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Revenue Builders: Our Top Podcasts of 2024

Force Management

As we wrap up another year of insightful conversations and invaluable lessons, we're excited to share our top podcast episodes of 2024. The Revenue Builders Podcast has continued to bring you the best in sales strategies, leadership insights, and industry trends, featuring some of the most influential voices in the field. From uncovering the reasons behind failed deals to exploring the journey of sales leadership, our episodes this year have been packed with actionable advice and inspiring stori

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What If Our Sellers Had More Autonomy?

Partners in Excellence

Reading a fascinating article in the NYTimes, Giving Kids Some Autonomy Has Surprising Results , got me thinking. What if we give our people more autonomy in how they manage their deals, days, what they do? In the past 5-7 years, we’ve seen a movement to be completely prescriptive with our people and their activities. We script every conversation, yet the customers we are engaging don’t have the same script.

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Retail media networks continue to grow: 2025 predictions

Martech

Over the last year, the RMN space saw new in-store standards and solid growth. This is likely to continue. Here are a few ways we expect to see this dynamic space continue to mature. Growing in-store networks While retail media networks have gained some attention [in 2024], I believe their full potential remains largely untapped, said Melanie Babcock, Vice President, Orange Apron Media and monetization at The Home Depot.

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2025 And The Rise of the Mech Account Executive

SaaStr

Have we lost interest in investing in the human side of sales? Not in hiring sales execs themselves, but in giving them more tools to be more efficient. It sort of seems like it. AI has hardly rendered the sales professional obsolete. Not yet, at least. Salesforce itself is hiring 2,000 sales execs this year to sell its AI platform, AgentForce. Salesforce: Actually We’re Going to Hire 2,000 Sales Execs Now To … Sell AI At most B2B companies, 35%+ of the headcount is in sales and i

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketer's Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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3 reports in GA4 that use analytics to eliminate customer friction

Martech

Feel like your marketing team is drowning in analytics reports? Youre not alone. Data surrounds todays marketers, making it difficult to understand how to connect business problems to the data that offers a solution. One use case for web analytics data is reducing customer friction points. In a presentation at the Fall MarTech Conference , Julie Jones, product manager at Baylor Scott & White Health, demonstrated for marketers how to create an actionable list of events they need to track and

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SaaStr Annual 2025 Running at 156% of 2024

SaaStr

SaaStr Annual 2025 ticket sales in December: 181% of 2024 SaaStr Annual 2025 ticket sales overall so far: 156% of 2024 We'll see where we end up, but … SaaS is Back!! pic.twitter.com/5vlHiRmeCz — Jason SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 2, 2025 So one of our themes (and memes) is that SaaStr is Back. It’s a new SaaS, a different SaaS, and AI-fueled SaaS, but it’s back.

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Dear SaaStr: What Was Your First Meeting Pitching a VC Like?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What was your first meeting with a VC like? My first meeting with a VC … It went really well. In fact the very first VC I ever pitched as a founder offered to fund us tentatively with $5m by the end of the first meeting! And then I blew it. What happened? Well, first the intro was from an ex-boss, so I had a strong warm referral.

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The Rise of AI Agents: A Conversation with Tomasz Tungus

G2

In a fireside chat at G2 Reach with Theory Ventures' General Partner Tomasz Tunguz, G2 CEO Godard Abel explores how AI agents are poised to fundamentally reshape enterprise software.

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It’s time for a better approach to change management in marketing

Martech

Marketing teams make changes all the time. But to make big changes in marketing, like using your tech stack more effectively, decreasing your time to market or improving campaign outcomes, a concerted effort to communicate and deliver change is necessary. In a presentation at the Fall MarTech Conference , Melissa Reeve discussed the “middle-out” strategy, a way to drive successful change in marketing.

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AI for Entrepreneurs: 5 Ways AI is Transforming Business

Hubspot

Like most people, my first real experience with AI was when ChatGPT was launched in 2022. At first, I was simply amazed by the wealth of knowledge it could provide. However, I soon realized that the true power of AI for entrepreneurs wasn't in accessing information but in how its capabilities could be applied across multiple use cases. The potential wasnt just exciting it felt limitless.

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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.