Mon.Jan 13, 2025

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AI Should Kill “Contact Me” in 2025. It’s Long Since Time.

SaaStr

By the end of the year, AI should kill the classic human SDR/BDR screening inbound leads Its just a horrible experience for the prospect waiting days for a 20 year old entry level sales rep to get back to you and get on the phone to qualify you out or send you to an AE — Jason SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 10, 2025 Perhaps the single worst experience in B2B sales is Contact Me.

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AI Isn’t The Selling Point!

Partners in Excellence

Recently, I was coaching a seller on a critical call he was about to make. His strategy to engage the CRO was to lead with AI and the capabilities it enabled in the product he was selling. “Why are you leading with this,” I asked. “I’ve noticed in my research that he talks a lot about AI, I thought that would be a good way to engage him!

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6 AI Prompts for Small Business Marketing

Salesforce

Artificial intelligence (AI) has left no stone unturned to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in marketing. From data-driven campaigns, automating processes, and optimizing social media strategies, your marketing efforts can be tripled using AI. In fact, 67% of marketing leaders already believe that AI will help them better understand their customers and boost overall growth.

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Free speech, Meta, data privacy and email: A delicate balance or a complete disconnect?

Martech

Meta’s recent decision to move from fact-checkers to a community notes model akin to X, highlights a growing divide in how digital platforms handle free speech and content moderation. This underscores a deeper disconnect across digital channels. These divergent approaches to moderation, combined with escalating data privacy concerns, pose significant challenges for marketers and consumers.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Sales in the New Order: Thriving in a Polarized, Deglobalized World

Salesfolks

The G-zero world may feel chaotic, but its also a landscape teeming with opportunity. By embracing localization, leveraging technology, and staying ahead of geopolitical trends, sales professionals can carve out success in this new order.

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Quality Over Quantity: 5 Steps to Cleaner, More Effective Data

Salesforce

Managing vast amounts of data is daunting. With millions of records to handle, maintaining high data quality, compliance with regulations , and streamlining processes can seem overwhelming. Yet these tasks are essential for any organization striving to stay competitive and efficient. In fact, data quality is a top priority for analytics and IT leaders.

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How to Achieve Enterprise Scalability Success — 3 Key Lessons from IT Leaders

Salesforce

Scalability can make or break a business. Youre either growing with demand or facing the risk of performance slowdowns, system outages, lost revenue, and unhappy customers. While implementing scalability across an organization can seem like an enormous task, its doable. And the first step to becoming a scalable business? Learning from others. In a recent panel discussion, IT leaders shared their scalability journeys and valuable lessons learned about streamlining operations, improving performanc

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Welcome emails lift KPIs: Best of the MarTechBot

Martech

Best of the MarTechBot showcases the MarTechBots responses to prompts submitted by readers. See more about how marketers are using MarTechBot here. The language model is based on content from MarTech embedded on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content.

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Why Smart Scale Testing Leads to Loyal Customers       

Salesforce

Whether youre running an e-commerce platform preparing for Black Friday or a SaaS solution onboarding a wave of new users, handling high demand without compromising app performance is critical to keeping customers happy. Happy customers are one thing, but loyal customers? Youll need to consider performance testing tools think of scale testing as your stress test for success, with success being the ability to deliver a consistent, quality user experience.

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Make Google happy by optimizing your WordPress site’s images by Kinsta

Martech

Images help to build engaging online content, from stunning visuals on a homepage to detailed product shots in an ecommerce store. They grab attention, tell a story, and set the tone for your brand. But theres just one catch: images can have a negative impact if they slow things down. Large, unoptimized images slow down your sites loading speed especially on small screens which can frustrate visitors and increase bounce rates.

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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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The 5-phase framework that grew Outreach from $0 to $230M ARR

Sales Hacker

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. GTMnow highlights the strategies, along with the stories from the top 1% of GTM executives, VCs, and founders behind these strategies and companies.

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Carta: 20% of VC Rounds Last Year Were Down Rounds. It’s Probably Not a Big Deal Anymore.

SaaStr

Per Carta, last year a full 20% of all VC rounds were down rounds, i.e. priced at less than the last round price. While this seems high to me, one thing is clear: the “down round” like layoffs has become normalized in tech. Valuations can go up and down. Not only up in start-ups. Downrounds are still harder to raise than you might think.

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