Veloxy
MAY 30, 2024
Cold outreach can sometimes feel like a bad word. (Or two). How can you guide your team to do it effectively? How can you convince them that it can lead to ROI and sales? The reality is, cold outreach is a powerful marketing technique that can unlock untapped potential for your business. Join me as we take a look at this ultimate guide, exploring its benefits, strategies, and how to implement it successfully.
Iannarino
MAY 31, 2024
Are you struggling with sales techniques for software? Discover the key lessons for successful software sales!
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Anthony Cole Training
MAY 31, 2024
“Did I hire my salespeople this way or did I make them this way?” This is the question every sales manager must ask. Fixing performance problems always starts with Standards and Accountability.Accountability means taking responsibility for outcomes – good or bad. A sales leader’s primary responsibility is to put the BEST team into the marketplace.Much like a general manager in sports, a director of a theatre company or an orchestra leader of a symphony, you have a job and a responsibility to hir
Partners in Excellence
MAY 29, 2024
When I was a kid, my father taught me how to sail. At first I sailed in racing dinghy’s never far from the shore. In high school, we graduated to cruising boats. While we never intended to do oceanic cruising, but the shoreline was beyond sight, and one of the challenges was knowing where we were and if we were going in the right direction. My dad’s solution to this was to teach me celestial navigation.
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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.
Martech
MAY 29, 2024
For more than a decade of my career, I held various demand generation titles at multiple companies, and the function has evolved greatly in that time. However, if you’ve been listening to the chatter on LinkedIn over the past two years, that evolution has gained speed and influence. What was once a lead generation and nurturing function has now been rebranded into a full go-to-market (GTM) approach, often owning most of the budget, especially in smaller tech companies.
Iannarino
MAY 28, 2024
Spotting a B2B salesperson’s red flags early can save you from costly mistakes and wasted time.
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Partners in Excellence
MAY 28, 2024
Before I get into this article, credit for the idea comes from a conversation with my friend, Jack Malcolm. Thanks for provoking the idea. The term, “prompt engineering,” is relatively new to most of us. While software developers and AI specialists have understood the concept for year, it’s very new for the rest of the world. But as the LLMs have emerged and grown, the concepts of prompt engineering are starting to fill our feeds.
Martech
MAY 31, 2024
AI will soon be able to handle up to 95% of the work currently done by marketing agencies, creative professionals and specialists, according to Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. If his prediction holds true, are marketing agencies headed for an extinction event in which some survive but many are wiped out, like the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period?
Iannarino
MAY 29, 2024
Unlock the secrets to transforming your sales enablement approach to align with modern buyer needs.
Search Engine Land
MAY 29, 2024
The search community is still unpacking and processing the huge reveal of the Google Search ranking documents that were made public yesterday morning. Everyone has been asking, why has Google not commented on the leak. Well, Google has finally commented – we spoke to a Google spokesperson about the data leak. Google told us. Google told us that there are a lot of assumptions being published based on the data leak that are being taken out of context, that are incomplete and added that searc
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.
Partners in Excellence
MAY 27, 2024
It’s rare that I deviate from writing about business, selling and leadership. But today is Memorial Day in the US. It struck me as important, perhaps more so than ever before, to pause and reflect on those who have served and are serving in the military, regardless of the country in which they served. I come from a military family. My father served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam, in the Navy and later in the Coast Guard.
Martech
MAY 29, 2024
How should marketers approach the daunting task of reining in and improving the marketing funnel? Recently at The MarTech Conference , two marketing leaders discussed this precise task. ( Free registration to view the entire program on-demand.) Below are some of the highlights of the conversation between Adam Altmark, senior manager, solutions engineering, at security technology company CHEQ and Alex Schutte, senior director, marketing demand generation for human resources software company Payc
Iannarino
MAY 30, 2024
There is nothing more important than developing your sales effectiveness. One of the best ways to unlock your potential is by acquiring a personal sales coach.
Salesforce
MAY 29, 2024
What you’ll learn What is first-party data and why is it so important? Build the culture and infrastructure to adapt to first-party data Find tools and tactics that work – and stop using old methods that don’t Get the most out of your first-party data Understand how first-party data impacts generative AI The era of third-party data is just about over – long live first-party data.
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!
Partners in Excellence
MAY 29, 2024
This morning, clearing my inbox and feeds, I noticed a headline. It referred to the average tenure of GTM executives being 17 months… The article offered sound advice on how to deal with a career living in 17 month increments. My thought, in reading this was, “Why do we settle for this? Why do we consider this acceptable? Wouldn’t we and the organizations we lead achieve much more with longer tenures?
Martech
MAY 31, 2024
For a long time it was difficult for B2B marketers to meet prospects face-to-face or at in-person events. Customer acquisition became in many respects a digital process, although it’s now being complemented again by the human touch. While social media and digital advertising have been the leading customer acquisition channels since the early days of the pandemic, live events and partner programs are becoming important again.
