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How to Easily Motivate and Incentivize Sales Pipeline Building

Understanding the Sales Force

Last week, I wrote about how the criteria you use to choose your all-time favorite songs is essentially the same as the criteria your prospects use to choose between you and a competitor. Today, I am continuing the music analogy, but this time, as it relates to motivational tools.

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How to Be Human in a World of Artificial Intelligence

Iannarino

You don’t need more technology to improve your sales results. The only things you need are a CRM , a source of data, a meeting platform, and some effective digital assets. As sales stacks grow larger, win rates and quota attainment decline.

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Sales Training and Enablement Metrics That Matter

RAIN Group

Don’t be surprised to bump into discussions around metrics at any gathering of sales enablement professionals. Measuring the success of sales training and enablement initiatives is top of mind for these folks, and rightly so.

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How To Generate Sales – A Detailed Guide

The 5% Institute

In today’s competitive business landscape, generating sales is crucial for the success and growth of any company. Whether you are a small business owner or a seasoned entrepreneur, implementing effective strategies to generate sales is vital for sustaining profitability and expanding your customer base. In this article, we will explore a variety of proven techniques and methods that can help you boost your sales and propel your business to new heights.

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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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11 Key E-commerce Challenges and How to Solve Them

G2

Growth in the e-commerce space has provided customers with more convenience and purchasing options than ever before. E-commerce offers many benefits to companies to help them succeed in the digital economy. But it is not without its disadvantages - from logistics and shipping to customer acquisition and inventory administration.

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Ten Priorities For Salespeople in 2023

Iannarino

This is not your mother or father’s sales environment. Selling is much more difficult than in the past, and it isn’t likely to get easier any time soon. Selling is complicated and complex, especially if you pursue large or enterprise-level clients.

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Create an Effective Sales Messaging Strategy for 2023

Veloxy

In the world of sales, the power of an effective message cannot be underestimated. The right words delivered to the right audience can be the catalyst that turns potential customers into loyal clients. For instance, the presence of a sound sales enablement strategy has been found to improve sales messaging by 31% ! So how do YOU create a sales messaging strategy that resonates with your target audience and drives results?

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Days before UA sunset most sites still not using GA4

Martech

The UApocalypse is drawing nigh. On July 1st, nine days from now, Google will shut down the standard version of Universal Analytics (UA) — the most widely used marketing analytics tool in internet history. In its place is Google Analytics 4 (GA4), a very different and likely more powerful tool. Everyone’s ready for that, right? We’ve all transitioned to GA4, briefed stakeholders on the new metrics and triple-checked how GA4 data interacts with your other technologies, right?

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How to Deal with the Obstacles Preventing Net New Revenue Growth (Part 2)

Iannarino

There are many forces and factors that prevent net new revenue growth. In this 2-part series we’ll offer ideas about what you might do to consistently grow faster. Go here for Part 1 of this article on External Obstacles to Revenue Growth.

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The Art and Science of Complex Sales Podcast

Membrain

In the latest episode of The Art and Science of Complex Sales podcast, Paul Fuller interviews Dr Yekemi Otaru , Co-founder & Chief Growth Officer of Doqaru Limited. From engineering's hidden problem-solving to marketing's customer-centricity and sales' emphasis on listening, Yekemi shares her strategies and insights on how to tackle problems that truly matter within the B2B industry.

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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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Remaining Human in a World of AI

David Meerman Scott

For decades, marketers have been the experts. We marketing people use our experience and creativity to make decisions. This reality isn’t going away! In fact, I think the new world of AI makes our work even more important, because we must always recognize the limitations of machines.

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Employee advocacy: The untapped goldmine in your content marketing strategy

Martech

Picture this. You’ve just hit the “publish” button on your company’s latest blog post. A masterpiece, full of trend analyses, punchy insights and actionable takeaways. Once upon a time, you might have sat back, fingers crossed, hoping your precious piece would somehow tumble into the great wide world of cyberspace. But let’s face it — the “publish and pray” era of content marketing is long gone.

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How Your Self-Oriented Approach Fails

Iannarino

If you are a sales leader or a sales manager, you may not know how your sales force prospects. Then again, you may know, and you may believe they are prospecting in a way that is effective. You may also see a lot of emails from salespeople and believe you are doing what other sales organizations are doing to create a first meeting.

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Are You Spending Too Much in Order to Grow? Check This Chart

Membrain

We all know that you have to invest in marketing and sales in order to grow your company. But do you know how much you should be investing for the percentage of growth you’re achieving?

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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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The Power of Customer-Led Growth: 4 Strategies for Success

Heinz Marketing

By Michelle Voznyuk , Marketing Specialist at Heinz Marketing Let’s call it how we see it and acknowledge that it’s been an interesting year. Talks of a recession have had us questioning “are we in one?”, “are we about to be in one?”, or just generally “what’s happening?”. In times of economic uncertainty, we face new challenges that can stunt our growth.

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Everyone Has a Side Hustle Now. Is That a Good Thing?

SaaStr

So today, everyone has a side hustle, or so it seems. Almost everyone in sales seems to be into real estate, either “multi-family” real-estate or getting their broker’s license. Or other so-called “passive” income streams that really often take many hours to manage. And so many folks are coaches, selling courses, and more.

