Anthony Cole Training
DECEMBER 19, 2024
As 2024 comes to a close, were sharing our most read and favorite sales training and management content that helped sales teams thrive this year. Whether youre focused on leadership, skill development, or strategic planning, you can use these resources to help drive sales success in 2025. Don't miss our top videos and free downloads at the end!
Iannarino
DECEMBER 16, 2024
The secret to winning more deals lies in meaningful conversationsnot in algorithms.
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SaaStr
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Former Head of Revenue at BILL and HubSpot Americas leader Michelle Benfer recently joined us on a SaaStr Workshop Wednesday share her insights on one of the most critical roles in any SaaS organization: the frontline sales manager. Having led sales teams of 500+ at BILL and 800+ at HubSpot, Michelle has unique insights into what makes great frontline managers and why investing in them is crucial for sustainable growth.
G2
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Discover the 9 best free graphic design tools Ive tested for 2025! From editing to illustration, these are my top picks for creatives on a budget.
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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
DECEMBER 16, 2024
As marketers, weve put a lot of work into fooling ourselves. We think we know what were doing. But its all a lie. Think about it our so-called expertise is built on a foundation of assumptions (sprinkled with data) as shaky as a house of cards on a diving board. We spend millions creating a marketing mix based on assumptions crafting buyer personas and guessing at customer problems.
Force Management
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The journey from start-up to maturity involves multiple rounds of iteration. Achieving product-market fit and getting your customers to pay and stay are the results of how your product and message adapted to your buyers' needs along the way. Now, reaching that next benchmark means continuing to refine and shift the way your company thinks about and talks about itself in the market.
Technology Sales Today brings together the best content for technology sales professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
G2
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Business intelligence (BI) is making a significant impact across industries by helping organizations use data to make better decisions and improve operations.
Martech
DECEMBER 18, 2024
The rise of generative AI has fueled an explosion of data, creating immense potential for marketers. However, navigating this abundance requires sophisticated tools to extract actionable insights from the noise. With insights from Tooba Durraze , Ph.D., founder and CEO of data analytics firn Amoeba, lets explore how AI-powered solutions can turn overwhelming data into actionable marketing intelligence.
Membrain
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Its hard to believe were at the end of another year already. Its been an eventful year for the world and our company. Im proud of everything we accomplished and excited for the new year. Through it all, every week, we send this blog out to followers.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 15, 2024
Top Posts: #1. 10+ Signs of a Mediocre Hire #2. Has Quitting Culture Now Crossed Into Founder CEOs? #3. Is SaaS Back? (TL;DR: It Sure Feels Like It) #4. Stay Longer. But Also Quit Faster. #5. 83% Percent of You Havent Gotten AI SDRs to Work Yet Top Vids and Pods: #1: “How to Successfully Bring AI Products to Market at Scale with GitHubs CRO” #2.
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.
Sales Hacker
DECEMBER 17, 2024
The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Guy Yalif is a seasoned B2B SaaS executive with over 20 years of go-to-market experience. As the co-founder and CEO of Intellimize (acquired by Webflow), Guy brings a unique perspective from his journey through iconic companies like Microsoft, Yahoo, and Twitter, as well as his background in aerospace engineering.
Martech
DECEMBER 17, 2024
2025-26 will be the years when what you dont know will really, really hurt you. Thats a generally true statement, but its especially true for go-to-market functions, particularly those that find their meaning as multipliers of sales effectiveness and efficiency. The facts are that very few C-suites understand why they spend so much money on marketing; and a lot of them are also rethinking how much their sales team costs them in the AI era.
Partners in Excellence
DECEMBER 19, 2024
“WTF! What’s this guy talking about???? We don’t want losers, we want winners……” A lot of you are scratching your heads, thinking, “Dave’s really gone off the deep end, this time!” Hang in there, let’s talk about losing! But first, let’s talk about winning. We put winners on pedestals. we revere them, we aspire to be like them.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Databricks worth $62B, sounds like a lot but: – Crossing $3B ARR – Growing 60% (!) and >accelerating< – 80% Gross Margins – 500 $1m+ customers 20x ARR doesnt seem >that< high pic.twitter.com/5qW7jeReQc — Jason SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) December 17, 2024 So SaaS is back. Perhaps Databricks isn’t really SaaS, it’s Cloud + AI/Cloud infrastructure.
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!
G2
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Shopping cart abandonment is when customers add items to their cart but leave without completing the purchase. Discover the best strategies to reduce it.
