaner data, engage contacts more effectively and streamline everyday tasks. From upgrading email personalization with user properties to improving your ability to resubscribe contacts effortlessly, these updates will give you better insights into customer behavior and more control over your processes.

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GTM 125: From Flip-Flops to a $500M Exit as CRO, Secrets to Scaling with Martin Roth

Sales Hacker

Martin Roth is the former CRO of Levelset, where he led the company from its first dollar in ARR to a $500 million acquisition by Procore in 2021. Currently, he’s the founder of MartinRoth.com, specializing in helping startups scale from $1M to $10M in ARR. Martin brings a wealth of experience in building and scaling sales teams, developing effective go-to-market strategies, and navigating the challenges of startup growth.

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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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Adobe Express partners with Box

Martech

Box, a file-sharing and content management company, announced a new partnership. Adobe Express will now be the default image editor for Box. The company’s enterprise users will be able to work on images and soon videos collaboratively and securely with Adobe Express genAI editing tools. Adobe Express is powered by Adobes Firefly generative AI.

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