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How to Deal with the Obstacles Preventing Net New Revenue Growth (Part 1)

Iannarino

There are many forces and factors that prevent net new revenue growth. Some are external forces or factors, and others are internal challenges. If you wonder why it is so difficult to grow revenues, this comprehensive list will help you improve your sales team’s results. We’ll offer ideas about what you might do to consistently grow faster.

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Coaching Is A Language, Part 2

Partners in Excellence

Not long ago, I wrote about Coaching Is A Language. Since writing it, I’ve had a lot of interesting conversations–and workshops on the language of coaching. Fortunately, it’s very different than my college language classes in conjugating verbs, learning gender categories for nouns, and endless drills repeating the same phrase over and over until I had the pronunciation correct.

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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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How Unicorn Companies Maintain Their Growth Momentum

Force Management

In 2013, a venture capitalist coined the term “Unicorn” to refer to privately owned firms valued at over $1B. Back then, only 39 companies fit the criteria. Legislation had cleared the path for private companies to pursue funding and Unicorns became less mythical. By 2020, there were over 600. The real Unicorn stampede occurred in the wake of pandemic-era restrictions, fueled by rapid tech adoption and an exuberant funding environment.

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Why Robots and Systems Can’t Replace Human Connection

Sales Gravy

Human Connection Is Irreplaceable In this episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount talks to Will Yarbrough, VP of Sales at Fleetio, about what it means to be a human seller in modern society. Yarbrough shares his experience selling fleet management software to a tough, blue-collar demographic, and the challenges of hiring for industry experience versus coaching new hires with the right mindset.

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Mastering B2B Sales and The Revenue Growth Blueprint

Iannarino

B2B sales has never been easy, but it seems to be getting more difficult as a confluence of forces change B2B sales. We built the Revenue Growth Blueprint to suggest a path for training, developing, and enabling salespeople to succeed in our current environment.

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6 marketing automation use cases where AI can help with data quality

Martech

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a four-part series on how AI will be infused into marketing automation platforms. Part 1, AI marketing automation: How it works and why marketers should care, is here. For much of 2023, the AI hype has focused on generative AI content use cases (copy, image, video). Some still question generative AI’s ultimate impact, but the mainstream adoption indicates that much of the focus on content-focused capabilities is warranted.

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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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When One Buying Committee Just Isn’t Enough

Heinz Marketing

By Sarah Threet , Marketing Consultant You’re building your buying committee based off your ideal customer profile, but you’re feeling stuck… What if one buying committee doesn’t feel all-encompassing of who has been reported to you by your sales department? Maybe it feels like the committee you have drafted doesn’t address all of the nuanced details of the kinds of accounts your SDRs interact with the most?

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How to use ChatGPT to generate product descriptions at scale

Search Engine Land

We want more quality content for our websites, but it’s difficult to produce enough. So how can we scale the content creation process, especially for ecommerce sites with plenty of products? If you were to pay for a copywriter to produce thousands of product snippets from scratch, you’d likely be out of pocket pretty quickly. What if you pay for 1,000 new product descriptions, but only half of those products live one month later?

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How Sales Leaders Commoditized the Sales Process

Iannarino

For as long as anyone can remember, sales leaders have searched for a way to consistently win new deals. To even out the natural variability across their sales force, they adopted a linear sales process, believing that the consistency of approach would invariably produce the results they were seeking.

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Mitigating the risks of generative AI by putting a human in the loop

Martech

“There is no sustainable use case for evil AI.” That was how Dr. Rob Walker, an accredited artificial intelligence expert and Pega’s VP of decisioning and analytics, summarized a roundtable discussion of rogue AI at the PegaWorld iNspire conference last week. He had explained the difference between opaque and transparent algorithms.

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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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Harnessing the Complexity of Technology

Sales Pop!

Continuing our series on complexity , let’s now examine how we harness the vast complexity involved with today’s technology. One factor differentiating Pipeliner CRM from our competitors—especially high-end systems such as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, and Oracle NetSuite—is that we have taken the incredible complexity involved with a CRM application and made it simple for the user.

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How to manage crawl depth for better SEO performance

Search Engine Land

One often overlooked aspect of website management is managing crawl depth, the level at which search engine bots explore and index a site’s pages. Understanding how to control and optimize crawl depth can significantly impact your website performance and search rankings. This article will provide you with valuable guidance and actionable SEO tips to optimize crawl depth effectively.

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How Generative AI is Transforming E-Commerce

G2

Generative AI is here to stay. Learn why generative AI is the future of e-commerce and the advantages adopting it can offer your commerce-driving team.

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The future of loyalty: Metaverse, AI and post-pandemic challenges by Comarch

Martech

Our understanding of customer relations has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years. In the face of the enduring impact caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the imminent threat of an economic downturn, we are now reassessing the concept of brand loyalty and exploring new avenues to achieve it. To assess the industry condition, we can rely on reports like The Forrester Wave: Loyalty Technology Solutions, Q1 2023 – an overview of the most significant loyalty software vendors on the ma

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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.