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Salesforce Automation Cheat Sheet for SMB Sales Managers

Veloxy

The new year is upon us, and along with it comes new sales resolutions. One of the most popular sales resolutions for 2022 will be a commitment to reduce non-selling activity. Did you know that most salespeople spend over 60% of their time not selling. Imagine how much revenue those sales orgs are losing every single year. The quickest way to resolve this problem is to automate Salesforce.

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Lead Generation Sales Funnels – How To Build One Successfully

ClickFunnels

The post Lead Generation Sales Funnels – How To Build One Successfully appeared first on ClickFunnels. Want to generate more leads, make more sales, and increase your revenue? We believe that the best way to do that is the Value Ladder sales funnel. Here’s what we are going to discuss today: What is the value ladder sales funnel? How to build a Value Ladder sales funnel from scratch?

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You Are Still the Value Proposition

Iannarino

Traditionally, the legacy model’s value proposition was found in the company's products, services, or "solution" (a word I expect will soon be replaced with "outcomes").

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Showing Gratitude and Relationship Selling

Anthony Cole Training

Working with clients can sometimes be difficult. But in successful relationship selling, it's critical that you are regularly showing gratitude and thanks.

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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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3 Ways to Negotiate Better By Giving In Slowly

Cerebral Selling

One of the most important concepts in negotiation has to do with feelings of satisfaction. In other words, regardless of whatever concessions you decide to give it’s important for the other party to FEEL like they’re getting a good deal. That’s why one of the most effective ways of reducing the size of the concessions you give while increasing the other side’s level of satisfaction (especially when negotiating at month-end ) is giving in slowly.

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Leveraging The 360 Deal View

Tibor Shanto

By Tibor Shanto. While this time of year is great to unplug, there are some habits we can work on while celebrating. One not unique to this time of year is reflection, the year that was, the year to come. I say not unique, because sales pros are always looking to the past to execute here and now. Change requires understanding, understanding is a result of learning, from books, others, or life.

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Top 10 SaaStr Videos of 2021: Gorgias, Shopify, PagerDuty, and More!

SaaStr

With four digital events plus SaaStr Annual, we have 100+ videos just from 2021 for you! Our top videos alone cover a wide range of topics important to SaaS Founders and CEOs: building a unicorn, scaling, fundraising, customer success, mental health, and more. Here are the Top 10. 10. A Deeper Dive on How to Collaborate, Manage, and Work with Developers with Twilio’s CEO Jeff Lawson and SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin. 9. 3 CEO Lessons in Scaling Enterprise CX with HubSpot’s CEO and firs

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The ‘Vicinity Update’: Winners and losers from the November 2021 local update

Search Engine Land

This update seemed to be focused on changes around proximity and distance. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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The Monday Morning Breakfast For Champions Podcast – Episode 53 – Dave Mattson

Tibor Shanto

Subscribe today , and take the Breakfast on the go! Dave Mattson is a best-selling author, sales and management thought leader, keynote speaker and leader for sales training seminars around the world. As CEO and President of Sandler Training, Mr. Mattson oversees the corporate direction and strategy for the company’s global operations including sales, marketing, consulting, alliances and support.

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6 key marketing ops predictions for 2022

Martech

2021 was the breakout year for marketing operations. The marketing function that was once behind the scenes is now stepping onto center stage, largely driven by the need to manage digital and data, not to mention the heavy migration to a remote-first work environment. Companies were forced to make hard pivots in their marketing strategy, and they needed strong marketing operations muscle to do it.

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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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FT: Yamini Rangan’s Top Metrics as HubSpot’s New CEO

SaaStr

We don’t often summarize interviews in other media, but I really liked this piece in FT on the changes Yamini Ragan made when she became HubSpot’s CEO, promoted from CCO. They’re changes you might want to make as well if you focused on SMBs and mid-market especially: #1. Moving from Churn to NRR as the Core Retention Metric. This may sound obvious to more enterprise folks, but many Very Small Business and SMB focused SaaS companies still focus more on churn than NRR.

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“Sensemaking” Is Not Just For Our Customers

Partners in Excellence

Brent Adamson wrote an outstanding HBR article on “ Sensemaking For Sales.” It’s an important concept, focused on helping our customers make higher quality decisions, with greater confidence. One of the most important things Brent discusses is how customers tend to cope when faced so much high quality information. Customers tend to fall back on what they already know and have confidence in.

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Messy SEO: Fixing site structure while a Google title change sinks clickthroughs

Search Engine Land

In Part 5 of our Messy SEO series, we look at the results from Google’s title tag changes and other SERP issues affecting MarTech. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Email marketing will be a success story in 2022

Martech

“2021 versus 2020, email was up 94% in volume. I would anticipate it to be up again in 2022.” Kate Adams, SVP Marketing at data and email solutions provider Validity, sees a bright future for the email channel. “If we could count the number of articles that had the headline ’email is dead,’ we’d all have a good laught, right?

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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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Dear SaaStr: How Can I Develop Confidence as a Startup CEO?

SaaStr

Q: Dear SaaStr: How Can I Develop Confidence as a Startup CEO? We’ve all been there in the early days — and even beyond. You can have 1000% conviction in your start-up but still not be 100% confident in yourself as a CEO yet. It’s OK. It’s natural. But you need to be confident enough to lead the team and make everyone believe. At least 95%+ confident you can build something great.

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4 Tips for Making Your Story into Theirs

Heinz Marketing

By Tom Swanson , Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing. “A story doesn’t work when its your story. It works when it becomes their story”. Seth Godin said that in a blog post, and it is so easy to look at that and just agree, but there is one key thing to unpack. The word “ becomes ” is the key component of that entire quote, because that is what we need to do.

