Sat.Jun 10, 2023 - Fri.Jun 16, 2023

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11 Strategies to Level up Your Sales Game

Salesforce

Let’s face it: Hard sells and flashy demos can be effective ways to close. But not always. Today’s buyers come to the sales process more informed than ever, looking for in-depth information specific to their needs. In fact, 81% of sales reps say buyers increasingly conduct research before they reach out, according to the latest State of Sales Report.

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3 Ways Data Visualization Can Improve Sales Analysis

Membrain

Data visualization is a powerful tool for sales leaders and professionals to improve analysis and decision-making. From prospecting more effectively to understanding your pipeline and seeing where your greatest account opportunities lie, the ability to take bare numbers and make them visual can make the difference between stagnant results and continually improving performance.

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Your Buyers Changed. You Didn't.

Iannarino

Research on B2B buyers shows they have changed how they buy. The biggest shift is that they do their own research before starting the sales process, and most would prefer to buy without having to speak with a salesperson. Buyers complain that salespeople don’t understand their business and their challenges, and that the sales experience doesn’t give them what they need.

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Leading Sales Teams Through a Challenging Economy

Force Management

Changing course to weather the economic storm is a little like other initiatives that require leader visibility. To pivot successfully, you’ll need to rally the troops and build buy-in around the shifted approach. But unlike a launch, your plan for steering the ship through choppy waters comes with added background noise. Tightened budgets, longer sales cycles, and “not right now”. the realities of today’s market can take a toll on morale.

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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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What Does Your Customer Care About?

Partners in Excellence

Pop Quiz time…… Put everything away, pull out a pen/sheet of paper, open a blank document on your computer, or open the notes app on your phone. Answer this question, you have 90 seconds: What does your customer care about? What are the top 3 things that matter to them? (For extra credit points, write down why) Tick…… Tick… Tick… Time’s up, put down your pens, fingers off the keyboard.

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Unlocking the Secrets to Outside Sales Success in 2023

Veloxy

The year 2023 has brought with it new challenges and opportunities in the world of outside sales. As sales professionals navigate this ever-changing landscape, the secrets to their success lie in adapting to industry trends , leveraging technology, and honing essential skills. Are you ready to unlock the secrets to outside sales success in 2023? Read on to discover the strategies, techniques, and insights that will propel you to new heights in your sales career.

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Identifying Sales Coaching Needs: An Analysis EVERY Company Should Execute

Anthony Cole Training

Regardless of the current state of affairs, GREAT organizations go through a constant assessment of where they are. They look at lagging metrics, leading metrics, and success metrics. They consider that data to help them identify the answer to these three questions.

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Use Music to Understand the 12 Criteria Prospects Use to Buy from Salespeople

Understanding the Sales Force

Yesterday, while watching our son play in a summer collegiate baseball game, I missed a step and tumbled all the way down the bleachers. Isn't that a great analogy for what happens when you miss, or skip a crucial step in the sales process? More than half of all salespeople are missing and skipping important milestones in the sales process each and every day and their egos get more bruised from failing to close those opportunities than my body got bruised from my not so thrilling adventure to th

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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 interviews Pete Evans, Head of Sales EMEA and Certified Coach of Emerse Group Limited, to explore essential fundamentals and foundations for salespeople.

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Why New Reps Should Sell a Commodity

Iannarino

As a new sales rep, you might want to sell a product that is unique and special. You might believe it would be even better to sell something with no available alternatives. While selling a differentiated product or service might bring you easy success and commissions, it will stunt your development as a salesperson.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

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.

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Google launches perspectives filter in mobile search results

Search Engine Land

Google has begun the rollout of the new perspectives filter in the mobile search results this weekend. This feature was announced at Google I/O and we have seen previews and tests from Google over the past months related to this feature and now it is live. What it looks like. Here is a screenshot of the feature, you can see it by searching on mobile and sliding the search bar filters until you see a “perspectives” option.

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AI and marketing: What the stats show

Martech

There are a lot of stats out there about marketing and artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, many of them are (gasp!) more than two years old. When it comes to AI, change comes fast. Not just in the technology, but in attitudes and usage. Here’s a collection of statistics about AI and marketing with the date of the survey included. This will let you judge for yourself how much things have changed since they came out.

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58 Augmented Reality Statistics to Unveil AR’s Growth

G2

Augmented reality (AR) has rapidly transitioned from a nascent technology into a groundbreaking instrument. It is present in our daily lives and continues to redefine the ways we interact with technology.

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Actual Intelligence > Artificial Intelligence

Iannarino

Artificial Intelligence" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"> If you spend any time on LinkedIn, you find a lot of content about ChatGPT and other tools built on large language models. Some people use ChatGPT to write their content in part or in whole. A few months ago, I sent a summary of a presentation I will deliver soon.

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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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Leading Sales Teams Through a Challenging Economy

Force Management

Changing course to weather the economic storm is a little like other initiatives that require leader visibility. To pivot successfully, you’ll need to rally the troops and build buy-in around the shifted approach. But unlike a launch, your plan for steering the ship through choppy waters comes with added background noise. Tightened budgets, longer sales cycles, and “not right now”. the realities of today’s market can take a toll on morale.

