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A Pre-Call Checklist is Your 7th Must-Have Sales Productivity Tool

Anthony Cole Training

In our 7th installment of Football & 9 Sales Productivity Tools That Will Change Your Results, we bring you the pivotal and "must-have" Pre-Call Checklist. Going into a sales call without a plan is similar to going into a football game without a game plan; it's a recipe for disaster!

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SaaS Will Hit $116 Billion Next Year. Wow.

SaaStr

Gartner has its latest Cloud report out , and while one can always pick at any report, it’s at least a well-resourced and reasoned source on the size of SaaS and the Cloud. The big learnings for SaaS founders and execs: Cloud overall will grow 17% next year to $266 Billion. That’s a lot of growth, and it means we’re solidly in the mainstream phase but not the mature phase.

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ABM Tricks that Boost Lead Generation and Sales Momentum

Sales Hacker

Account-based marketing isn’t new anymore. It’s time to stop winging it and to start doing it the right way. ABM allows you to craft efficient solutions to some of the biggest issues plaguing sales today. At Belkin, ABM helps us process a huge volume of data. We use it to explore over 50 data fields each day, research up to 20,000 leads every week, and constantly make content for email-outreach campaigns and customer communication.

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Non-Profit Persuasion Lesson from Jay-Z

Neuromarketing

Rapper Jay-Z used a classic influence principle for non-profit persuasion. The post Non-Profit Persuasion Lesson from Jay-Z appeared first on Neuromarketing.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Abandoned Cart Email Offers: What We Learned from 1,000 Ecommerce Brands

ConversionXL

Cart abandonment is a huge issue in ecommerce. So cart abandonment emails are often a top revenue generator. And discounts and offers within those emails are proven tactics for increasing conversions. All standard wisdom. But we wanted to see how ecommerce brands deployed their offers. Are “best practices” for offers prevailing? Which strategies are brands using—or neglecting?

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How to Write an Ecommerce Business Plan [Examples & Template]

Hubspot

You know the feeling of having a great idea, a brilliant view of how it'll work, but no idea of where to begin to execute it? If you have a promising idea for an online ecommerce business, that's great. But it’s important to know how you’ll transform your idea into reality. That's what business plans are for. An ecommerce business plan is especially important, with an increasing number of shoppers conducting their business online.

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How SaaS companies can ensure their apps are fast, safe, and reliable

SaaStr

By Vivek Ganti, Cloudflare Product Marketing. Today, the Internet is the lifeblood of business and the primary vehicle of commerce and communication for people around the world. While it was brilliantly architected to deliver fault tolerance and connectivity, it was not designed to deliver the millisecond performance, robust security, and reliability required for businesses today.

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How We Took on Slack (and Lived to Tell About It)

ConversionXL

How do you compete with one of the biggest names in your industry—and with a brand new product? Three years ago, we launched Chanty, a SaaS application for team chat. This was nothing new. Thousands of apps are born and die each year. There was one difference—we were going against Slack, the giant that is the SaaS role model. Call it bold or stupid, but we had our work cut out for us.

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Social Media Impressions vs. Reach: What's More Important?

Hubspot

Let's talk about social media metrics. When counting engagement, there are two terms you should know: reach and impressions. Reach is used to define who sees content. It's the total number of people who see a tweet you make, an Instagram story you post, or a Facebook event page. Let's say you have an ad that was displayed 500 times on social media pages.

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BANT In Sales – How Does It Work?

The 5% Institute

BANT is a common acronym in the world of sales and is a great methodology and framework to qualify your potential clients. In this article we’ll look at where BANT originated, what it stands for, as well as break down each part of BANT for you to use in your sales conversations and qualification process. BANT In Sales – How Does It Work? Where Does BANT Come From?

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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.

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Beware of the Confidence of High Win Rates

SaaStr

Probably once a week I’ll meet with a founder of a great early-ish stage SaaS start-up. Great logo customers, great early traction, at least some capital in the bank, in a good space. And after all the good news, I’ll hear, “And we win almost every deal.” Boy I hear this so often. A high win rate does keep you very capital efficient.

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Find Your “Perfect Pitch”: Using Data as the Maestro of Your Sales Orchestration

Sales Hacker

The post Find Your “Perfect Pitch”: Using Data as the Maestro of Your Sales Orchestration appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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The Key Difference Between Multivariate Testing & A/B Testing

Hubspot

There's seemingly no end to the things you can test in your marketing, and if you've laid a solid framework for your inbound marketing programs, now's a great time to start optimizing and making what works pretty well work amazingly well. And the best way to get started is to conduct some A/B tests ! Or.multivariate tests? What's the difference between A/B tests and multivariate tests?

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How To Sell Luxury Real Estate In 8 x Steps

The 5% Institute

Selling luxury real estate when done correctly, can be an excellent and lucrative career. The contacts you make and the people you serve can potentially help you for many years to come; not to mention, may have some terrific referrals for you too. So how do you sell luxury real estate? In this guide, you’ll learn how to sell luxury real estate in eight steps, using a system followed and successfully executed by our Students from various countries, and who speak many different languages.

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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 is the proper way to do due diligence on a VC firm?

SaaStr

Q: What is the proper way to do due diligence on a VC firm? Here are the things IMHO and IME that are most important. First, if you want to do it right, you should diligence both (1) the firm and (2) the individual partner leading the deal. Importantly, these days, more and more established firms aren’t able, or choose not to, raise another fund. And these days, more and more partners with “hot hands” leave and start their own firms.