Martech
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Gartner research shows that consumers are coming to regard thrift as an aspirational virtue, openly resisting consumerism for self-improvement and similar motives. Gartner also detects a widespread trend called “norming” essentially, seeking reassurance about personal behavior and attitudes by checking them against objective and community standards.
Partners in Excellence
DECEMBER 20, 2024
We are, as we should be, enamored with the potential of AI, particularly LLMs. Every day, we discover something new that we can do with these tools. How we eliminate work our people have to do. How we improve our people’s productivity. How we eliminate our people and fully automate interactions with customers and each other… Hmmmm? We are learning how to deal with and minimize hallucinations, making these tools much more accurate.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Dear SaaStr: What is the best way to deal with an “unauthorized signer” on a contract in SaaS sales? A large company signed a contract to buy about $30K worth of software from us, and then the person who signed the contract said he didn’t have the authority to. I’ve been there, on both sides of it. Let me just add my personal learnings.
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!
G2
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Continuous learning is essential for both individual and organizational growth, and learning and development (L&D) tools support just that.
Martech
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Are you pouring time and effort into content that routinely underperforms? Youre not alone. Many B2B marketers spend countless hours crafting content, only to watch it fall flat. Why? Because even well-intentioned content can miss the mark if it doesnt resonate with your audience. The truth is that your audience is bombarded with content every day. If yours doesnt stand out, deliver value and connect with the right people, it wont get the attention it deserves.
Adaptive Business Services
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Happy Holidays! We do have one new Nimble update to report and that is the capability to filter your pipeline deals. In a way, this operates as a deal search capability and it is something that I have wanted, and have expected, for some time. This filter (search) allows you to show deals based on matching a specific criteria including any custom fields that you have created for that pipeline.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 19, 2024
So we have a classic set of New Year’s Resolutions in SaaS that we update every year. Over the years, so much has changed in SaaS. The best grow faster than ever. And yet, many are still struggling to get over the Crash of 2022. AI is remaking so many categories, but it’s often murky exactly … how. And while unicorns are back in force, IPOs and Big M&A isn’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
G2
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Technology has transformed every industry, and its impact on the healthcare sector is unprecedented, influencing engagement between patients and healthcare providers.
Martech
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Apple is expected to release iOS 18 publicly this year, and it includes significant changes to Apple Mail. That means big changes to email marketing strategies. Heres a look at the new features, their likely impact and steps you can take now. I think there are two big changes coming for folks using Apple Mail, said Brian McKenna, vice president of CRM at digital marketing agency DMI Partners.
Hubspot
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Over on Trends , our community members have front-row seats to predictions and analysis on future business opportunities. But how does the Trends team consistently discover emerging ideas? Spoiler: Our analysts arent psychics theyre skilled researchers implementing a tried-and-tested formula. We do not predict the future, says Trends analyst Ethan Brooks.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 15, 2024
So I don’t think founders need to understand everything about how VC works, but is is helpful to understand the key drivers and metrics, And this one is interesting. Per Pitchbook , the “top” 30 VC funds raised 75% of all the VC capital raised this year: And really, they consumed it. Because there is just only so much capital available for VCs to raise from LPs, to then give to founders.
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.
G2
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Decentralized identity is a user-centric way to manage identity without central authority. Learn how it works, its benefits, use cases, and challenges.
Martech
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Consumers arent just using their phones to research products they see on TV, theyre using them to make purchases. Seventy-seven percent of smart TV owners said they frequently make mobile purchases based on TV ads they see, according to a recent study by Samsung Ads. This behavior will carry through the rest of the holiday season as Salesforce forecasts a high volume of mobile shopping.
Membrain
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Explore how personalized sales strategies and why the importance of leveraging individual strengths to engage effectively can help you with Nicole Babel and David Mullins from SalesStar. With decades of experience, Nicole and David offer invaluable strategies to help sales leaders and teams adapt to rapid changes, such as accelerated decision-making and niche market specialization.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Who we are hiring for at Team SaaStr: – Director of Content: Take over and manage a big part of our content calendar, and help manage our speakers and webinars. The engine already works here, you don’t have to create content (unless you want to), but you need to own a big chunk of the calendar and speakers. You have to be able to work at scale and with a lot of volume of content (30+ posts, 2 podcasts, 2 youtubes a week; 200+ speakers a year; 50 workshop wednesdays).
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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