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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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How to Improve Sales Across Your Hybrid Team

Sales Pop!

Your hybrid sales team performs well, but there is always room for improvement. With the right approach, you can help your hybrid sales team reach its full potential. Now, let’s look at five tips to improve sales across your hybrid sales team. 1. Keep the Lines of Communication Open. Give your hybrid sales team the support it needs to succeed.

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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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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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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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Marketers: Where will you be a year from now?

Martech

I know how you feel right now. It’s the end of 2021 — at last! If you work in retail, you probably want to be anywhere but here and are reading this while you’re on a lunch break, stuck in traffic or zoning out on yet another video call. So I might be asking a lot from you now, but take a minute to think about where you’ll be this time next year.

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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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4 E-commerce Challenges for 2022 and How to Solve Them

Sales Pop!

The online shopping industry was growing at a healthy rate until the COVID-19 pandemic arrived. As consumers were forced to stay indoors, they turned to their digital devices to shop and interact with their favorite brands. The e-commerce explosion was a surprise at first, but it has since led to cutthroat competition in an oversaturated market. Here are the five e-commerce challenges that business owners will face in 2022 and how you can stay ahead : Living up to customer expectations.

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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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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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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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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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Using Payment Analytics And Insights To Grow Your Business

Sales Pop!

Payment analysis with the help of special software provides valuable information about the state of the business. This knowledge can (and should) be used to improve and grow the business. While accountants and others in the finance department know the value of payment analysis, many entrepreneurs may not see how important it is. Understanding and embedding payment analysis into the business helps assess the factors that affect or, conversely, hinder a business’s growth as well as identifyi

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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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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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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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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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5 Ways Data Enrichment Can Help In Recruitment

Sales Pop!

When it comes to recruitment, some employers still typically rely on just the resumé of the candidate. Although this is not a bad thing, there’s only so much a resumé can give. According to Workonics data, 60% of recruiters judge candidates based on their personality traits, social skills, and emotional intelligence. These are things you don’t typically get from a resumé.

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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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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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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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“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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How To Earn A Living On eCommerce

Sales Pop!

6 ways can earn money more through eCommerce. Long gone are the days where the only way you can make money is by slaving away in an office and being under the thumb of the boss. In this office, you won’t benefit when you make the company money. Thanks to the internet, we can now all be our own bosses and enjoy all the benefits that come with working from home.

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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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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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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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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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Top 5 Benefits of Email Drip Campaigns for Real Estate Recruiting

Sales Pop!

One of the most important recruitment tools that many real estate brokerages have access to is drip marketing campaigns. Through the strategic scheduling of newsletters and other forms of messages, you can communicate more efficiently with both passive and active candidates. When implemented correctly, drip campaigns ultimately increase your chances of attracting the best real estate agents.

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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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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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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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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 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