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How to Make a Job Offer the Candidate Can't Refuse

Anthony Cole Training

Making a job offer that a candidate can’t refuse, needs to think over, or can use to get a better deal from their current employer can be a difficult task. In the 8th blog of our series No Assembly Required Hiring , we discuss how to properly set up the offer meeting to help improve the probability of getting a yes from your sales candidate.

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Post-Mortems Are Not the End, But Rather the Beginning

Membrain

I wanted to share some thoughts on what should occur every time you lose a bid/potential order/piece of significant business and even more importantly what should happen when you win a bid/potential order etc.

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

From long sales cycles to trying to stand out from the sea of sameness, B2B companies face an uphill battle from the start. While thousands of B2B organizations struggle, plenty are able to develop long-term success. So what does it take? I recently surveyed and interviewed over 200+ B2B executives, marketing & sales leaders to find out exactly what challenges they currently face and what they are doing to overcome them.

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When Prospects “Get” Your Value, You Get the Sale

SalesProInsider

We offer 30 minutes of free coaching focused on a specific sales situation of the person’s choice, which we call Sales Strategy Conversations. And in the last 20 of these Sales Strategy Conversations that I’ve had, 13 of them have focused on how to help prospects get the value of what the seller is offering and how to help that prospect make a more confident and quick buying decision. 13 out of 20 – so obviously this is a very important topic!

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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If Your VP Hasn’t Done Some Key Part of the Job by Day 90. He Never Will.

SaaStr

Recently, I met with a great SaaS founder doing about $1.5m in ARR. She was telling me about her VP of Marketing who, in the Bay Area, she was paying $95,000. I was a bit skeptical. Because that’s rather low for a true VP out here in the Bay Area (see typical VP Marketing comp packages here ). Something sounded off. I asked how about this VPM’s lead commit.

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How to keep representativeness bias from killing your sales results

Membrain

Some of the worst mistakes we make in life we make without realizing their implications at the time. Sometimes, we don’t even know we’re making the mistake, and we may never know we made the mistake - but its effects will impact us regardless.

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Building a Buyer-Verified Pipeline

Engage Selling

In earlier times—let’s call it 2018—it was common for sellers to be exclusively in control of their sales pipeline. They built it and moved prospects through it based only on inputs that mattered to their organization. However, just because those … Read More » The post Building a Buyer-Verified Pipeline first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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5 Interesting Learnings From MongoDB at $700,000,000 ARR

SaaStr

MongoDB is one of the most interesting “commercial open source” success stories, taking a disruptive but open source database technology and building into an incredible business approaching $1B in ARR … notwithstanding Amazon and others directly competing. Amazon didn’t kill Mongo or Snowflake — both are racing to $1B ARR in almost record time.

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B2B Reads: Virtual selling, Visual Content, Interview Questions

Heinz Marketing

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the Web each week. We’ll miss a ton of great stuff, so if you found something you think is worth sharing please add it to the comments below. 6 Virtual Selling Best Practices For Remote Teams. Sales reps will need to lean on both tried and true methods and shape new virtual techniques to tackle the world of virtual selling that we’re currently in.

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Stop Pitching on the First Message: Results from a 3-Month Experiment

Sales Hacker

How many times has someone reached out to you on LinkedIn because they want something from you that will only benefit themselves? More importantly, how many times has that actually converted to a deal? Have you ever wanted to actually follow through with a cold pitch you got on LinkedIn? Probably not. But plenty of sales reps continue down this road.

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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.

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Startups Almost Always Get The Sales Thing Wrong

Understanding the Sales Force

It's short article Friday. According to NetShopISP, there are about 305 million total startups created globally each year and around 1.35 million of those startups are tech related. Did you have any idea the number was that huge? Typically, founders of start ups put it all on the line - everything - their house, savings, loans from friends and family and perhaps bank loans, angel investments and more.

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5 Interesting Learnings from SmartSheet at $400,000,000+ in ARR

SaaStr

We’ve done a lot of fun sessions together with Smartsheet over the years at SaaStr but haven’t taken a deep dive into its business. It’s an interesting one, with a very broad base of SMBs and a slow-and-steady path to going upmarket. They are now growing a stunning 42% year-over-year at over $400,000,000 in ARR!! Founded way back in 2006, adoption was slow as first, but they kept at it and Smartsheet is now growing faster than ever 15+ years later.

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Managing Through Transition: 5 Lessons from the Year of the Pandemic

Heinz Marketing

By Maria Geokezas , VP of Client Services. It has been a strange year. Last year at this time, we were commuting into our office daily. Then, in an afternoon, it changed. We grabbed our laptops and extra screens from the office and began our WFH lives. We didn’t know how long it would last or how to manage through this transition. There was so much uncertainty and fear.

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An ultimate guide to live chat Software

Salesmate

We all have been progressing towards a digitized environment, and the onset of pandemic gave it a much-needed boost. When a consumer visits the website, they want all the queries answered without any delay. E-commerce has evolved in a way that a company isn’t just about selling products or services; in order to build a brand, you need to connect with your visitors, and quickly.

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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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“Doing More,” Is Not A Growth Strategy! Neither Are Miracle Cures!

Partners in Excellence

As sales professionals, we are responsible for driving revenue growth for our companies. We are accountable for executing our overall corporate strategies and priorities in our chosen markets. We develop, or should be developing, “go to customer strategies” to achieve our goals. We assess things like our ICP. We look at how to we reach and engage the customers in our ICP effectively and efficiently.

