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Marketing is Empathy

Heinz Marketing

By Maria Geokezas , VP of Client Services at Heinz Marketing. So much is written about how to instill empathy into marketing. A quick search online brings up how empathy is used in B2B marketing, how to enhance marketing with empathy, or how to make empathy part of your marketing strategy. In my experience marketing is empathy. They are synonymous in business.

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20 Incredible New Experiences at 2020 SaaStr Annual

SaaStr

Phew. With Dreamforce and SaaStr Europa and Scale behind us, little tiny Team SaaStr is 100% focused on 2020 SaaStr Annual. It will be in March this year for one year in 2020, before we go back to February for 2021 on. March 10-11-12 in San Jose, CA just south of San Francisco. The headline metrics: 15,000+ attendees. 4,000+ CEOs. 3,000+ Mentorship sessions. 1,000+ VCs. 300+ Sessions. 250+ AMAs, Workshops, Super Braindates, and more. 100+ Unicorns. 3+ Days and Nights on sharing, learning, and

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12 Cognitive Biases E-commerce Marketers Need to Know

Neuromarketing

Understand how customer brains work - these are the most important cognitive biases for e-commerce marketers. The post 12 Cognitive Biases E-commerce Marketers Need to Know appeared first on Neuromarketing.

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Sales Hacker Success Summit: Level Up Your Sales Game for 2020

Sales Hacker

Save the date! The Sales Hacker Success Summit will be here before you know it! WHAT : Five exciting days of advanced sales training and tips from some of the biggest names in Sales. WHEN : December 9–13, 2019. WHERE : Your office or home. COST : Nada. It’s 100% free. RESERVE YOUR SEAT NOW. Sales Hacker Success Summit: Level Up for 2020. We heard somewhere that December 13 is Salesperson’s Day.

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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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Is the Motivation Pendulum Swinging Back?

Membrain

If it isn’t obvious from my many posts using the Objective Management Group’s database, I love to mine facts on salespeople. I’m fortunate to have access to this large database and all the information it provides. And recently I’ve noticed a slight trend shift regarding how salespeople are motivated that needs to be shared.

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Triple-Double-Double is Good. 10-100-110 is Enough.

SaaStr

Neeraj Agarwal of Battery Ventures a few years back simplified a lot of the journies top SaaS companies go on to TripleTripleDoubleDoubleDouble, T2D3. That the top SaaS companies triple in the early years, and then double after that to get to $100m+ in ARR. The best SaaS companies do indeed do this and it’s a great yardstick for VCs to measure potential unicorns and decacorns.

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On Gratitude

Partners in Excellence

Today, in the US, it’s Thanksgiving Day. In principle, a day of giving thanks, though most often displaced with overindulging in food and drink, followed by football games or binging on Netflix (now you know my plans). While this is not a novel idea, it’s amazing that we reserve one day, out of 365, for giving thanks. I have to confess, as much as I try, I tend to slip up, not taking the time each day do find something to be grateful for—though there is always so much, when I j

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Are limiting beliefs undermining your success?

Membrain

Every sales manager has encountered a salesperson who just can’t seem to “get it.” This is the underperforming team member you work with on the same thing over and over, and no matter how much training, enablement, and coaching you provide, they just keep making the same bad decisions, having the same bad conversations, and experiencing the same bad outcomes.

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The Secrets to Building a World-Class, $2.3 Billion Inside Sales Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Duo Security is an Ann Arbor, Michigan based cyber-security startup. Duo Security was acquired by Cisco for $2.35B in August of 2018. The company’s customers include Etsy, K-Swiss, Toyota, Yelp and Facebook among others. Its customer base spans over 14,000 customers in over 100 countries. Hear from Duo Security’s VP of Inside Sales America on how to build a $2.3B sales team.

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Do Less, Achieve More

Engage Selling

Yes, it is possible to do less and achieve more. As I’ve touched on recently, the general mantra for professionals in today’s world is “more, more, more.

