April, 2023

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Expert B2B Sales Plays & Best Practices

Iannarino

How you sell is a major factor in sales success. Even though the sales process is no longer linear, we still divide it into stages. Each stage of an opportunity requires you to achieve a corresponding outcome for you and your potential customers.

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Can We Be Helpful And Still Make Our Quotas?

Partners in Excellence

When I read my feeds or listen to a lot of “experts,” the focus is always on hitting our quotas, maxing our commissions, achieving our goals. Listening to sales executives, the focus is, constantly, making your numbers. And then there are the consequences of not doing so. Our jobs are at stake, even our companies are threatened. One imagines a sword of Damocles hanging over seller’s heads with the constant threat of making quota.

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How Can We Make Our Reps More Coachable?

Score More Sales

We know how important it is for sellers to be coachable. Coachability, after all, is one of the keys to identifying top performing sales professionals.

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Will AI Really Help You Sell?

Membrain

It’s almost the only thing people want to talk about these past few months: Artificial intelligence. ChatGPT and its many children and siblings have set the internet and our industry ablaze with speculation about what it means for us.

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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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Coaches Benefit from Tryouts, Sales Managers Fail Using Gut Instinct

Understanding the Sales Force

Our son's college baseball season is winding down and we think they'll make the playoffs for the second straight year. As I think back to high-school baseball, a couple of things came to mind that have a lot to do with sales development. Mike attended two high schools. His first high school baseball coach saw his potential, calling him up to play on the varsity team when he was still in the 8th grade.

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20 Solar Sales Tips to Win More Business in 2023

Veloxy

Are you interested in a career in solar sales? The solar industry is growing rapidly, and by 2024, it’s estimated that 2.5% of all U.S. homes will have solar panels installed. This growth means that there will be an increasing need for skilled solar salespeople who can help homeowners and businesses make the switch to solar energy. But selling solar isn’t easy – it requires knowledge, skill, and persistence to convince customers to invest in this renewable energy source.

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Why Data Matters When Recruiting People that Will Sell

Anthony Cole Training

Let’s talk about why data matters when recruiting people that WILL sell versus CAN sell. There is a big difference.

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Spend on marketing analytics and data infrastructure to grow sharply

Martech

Spend across marketing analytics and data infrastructure is forecast to grow from $22 billion in 2022 to $32 billion in 2026 in the U.S., U.K. and European Union. That’s according to a new report from Winterberry Group, “From Data to Insight: The Outlook for Marketing Analytics.” The predicted increase of over 30% is derived from a survey of 200 U.S. and European marketers, as well as interviews with industry experts.

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Google planning new search engine while working on new search features under Project Magi

Search Engine Land

Google is in the process of building an “all-new search engine” powered by its new A.I. technology while at the same time working on adding new A.I.-based features to its current search engine under the project name Magi. “The new search engine would offer users a far more personalized experience than the company’s current service, attempting to anticipate users’ needs,” the NY Times reports.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

As we gear up for SaaStr Europa 2023 in London on 6-7 June and SaaStr Annual 2023 in the SF Bay Area on 6-7 September , we wanted to take a look back at some of our most iconic speakers and sessions from over the year, that we can still learn from today. Back at the first SaaStr Annual, in February 2015, we kicked off the day with Aaron Levie from Box — who had just IPO’d a week or so before.

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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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20 Key Reasons Why Salesforce is the Best CRM for Field Sales

Veloxy

Salesforce is the leading CRM platform in the market, and it has proven to be the best choice for companies that deploy field sales teams. In fact, according to Salesforce’s most recent State of Sales report, 87% of field sales reps believe their organization takes full advantage of their CRM ( more than inside reps ). In this post, we’ll share the 20 key reasons why Salesforce is the best CRM for field sales and how it can benefit you and your field sales team.

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B2B Sales Manager 101 - Tips for Success

Iannarino

It has never been easy to lead a sales force, but it is increasingly difficult today. The idea that sales is broken is a way to describe the slow reaction of sales organizations who don’t recognize how buyers have changed. Those who still practice a traditional sales approach lose opportunities that require a modern sales approach.

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5 Behaviors Great Sales Managers Exhibit to Drive Consistent Sales Results

Anthony Cole Training

Improve your sales management skills by implementing these 5 behaviors to help your sales team drive consistent results.

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The end of marketing or a new beginning? The truth about AI

Martech

Love it or hate it, the artificial intelligence revolution is here. People can’t stop talking about ChatGPT, OpenAI and how AI will fundamentally change the world. Marketers everywhere are obsessing over the newly discovered power of AI. Amid the jaw-dropping realizations of what AI is capable of, marketers are faced with an existential question that’s a bit daunting to consider: Is this the end of marketing as we know it?

