Force Management
OCTOBER 5, 2023
As we approach 2024, sales leaders face a critical task: setting the right priorities for your Sales Kickoff event. The past year, marked by economic downturns and shifting market dynamics, may have presented new challenges for your sales team. Those challenges can be opportunities for your team to learn and strengthen your approach in the coming year.
Anthony Cole Training
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Sales organizations typically have plenty of sales data due to the growth and usage of CRM systems, critical to capturing the activities that are occurring with the sales team. But effective coaching with sales performance data often becomes the greater challenge with sales managers and leaders. In our coaching platform, we offer several tools to help in this area and one of the most effective, easy to understand and utilize is sales data insight that comes from regular Sales Huddles.
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Iannarino
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Every sales leader or sales manager has a dominant style, the way they lead most of the time. Leaders are comfortable with their leadership style , even though it isn’t always right for certain scenarios. As a sales leader, you must recognize that your dominant style may not be what some of your sales force needs to succeed.
Veloxy
OCTOBER 5, 2023
In the ever-evolving digital landscape, LinkedIn InMail has emerged as a powerful tool for professionals to connect and engage with their target audience. For example, an InMail is 3 times more likely to be accepted than a cold call, and 6 times more likely to be opened than a cold email. But how can you harness the full potential of this feature to boost your networking and business efforts?
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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.
Membrain
OCTOBER 4, 2023
“As goes the manager, so goes the team.” This common sales industry expression is actually more true than we realize, according to Carole Mahoney, author of Buyer First and founder of Unbound Growth.
Partners in Excellence
OCTOBER 3, 2023
My friend, Hank Barnes, is rethinking the buying process with a fascinating concept he calls The Advantage Factor. One of the things he discusses in the concept of “Selling Possibility.” It’s related to much of what I’ve written about Inciting Customers To Change. Too often, sellers catch customers who are very late in their buying cycle.
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Search Engine Land
OCTOBER 2, 2023
X (formerly known as Twitter) has joined forces with the Google Display Network. Following a steep decline in advertising revenue earlier this year, the social platform has decided to start outsourcing the sale of some of its ad space. Moving forward, advertisers will be able to tap into the X home feed inventory through Google Ads Display campaigns – however, exact details of the deal terms remain undisclosed.
Membrain
OCTOBER 1, 2023
Join us in this episode with Casey Jaycox, a star sales leader, executive leadership coach, and author of 'Win the Relationship, Not the Deal'. Drawing from his experiences in athletics, sales, and leadership, Casey unpacks how his self-belief paved the way for his success and helped him soar to his potential.
Partners in Excellence
OCTOBER 5, 2023
We know trust and trustworthiness are critical in our ability to engage prospects and customers. It’s a foundation of our ability to develop and maintain relationships. We know what happens when, inadvertently or purposefully, we betray that trust. There are other concepts intermingled with trust and trustworthiness. Integrity, consistency, meeting commitments, knowledge, honesty, values and value, caring are all elements of establishing and maintaining trust.
Iannarino
OCTOBER 3, 2023
To make sense of B2B sales, we use concepts designed to make sense of selling and buying. These concepts are supposed to help salespeople succeed, using things like a buyer’s journey, a linear sales process, and an ideal client profile (ICP). These conceptual tools may be helpful in understanding sales in general, but they also oversimplify things. Overreliance on these concepts can lead salespeople to use an approach that isn’t client-centric when that is critical to your success.
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.
Search Engine Land
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Google’s October 2023 core update is now rolling out and may take up to two weeks to complete. This is the third broad core algorithm update of 2023. the first core update of 2023 was the March 2023 core update , which started rolling out on March 15 and was completed on March 28. The second core update of 2023 was the August 2023 core update, which started rolling out on August 22 and was completed on September 7.
Martech
OCTOBER 6, 2023
This week, Meta announced it is beginning the rollout of generative AI capabilities in Ads Manager. These should be globally available by next year. These capabilities are: Background generation. The creation of multiple ad backgrounds allowing advertisers to choose relevant creative for their targeted audiences. Image expansion. Automates the adjustment of image assets to aspect ratios suitable for specific channels like Feed or Reels.
Partners in Excellence
OCTOBER 4, 2023
I’m constantly amazed as I look at performance of organizations. I think, “Why do we revel in achieving our quotas and scaling goals, when we could be doing so much more?” If we achieve our growth/revenue goals, we think we are doing well. Too often, however, we could/should be doing much better. We are underperforming the potential.
Iannarino
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Bad questions are bad selling. You need a client-centric sales approach, one with effective strategies and a value-driven sales methodology.
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!
Search Engine Land
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Last Thursday, Google finished rolling out the September 2023 helpful content update after a 14-day rollout. The update took 14 days to roll out, starting on September 14, 2023, and ending on September 28, 2022. It has been a few days since the rollout was completed, and we wanted to dig in a bit on the impact felt by this latest Google algorithm update.