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Why (And How) To Continually Break And Adapt Your Company’s GTM Model As You Grow

Gong.io

If you don’t break your GTM model, your growth will. In their initial stage of growth, most CEOs, CROs and CMOs expect that if they can crack the code on their company’s go-to-market (GTM) model — product-market fit, ideal customer profile, differentiated value, market positioning, and sales model — then they can just focus on executing it. When that model succeeds in driving rapid growth early on, it gets validated and often solidified in the minds of company leadership as the enduring formula

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Why brands must embrace responsible marketing practices

Martech

Brands have long understood the importance of customer-centric approaches to marketing. But the notion of “responsible marketing” is gaining steam, filling the gaps those other approaches failed to address. “It’s marketing with a conscience,” said Frank Brooks, head of EMEA marketing at dotdigital. “It’s ensuring you’re not just doing things for the sake of doing it by the book — you’re going above and beyond to put your customers first, to think about the wider impact your marketing

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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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5+ Reasons to Worry Less About the Competition

SaaStr

Q: How much should an entrepreneur worry about competition in an early-stage startup? You are going to obsess about competition. You won’t be able to help it. And mostly it’s healthy. But one thing we’ve all learned is we worry just a bit too much — and the wrong way. It’s so easy to obsess about competition. They are all over Twitter, in every deal, every discussion with the sales team.

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PPC 2021 in review: Privacy and automation force advertisers to adapt

Search Engine Land

From the deprecation of broad match modified keywords to FLoC to RSAs becoming the default, PPC professionals dealt with a lot of change in 2021. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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7 New Year’s Resolutions Every Salesperson Should Make for 2022

Spiro Technologies

We’re one week away from the great reset, when all of this year’s achievements will go out the window and we’ll be left looking at the blank slate of the upcoming year. For salespeople, this is doubly impactful, as our annual quota starts from zero and we’re forced to start rolling the boulder from the bottom of the hill once again.

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How brands can succeed in digital asset management

Martech

“I want to introduce you to the DAM playbook that looks at digital asset management,” said Mark Davey, founder of IQ Equity, in his presentation at our MarTech conference. “The reason so many DAM systems and strategies fail is that their complexities aren’t understood fully.”. Davey and his team put together this resource to help marketers organize their digital assets.

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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

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Top Posts and Vids of the Week: CEO of Intercom, CRO of Talend, CMO of Salesloft, and More!

SaaStr

Top Blog Posts This Week: 12 Things You’ll Look Back On in SaaS … And Regret. 5 Interesting Learnings from Samsara at $500,000,000 in ARR. The Average SaaS CEO is 43 at IPO. In 2021, We Minted 46 Unicorns a Month. Even With Just “Pretty Good Growth”, You Can Build a Unicorn After $10m ARR. Top Video This Week: 1. Shifting to the Next Gear: Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth with Intercom CEO Karen Peacock. 2. 3 Secrets CROs Need to Know Before Going to Market with Tal

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Google Ads rolling out new icons more widely

Search Engine Land

Over the past few months, Google has been rolling out new icons within the Google Ads console. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Why Outsourcing Sales Development Representatives (SDRs) is the Right Decision for Your Business

Predictable Revenue

Sales coaching is focused training that maximizes your team’s potential. What if each member of your sales team improved by just 5% after receiving some coaching? It can help you unlock a substantial amount of revenue. The post Why Outsourcing Sales Development Representatives (SDRs) is the Right Decision for Your Business appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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How to overcome data silos and fragmentation

Martech

The sheer amount of customer data available to brands almost makes fragmentation inevitable. Even when using a CDP or DMP , marketers need robust solutions and strategies to overcome these issues. “Each touchpoint is storing data about your customer about that customer journey,” said Ganesh Subramanian, Director of Product Marketing at Snowflake, at our MarTech conference.

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Business Intelligence 101: How To Make The Best Solution Decision For Your Organization

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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SaaStr Wrapped: A Year in Review

SaaStr

As 2021 winds down, we wanted to give a BIG Thank You to everyone in the SaaStr community. 2021 was a huge year for us, a big rebound after SaaStr Annual 2020 was the first major tech event that Covid shut down in March ‘20. It took a while to dig out of that hole, but we came out much stronger. A few stats: In 2021, we had 5 major digital events (SaaStr University, SaaStr Build, SaaStr Money, Annual Digital Day, and SaaStr Scale) with over 100,000 attendees.

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5 ways marketers can support entry-level SEO talent

Search Engine Land

With a huge demand for SEO specialists, marketers shouldn’t neglect entry-level talent. At SMX Next, Abby Reimer shared how brands can find and support these SEOs. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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How to Maximize Your Customer Training Investment

Sales Hacker

COVID-19 was a sink or swim moment for many companies. The choices were simple: dive headlong into a decade’s worth of digital transformation , or go out of business. As a result, much of the evaluation, investment, and rollout of virtual training technology in 2020 was rushed, limited in scope, and poorly planned. Today, not much has changed.

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6 reasons why marketing operations is foundational to successful campaigns

Martech

“Marketing operations is the central nervous system of marketing,” said James Delande, BrandMaker’s Director of Product Marketing, at our MarTech conference. “What that means is that the integration with other applications in your stack, and the visibility and control you gain, will provide you with the ability to make decisions on the fly.”. Many brands know marketing ops is an important piece of any campaign, but not all know how to orchestrate them effectively with high-level strategies.

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Beyond the Basics: How to Develop and Retain a Top-Performing Sales Team

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales at Allego

Maximizing sales rep performance is no easy task. 📈 Traditional sales training methods focus heavily on the first few weeks in the sales role. Companies dedicate time, resources, and budget to onboarding new hires, only for them to forget what was learned in those first few weeks, lose motivation, and struggle to come to grips with their role.