Iannarino

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There are several truths about sales that we rarely acknowledge. The first is that, in sales, the competition isn't between two or more companies competing for a client's business. Nor is it a contest between two or more competing "solutions." Sales success is individual , making the contest between competing salespeople. This is one reason why you should focus on your client's sales experience , something we call the sales conversation.

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Spiro Technologies

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Sales has a notoriously high turnover rate. Anyone who has ever worked on a sales floor knows that you meet plenty of people who will move on to another gig, or just leave sales entirely. Of course, turnover rates vary depending on the job and industry. But some companies are able to avoid many of the mistakes that drive salespeople away. So what are these mistakes that cause salespeople to quit?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2022

So SaaStr polls aren’t perfect, but they do seem to capture the zeitgeist of things pretty well. One this week surprised me a bit. Only about half of you are actually adding to your sales team next year: Times certainly are strange these days. CIOs are scrutinizing budgets like never before. Salesforce has suspended forward guidance for 2023, saying it just doesn’t know how much it will grow.

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Iannarino

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A successful sales culture provides a strategic advantage that is often underestimated. A successful sales culture produces better results over time. To have a successful sales culture, a sales organization needs to do more than ensure things aren’t toxic. Sales leaders can cultivate a positive sales culture by ensuring the following 11 elements are in place.

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Click below to listen to the blog post. Veloxy strives for accessibility. Back in 2018, Salesforce discovered that sales reps were only spending 34% of their time selling (707 hours a year). Not surprisingly, only 42% of these sales reps expected to meet (not crush) quota. In that same report, Salesforce found that companies were planning to invest in sales technology and other initiatives that would help their reps spend more time on the activities that generate revenue.

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Has thou been answering the un-asked question? Find out why you should never, ever answer the un-asked question in the final commandment of the 10 Commandments of Sales Success.

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Iannarino

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Every interaction you have with a prospect moves them closer or further away from a sale.

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Force Management

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In February 2022, we published the first episode of Revenue Builders. Veteran sales leaders and friends John Kaplan and John McMahon are passionate about sharing their wealth of knowledge with current and future leaders, and along the years they've rubbed shoulders with some of the most influential and inspiring leaders of the sales world and beyond.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Each week we can read multiple lists of the top new movies and TV shows to stream at home. Lists of the Top SUV's, Sedans, and Coupes are also prevalent right now. And of course, as we move ever closer to the holidays, there are lists aplenty on the Top Gadgets, Luxury Items, Gifts for Her, Gifts for Him and Gifts for Kids to peruse. But it's also the time of year when I publish my list of the Top 10 Sales and Sales Leadership Articles of the year.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Cooley is one of the top law firms representing startups , and so they have data that no one else quite has. They know exactly what venture deals are priced at, exactly how many are happening, and exactly what is happening across 100s and 100s of leading startups. Other data sources are great, but law firms have a unique access to the exact, real data.

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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.

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Iannarino

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Forecasting is one of the more difficult tasks for sales leaders and sales managers. In times of uncertainty or instability, it can be even more challenging to predict the future. If you listen to companies report their results on CNBC, you will invariably hear large companies report that the economy has slowed deals. Add to this the 10 sales challenges we face, and forecasting is even more difficult.

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 13, 2022

According to the latest research, there were 8.6 billion active mobile device subscriptions in 2021. This number will only have grown since mobile devices are integrated into every part of our society. This includes business sectors such as sales teams with employees using mobile devices on a daily basis to achieve goals and reach key revenue targets.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

A/B testing splits traffic 50/50 between a control and a variation. A/B split testing is a new term for an old technique — controlled experimentation. Yet for all the content out there about it, people still test the wrong things and run A/B tests incorrectly. This guide will help you understand everything you need to get started with A/B testing. You’ll see the best ways to run tests, prioritize hypotheses, analyze results, and the best tools to experiment through A/B testing.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Dear SaaStr: How Can You Tell iI Someone is Going To Be a Phenomenal CEO? Having now worked with a few dozen SaaS CEOs who are much better CEOs that I ever was, I think I can boil it down to 2 characteristics: They can see the future , and. They have the ability to recruit and build the teams to get there. The best founders, at least by the time they have 50–100 customers, can see at least several years into the future.

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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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Iannarino

DECEMBER 10, 2022

For a long time, prospecting was limited to cold calling. Sales managers who couldn't help their team improve their sales effectiveness demanded more phone calls. The only time more activity is needed is when there is too little activity. Leaders who can improve their teams’ results have an advantage in creating opportunities.