Martech
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Best of the Bot showcases MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. The language model is based on content from MarTech layered on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am the first generative AI chatbot for search marketers. I am trained with MarTech content.
SalesProInsider
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Do you remember the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears ? Goldliocks was a little girl who entered the bears’ home while they weren’t there. Then, seeking to fit in and feel like she was at home, she tried their porridge, their chairs, and even their beds. She ended up falling asleep because she was so comfortable and felt peaceful. That’s what we want with our prospective clients!
Iannarino
OCTOBER 1, 2023
There are several things making it more challenging to acquire a first meeting , like the overwhelming volume of emails, voicemails, and other messages your contacts receive. The upside of having data on your strategic clients is that you speed up your ability to contact them for a meeting. The downside is that your competitors have that same information.
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!
Search Engine Land
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Google has unleashed a new search update today, the October 2023 spam update. This spam update improves Google’s “coverage in many languages and spam types,” Google wrote. Types of spam. Google said the October 2023 spam update “aims to clean up several types of spam that our community members reported in Turkish, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Hindi, Chinese, and other languages.” Google said that update should “reduce the visible spam in search results, particularl
Martech
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Marketing has always been challenged to demonstrate impact on pipeline and revenue — and it hasn’t gotten easier. Success metrics have evolved beyond impressions, opens, and click rates, with privacy changes like Apple iOS 15’s open-blocking feature pushing marketers to rethink impact measurement. New martech tools focus on measuring marketing impact, tracking customer journeys and analyzing sales funnels.
Partners in Excellence
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Recently, working with a client, we were talking about a major change initiative. I asked the question, “How will you be making a decision on how do implement this initiative?” There was an awkward silence, the CEO eventually said, “I don’t know…… What should I be doing? What should I be looking at? Who should I be involving in the decision?
Iannarino
SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
One mistake you can make as a sales leader or sales manager is believing that you don’t need to repeat yourself. Words came out of your mouth and entered the ears of each of your sales reps, so you believe your team knows what you want or need them to do. Having heard that only once, your sales force is likely to believe you offered them a suggestion, something they can choose to do or skip, depending on how they feel.
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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
Search Engine Land
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Google’s September 2023 helpful content update started rolling out Sept. 14 and completed rolling out 14 days later , on Sept. 28. The impact of this update was significant – many websites were devastated. X (formerly Twitter), forums, and Facebook groups were inundated with thousands of publishers reporting traffic drops from 10% to 70%. The update was so dire that companies even publicly commented they would have to lay off dozens of employees.
Martech
OCTOBER 4, 2023
X (formerly known as Twitter) has joined forces with the Google Display Network. Following a steep decline in advertising revenue earlier this year, the social platform has decided to start outsourcing the sale of some of its ad space. Moving forward, advertisers will be able to tap into the X home feed inventory through Google Ads Display campaigns – however, exact details of the deal terms remain undisclosed.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
Dear SaaStr: We Don’t Need It. Should We Go After Venture Capital, and When? There are only two reasons to raise Venture Capital: You need it. If the only way you can get to the next level is to raise capital, then do it. I needed to for both my start-ups, up to a point, for different reasons. Whatever the dilution, cost, headaches — if you need VC to thrive, and you can raise it, then raise it.
Iannarino
OCTOBER 6, 2023
My mother taught me to read when I was three years old. She told me she made me play school. This sparked my love of the written word, although, at that young age, I wouldn’t have known what the “written word” was. My mom was raising four children alone on a draw of $4.50 an hour against her commissions, leaving no money for books.
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.
Search Engine Land
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Google Ads is no longer maintaining individual and ad group keyword forecasting in Keyword Planner. Few advertisers were using these features so the platform decided to retire them, according to Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ad Liaison, on X (formerly known as Twitter). However, campaign-level forecasts and historical keyword-level data are still available.
Martech
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Google Analytics 4 has rolled out two new features to help improve data security and reporting accuracy. The new capabilities, which are available in GA4 now, enable marketers to redact client-side text and exclude Google data signals from reports and explorations. Data redaction. This new feature is designed to help minimize the risk of unintentionally transmitting Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
Sales Gravy
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Why Roleplay Should Be A Key Part of Your Sales Culture In this podcast, Jeb Blount, Jeremy Olson, and Kristin Isaacson discuss the importance of role-playing in sales. They emphasize the need for leaders to create a culture of role-playing and accountability within their teams. They also highlight the benefits of role-playing in helping salespeople improve their skills, gain empathy for the customer's perspective, and build confidence.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Dear SaaStr: What Does A Salesperson Need To Do To “Earn Your Business”? Solve my problem. Just truly solve my problem. The beauty to sales in SaaS is as sales professionals, for the most part, you aren’t selling a commodity or a fungible product. You can’t just go down the street, or to another website, to get a better deal on the Ford F-150.
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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