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Expert B2B Sales Plays & Best Practices

Iannarino

How you sell is a major factor in sales success. Even though the sales process is no longer linear, we still divide it into stages. Each stage of an opportunity requires you to achieve a corresponding outcome for you and your potential customers.

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Will AI Really Help You Sell?

Membrain

It’s almost the only thing people want to talk about these past few months: Artificial intelligence. ChatGPT and its many children and siblings have set the internet and our industry ablaze with speculation about what it means for us.

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How To Scale Your Go-to-Market Strategy at Every Stage with Cipio Partners Managing Partner Rolan Dennert (Video)

SaaStr

Most startup founders create companies to grow them. While all organizations are different, one core truth remains — Everything changes. This is true in life and business. If you don’t want your company defeated by change, you need to adapt your Go-To-Market strategy at every stage of growth. Managing Partner of CIPIO Partners, Rolan Dennert, shares how companies need to readjust and rethink GTM fit — and even product market fit — from time to time.

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Am I Ready For This Meeting?

Partners in Excellence

We spend a huge amount of time getting customers to accept a request for a meeting. Customers are busy. They have an aversion, even a preference, not to talk to sellers. They worry about wasting their time. On our side, we are incredibly busy. We are juggling all sorts of balls, prospecting, managing qualified opportunities in our pipelines, making sure our current customers are happy, doing the endless amount of internal reporting our managers seem to want us to do.

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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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Top Sales Operations KPIs to Track & Optimize

Iannarino

Sales operations is the business function responsible for supporting the sales force by improving efficiency and effectiveness. Sales organizations may assign different tasks and outcomes to sales operations. Some of these responsibilities include sales strategy , sales planning , managing technology, sales training , or optimizing the sales process.

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Coaching Championship Sales Teams: Pat Summitt Says it All!

Anthony Cole Training

There are five pillars that make up a strong Sales Managed Environment which in turn will help you build a consistent, championship-quality sales team.

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Latest Podcasts: Leading Through Challenges

Force Management

As leaders, we serve as guides for our teams through challenging times. In the current economic landscape, when the challenges are unpredictable, it helps to have guides of our own. Last month on the Revenue Builders Podcast, we talked to multiple leaders who have guided teams successfully through crises. They spoke to the power of gratitude, communication, culture, and humility.

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How to Survive the Coming B2B Sales Apocalypse in Outbound Sales

Iannarino

Reaching prospective clients will be more challenging in the future. I know, you think it’s difficult enough now, but the regulatory environment is going to become more restrictive. You should expect something like the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) in the United States. Other regulations being considered would make it more difficult to make robocalls or share contact information without permission.

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Entity SEO: The definitive guide

Search Engine Land

This article was co-authored by Andrew Ansley. Things, not strings. If you haven’t heard this before, it comes from a famous Google blog post that announced the Knowledge Graph. The announcement’s 11th anniversary is only a month away, yet many still struggle to understand what “things, not strings” really means for SEO. The quote is an attempt to convey that Google understands things and is no longer a simple keyword detection algorithm.

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Dumbing Things Down….

Partners in Excellence

As I look at the plethora of tools we leverage to engage customers and each other, I worry. While they are intended to help us accomplish more. They are intended to help us, make us more efficient, eliminate some of the work we have to do, Instead, I wonder if they are dumbing us down. We have tools that present everything about the customer to us—the financial performance of the company, performance relative to the market, key issues facing them and their customers.

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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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6 tactics to create recession-proof email marketing

Martech

Are we in a recession or not? It doesn’t matter whether the national economy meets the classic definition (i.e., when a country’s gross domestic product falls in two consecutive business quarters). What our customers think matters more — and right now, they’re pretty pessimistic. Up to 91% of consumers are changing their shopping habits in response to bleak economic news, according to a new SheerID study.

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Are You Creating Value, Building Value or Adding Value?

Iannarino

As a writer, I care deeply about words. Words and phrases have meanings. When used incorrectly, words can confuse others or obscure the meaning. The terms "creating value," "building value," and "adding value" are often used interchangeably. This makes it difficult to distinguish them.

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Google Analytics 4 now lets you modify and create events using regular expressions

Search Engine Land

Google Analytics 4 now supports creating and/or modifying events using regular expressions, regex. This can help you migrate destinations and event goals from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4 in a more programmatic fashion. More details. Google said the new feature and options enable you to define conversions using regular expressions (regex) for web data streams.

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Open Letter: An Urgent Call to Pause AI Development Beyond GPT-4

David Meerman Scott

This morning, I signed an Open Letter , putting my name together with academics, researchers, and business people calling on all Artificial Intelligence labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.

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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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Conversational marketing: A guide to a key B2B GTM strategy

Martech

Did you know that 91% of business buyers and 86% of consumers consider the company’s experience as important as its products and services? If your B2B go-to-market strategy doesn’t prioritize delivering a personalized and engaging experience for your audience, you could be missing out on potential customers and growth opportunities. Fortunately, conversational marketing can help you create the kind of experience that modern buyers expect.

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The Ultimate Guide to Building a Successful B2B Sales Funnel

Iannarino

A sales funnel is a concept that illustrates the various stages of a customer's purchase decision process. While sales approaches their work using a pipeline, marketing uses B2B sales funnel strategies. As a salesperson, it is important to understand your organization’s funnel.

