Sat.Mar 05, 2022 - Fri.Mar 11, 2022

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Program Yourself or Consent to Be Programmed

Iannarino

Human beings program algorithms, then algorithms return the favor— especially on social apps. Both the programmers and their pets want to change your behavior, as long as it keeps you on the platform. They call that metric "engagement," when you are anything but. How can you be engaged when you are passively scrolling through pictures of other people's lives, instead of out there living your own?

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5 Critical Sales Competencies: The Will to Sell Factors

Anthony Cole Training

There are 21 critical sales competencies that salespeople must have in order to achieve great sales success. But there are 5 Will to Sell factors that make up the foundation of that success.

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Veloxy Receives Best Sales Software Award from G2.

Veloxy

"We only grow when our customers grow!". Veloxy customers have always been willing to share their five star testimonials on G2 and other software review and marketplace sites. Past and current recognition has included: High Performer in Enterprise and Mid-Market, Momentum Leader, and Users Love Us awards, among several others. Then February 8 marked a new apex for Veloxy’s growth and customer recognition.

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10 steps to crushing your sales forecasts

Membrain

One hundred years ago, most men and women wore hats and dressed up to go everywhere. Sixty years later, Dress for Success was founded and at the same time became somewhat of a thing where if you wanted to be successful, you needed to dress like you were successful.

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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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On Your Reluctance to Change

Iannarino

How is it that professional salespeople—people who spend a good amount of their time helping clients change—refuse to change to improve their own work? We’ve all gotten frustrated with clients who won’t make the internal changes they need to improve their results, but too often we repeat that mistake when it comes to our own sales results. That’s a glaring “performative contradiction,” or in simpler terms, hypocrisy.

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5 Ways Top Sales Organizations Increase Revenue

Force Management

Creating true change within your sales team, and the revenue results that follow, takes more than a set of spreadsheets and a simple day of training. If you implement a hasty training session, you’ll short-change yourself and your salespeople. Creating organizational change requires time, commitment and a plan for reinforcement that drives lasting results.

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Did your buyer say what your salesperson heard? Probably not.

Membrain

In theory, conversation is easy. Humans are built for it. I say something, you hear it and respond, and I hear your response. We exchange information and both of us walk away understanding each other better.

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Answering 'Why Change Now' for Your Clients

Iannarino

To understand how sales has changed, you must recognize the limitation of the "legacy solution" approach we've practiced for close to forty years. This approach believes that asking a client about their problem is the key to success, as it allows the salesperson to share exactly how their solution will solve their problem. But what do you do when your client doesn't believe they have a problem and is comfortable sticking with the status quo?

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The Web3 Future

David Meerman Scott

The hype-o-meter around the term Web3 has accelerated in recent months. I’ve heard from people who wonder what the new way of organizing data and content might mean for them. Here is a high-level overview of where we’ve been for the past 30+ years and where we might be heading in the next decades.

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Yes, SaaS Can Be Insanely Profitable

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: Are Any SaaS Companies Really Profitable? SaaS companies can be quite profitable, but most these days that are able to raise capital tend to … take their time getting there. But that’s not to say it can’t be done. Let’s look at a few amazing examples:: Zoom generates $2 Billion in free cash flow on $4 Billion in revenue. More here. Atlassian generates $800m in free cash flow on $3 Billion in revenue.

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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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Matching email content to customer needs

Martech

A personalized email will rise above the noise and engage the reader’s attention. That seems like a no-brainer. “To this day, no-one has really cracked the code,” John Hendricks told us. “You talk about personalization and it’s ‘Dear Kim’ or ‘Happy Wednesday.'” Hendricks is the founder and CEO of Ergo, a content automation platform for email that is trying to solve the puzzle of how to personalize at scale.

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How to Find the Best Sales Coaching Platform for Your Team

Iannarino

What do increased opportunities , increased salesperson retention, and increased team confidence have in common? They’re all benefits you can experience when you find the right sales coaching platform.

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B2B Reads: Connection , Critical Listening & Community

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. The Problem With How Our Industry Understands Project Management. While some firms avoid project management completely, others allow their project managers to run the entire company.

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How Google search personalization works: Professors and politicians just don’t understand

Search Engine Land

Google has told us how search works. We know plenty about how it works. But a professor seems confused about search personalization. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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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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How to Do a Reference Check in 60 Seconds

SaaStr

These days folks just … aren’t doing reference checks like they used to. Why? Hiring is accelerated, and everyone’s poaching. Many folks don’t feel like they can really do reference checks well for someone they think they are poaching from a current role. I see many founders doing no reference checks at all anymore. They assume they can “tell” For VCs, deals happen so fast now, over Zoom, there’s less time.

