STAR Results
DECEMBER 25, 2021
3 Steps to Achieving Success . The challenge for most people is knowing how to achieve personal and professional success. Many people compare themselves to others to gauge how successful they are. The problem is that there will always be someone who has more money, lives in a bigger house, has more power or is more intelligent than you. This is an irrelevant success as measured by material gains.
Anthony Cole Training
DECEMBER 30, 2021
There are specific traits that skilled salespeople possess in order to build strong relationships with prospects or clients. They create a great client experience by providing value, asking the right questions, listening to understand, and demonstrating patience.
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Iannarino
DECEMBER 30, 2021
There are things we value enough to find them precious (like that one ring), making them dear to us, if only in some sentimental currency. Other things should be more valuable to us, even though we don't treat them that way, undervaluing them to our peril.
Veloxy
DECEMBER 28, 2021
Helping You Sell Faster, Easier, and Smarter. Sales Managers are constantly under pressure to hit BIG numbers. While sales acceleration spent 2021 as a powerful, yet underutilized solution across the B2B landscape, the software market is expected to enjoy explosive growth in 2022. Sales managers are paying close attention. Sales acceleration software is so much more than selling faster.
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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.
Engage Selling
DECEMBER 31, 2021
Having long studied the habits of top-ranked sellers and the changing nature of the marketplace, I’ve seen a steady shift in the power in buyer-seller relationships. Now, study after study confirms what I’ve been observing in the field: today’s buyer … Read More » The post How Are Buyer-Seller Relationships Changing first appeared on The Sales Leader.
Martech
DECEMBER 27, 2021
Marketers will be engaging with more customers in three-dimensional virtual spaces next year. As the virtual ecosystem evolves, it won’t be limited to a single technology or walled garden. The rush to produce 3D experiences for consumers is already underway and set to mature in the coming year. Shubham A. Mishra, CEO and Co-Founder of codeless AI infrastructure tech company Pyxis One, calls out VR and AR as the “next big things.”.
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Partners in Excellence
DECEMBER 30, 2021
Reading an article about Patagonia’s and other’s strategies, I was struck by the sentence, “How do we make people better off by working with us?” It’s a fundamental question that has so many applications: Our customers? Our employees? Our suppliers? Our shareholders? Our communities? Usually, when we think about thing, we focus on our return, we answer the question, “How do we make things better for ourselves?
Gong.io
DECEMBER 27, 2021
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 close more revenue. Subscribe here and follow me to read upcoming research. This year Gong Labs uncovered… secrets. . Like the deadly simple negotiation mistake preventing you from winning deals. .
Martech
DECEMBER 27, 2021
Video meeting platform Zoom announced today that it has acquired assets from Liminal, a video production technology startup built largely off of Zoom’s SKD. Two Co-Founders of Liminal, Andy Caluccio and Jonathan Kokotajlo, will also join Zoom as part of the transition. Liminal’s solutions include their ZoomOSC and ZoomISO apps, which help connect Zoom with event control systems and hardware used for professional presentations in theaters, broadcast studios and other creative enterprises.
Iannarino
DECEMBER 31, 2021
Your prospective client agreeing to a meeting is a gift, one you should never take for granted. Agreeing to a meeting means spending time with you instead of doing any number of other tasks, as our always-on working world never runs out of things that need to be done.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin
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.
Search Engine Land
DECEMBER 28, 2021
Google looks to be testing a new announcement section at the top of the Search Console interace. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
Force Management
DECEMBER 28, 2021
Motivating and supporting sales teams in an ever-changing economic environment is no easy feat. Congratulations on making it through another year. As you settle into your new normal or continue to navigate ongoing change, here are a few topics that may help you stay the course.
Martech
DECEMBER 28, 2021
Next year, e-commerce will be a driving force in how marketers engage with customers. E-commerce strategies will penetrate channels like TV, social media and in-store experience, to a greater extent than marketers could have imagined. Marketers will adapt their e-commerce strategies to be more personalized, simplify their customer data and marketing stack, incorporate shoppable ads and even retrain their in-store associates to better accommodate digital-first shoppers.
Iannarino
DECEMBER 25, 2021
The subject line of the email asked a grammatically dubious question: "Should I speak to, Jim?" The ploy is designed to get someone to engage with the salesperson, something that technically works, but at far too great a cost.