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Why next year’s SEO results depend on your SEO work this year

Search Engine Land

Stop reading. Now. Go open Google Analytics. Click on Behavior , then sort by Top Content , and add a Secondary dimension for google / organic. Now, what do you see? If you’re like most websites, the top trafficked pages are also often at least 12 months old. That means three things: Traffic is a lagging indicator, a byproduct of previous output.

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Getting What We Want….

Partners in Excellence

We want to achieve our goals—make quota, get the bonus, get the promotion, get the recognition. We want people to act/behave in a certain way. We want to work for a certain company or in a certain role. We want customers to respond to our outreach, to buy our products. The problem with getting what we want is that we are usually dependent on those we work with getting what they want/need.

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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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ChatGPT under threat from European regulators

Martech

On Friday, Italian regulators imposed a ban on generative AI tool ChatGPT with immediate effect while giving its creator, OpenAI, 20 days to address concerns about the way data is collected and processed under penalty of a fine of $21.7m or up to 4% of annual revenues (whichever is greater). There have been indications that other European regulators may swiftly follow suit.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Growth Initiatives-Boost Your Revenue in 2023

Iannarino

Supply chain issues and wage growth have been pushing the Fed to raise rates faster than ever, but despite these strong headwinds, there is no reason to give up on your sales goals. Interest rates are high, and it looks as if they will stay that way through the rest of 2023. We may avoid a recession, but the business environment has been affected by the rising costs following the pandemic.

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Dear SaaStr: How Much Of My Startup Do I Need to Sell In Each Venture Round?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Much Of My Startup Do I Need to Sell In Each Venture Round? It definitely can vary based on what type of investor. But for venture-backed start-ups raising from more traditional funds (the ones you’ve heard of), here are some rough rules: Seed VCs would like to buy 10%, sometimes 15%, if they can. They often “settle” for a bit less.

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21 best ChatGPT alternatives

Search Engine Land

I’ve been excited about ChatGPT , its API , and its SEO applications – everything from local SEO to title tags and content editing. And like many (including OpenAI’s founder ), I’ve also seen its limitations. While ChatGPT is remarkable, once you’ve used it long enough, you likely know the following: It frequently “hallucinates” answers, acting as if it knows the correct answer when in reality, the platform is “confident but wrong.” There are areas

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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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Marketing technologists are well-rewarded

Martech

If you work in marketing technology or marketing ops, there’s a good chance you’re better compensated than your peers among general marketers. That’s one takeaway from the 2023 MarTech Salary and Career Survey. Those members of the marketing operations team more focused on tech and operations (“maestros”) than the design and execution of campaigns earned, on average, $25,000 more than their campaign-focused peers.

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Revolutionize B2B Sales: 5 Strategies for Team Success!

Iannarino

As B2B sales organizations continue to reorganize their go-to-market (GTM) sales teams, there is a convergence into revenue teams. These teams comprise sales, marketing, sales operations, sales enablement, and customer success (once called customer service). The full-cycle B2B salespeople who used to walk into the client's office alone are now accompanied by a phalanx of team members.

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Top 10 Mistakes In 10 Years From Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta

SaaStr

“I never make the same mistake twice. I make it 5 or 6 times, just to be sure.” -Random quote I found on the Internet If that doesn’t describe the CEO experience, I don’t know what does. In February 2023, I hit my 10-year anniversary (or “Gainaversary,” as we say) of running Gainsight. After receiving my gold watch and Silicon Valley AARP card, I had a chance to reflect on a decade of community-building, cheesy music videos, and #CustomerSuccess.

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Google to sunset 4 attribution models in Ads and Analytics

Search Engine Land

Google will soon retire four rules-based attribution models in Google Ads and Google Analytics: First-click. Linear. Time decay. Position-based. Why we care. This will impact anyone who still uses these models in Google Ads. Anything that isn’t last-click will be much harder to track because the data-driven attribution formula is different for each advertiser – and not visible. “In the past, you could use linear and give each touch the same credit.

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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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How to increase website engagement with content recommendations

Martech

Every content provider wants more engagement with their online content. Effective content recommendations are one way to achieve this. but there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Here’s how to develop the best recommendation strategy for your site, content and audience. Most off-the-shelf content recommendation engines will not have all the capabilities discussed here, but knowing what’s possible will help you find the best solution for your business.

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The Impact of Having Well-Defined Personas

Heinz Marketing

By Carly Bauer , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing I was recently asked during a client meeting what the importance was for developing personas. Their concern was that titles and challenges were always changing. It felt like a waste of time, energy and resources to develop something that felt so temporary. And it’s true, personas and the people we market to are always changing based on their needs, goals, limitations, resources, and many other variables.

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Lowering the Hiring (And Investing) Bar Didn’t Work

SaaStr

So everyone is now paying the price for lowering the bar in the Boom Times of mid ‘20 to early ‘22. On the hiring side, it often seemed like you just couldn’t hire anyone. While layoffs are all across the news today, looking back, July 2021 was the nadir for layoffs. Everyone was hiring everyone, anyone, back in mid-2021. This data from Carta helps illustrate it: So we cut corners.

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Has AI changed SEO for better or worse?

Search Engine Land

Google first turned to artificial intelligence and machine learning to power its search engine algorithm back in 2016. With ChatGPT ‘s launch in late 2022, however, artificial intelligence truly became mainstream and significantly impacted the SEO industry. While some believe these changes have been for the better, others have argued that they have made things worse.

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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.