June, 2023

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Your Buyers Changed. You Didn't.

Iannarino

Research on B2B buyers shows they have changed how they buy. The biggest shift is that they do their own research before starting the sales process, and most would prefer to buy without having to speak with a salesperson. Buyers complain that salespeople don’t understand their business and their challenges, and that the sales experience doesn’t give them what they need.

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Unlocking the Secrets to Outside Sales Success in 2023

Veloxy

The year 2023 has brought with it new challenges and opportunities in the world of outside sales. As sales professionals navigate this ever-changing landscape, the secrets to their success lie in adapting to industry trends , leveraging technology, and honing essential skills. Are you ready to unlock the secrets to outside sales success in 2023? Read on to discover the strategies, techniques, and insights that will propel you to new heights in your sales career.

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How Your Sales Coaching and Method Have a Direct Impact on Your Results

Anthony Cole Training

Every organization has sales coaching and a sales method. What many companies either don’t know or unsure of is this: What direct impact does our sales coaching and sales method have on improving sales?

Sales 242
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Days before UA sunset most sites still not using GA4

Martech

The UApocalypse is drawing nigh. On July 1st, nine days from now, Google will shut down the standard version of Universal Analytics (UA) — the most widely used marketing analytics tool in internet history. In its place is Google Analytics 4 (GA4), a very different and likely more powerful tool. Everyone’s ready for that, right? We’ve all transitioned to GA4, briefed stakeholders on the new metrics and triple-checked how GA4 data interacts with your other technologies, right?

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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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There Are No Handicaps in Sales

Membrain

I love to play golf. What’s fun with golf is that it’s a difficult sport, both technically and mentally, and when you’re doing it, you really get into the flow. You can’t be thinking about anything other than your next shot.

Sports 145
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Should I Sell for $50m … Or Push On And Try to Build a Unicorn? Especially … Today?

SaaStr

A life poorly lived is a trap Go for it at least once — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  (@jasonlk) May 5, 2023 BusinessInsider had a great story a ways back on Datto’s $1b exit to Vista Private Equity (more on the role of PE in SaaS here ). So much of it resonated with me, especially the story of the CEO’s 10-year journey, and turning down an earlier $100m offer to sell.

Sell 141

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How to create an SEO Chrome extension using ChatGPT

Search Engine Land

Chrome extensions provide a quick and easy way to execute boring and repetitive tasks. Extensions can be a huge time saver in SEO. But many still don’t focus on building them. One reason is that some marketers are unable to code complex tools, so they use whatever tool is available. That said, you don’t always need to invest your time learning difficult skills or spending money on an expensive developer to build a new complex tool.

Start-ups 140
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Three Immutable Truths About How Your Salespeople Should Respond to Rate Reduction Requests

Anthony Cole Training

How should you coach your salespeople on how to respond to rate reduction requests from clients? Share this article or the information you've learned from it with them. These three immutable truths will help guide them to the best response.

Clients 216
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Employee advocacy: The untapped goldmine in your content marketing strategy

Martech

Picture this. You’ve just hit the “publish” button on your company’s latest blog post. A masterpiece, full of trend analyses, punchy insights and actionable takeaways. Once upon a time, you might have sat back, fingers crossed, hoping your precious piece would somehow tumble into the great wide world of cyberspace. But let’s face it — the “publish and pray” era of content marketing is long gone.

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How to Get Sales Onboarding Right

Membrain

Sales onboarding is an important part of building and growing a sales team. Successful onboarding improves retention, increases the pace at which new employees begin producing revenue, and ensures a seamless experience for your prospects and customers.

Sales 143
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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

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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Frontline Growth: SaaS Companies Get About 20% of Their Revenue From Europe. The Best — Even More.

SaaStr

One thing we’ve talked a ton about at SaaStr since inception is the power of going global as early as you have customer pull in other geographies. The internet works everywhere. You should be selling everywhere, assuming there are no regulatory or related issues in your space. Some examples: HubSpot gets 54% of its revenue from outside the U.S. Asana gets 39% of its revenue from outside the U.S.

Growth 138
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How to Be Human in a World of Artificial Intelligence

Iannarino

You don’t need more technology to improve your sales results. The only things you need are a CRM , a source of data, a meeting platform, and some effective digital assets. As sales stacks grow larger, win rates and quota attainment decline.

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Use Music to Understand the 12 Criteria Prospects Use to Buy from Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

Yesterday, while watching our son play in a summer collegiate baseball game, I missed a step and tumbled all the way down the bleachers. Isn't that a great analogy for what happens when you miss, or skip a crucial step in the sales process? More than half of all salespeople are missing and skipping important milestones in the sales process each and every day and their egos get more bruised from failing to close those opportunities than my body got bruised from my not so thrilling adventure to th

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Identifying Sales Coaching Needs: An Analysis EVERY Company Should Execute

Anthony Cole Training

Regardless of the current state of affairs, GREAT organizations go through a constant assessment of where they are. They look at lagging metrics, leading metrics, and success metrics. They consider that data to help them identify the answer to these three questions.

Sales 188
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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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AI and marketing: What the stats show

Martech

There are a lot of stats out there about marketing and artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, many of them are (gasp!) more than two years old. When it comes to AI, change comes fast. Not just in the technology, but in attitudes and usage. Here’s a collection of statistics about AI and marketing with the date of the survey included. This will let you judge for yourself how much things have changed since they came out.