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A Weekend Challenge: Try Something New!

Partners in Excellence

Over the past week or so, I’ve been writing a lot about our commitment to the status quo. How we seem to continue to do the same things, over and over, even when they are failing. I’ve written about how we are trapped in “business as usual.” I’ve gotten some questions, “Dave, how do we change, what should we do? There are so many things we need to address, where do we start?

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The success elements of marketing-driven growth

Martech

This is the first part of a three-part series on the success elements of growth. One of the things I enjoy the most about my job is how much I learn from my clients and colleagues. Over the years, I have had the incredible opportunity to work with some big brands and incredibly smart people and engage with innovative thinkers I am proud to call my clients.

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9 Priorities for Sales Leaders Now

Iannarino

It isn’t easy to lead a sales force in the best of times, and it is more difficult in a recessionary environment. As a sales leader, you need to establish priorities. The following outlines these in order of importance.

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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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TikTok launches new AI ad script generator

Search Engine Land

TikTok has launched a free AI tool that can create scripts in a matter of seconds. The feature, called Script Generator , is available to all TikTok Creative Center users with a desktop TikTok for Business account. Why we care: The Script Generator will make life easier for advertisers by generating scripts for them. And the best part is, if digital marketers happen to hate the scripts generated, they have the option to run their enquiry again, as many times as they like, for no cost at all as t

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“A Little Knowledge……”

Partners in Excellence

We have tools and data sources that gives us all kinds of information and data. We can know about the issues our customers and their markets face. We can know about performance challenges. We have information about individuals, pulled from their social profiles and activity. We have an abundance of data, information, knowledge, but we struggle to make use of it.

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Making The Switch To A Sales Career

Sales Gravy

Transitioning Into A Career In Sales In this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Art Munin, Ph.D. from Liaison International joins guest host Gina Trimarco, Sales Gravy Master Trainer and Director of Coaching Programs, after impressively pitching himself with a Bonjovi guitar serenade. They delve into the topic of salespeople transitioning from non-sales careers later in life, and explore a shared passion for the arts and how it influences sales success.

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The Folly of Cold Emails

Iannarino

A few minutes after ChatGPT was released, the techno brutes immediately found the value of using a robot to write cold emails, believing that AI's customization would win them meetings. It is difficult to understand how something might be personalized without any human effort. If a robot writes your cold email, it isn’t personal.

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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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Local SEO in 2023: 5 simple ways to dominate local search

Search Engine Land

When it comes to local SEO , it’s more important than ever that you optimize your on-site and off-site SEO strategies for clients and customers searching for your local business. Local competition is hotter than ever, and if you’re not on top of your rankings, you can bet your competitors are. Here are five local SEO tactics you can use to help your business rank higher for local search terms. 1.

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4 AI categories impacting marketing: Predictive analytics

Martech

In this four-part series, we’re exploring four categories of artificial intelligence (AI), how they can meaningfully impact marketers and their customers and what to potentially avoid. Part one (Generative AI) is here. In this second article, we’ll look at predictive analytics — tools using data such as user behavior (aggregated and per-customer basis) and other factors to provide marketers with predictions of future behavior and other trends.

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A Complete Guide on How to Build a Chatbot (Easy to Hard)

G2

As companies grow more comfortable with the idea of using chatbots on their websites, even those who don’t have in-house developers might want to get on board with the chatbot trend.

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Do the Damn Reading

Iannarino

It isn’t difficult to acquire a strategic advantage in sales. Yet, most people refuse to take the single action that tens of thousands have used to succeed at greater levels than their peers and their competitors. Throughout history, the people you have heard of have one thing in common: They read.

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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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Google files lawsuit over fake review scams

Search Engine Land

Google has filed a lawsuit to dissuade scammers from using Google Maps and Business Profiles to post fake businesses and fake reviews. Google said “bad actors posted more than 350 fraudulent Business Profiles and tried to bolster them with more than 14,000 fake reviews. The lawsuit. You can find the court document over here that spells out the details of the lawsuit that Google filed.

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3 prevailing themes pointing to a martech reset

Martech

I recently taught some martech workshops (in person!) and received numerous fascinating questions from stack leaders. Clearly, 2023 represents another year of great change as omnichannel aspirations take on higher priority and leaders continue to revisit their platform choices amid growing hype around artificial intelligence and machine learning. Here’s my take on three clusters of questions and topics that arose: CDP programs as stalking horses for customer data modernization.

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Expensify Joins 2023 SaaStr Annual as Unicorn Sponsor!

SaaStr

We’re SUPER excited to announced that Expensify has returned as a second-time SaaStr Annual sponsor for 2023 Annual on September 6-8, this time as a Unicorn Sponsor! We’ve used Expensify ourselves at SaaStr for years to manage our team’s expense reports, and we’re excited to have Expensify back even bigger and better this year, and to partner with Expensify on their Chat app as well.

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How a Robust API Ecosystem Encourages Productivity

Salesforce

APIs help power much of our digital lives and make many online products and services possible. Nearly every ( 99% ) company uses public and private APIs to integrate and connect systems and data, and they generate 38% of the average organization’s revenue. An API ecosystem is a network of APIs that coexist and work together to provide a valuable and differentiated experience for customers.

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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.