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Building Your Future Now

Iannarino

Today is the future you thought about in the past. It probably arrived sooner than you expected—that’s the nature of time—and you probably aren’t as ready for it as you thought you’d be. Because our experience has taught us to believe there is always a tomorrow, we easily put things off, believing we have plenty of time. Until one day you wake up to find that you have allowed more time to pass than you realized, let alone planned.

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Google pauses activity for advertisers based in Russia

Martech

Google will put the global brakes on ads from advertisers based in Russia, it announced Thursday. This means not only that those advertisers will not be able to address Russia-based users, but will see their advertising paused worldwide. Escalating ads suspensions. Google first began imposing ad suspensions on February 27. The initial round of suspensions was aimed at Russian state-owned media outlets.

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Why on-site search should be a priority for marketers

Search Engine Land

On-site search can provide marketers with key insights into their audiences. At SMX Next, Stephen Rahal shows how to optimize this important site function. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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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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Were the “Covid Multiples” in SaaS Just an Anomoly?

SaaStr

So every VC is trying to figure out exactly what is going on in the public markets, and many later stage VCs are quite stressed. This version of the BVP Nasdaq Index illustrates the question. Was the “Covid Boost” in Cloud multiples just an anomoly? Put differently, if you look at multiples of revenue for top SaaS and Cloud companies above from 2014-2022, you could come to one of (at least) two conclusions today: Conclusion #1: Q2’20-Q4’22 Cloud Revenue Multiples Were a

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3 Aggressive Sales Tactics to Avoid at All Costs

Iannarino

“Be aggressive!” “Be patient!” “Don’t be pushy!” “Lead your client!”. This is just a smattering of the sales advice many professionals have heard at least a hundred times. You know you need to strike the right balance of give and take to be successful, but finding that balance is easier said than done.

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What you need to know about mobile game advertising

Martech

Last year Apple and Google decided to make identifier for advertisers (IDFA) an opt-in choice for users and that changed everything for marketers. IDFA, which had been enabled by default, made it relatively easy to measure and target mobile gaming ads. The result has been a resurgence in more traditional types of ads, like banners, videos and pop-ups.

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Dear Google: It’s time to remove Russian propaganda from search results

Search Engine Land

Some tech giants are taking steps to curate the Russian content that hits their platforms. It is time Google did the same in its search results. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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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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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 310: Q & A with Andy Paul @realAndyPaul

Heinz Marketing

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing. If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals.

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Stop Selling Drills

Iannarino

To improve your sales results, you may have heard, stop trying to sell your drill—instead, sell the hole your drill creates.

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MGID’s Ukraine operations continue despite the bombs

Martech

Svatoslav Mutsko, Account Manager (Sales), APAC & LATAM at MGID, working in a cellar near Kyiv, after a bomb attack (courtesy MGID). “People are very dedicated to this, that’s one thing,” said Michael Korsunsky, CEO of North American operations for global native advertising platform MGID. “The second is the sense of normalcy. It’s a distraction from the nightmare that’s happening.

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Member of SEO community and her two children killed in Ukraine

Search Engine Land

Tatiana Perebeinis, the chief accountant of SE Ranking, was one of four people killed in a Russian attack in Irpin, Ukraine on Sunday. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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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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7 Important Things Most Salespeople Forget to Do

Spiro Technologies

A typical day in the life of a salesperson can range from fast-paced and exciting to stressful and demoralizing. No matter where you work or what you sell, you’re probably juggling demands from prospects, customers, and coworkers alike who are all vying for your attention. This non-stop rollercoaster can lead to important things getting overlooked, especially by a salesperson who’s getting pulled in every direction (which is all of us).

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Why Women Aren’t Succeeding at Your Company — And, What You Should Do Next

Salesforce

When it comes to women and leadership, the paradox — and the data — are clear. Companies recruit men and women in near-equal numbers out of college. In fact, they’ve outnumbered men in the workforce every year since 1990. When it comes to leadership skills, women consistently score higher than men in key competencies, like taking initiative and driving for results.

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App users visit brick and mortar 41% more often than non-users

Martech

What does a customer using your app get you? About 41% more visits per year, compared to those who don’t. That’s according to a new study from mobile marketing platform InMobi which examined actual consumer behavior to determine the value of apps for the retail, CPG and QSR categories. To determine this researchers examined aggregate app behavior and first-party data, app SDK data and survey data.

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Lead with Happiness

criteria for success

Have you ever had a colleague or leader who was great to work with? Someone who could share and support your ideas, network with everyone, and see challenges as opportunities for creative solutions? These characteristics of a great team member (and leader) have little to do with intelligence or technical ability. Instead, they are reflections of a positive attitude.

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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.