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!
Search Engine Land
DECEMBER 28, 2021
It’s unclear whether this feature will remain available once Smart Shopping campaigns are rolled into Performance Max campaigns in 2022. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 25, 2021
There’s a meme, a CommonThink, among certain segments that Outbound Sales is Bad, or at least, a Little Unseemly. And maybe a lot bit Old School. That we’re in a new world of sales, a new Product-Led world, where leads come in, prospects can try and learn before they even talk to a human, and then sometimes,, a sales rep thoughtfully answers questions, models business process change, and helps them decide how and why, and if, to buy.
Martech
DECEMBER 29, 2021
In the year ahead, successful marketers will be using data to initiate more communications while respecting consumers’ privacy. In many cases, one of the most important messages the brand will be communicating is how they are honoring a commitment to privacy. If a message is of real value to a consumer, however, it will be easy to tell based on the actions that follow from it.
Iannarino
DECEMBER 27, 2021
We live in a Universe that seems to impose a law of cause and effect: results, both negative and positive, are always generated through some cause.
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!
Search Engine Land
DECEMBER 27, 2021
Despite facing a still-raging pandemic and a slew of updates, SEOs rose to the challenge. Here’s our recap of the year’s most important SEO stories and news. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
RAIN Group
DECEMBER 30, 2021
For most sellers, the focus of 2021 has been about adapting to the new sales environment. Those who got ahead in 2021 did so by adopting new methods to stand out and stay competitive. For many, this meant excelling in a virtual environment. But virtual selling is only one piece of the puzzle. Fundamental relationship-building skills and mastery of sales conversations, among many other factors, allowed savvy sellers to gain an edge.
Martech
DECEMBER 30, 2021
2022 will be another year of growth for streaming services, Smart TV adoption and ad-supported video on demand (AVOD). The CTV landscape will continue to mature with more advertisers, more viewers and more robust programmatic offerings and data partnerships. More streaming. While growth for some subscription services slow down, like for Disney+ , old standbys like Netflix see another surge.
Iannarino
DECEMBER 29, 2021
As we wrap up a second pandemic year and begin a third one, it's worth a moment or two to reflect on the world in which we find ourselves.
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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
Search Engine Land
DECEMBER 28, 2021
Google had a busy year of search algorithm updates in 2021, but some might question the timing of many of those updates during an already super stressful year. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 25, 2021
Zapier grew from a small SaaS startup to a company with over 500 employees over a decade. Want to know how they did it? . Wade Foster, Co-Founder and CEO, shares secrets from 20 of the earliest employees at the company. The employee names and numbers in which they are listed below correlate to the order in which they joined the Zapier team. Here’s the advice they had to offer on scaling your SaaS company.
Heinz Marketing
DECEMBER 25, 2021
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. How To Thrive In Uncertainty: Separate Crisis From Predicament. Crises are things that usually rally people to find solutions.
Selling Power
DECEMBER 28, 2021
Understanding the popular social media trends of the moment is all-too-important to staying relevant. In this blog you will learn the social media trends that will dominate in 2022.
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.
Search Engine Land
DECEMBER 29, 2021
Advertisers aren’t just competing for their audience’s money, they’re also competing for their attention. At SMX Create, Rebecca Debono and Julia Thiel discussed how they create eye-catching ads that can help brands secure both. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
Spiro Technologies
DECEMBER 30, 2021
If there was one thing (besides flaky prospects) that salespeople could change about the role, there’s a good chance that most of us would choose to be more productive. There are so many demands competing for our time and attention, and so many other distractions that take time away from selling, that when you break down the actual time most of us spend focusing on activities that move the needle you’d be lucky to break fifty percent.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 29, 2021
The Wall Street Journal had a great summary of IPOs in 2021 and before. One of the top takeaways is the sheet rate of IPO creation. Much as Unicorn creation more than doubled in 2021, so did IPOs: There’s a lot you can read into this: * First, it’s good IPOs grew as quickly as Unicorns were minted , more or less. A top liquidity worry we should all have is if there won’t be enough IPO demand for the ~1000 Unicorns we already have (with far more to follow).
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.
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