Iannarino

MAY 7, 2024

Elevate your B2B sales game by harnessing expertise and authority to consistently win more deals.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 7, 2024

“Google is not about blue links. It’s about organizing the world’s information,” according to former executive chairman and CEO of Google Eric Schmidt, speaking earlier today on CNBC. Schmidt was asked about the “blue link economy,” and all the brands and businesses that have benefited from Google Search. But Google is changing.

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Martech

MAY 7, 2024

The martech landscape continues to expand relentlessly, year after year. In 2024, this translates to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 41.8%, marking an astounding 9,295% increase over a span of 13 years. The State of Martech 2024: Scott Brinker and Frans Riemersma That number is daunting, and so is the growth. With that sheer growth rate, it is fair to ask yourself and your team: “Do we control our martech, or does our martech control us?

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 7, 2024

Preface : Lori Richardson is one of the most passionate promoter of sales excellence, I’ve ever encountered. She’s a “4-time Salesforce Sales Influencer, teaches entrepreneurial sales at HBS, and runs Score More Sales. Among her most important work is promoting and mentoring Women In Sales. She is one of the co founders of Women Sales Pros , and an advisor to many other sales groups.

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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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Search Engine Land

MAY 7, 2024

Meta today introduced new generative AI features to help businesses create more engaging ad content across Facebook and Instagram. The big picture. Meta’s latest update will allow advertisers to automate parts of ad creation using brand products and guidelines to inspire the creations. Why we care. Automating the ad-creation process frees up time for advertisers to work on other parts of account management tasks that can’t be automated.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 7, 2024

I was having a round table discussion with a bunch of sales people. They started by saying, “We sell solutions… ” “That’s interesting, tell me more. What do your solutions do?” I responded. They started to describe their solutions and products. They talked about the features and functions, they talked about the user interface and ease of use, they compared their solutions to competition, they even offered to give me a demo. “I’m sorry,” I sai

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Sales Hacker

MAY 7, 2024

Noah Marks is a transformative growth leader focused on building GTM engines and scaling organizations for sustainable growth. He has been in the strategy & operations world for the last decade (with Udemy, WalkMe, Okta and Salesforce), and has spent almost the entirely of his career in the B2B technology market (with the lone exception being a slight deviation into the world of M&A investment banking).

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Martech

MAY 7, 2024

Today, Meta introduced new genAI-powered features allowing advertisers to automate the creation of text and images in ads on the company’s social platforms. New tools and features will be added incrementally, but the aim is to have them available globally by the end of the year. The company also announced Meta Verified for Businesses, a multi-tiered subscription service for businesses to help build credibility with customers.

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SaaStr

MAY 7, 2024

Does outbound still work? It’s one of the questions so many sales leaders are asking out loud these days. The outbound playbook from the past 5-10 years in SaaS clearly … isn’t. Hiring 10, 20, 50 SDRs straight out of school to send the exact same email sequences to try to get meetings for an AE with more experience that them isn’t performing for 90%+ of us anymore.

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Martech

MAY 7, 2024

Google’s deprecation of third-party cookies is causing disruption in digital marketing. Many businesses are increasing their focus on first-party data and tools to help them better identify and reach their audience members. Among the tactics available to help marketers navigate a cookie-less world: Technology solutions like Google Privacy Sandbox , customer data platforms (CDPs) and data clean rooms.

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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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Search Engine Land

MAY 7, 2024

The Killer Whale is back. The latest Knowledge Graph update, released in March, continued the laser focus on person entities. It appears Google is looking for person entities to which it can fully apply E-E-A-T credibility signals and aims to understand who is creating content and whether they are trustworthy. In March, the number of Person entities in the Knowledge Graph increased by 17%.

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Martech

MAY 7, 2024

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space.” So said Democritus, but he wasn’t talking about the marketing technology landscape. Adobe, HubSpot, Oracle, Salesforce — these aren’t atoms; nor are they empty spaces. They are obvious examples of suites one might find at the center of martech stacks. What surrounds them might be atoms; often tiny atoms; often a lot of them.

