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Mastering Cold Outreach: Proven Strategies for Breaking Through the Noise in Sales Prospecting

Iannarino

Struggling to break through the noise with your cold outreach? Here’s how to turn challenges into opportunities and secure those elusive meetings.

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SKO Advice for Leaders from John Kaplan and John McMahon

Force Management

Force Management Co-Founder John Kaplan and five-time CRO John McMahon recently had an in-depth discussion on the Revenue Builders Podcast about sales kickoffs. Combining their years of experience, they hashed out what works and what doesn't when it comes to planning and leading a kickoff event as a revenue leader. Listen to the full podcast conversation here.

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The Quiet Liquidity Crisis in SaaS

SaaStr

So Thomasz Tunguz put together a great chart summarizing one of my top worries over the past 24+ months in SaaS. He summarized the M&A (acquisitions) of The Top 10 Software Acquirers. And what you can see is there is really almost no liquidity for startups and scale-ups in SaaS and Cloud at the moment. And there hasn’t been for a while: It was great times for SaaS liquidity in late 2020 through the end of 2021.

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What are marketers’ investment priorities as 2024 winds down?

Martech

Many marketing organizations spent the last couple of years watching their budgets carefully as interest rates rose and VC money dried up. As a result, many companies invested less in technology than they had in previous years. Dotdigital’s CMO Tracker survey asked 750 CMOs from the U.S., U.K. and Australia about their spending priorities. In this episode of the MarTech.org podcast, Juliette Aiken, CMO of Dotdigital, sits down to discuss the findings of the report.

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AI in Marketing & Sales: Today’s Tools, Tomorrow’s Potential

Speaker: Kevin Burke

AI is reshaping marketing and sales, empowering professionals to work smarter, faster, and more effectively. This webinar will provide a practical introduction to AI, focusing on its current applications, transformative potential, and strategies for successful implementation in your organization. Using real-world examples and actionable insights, we’ll examine how businesses are leveraging AI to increase efficiency, enhance personalization, and drive measurable results.

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Dear SaaStr: I’m at $50m ARR Losing $10m A Year. How Do I Get to Break-Even Fast?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: I’m at $50m ARR Losing $10m A Year. We are growing about 20% and have limited cash in the bank. How Do I Get to Break-Even Fast? 1/ You probably have 50+ sellers at $50m ARR. You probably need half of them. That’s tough but true. Cut anyone below mid-pack. Concentrate leads in those that close the best. Especially when growth slows, you almost always do better concentrating leads in your top closers.

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Mastering the Sales Game: Expert Tips from Trainer Jessica Stokes

Sales Gravy

On this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, Lucy Beth Adams sits down with Master Sales Trainer, Jessica Stokes to discuss her journey in sales, from her early days in cold calling to becoming a top trainer. She offers valuable insights on maintaining customer relationships, handling objections, and staying motivated in a challenging sales career. Key Takeaways: – Facing Rejection with Determination: Early sales careers can involve a lot of cold calling, rejection, and setbacks.

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The “Tell Me More” Problem

Partners in Excellence

LLMs are providing sellers the opportunity to reshape their engagement strategies. Ideally, enabling higher impact first conversations. We can ask the LLM to research the organization, identifying the key issues the company is facing. We can ask the LLM to write a relevant prospecting letter focusing on a certain persona. We can ask it to script a conversation we’d like to have with the customer.

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How to use Microsoft Clarity for deeper website analytics

Martech

Microsoft Clarity is one of the best analytics tools you might not know about. This powerful, free tool enriches your existing analytics and customer profiling, offering deeper insights into user behavior. This article covers what Microsoft Clarity is and how to set up custom events to maximize its value for your website. TL;DR Clarity is a free, no-frills heatmapping and user session recording tool.

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Why Do We Find “Objections” So Objectionable?

Partners in Excellence

“Objections,” more specifically, “Objection Handling” have been a fundamental part of sales training, probably since the first sale. I can imagine Adam saying to Eve, “But that’s not a Granny Smith, I prefer those… ” Fear strikes at the heart of too many sellers. “This call will be great as long as they don’t bring up these issues?

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AI-powered martech news and releases: September 19

Martech

It’s one thing to ramp up content production, but is the added productivity pumping out waste? This week, digital content experience company Siteimprove acquired MarketMuse, a content strategy and intelligence company. The aim of the acquisition is to connect content creation with content strategy capabilities, including research, planning and execution.

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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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How to Build a Capability Framework That Enhances Business Performance

G2

Learn how to build a robust capability framework aligned with your organization's goals to enhance talent management, employee development, and business performance.

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Learn the anatomy of a martech center of excellence

Martech

A martech center of excellence (COE) is about more than just building a team; it’s about creating a hub of innovation within your digital marketing efforts. Whether your team is in-house, outsourced or a mix of both, understanding the key expertise required is essential for success. Let’s explore the various roles critical to building a strong martech COE. 6 essential pillars of a martech COE In the well-structured ecosystem of a martech COE, six primary groups collaborate to form a cohes

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Best Black Friday Software Deals in 2024: AI, CRM, and more

G2

Stay home for Black Friday this year. Forget waiting until Cyber Monday. Pop your leftovers in the microwave and shop these software deals from the comfort of your parents’ living room.

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Prime Big Deal Days kicks off holidays with slow start

Martech

Holiday promotions got off to a slow start this week as consumers in Florida braced for the second of two big storms in as many weeks. Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days concluded yesterday while Hurricane Milton made landfall near Tampa Bay. The extreme weather left its mark during a month when many have already started their holiday shopping. Salesforce found U.S. digital traffic down 6% in Southeast states in the days preceding Prime Big Deal Days.

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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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How to Balance Innovation and Compliance for Happier, Healthier Patients

Salesforce

The healthcare and life sciences (HLS) industry is experiencing a rapid digital transformation. From advancements in personalized medicine to the integration of AI and IoT, the potential for innovation is immense. HLS organizations are feeling the pressure to adopt new technologies that improve patient care , boost operational efficiency, and make better use of data.

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GDPR & Cold Calling: How to Stay Compliant

Hubspot

GDPR compliance is a messy process to begin with, but trying to stay ahead of the regulation while B2B cold calling presents a whole other set of problems. In trying to wrap my brain around how to make cold calls under GDPR, I discovered two things: It’s totally doable (and legal) and it’s actually not that hard if you have a set of systems in place to carry it out.