Thu.Dec 07, 2023

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Revolutionizing Sales: The True Impact of Cold Outreach and Essential Sales Skills

Iannarino

By focusing on value creation and relationship building, you will set yourself apart in today's competitive market.

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“Information, Information Everywhere, But Not A Bit To ………”

Partners in Excellence

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner has a famous line, “Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink… ” There’s another saying, “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink… ” I’m reminded of variants of these sayings as I see the glut of tools/techniques leveraging the latest generation of AI and generative language tools.

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Future-proof your SERP presence: 6 areas to focus on

Search Engine Land

As Google evolves with new AI capabilities, SEO strategies must also adapt. Here’s an overview of key trends and actionable tips to future-proof your presence in search results pages (SERPs). The evolving SERPs SERPs today are dominated by rich results, images, videos, social mentions and AI-powered snapshots. As searchers find answers to their queries directly within the search results, zero-click results continue to rise.

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Achieve AI Excellence with The Five Elements Framework

Salesforce

With the rise of AI , everyone has seen how businesses can use AI to simplify and improve their processes. But how can we be confident that we are using AI to the best of our ability and pursuing AI excellence? First, recognize enduring principles, such as prioritizing customer success and ensuring a personalized user experience. Then, learn how to use AI to reach your goals.

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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 is rolling out programmatic bidding for limited ads

Search Engine Land

Google AdMob will support programmatic bidding on inventory eligible for limited ads in early 2024. This new serving mode enables contextual programmatic demand for publishers serving limited ads and allows demand from: Google Demand. Authorized Buyers. Open Bidders. SDK Bidding. Why we care. This feature offers publishers the chance to potentially increase revenue through programmatic demand.

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From tech tools to personalized presents: Holiday gifts marketers actually want

Martech

Put away the fruit cake and ugly sweaters. This holiday season calls for a more thoughtful approach to gifting, especially when it comes to the discerning marketer in your life. Channeling the spirit of Oprah’s “Favorite Things,” I’ve put together a selection of innovative gift ideas designed to impress. From cutting-edge gadgets that redefine work efficiency to bespoke items that add a personal touch, each suggestion is handpicked to surprise and delight the marketers in

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83% of You Don’t Really Expire Discounts. Not Really.

SaaStr

So discounting is such a surprisingly nuanced and complex topic in SaaS. While a few leaders like Atlassian do pursue a mostly “no discounts” policy for the most part — that just doesn’t work in practice for 99% of us. As much as we’d love to have a No Discounts policy … it’s tough in practice. First, it’s often impossible to get through many procurement departments without one.

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Analyze content publishing velocity with this Python script

Search Engine Land

Understanding your competitors’ content strategies is crucial, whether you’re running a comprehensive SEO campaign or focused on semantic SEO. I’ve developed a free Python script to analyze your competitors’ publishing frequency. It leverages sitemap data to reveal how often your competitors publish new – or update existing – content pieces.

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Advertising performance in the context of conversation by Reddit for Business

Martech

Digital platforms that focus on conversation provide a unique extension to performance campaigns. Because they are more trusted and authentic, conversations about consumer problems, recommendations and brands drive opinions and purchases. These platforms hold a distinctive position as hubs where social and search seamlessly intersect and provide advertisers with a roadmap to leverage unique features for effective performance campaigns.

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GA4 updates explorations date range, data retention settings

Search Engine Land

Google Analytics 4 has updated its explorations feature and data retention settings. When you save an exploration with a preset date range (like the last 28 days), GA4 will now display data from the last 28 days from when you opened the exploration, not from when you initially created it. Regarding data retention, if a GA4 property becomes large, event-level data retention will automatically reduce to two months when exceeding 25 billion (for standard) or 250 billion (for 360) billable events in

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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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AR-powered gift cards for the holidays and beyond

Martech

“If you got a gift card from a traditional gift card company, you would never say ‘Hey, that’s a great experience, let me give it to my niece as well.’ Today it’s just an email, digital, flat, static gift card — there’s no experience there to share.” That’s a landscape Du Nguyen is seeking to transform with his AR-powered gift card start-up Cardii.

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Dear SaaStr: When Should I Expect New Sales Hires to Be On Target?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: When Should I Expect New Sales Hires to Be On Target? At least by 1.5 sales cycles. And yes, that’s true today, too. You should know well before that if you are managing her or him — you’ll usually know by half a sales cycle. But if you have say a 60-day average sales cycle, and a new rep isn’t more or less on target by month 90 … or at the very least 60%-70% of the way there … she or he probably never will be.