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3 Key Automations to Accelerate Your SaaS Company’s Growth

SaaStr

Today’s SaaS apps are easy to acquire and use without IT and operations’ assistance. Due to that convenience, departments and teams tend to seek out best-of-breed cloud applications, streamlining foundational and specialized functions through automation. However, trouble arises when your company ends up with a SaaS sprawl – the overall amount of adopted applications overwhelms your tech stack.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 238: Q & A with Subbu Vempati @ svempati & Judy Ash @judya2004

Heinz Marketing

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing. If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals.

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Women are WAY better than men at this high-value sales skill

Gong.io

This article is part of the Gong Labs series, where I publish findings from our data research team. We analyze sales conversations and deals using AI, then share the results to help you win more deals. Follow me to read upcoming research. The conference room door shut. . Samantha and our sales manager sat down and dialed into the call. . My team and I lined up around the glass wall of the conference room to watch it go down. .

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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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Sandler Research Center Survey: “Leading from the Front in Challenging Times”

Sandler Training

“Leading from the Front in Challenging Times” is the latest survey from the Sandler Research Center (SRC). It compiles and analyses data from a global collection of hundreds of sales leaders and managers. The post Sandler Research Center Survey: “Leading from the Front in Challenging Times” appeared first on Sandler Training.

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Cloud and SaaS Are Up 1000%, Now Worth $2 Trillion

SaaStr

We’ve used various bits of the BVP Nasdaq Index and metrics since they launched a few years ago to highlight trends in SaaS and Cloud. This week even after a pullback, public SaaS and Cloud companies are up an eve 1000% (!) since 2013. 1000%. Yes, the markets have retreated a bit from their all-time highs. But does it even matter? Cloud has been on an incredible tear since 2012 or so, and then even more since about 2016, and then as you can see above, went into hyperdive in about 2018 &

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5 Missed Revenue Growth Opportunities of Second-Stage Startups

Sales Hacker

While every entrepreneur dreams of scaling their startup into a multi-million dollar company, many do not understand all that goes into that dream. Getting past the first stage of revenue growth and building an initial customer base is the easy part, but what happens when you hit a revenue plateau and can’t seem to take that next step? Strict sales volume does go a long way in achieving long-term revenue growth, but processes and cross-department alignment are what allow sales volumes to scale i

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“Seek first to understand….

Partners in Excellence

One of the most important things a sales person can do with her customer is to “understand.” One of the most important things great leaders do is to try to “understand.” Instead, we tend to focus, selfishly, on being “understood.” That is, focusing on our own priorities, self interests, agendas and what we seek to achieve.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Sales Transformation: The Ladder to Organizational Success

Force Management

Changing the sales behaviors of an entire organization requires time, commitment and a plan for reinforcement that drives lasting results. When done right , a well-thought-out strategic initiative creates organizational transformation in a way that accelerates growth and powers valuable exits for growing companies. Successful transformation is an outcome of a concerted effort to reinforce behavior change within the sales organization.

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Champion Change: You Gotta Jump On It

SaaStr

You think your Big Co Customers are old & established, And you are new & tiny. Yes it's true. But as the years go by, you'll still be there And your champions at the BigCos will move on. You have to re-sell Big Customers every 2 years or so. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) October 12, 2020. One of the most subtly stressful parts of running a SaaS company, or any company with larger customers, is Champion Change.

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Shoring Up Team Motivation in a Remote Sales Reality

Sales Hacker

Getting your team excited and motivated isn’t easy in the best of times. It’s even harder when your team can turn off their video and scroll through Twitter during stand ups. In this session, Scott Barker asks some of the top minds in the business share what has and hasn’t worked for them so you can go into 2021 confidently. They cover: — What programs work and don’t work in a remote environment. — What a successful remote SKO might look like. — How to effectively communicate and keep your team

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How to Manage a Sales Org Spanning Two Continents and Two Cultures

Predictable Revenue

The standard SaaS startup model for a sales team is deeply ingrained in US business culture. But Billy’s sales team has been subverting this structure since the very beginning. The team itself is separated by 8,070 miles of land, water, and (sometimes spotty) internet connection. The post How to Manage a Sales Org Spanning Two Continents and Two Cultures appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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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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Why Managing Up Matters (and How to Do It Right)

Highspot

As our Vice President of Engineering Operations & Reliability, I had the opportunity to address the incredible audience at AdieCon , the annual conference for alums and allies of Ada Developers Academy, and one of our favorite events to sponsor and attend. My talk surveyed ways that early- and mid-career software engineers can level-up their conversations with three important leadership roles: Mentors , Managers , and Senior Leaders.

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3 Things You Can Do … That the Bigger Competition Can’t

SaaStr

Q: How can a SaaS startup survive in a crowded market? Find a segment of the market to win in. Where you can build a 10x feature, and then a 10x solution, that solves a niche problem that customers will pay for. Most SaaS markets are crowded today. But the thing is: As Bigger SaaS companies cross $100m in ARR, and then $1B in ARR, they stop focusing on smaller niches.

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PODCAST 152: A Framework for Bringing Ethics into Sales with Sara Archer

Sales Hacker

If you missed episode 151 check it out here: Leads Don’t Matter: Moving From a Sales-led to a Product-growth Orientation with Stephanie Cox. powered by Sounder. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher. Show Agenda and Timestamps. Show Introduction [00:10]. From Neuroscience to RevOps: How Sara used her brain to start her sales career [5:56].

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Being Ubiquitous in Your Industry

Engage Selling

Have you considered the power behind being ubiquitous in your industry? In other words, how often does your name come up in conversation when your industry is mentioned? There are those whose name never comes up, or perhaps seldomly, and … Read More » The post Being Ubiquitous in Your Industry first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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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