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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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Smart Targeting: The Better Way to Reach Audiences & Customers

Hubspot

Have you ever visited a website you frequent and found that the text interacts with you? For instance, when I log onto Mailchimp , my dashboard says, "Welcome back, Kayla" -- this is because my account with the site has my first name in its system and uses smart targeting to make my interaction with the website more delightful. Smart targeting provides a more individual experience for webpage visitors.

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PODCAST 85: AI will not replace SDRs/BDRs w/ Dan O’Connell

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Dan O’Connell, Chief Strategy Officer at Dialpad. Dan’s career started at Google, where he worked directly under Sheryl Sandberg at the start of AdWords. From there, he helped scale a team of 150 at AdRoll, before becoming CEO and President at TalkIQ, which was acquired by Dialpad. Dan holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at Berkeley.

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How You Can Help Your Sales Team in 2020

SaaStr

Hopefully you are closing the year out strong. Even if you are coming up a bit short, there’s one thing I do know. If you have a good sales team, they are leaving nothing on the table. They won’t go home until 11:59 on December 31. They’re going to do everything they can to hit the plan, or exceed it. (If they aren’t — you need a new VP of Sales).

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5 x Sales Negotiation Tips To Win More Sales

The 5% Institute

Sales negotiation is a hot topic for Sales Professionals and Business Owners, because its something that literally can ‘make or break the deal’. Given its importance; Sales Professionals and Business Owners who directly sell their products or services, can become nervous when its time to negotiate. That’s why in this article, we’ll be looking at five sales negotiation tips to help you stay on track, win more sales , and serve more people. 5 x Sales Negotiation Tips To Win More Sales.

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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 Double Opt-In in Email Marketing?

Hubspot

Are you thinking about the quality of your email list? Or do you want to make sure your subscribers are intending to read the email marketing you send out? You may have found your answer in double opt-in, which is a process that ensures the best experience for your subscribers. Rather than single opt-in, double opt-in offers an extra step in the verification process.

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2 Key Takeaways from the 2019 MarketingProfs B2B Forum- Part 2

Heinz Marketing

By Lauren Dichter , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. My first work trip came and went quickly, but it still had a large impact. Over the course of just two days of programming, I took 15.5 pages of handwritten notes! Everyone at the MarketingProfs B2B Forum came there hoping to learn new strategies, tools, and tips n’ tricks to try out at their own organization.

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How Performance Reviews Can Kill Organizational Culture

Partners in Excellence

I’m an unabashed fan of Shane Parrish and the Farnam Street Blog. I study everything they publish, listen to every podcast, read every article and book they reference. It is the single smartest site I have ever found, I encourage everyone to visit and learn on a regular basis. So it was interesting reading a post, “How Performance Reviews Can Kill Your Culture” I found myself both agreeing with, but strongly disagreeing with the discussion in the article.

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Sales Probing Questions – 20 x To Use Daily

The 5% Institute

Sales probing questions are a crucial part of the sales process and can be the difference winning the sale, or getting another “I need to think about it” objection. There are various kinds of sales probing questions; from learning how they buy, to handling sales objections early and finding pain points and desire. In this article, we’ll be exploring 20 x powerful sales probing questions to help you with: Learning how they buy Qualifying questions Finding pain Handling objections Asking for

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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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26 TIkTok Stats to Know in 2020

Hubspot

If you feel like the app TikTok came out of nowhere, you're not wrong. Since launching in early 2018 , TikTok's been covered by seemingly every major news publication and racked up millions of downloads globally. Despite TikTok's major early success, the app still feels like a bit of a mystery, especially to marketers. In fact, until recently, its parent company, ByteDance , hasn't disclosed many metrics at all.

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8 best alternatives to DocuSign

PandaDoc

When you’re sending digital documents, capturing a valid e-signature can be critical to your business success. Without an efficient signing solution helping you capture legally-binding electronic signatures, you could be exposing your organization to legal troubles down the road. DocuSign can be a great starting point for businesses just getting started with digital signatures.