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This week in AI-powered martech releases: Dec. 7

Martech

This was the year AI went mainstream, so what will next year hold? My guess is that after 12 months of basking in (or being told) all the positives about AI, we’re going to get some real introductions to its drawbacks. For marketers that may mean fake content. AI is great at creating reproductions and the world is full of troublemakers. Put them together and you get some nerve-wracking brand safety issues.

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Doubling Down: Jay Levy Managing Partner at Zelkova Ventures

SaaStr

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. Kicking us off is Jay Levy, Managing Partner at Zelkova Ventures. #1. What’s your most recent disclosed investment? Why did you do the deal? We recently invested in Respondology. The company provides a platform for brand and audience protection via social media comment moderating.

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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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Master the art of turning data into dollars

Martech

True potential lies in your marketing endeavors if you embrace a composable stack that separates reality from fallacy. In a world where competitors mimic your style and strategy, your data is the secret weapon that sets you apart. Your data is your competitive advantage in an environment where enterprises are working to grab market share by designing can’t-miss, always-on customer experiences.

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Google Ads updates Cryptocurrencies and related products policy

Search Engine Land

Google is updating its Cryptocurrencies and related products policy to provide clear guidance on the scope and requirements for advertising Cryptocurrency Coin Trusts. Starting Jan. 29, advertisers offering Cryptocurrency Coin Trust targeting the U.S. will need to be certified and meet Google’s specific requirements, according to Google’s announcement.

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How to Score Deals in the Final Quarter [Data & Expert Backed Tips]

Hubspot

It’s here, the biggest sales quarter of the year. The very moment deal-seekers everywhere shoot their shot, turn prospects into buyers, and score buzzer-beating slam dunks that accelerate the business to record-breaking sales. Q4 sales are often the most lucrative of the year, but successful sales don’t come simply because of the season. Sales professionals who are doing their best work in Q4 are executing their sales processes to perfection.

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Google Merchant Center: Using product data to boost your retail efforts

Search Engine Land

Google Merchant Center is a valuable yet overlooked resource for ecommerce advertisers. It offers free analytics on product performance, pricing, demand and more. This article shows how to extract these insights to make smarter inventory, pricing and assortment decisions. We’ll cover how to pull Merchant Center data into BigQuery for powerful analysis and use the Shopping Content API to automate feed updates.

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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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The power of customer data across the journey: Acquisition

Martech

Understanding customer needs allows us to improve our offerings and build lasting, mutually beneficial relationships. This results in customers getting more relevant content, offers and experiences while the brand enjoys increased customer lifetime value. Over the next three articles, we’ll explore: The important role data plays across the customer journey.

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Google Ads gambling and games policy updated

Search Engine Land

Google Ads is updating its gambling and games policy U.S. country-specifics. Starting Dec. 12, Google announced it will start accepting and running Ads from: Sports betting from state-approved entities in Vermont. Lottery-couriers (who must provide a state license) in Arkansas, Montana, New Jersey and New York. You must apply for certification to be eligible to promote these ads.

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Applying Bartending Principles to Sales

Sales Pop!

The world of bartending and sales may seem like two entirely different professions, but there are actually many surprising parallels between the two. Just as a bartender strives to create a welcoming and memorable experience for each customer, salespeople aim to build relationships and ultimately close deals. By drawing on the lessons learned behind the bar , salespeople can enhance their skills and achieve greater success in their field.

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Advertising performance in the context of conversation by Reddit for Business

Search Engine Land

Digital platforms that focus on conversation provide a unique extension to performance campaigns. Because they are more trusted and authentic, conversations about consumer problems, recommendations and brands drive opinions and purchases. These platforms hold a distinctive position as hubs where social and search seamlessly intersect and provide advertisers with a roadmap to leverage unique features for effective performance campaigns.

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Increase Revenue With Better, Faster Sales Onboarding

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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Master the art of turning data into dollars by Cynthia Ramsaran

Search Engine Land

True potential lies in your marketing endeavors if you embrace a composable stack that separates reality from fallacy. In a world where competitors mimic your style and strategy, your data is the secret weapon that sets you apart. Your data is your competitive advantage in an environment where enterprises are working to grab market share by designing can’t-miss, always-on customer experiences.