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Rethink SDRs: Your Future Depends on It

Engage Selling

There’s a disconnect between the future of sales and the current popularity of two-tiered sales structures that include sales development reps (SDRs) combined with field reps.

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The Best (& Most Unique) Response to "Sell Me This Pen"

Hubspot

"Sell me this pen." That might just be the best sales one-liner in history. It's a favorite for sales professionals from used car salespeople to Wall Street wolves. And for good reason -- it's an exciting, accessible way to test a salesperson's fundamentals. How someone responds to those four words can tell you a lot about how -- and how well -- a candidate is going to sell.

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Starting A Career In Sales? 5 x Tips To Help Guide You

The 5% Institute

Starting a career in sales? First of all; congratulations! When done correctly, sales can be a very exciting and lucrative career choice. So where do you start, and what should be your first priority? In this article, we’ll give you five tips that have helped other Salespeople starting a career in sales, so that you too can benefit without having to wait years and years to succeed.

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

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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“Even Though I Hate Talking About Price……”

Partners in Excellence

Someone has been prospecting me, trying to provoke me to respond and take a call. In reality, if he spent two minutes looking at our company and doing a little research, he would realize we are a terrible prospect for what he is selling. But he hasn’t done that, and continues to blindly send emails to me, provoking a conversation. The first two emails were product pitches.

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Richardson Announces Plans for Merger with Sales Performance International (SPI)

Richardson

Today marks a significant milestone in the sales performance space. I am excited to announce the merger of Richardson and Sales Performance International (SPI). Our two organizations have worked tirelessly over the last 40 years to drive sales results for our customers through the development of people, process, and technology. As we connect with the modern buyers of sales enablement and performance, we recognize the need to create a connected organization that leverages the best-of-breed sale

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How to Become a Software Engineer (+4 Tips From the Pros)

G2

Think about your favorite piece of tech hardware.

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New!! The SaaStr Rising Star Scholarship Program for 2020 Annual!!

SaaStr

Heading into the 6th SaaStr Annual, we feel like we’ve perfected part of the formula. We’ll have 4,000+ SaaS CEOs and founders, 1000+ VCs, and 3,000+ mentorship sessions this year alone. But we want to make sure we also include the next generation. So this year, in partnership with Mixmax, we’re reserving 250 no-cost Rising Star passes to 2020 SaaStr Annual!!

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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The First 90 Days: From “In the Door” to “Successful Sale” in Record Time

Sales Hacker

There’s a big problem in B2B sales right now. The sales cycle for nearly half of all B2B sales is at least 7 months. The average tenure of a sales rep in 2018 is 18 months. So, what’s the problem? Because it takes time to get a new rep up to speed, the actual productive time you gain from those 18 months is far less. In fact, it’s often less than the average 7-month sales cycle.

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Predictable Buying

Membrain

We spend lots of time and money trying to create predictable revenue, increasing the predictability of our sales approaches. We constantly engineer, refine, tune and re-engineer what we do and how we engage our customers to produce POs.

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How to Write a Business Proposal That Seals the Deal

G2

A business proposal is, perhaps, the second most important proposal you’ll ever make or receive in this life.

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What does a lead investor do?

SaaStr

Q: What does a lead investor do? A lead investor : Is expected to lead any bridge round. This is super important. If the company does OK but Not Great, the investors will often be willing to do a bridge round (i.e., a smaller, second, all-inside round). But the lead investor has to … lead it. If they don’t do their pro rata or more, a bridge is really tough.

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AI in Marketing & Sales: Today’s Tools, Tomorrow’s Potential

Speaker: Kevin Burke

AI is reshaping marketing and sales, empowering professionals to work smarter, faster, and more effectively. This webinar will provide a practical introduction to AI, focusing on its current applications, transformative potential, and strategies for successful implementation in your organization. Using real-world examples and actionable insights, we’ll examine how businesses are leveraging AI to increase efficiency, enhance personalization, and drive measurable results.

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B2B Reads: Metrics, A/B Testing, and Content Experiences

Heinz Marketing

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the Web each week. We’ll miss a ton of great stuff, so if you found something you think is worth sharing please add it to the comments below. 10 Ways to Power Your Marketing Programs With Content Experiences. Some great ways to use content experiences to engage prospects, target accounts, and current customers with content.

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Committed To Stupidity

Partners in Excellence

Sadly, every day I see more sales people committed to stupidity. It’s not making mistakes, misunderstanding situations, even some errors in judgement. As bad as those may be, it’s the commitment to being stupid that astounds me. Stupidity is a choice, and I’m stunned by the number of people that are committed to stupidity. Daily, I get invitations in LinkedIn, “Dave, I’ve looked at your profile… ” Yet they never have looked at my profile.

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12 Key Benefits CRM Systems Provide to a Business

Hubspot

New technology comes and goes, fast. These days, it seems as though there’s a new app or widget every week promising to make businesses and their sales reps more productive, efficient, and effective. Although some technology has proven to be more useful than others, one piece of sales technology that’s here to stay is customer relationship management (CRM) software.

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Here's how to be less like a predator and more mycorrhizal fungus

Membrain

Every sales leader appreciates a great salesperson who can “hunt” and "close more logos” than anyone else. But in the complex b2b world, sometimes your team needs to be less hunters and more mycorrhizal fungus. Here’s why–and how.

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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