Iannarino
MAY 25, 2024
Unlock the Secrets to Boosting Your B2B Sales through Unparalleled Domain Expertise In the past, a B2B salesperson could succeed in selling their product or service by explaining how their solution would solve the client’s problems. This sales approach has lost its effectiveness in complex sales. Buyers need—and expect—a different experience. The significance of domain expertise in B2B sales cannot be overstated.
SaaStr
MAY 25, 2024
Building a $100M+ ARR business is no easy feat. Cloudinary VP of Developer Experience Sanjay Sarathy shares his journey to more than $100M and the lessons he learned along the way for building a PLG motion and an Enterprise sales motion. Let’s first start with how Cloudinary came to be. It was founded by three developers who owned a consulting firm previously, helping startups come to market.
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!
Partners in Excellence
MAY 31, 2024
Yesterday, I was privileged to sit in a discussion with a number of SaaS founders and sales executives. We were talking about organizing the GTM functions to maximize performance. It was a fascinating discussion. It’s also like so many discussions I see, with all sorts of organizations. These discussions focus on how we structure and organize to drive higher levels of performance.
Martech
MAY 28, 2024
On July 1, 2024, Universal Analytics 360 will shut down. The API will no longer be accessible and all data will be deleted. While Google said everyone should be off UA as of March of this year, some major corporations still haven’t finished their migrations. We talked to Michael Loban, InfoTrust’s chief growth officer, about why they haven’t and about what to focus on as the clock ticks down.
Iannarino
MAY 26, 2024
Discover how consultative selling can transform your B2B sales approach and elevate your results.
SaaStr
MAY 30, 2024
So I firmly you believe you can build an incredible SaaS startup from anywhere now, or at least, any major-ish tech center. See, e.g., Atlassian, Canva, Cloudflare (CEO now in Park City), Adyen, etc. Heck, Oracle apparently is moving to Nashville! And yet … gravity is coming back to the SF Bay Area. So many CEOs have come back, even if their teams haven’t.
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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
Salesforce
MAY 28, 2024
Using an AI assistant is becoming the norm, especially for companies looking to stay ahead in fast-paced environments where efficiency can make or break lucrative deals. But what many leaders don’t realize is that AI copilots — think chatbots that are powered by generative AI — can take specific actions that are tailored to their business. Whether that means summarizing online information in real time, automatically updating customer relationship management (CRM) records, or using historical dat
Martech
MAY 30, 2024
From fireside chats to expert-led sessions featuring digital leaders who are blazing a trail in the world of omnichannel marketing, this year’s Emarsys Omnichannel and AI Masterclass is packed full of insights that will leave you buzzing with new ideas. In this article, we’re going to take a look at three key sessions from the likes of Home Depot, Colgate-Palmolive and Kellanova that you won’t want to miss.
G2
MAY 27, 2024
Learn what retargeting is, how it differs from remarketing, and how to bring potential leads back to your website and convert them into customers.
SaaStr
MAY 28, 2024
If you’ve read SaaStr or have been around for the last decade, you might be familiar with some of the repeated GTM mistakes founders tend to make, but the world of hiring, people, scaling, and workplace expectations are significantly different today than they were before March 2020. SaaStr Founder and CEO, Jason Lemkin, shares the top GTM mistakes founders make today and some cheat codes to avoid them.
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.
Sales Hacker
MAY 28, 2024
Kelly Hopping is currently the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for Demandbase where she is responsible for differentiating the go to market platform, increasing brand presence, and accelerating acquisition and conversion of potential customers. Prior to joining Demandbase, Kelly honed her start-up skills as the first CMO at HYCU, a series B, venture capital-backed data protection SaaS company.
Martech
MAY 29, 2024
Audience at Salesforce Connections, Chicago. The latest Salesforce Shopping Index data suggests that shoppers are holding onto their purse strings until later in the year — at least, if 2023 is any guide. The consumer caution exhibited in 2022 and 2023 will continue through 2024. As far as ecommerce goes, this doesn’t mean it’s not showing YoY growth; it’s just that the growth is very modest so far — just 2% in Q1.
G2
MAY 31, 2024
When you started your business, you likely put together a plan that outlined all the key details of what you were looking to do — what your products or services are, who your competitors are, the type of audience you want to sell to, and information about the marketing you want to roll out.
SaaStr
MAY 30, 2024
Dear SaaStr: Should We Introduce Freemium in Our B2B SaaS Startup to Boost Growth? Probably not. Not because in theory it’s a bad idea. But because for most folks even at $1m-$2m ARR, it’s already too late. Why? Two reasons: First, if you don’t start Freemium, it’s very very hard to add that DNA later, once you have real revenues, processes and software optimized around larger customers and deal sizes Freemium: Requires a much more elegant onboarding (no human assist) that most ent
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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