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SaaStr

MAY 7, 2024

Dear SaaStr: What’s a Resonable Discount for an Annual Contract? How About a 3 Year Contract? First — you don’t want a true net discount at all. What I mean what you want is a pricing structure that anticipates discounts so the net effect is revenue positive. Later, when you implement a CPQ and other more sophisticated systems to manage pricing for a large sales team, these processes and systems will be designed to help you do just that, at least in part.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 7, 2024

Have you ever clicked on a brand’s ad and ended up on a website you weren’t expecting? That’s ad hijacking. And it hurts advertisers and users. Keep reading to learn how ad hijacking works, the risks it poses and how to protect your brand. What is ad hijacking? Ad hijacking is when an affiliate mimics a brand’s ads to steal clicks and revenue on their trademarked keywords.

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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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The Advantexe Advisor

MAY 7, 2024

Some analysts thought a fast-food slowdown would never happen, but it is here and a lot of economists and business leaders are trying to make sense of it. KFC, McDonald's, Starbucks, Pizza Hut, and many other similar fast-food retailers are reporting significant sales slowdowns and it should be very concerning to all business leaders. Starbucks, in particular, experienced a notable drop in same-store sales for the latest quarter, sending its shares plummeting by 17% on Wednesday.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 7, 2024

Technical SEOs aren’t concerned that the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) will negatively impact their job security. That’s one insight from the State of Technical SEO Report 2024, released by digital marketing agency Aira and the Women in Tech SEO community. 64% said they were “not at all” worried. 36% said they were either “a little worried” (30% in-house; 33% agency) or “very worried” (6% in-house; 3% agencies). “While such worries are

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SaaStr

MAY 7, 2024

At SaaStr AI Day, Siqi Chen, founder, and CEO of Runway , discussed his belief of why every role will become a prompt engineering role, along with some no-code AI tips showing how to build products without knowing how to code. Why Is Every Role a Prompt Engineering Role Runway is a next-generation finance platform. They’ve built four AI tools, three without writing code, and have developed an AI-first culture at Runway where everyone can develop and utilize these AI tools without a formal engine

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Search Engine Land

MAY 7, 2024

Google Search now has made it harder to find the number of search results for a search query. Instead of it being displayed under the search bar, at the top of the search results, now you need to click on the “tools” button to reveal the results count number. What it looks like. Here is a screenshot of the top of the search results page: To see the results, you need to click on “Tools” at the top right of the bar and then below that you will see Google show you the estima

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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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Hubspot

MAY 7, 2024

Let’s talk about emotional resilience — that’s the ability to respond to stress, unpredictable outcomes, and setbacks. Why do I bring this up in the context of entrepreneurship? Sometimes, life just happens. No matter your niche, product, or service, and no matter how prepared you are, your business will throw you a curveball. That simple fact makes emotional resilience a cardinal competency to master as an entrepreneur.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 7, 2024

See how Lectric eBike has transformed SEO to gain valuable insights for any ecommerce business looking to significantly enhance organic search traffic and compete in high-stakes markets. At a glance Massive traffic increase: Organic clicks rose from 37,000 to 210,000 per month by targeting high-search commercial keywords. Top Google rankings: Secured top three positions for competitive terms like “electric bike” (246,000 searches) and “eBike” (90,500 searches), boosted by

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PandaDoc

MAY 7, 2024

An effective lead management process is one of the most critical factors driving sales through your funnel. When you capture the attention of a potential customer, this is the moment a lead is born. However, how that lead plays out, whether that person becomes a paying customer or client, is another matter. Optimizing your lead management process , in other words making sure all leads, once hooked, have the maximum chance of converting to a sale, is vital to your business’s success.

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TaskDrive

MAY 7, 2024

Unlock the latest insights into the virtual assistant industry with our roundup of the top virtual assistant stats for 2024. The post Top 22 Virtual Assistant Stats for 2024 appeared first on TaskDrive.

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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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TaskDrive

MAY 7, 2024

From remote work to virtual assistance, discover the latest insights and statistics on the evolving role of executive assistants in 2024. The post Unmasking The Role of an Executive Assistant in 2024: Latest Insights and Statistics appeared first on TaskDrive.

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