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20 Secrets to Sales Onboarding Success (Worth Up To $2M Annually)

Sales Hacker

Sales leaders have a bad habit of dumping people into a new job without properly preparing them to succeed. When I landed my first “big girl job” 20 years ago as an Inside Sales Manager , I was underqualified, overambitious, and soon underwater. Although I went through two weeks of training with my team, they were underwater too. I wondered, “How did no one teach us how to actually do the job we were hired to do?!”.

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Is LinkedIn still used today?

SaaStr

Q: Is LinkedIn still used today? LinkedIn continues to show the power of brand, network effects, and modest incremental improvements and innovation. Even as part of Microsoft, LinkedIn is still growing 25% by revenue and 22% by sessions. That’s not Zoom-like growth, but it’s pretty substantial for an application that felt “done” with seeming 100% penetration years ago.

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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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How One Instagram Influencer Built Her Brand and Attracted 40K Followers

Hubspot

This article was written in the first person by Rafaella Aguiar, Director of Marketing at Kicksta, following an interview with Erin Marie. Building a big following on Instagram, and doing it fast , takes hard work and dedication -- but it's also one hundred percent possible, and I have the proof. My name is Erin Marie. I'm from Portland, Oregon and attended Emerson College in Boston to study journalism and marketing communications.

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8 B2B Video Marketing Myths: Debunked with Cold Hard Facts

Heinz Marketing

By Brenna Lofquist , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Video has exploded in the B2B landscape over the past few years, becoming a staple in today’s modern marketing and sales toolkit. However, there are some common misconceptions and video marketing myths that keep businesses from reaching their full video potential. Many have ended up with a tarnished opinion about the effectiveness of using video in their current initiatives to actually drive the results they want to see.

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Building Sales Battlecards: Best Practice, Tips, and Templates

Sales Hacker

Sales battlecards are one of the most common and most important sales enablement assets. They provide an overview of a specific competitor’s company, products, and services, and provide guidelines on how to win deals against that competitor. They’re also the ammo you give your sales reps to go into battle against your competitors. The better the cards the better your chances at beating your competitors to the deal.

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What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of bootstrapping?

SaaStr

Q: What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of bootstrapping? The biggest disadvantage is generally, it seems to take longer in SaaS at least. Often about 4 years longer: Bootstrapping in SaaS? It Works. But Add ~4 Years to the IPO Timeline. | SaaStr. The iconic bootstrapped and semi-bootstrapped (i.e., waiting a long time to raise) companies in SaaS just took longer to get to $100m ARR: Mailchimp.

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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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What Is Content Seeding & How Does It Work? [Examples]

Hubspot

Every summer, I start a vegetable garden. I purchase seeds, plant them in various places in my backyard, tend to them, and with the help of the right weather conditions, help them grow. Why am I talking about gardening on a marketing blog? Content seeding. But instead of planting zucchini seeds, marketers plant content to grow brand awareness and leads.

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“The Art Of The Bluff”

Partners in Excellence

I was stunned and appalled to read an article sponsored by a major sales publication promoting the “Art of the bluff.” The author was cautious to highlight the negative connotations around bluffing–the feeling of manipulation, the proximity to lying, and the knife edge a “bluffer’ must walk to avoid lying. Trying as hard as I could, I sought something redeeming in the article and that I could learn.

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What Is Personal Selling? (+How to Create Connections)

G2

It’s been twelve years since Apple introduced the first iPhone in 2007.

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How To Get Your Sales Process Truly Adopted

SalesHood

There is much written about customizing your sales process to be sticky and adopted by sales leaders, managers and sales teams. Customize your sales process using your sales culture. It's hard work to get your sales process truly adopted by your teams. The trick is to find the right balance of proven, industry best practices [ ] The post How To Get Your Sales Process Truly Adopted appeared first on SalesHood.

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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