Finance 140
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The Art and Science of Complex Sales Podcast

Membrain

In the latest episode of The Art and Science of Complex Sales podcast, Paul Fuller interviews Dr Yekemi Otaru , Co-founder & Chief Growth Officer of Doqaru Limited. From engineering's hidden problem-solving to marketing's customer-centricity and sales' emphasis on listening, Yekemi shares her strategies and insights on how to tackle problems that truly matter within the B2B industry.

B2B 138
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Latest Podcasts: Leading for Growth

Force Management

This month, the Revenue Builders Podcast featured six guests who are experienced in driving efficiency and creating repeatable success that fuels growth. Their conversations ranged from strategies for increasing deal size within the sales process, to creating a culture of accountability and improvement within your team. We even shared a special episode featuring three guests who offered unique perspectives from outside investors on what drives growth across their portfolios.

Growth 136
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10 Variables Impacting Your Win Rates in B2B Sales

Iannarino

There are several variables that impact your win rates, and all of them are important to buyers. The best way to evaluate your performance on these variables is to approach each one as a clear-cut question. Buyers evaluate you by considering these same questions and failing to recognize that means you may lose deals that you might have won.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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Growth Slowed Down About 33% On Average For Everyone in Q1

SaaStr

So two recent data analyses across both private and public SaaS companies interestingly showed basically the same thing: for the best SaaS companies, on average, growth in Q1 was down about 33% or so from a year ago. The time periods are different, but they also are sourcing the data at slightly different times. ChartMogul’s data, which we covered in another recent post here , shows data from 1000+ SaaS startups from $1m-$30m ARR in essentially real-time, as they are doing real-time revenue anal

Growth 135
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Just Keep Running: What Bankers Can Learn from the Navy Seals

Anthony Cole Training

I am an admirer of all the brave men and women who serve in the armed forces. Their service and their sacrifice make them the best our nation has to offer. Lately, I have had the extreme honor to meet a few Navy Seals. Those meetings have propelled me to learn as much as I can about how they think and how they build the discipline that is necessary to do what they do.

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What Apple’s Vision Pro means for AR and VR marketing

Martech

Apple’s Vision Pro. Image: Apple. This week Apple announced the Vision Pro headset, available early next year. Here’s what we know so far about the device and what this means for marketers experimenting with AR and VR engagement. “Spatial computing” and AR. The use cases demoed at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) show augmented reality (AR) experiences where users interface with a digital layer on top of their real-world environment.

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Games Sellers Play, Pricing/Discounting!

Partners in Excellence

For those who’ve followed me for some time, you know I rarely take a hardliner perspective. When someone poses a question, “What’s the best way to prospect, How should we engage our customers more effectively, What are the critical metrics, How do we help our customers buy, ……,” my answer is always, “It depends… ” I don’t mean to be evasive, because it always does depend, every situation is different and we have to adapt to what’s

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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Google launches perspectives filter in mobile search results

Search Engine Land

Google has begun the rollout of the new perspectives filter in the mobile search results this weekend. This feature was announced at Google I/O and we have seen previews and tests from Google over the past months related to this feature and now it is live. What it looks like. Here is a screenshot of the feature, you can see it by searching on mobile and sliding the search bar filters until you see a “perspectives” option.

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How to Research Your Strategic Targets - A Template

Iannarino

One mistake salespeople make in discovery is asking questions they should have answered through their research. These questions will show they didn’t prepare for a first meeting. While failing to do research is harmful in an average pursuit, it’s worse in an enterprise-level opportunity.

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The Art and Science of Complex Sales Podcast

Membrain

In the latest episode of the Art and Science of Complex Sales podcast, Paul Fuller interviews Pete Evans, Head of Sales EMEA and Certified Coach of Emerse Group Limited, to explore essential fundamentals and foundations for salespeople.

Sales 132
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8 Training Tips for Effective Banking Sales Training

Anthony Cole Training

There is no greater benefit than hearing from a client how they are implementing a sales development program in their bank and their culture. We recently had the benefit of 45 minutes of input from one of our valued banking clients and learned how they are building their team of successful, relationship building bankers.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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The success elements of marketing-driven growth

Martech

This is the first part of a three-part series on the success elements of growth. One of the things I enjoy the most about my job is how much I learn from my clients and colleagues. Over the years, I have had the incredible opportunity to work with some big brands and incredibly smart people and engage with innovative thinkers I am proud to call my clients.

Growth 133
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58 Augmented Reality Statistics to Unveil AR’s Growth

G2

Augmented reality (AR) has rapidly transitioned from a nascent technology into a groundbreaking instrument. It is present in our daily lives and continues to redefine the ways we interact with technology.

Growth 132
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What ChatGPT Teaches Us About How We Sell, It’s Frightening!

Partners in Excellence

Last week, filling idle time one evening, I decided to conduct an experiment with ChatGPT. Earlier in the day, I had been looking at a ChatGPT led training program for sellers. As part of the program design, it suggested it engaging sellers in role plays. I was curious about how that might work, so I decided to experiment. After describing a potential selling situation, I suggested a role play, where ChatGPT was the seller and I was the customer.

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How to Use Proof Providers

Iannarino

You want to wow your prospective client by sharing testimonials and case studies that prove you can help them improve the important outcome they are facing. As you look at your list of successes, you choose the three largest companies. Each is a marquee logo on its own, but the three together are certain to wow your contacts and eliminate any uncertainty they might have about closing with you.

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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