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Membrain

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Brad Bolino emailed me a link from a recent Wall Street Journal article titled, " Millennials are Changing What it Means to be Successful in Sales. ".

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Martech

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Marketers don’t have to be overwhelmed by technology if they stick to basic principles when assembling their marketing technology stack. These three steps will come in handy when navigating the complicated landscape of over 10,000 martech companies. Bad stack features to avoid. But first, what does a bad stack look like? “Number one, an ineffective martech stack is incomplete,” said Darrell Alfonso, global marketing operations for Amazon Web Services at The MarTech Conference. ”You don’t h

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2022

So, things are brutal in the public markets, with multiples approaching all-time lows. But … we’re seeing those very low prices bring out the Private Equity firms. They are looking for bargains. The latest is Coupa. In fact, this one was such a bargain that a bidding war broke out between two of the mighty giants here, Vista and Thoma Bravo.

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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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Iannarino

DECEMBER 14, 2022

One reason marketers and salespeople have trouble communicating is because we speak different languages. For example, we fill a pipeline , while they have a funnel. We name things in a way that makes sense, like first meeting , discovery call , solution design , and so on. Marketers break their funnel up into ToFu (top of the funnel), MoFu (middle of the funnel), and BoFu (bottom of the funnel).

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Membrain

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Sales coaching is critical to increasing sales performance, just as much as coaching is critical to performance in any other area. If you want a high-performing sports team: Invest in coaching. If you want to be a high-performing athlete: Invest in coaching. If you want your sales team to beat the competition: Invest in coaching.

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Martech

DECEMBER 14, 2022

With the end of third-party cookies looming over an ever-shifting horizon, marketers have been scrambling to figure out how to hold onto their precious data. There appears to be a savior in the form of server-side measurement. However, not all stakeholders are aligned on what this tracking technique really brings to the table. And often, when people talk about server-side, they mean different things.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2022

So I’ve written a bit about a topic that a lot of folks challenge me on. But look, it’s true. Customer Success has gotten worse over the past few years. Much worse. The best Customer Success teams are still amazing. They jump on a problem like a grenade. They truly solve your problem. Often, in a way the software itself can’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

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Iannarino

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Sales is the heart of any successful organization. It's where the money comes from.

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Google has made significant changes to its Quality Rater Guidelines (QRG) for search. While Google updates this document several times per year, the latest version, updated today , came with notable changes to the structure of the document, with many new sections and tables added and a total of 11 new pages worth of content. . While there are dozens of important details about what changed, arguably the most important change was the introduction of the letter E to the start of the popular acronym

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Martech

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The release of the WhatsApp integration, which promises to increase contact engagement and user efficiency, highlights HubSpot’s November releases. Also, last month: Marketing emails can now be prevented from sending without approval first. Campaign reporting is enhanced by an improved “influenced contacts” metric. gaining actionable insights from calls is easier with more specific clipping.

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David Meerman Scott

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Fifty years ago this week, the historic Apollo 17 mission sent humans to the moon for the last time (so far). It’s super cool that also this week, the Orion spacecraft of the Artemis I mission successfully returned to Earth after traveling to the Moon. Both missions, 50 years apart, were triumphs for NASA.

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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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SaaStr

DECEMBER 16, 2022

How do you enter a highly competitive marketplace, carve a niche for yourself, and then scale the business to $100 million+ ARR? Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund, joined Matt Plank, VP of Sales at Rippling, to unlock the secrets to exponential revenue growth. We follow Rippling’s journey from $10 million ARR to hundreds of millions of ARR and the key learnings along the way. .

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Google has updated its search quality raters guidelines for the second time in 2022, only four and a half months since its last update in July 2022. This revised document has some substantial changes to E-A-T, by adding an extra E to E-A-T for “experience.” The document is now about nine-pages longer, adding up to 176 pages up from 167 pages in the previous version.

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Martech

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Marketing operations teams have a big problem with staff burnout and turnover. Among the many reasons for this is the amount of time spent doing the same tasks over and over for different campaigns. Fortunately, there is a solution — one that resides entirely in MOps itself. And what is that solution? “Self-service, something that I really think is a huge missed opportunity for many marketing operations teams,” said Justin Sharaf, vice president of marketing operations at data intelligence compa

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 14, 2022

One day you might have to explain to your children that companies once had sales meetings in person, in a room with the lights dimmed and something called a PowerPoint presentation. (If you were lucky, there were donuts.) Then the pandemic came. Now we all use Zoom for our meetings. So you might expect us to say, “and everything changed.” Not so fast.

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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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