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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 build an E-E-A-T strategy for local SEO

Search Engine Land

While many SEO practitioners will smirk at the term “ E-E-A-T ” and immediately the ink about what’s for lunch, they aren’t necessarily wrong. To achieve E-E-A-T, various crucial “ingredients” must seamlessly come together and result in quality. This article explores how to incorporate local SEO tactics into an E-E-A-T strategy.

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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 sits down with Andy Paul , Author of " Sell Without Selling Out " to discuss about the importance of coaching, and the need for a human-first approach to selling.

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The Future of Sales: The Rise of AI-Powered Sales Assistants

Veloxy

Who doesn’t talk about artificial intelligence nowadays? Some find it fascinating; some use it for daily activities, and others fear losing their jobs to AI. Yet, almost everyone will engage in the conversation if you ask their opinion on AI. You may have already tried some AI tools like ChatGPT or Midjourney. Whether you like them or not, you may have noticed how they can speed up various tasks, from content generation to planning and researching.

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How Sales Managers Fail Their Sales Teams

Iannarino

When sales managers fail their sales teams, every stakeholder is harmed. First, the salesperson is harmed by not being successful in sales. The salesperson’s family may also suffer without the resources they need. The salesperson’s prospective clients are hurt because the person they are dealing with is not using value creation strategies , which would have caused them to buy from the salesperson.

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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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Accountability – The 14-Letter Dirty Word for Many Sales Organizations

Anthony Cole Training

Accountability in an organization is kind of like the old country song by Joe Diffie: Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die).

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Should you use your data warehouse as your CDP?

Martech

The advent of cloud-based data warehouses (DWHs) has brought simpler deployment, greater scale and better performance to a growing set of data-driven use cases. DWHs have become more prevalent in enterprise tech stacks, including martech stacks. Inevitably, this begs the question: should you employ your existing DWH as a customer data platform (CDP)?

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Entity SEO: The definitive guide

Search Engine Land

This article was co-authored by Andrew Ansley. Things, not strings. If you haven’t heard this before, it comes from a famous Google blog post that announced the Knowledge Graph. The announcement’s 11th anniversary is only a month away, yet many still struggle to understand what “things, not strings” really means for SEO. The quote is an attempt to convey that Google understands things and is no longer a simple keyword detection algorithm.

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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 sits down with Revenue Path Group 's CEO, Bryan Gray , and the company's Director of Customer Success Team, Meg Kopka. The conversation covered a range of topics, including redefining sales in an age of commoditization and the " Three Deadly C 's.

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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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Latest Podcasts: Leading Through Challenges

Force Management

As leaders, we serve as guides for our teams through challenging times. In the current economic landscape, when the challenges are unpredictable, it helps to have guides of our own. Last month on the Revenue Builders Podcast, we talked to multiple leaders who have guided teams successfully through crises. They spoke to the power of gratitude, communication, culture, and humility.

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A Guide to Big Wins: How to Close Enterprise-Level Deals

Iannarino

The strategies you might use when pursuing a small or average-sized company cannot help you win large clients. These large clients have greater needs, spend more money, and meet with multiple sales organizations. These competitive sales scenarios are difficult to win, but they are game changers. Winning one enterprise-level deal can retire your quota for the year.

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Coaching Championship Sales Teams: Pat Summitt Says it All!

Anthony Cole Training

There are five pillars that make up a strong Sales Managed Environment which in turn will help you build a consistent, championship-quality sales team.

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3 ways B2B marketers can use generative AI

Martech

As technology and automation evolve, B2B marketers can access tools and information faster than ever. With the rapid adoption of generative AI, that evolution is happening in real time. As B2B marketers, we must embrace and use this technology to our advantage. This article will cover three ways to use generative AI: keyword research, content creation and data analysis.

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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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Google Analytics 4 now lets you modify and create events using regular expressions

Search Engine Land

Google Analytics 4 now supports creating and/or modifying events using regular expressions, regex. This can help you migrate destinations and event goals from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4 in a more programmatic fashion. More details. Google said the new feature and options enable you to define conversions using regular expressions (regex) for web data streams.

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Dear SaaStr: How Much Of My Startup Do I Need to Sell In Each Venture Round?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Much Of My Startup Do I Need to Sell In Each Venture Round? It definitely can vary based on what type of investor. But for venture-backed start-ups raising from more traditional funds (the ones you’ve heard of), here are some rough rules: Seed VCs would like to buy 10%, sometimes 15%, if they can. They often “settle” for a bit less.

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The Powerful Similarity Between Bad Baseball Teams and Most Sales Teams

Understanding the Sales Force

As we do each Friday in March and April, my wife and I drove to upstate New York to watch our son's college baseball games. But this article isn't only about normal, it's also about the abnormal in both baseball and sales.

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Why is Building Rapport So Important in Sales? (+ 7 Do's and Don'ts)

Iannarino

A stranger asks you for money. Do you say yes?

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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.