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Help Your Team with Cross-Selling & Up-Selling Strategies

Anthony Cole Training

The concept of cross-selling tends to evoke skepticism and wariness. Over time, this skepticism has arisen due to some individuals with good intentions although accompanied by undesirable practices. Pushing product is often another term used for cross-selling & up-selling strategies. Let’s explore why this skepticism about cross-selling exists.

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Mastering the Modern Sales Approach: Expert Strategies for Success in a Changing Market

Iannarino

Discover why your clients are seeking a different type of salesperson and how you can adapt to meet their evolving needs.

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Selling As A Team Sport

Partners in Excellence

I suppose it’s human nature to be self centered, focused on those things that impact each of us, our goals, dreams, and aspirations. Within business, we focus relentlessly on our own performance objectives/goals/comp. We are consumed by the day to day activities and tasks critical to achieving those goals. I talk to many sellers frustrated by the “obstacles” standing in their way, “Just leave me alone, let me do my job!

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How to Deliver Value on a Consumption-Based Pricing Model

Force Management

Consumption pricing is associated with some of the fastest-growing SaaS companies of the past few years, including Snowflake , Datadog , Zscaler , and MongoDB. The consumption-based pricing model is popular because it helps these types of companies manage costs and gives the customer more control and transparency in how much they’re billed. But if the customer doesn’t directly see the value of your solution, they may stagnate or even fall in their usage.

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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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China leads the world in generative AI use

Martech

Eighty-three percent of Chinese business decision-makers say their organizations are using AI. This contrasts with the U.S. (65%) and the U.K. (70%). However, closer questioning reveals that U.S. organizations are ahead in terms of genAI maturity, having fully implemented solutions. These statistics come from an extensive global survey of 1,600 decision makers in genAI strategy or data analytics in organizations across key sectors conducted by Coleman Parkes for data management and analytics ven

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Essential Sales Conversations: Beyond Cold Outreach and Pipeline Coverage

Iannarino

Unlock the true potential of your sales strategy by focusing on sales conversations that drive results and impact instead.

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The Google Maps pin scam: A new Google Business Profile threat

Search Engine Land

There’s a scam going on in the world of Google Maps / Google Business Profile. Competitors can move Google Map pins to a new location which can negatively impact rankings. This has been happening for several months and impacted many Google Business Profile listings. It’s easy for scammers to make this change using the Suggest an edit feature on a Google Business Profile and then editing the map location.

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Why traditional marketing systems can’t keep up with AI and what to do about it

Martech

Over the course of 150 years, manufacturing evolved from relying on skilled artisans and craftsmen to automated, computer-driven, flexible manufacturing systems. Marketing will do the same in less than 50 years as AI radically shifts the paradigm for markers. However, if marketers fail to adjust their overall marketing systems, productivity gains from AI can easily be lost.

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Essential Sales Strategies for 2024: A Step-by-Step Guide for Success

Iannarino

Discover the ultimate blueprint for excelling in sales in 2024 with these proven strategies.

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Where’s The Customer?

Partners in Excellence

In the press of developing and executing our GTM strategies, there’s a tendency to be preoccupied with our own organizations, products, goals. It’s easy to understand how that happens, and it happens to all of us. But over time, it’s easy to get distracted. We get focused on our actions. More marketing programs, more outreach, higher levels of activity, more pipeline, and on and on.

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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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What’s the Difference Between an AI Agent and a Chatbot?

Salesforce

If you’ve ever chatted with an online customer support agent or asked Siri what the official state bird of Rhode Island is, you’ve interacted with a chatbot. These handy digital assistants are great at answering simple questions and performing basic tasks, but in the era of generative artificial intelligence (AI), they can feel pretty limited. Ask Siri for a list of your most important sales prospects by region and it’ll probably offer to Google it for you.

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5 Interesting Learnings from OneStream at $480,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

So we’ve finally got another SaaS IPO gearing up — OneStream. It’s SaaS for CFOs and financial operations, a large but somewhat under-discussed category. SAP and Oracle are very strong here. Founded back in 2010 (SaaS takes time!) with first customers launched in 2012, the metrics today are very strong: $480,000,000 in ARR Growing 34% (strong) 98% GRR (!

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How to Handle Dishonest Competitors and Win Over High-Value Clients

Iannarino

Discover effective strategies to counter dishonest competitors and secure your dream clients with integrity.

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How AI is reshaping the content creator industry

Search Engine Land

Major tech companies have been rushing to develop their own AI models, dramatically altering the digital landscape. Goldman Sachs predicts that the content creator industry will reach half a trillion dollars by 2027. The evolution of a new digital landscape can bring opportunities and challenges. Daron Acemoglu, an economics professor from MIT, has analyzed past industrial revolutions and highlighted that technological progress is not inherently beneficial; its impact depends on its direction an

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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 top ecommerce trends from record-breaking Amazon Prime Day 2024

Martech

Helped by some deep discounts, Amazon Prime Day, an annual two-day ecommerce event that ran July 16 and 17, generated a record $14.2 billion in U.S. online sales this year. That’s 11% more than last year, according to Adobe Analytics, which pulled data from 1 trillion visits to U.S. retail sites across 18 product categories. Here are the top trends for digital marketers to consider as they plan for holiday sales in the coming months.

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When to Use AI or an Agency: Strategic Choices for B2B Companies

Heinz Marketing

By Carly Bauer , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing To succeed we must adapt to remain competitive. We all know this, yet some companies are faster or slower to adapt than others. As we work to adapt their strategies to the ever-changing market, one key decision that is becoming more common is whether to leverage AI technologies or partner with a specialized agency to achieve their goals.

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Prosecuting the Legacy Approach

Iannarino

Discover why clinging to outdated B2B sales strategies can hinder your business growth.

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Billions of Google redirects to stop working next year

Search Engine Land

Google’s URL shortener service will stop serving completely on August 25, 2025, which will result in billions of redirected URLs to stop working after that date. Google stopped allowing us to make new redirects with this service back in March 2019, the service initially launched in 2009. “Starting August 23, 2024, goo.gl links will start displaying an interstitial page for a percentage of existing links notifying your users that the link will no longer be supported after August 25th,

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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 to clarify marketing metrics to impress the C-suite

Martech

CMOs have the shortest tenures of C-suite executives. One main reason for this is the difficulty CMOs have in proving the financial value of marketing expenses. Despite advancements in addressability and attribution, marketers still struggle to find ROI measures that impress the CFO and the CEO. The ROI metrics challenge The biggest obstacle to developing useful ROI estimates is establishing the right marketing metrics.

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Developing Business Acumen Skills in 90 Minutes

The Advantexe Advisor

I will be the first one to own it and say that I didn’t think it could be done. That it was impossible to develop a comprehensive set of business acumen skills in less than 40 hours of work in a 5-day in-person program. Well, times have changed and while it still may take up to 40 hours to develop good foundational business acumen skills you can accomplish a lot in a well-designed 90-minute workshop.

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Political Violence: The Systematic Organization of Hatreds

Iannarino

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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New Google core update coming in weeks

Search Engine Land

Google said the next Google core update may be released “in the coming weeks.” Google does not yet have a date for when that core update will start to roll out because Google does not know until the core update is tested, evaluated and approved to be incorporated into Google Search – and that has not happened yet. What Google said.

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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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CTV ads beat mobile and desktop for viewer attention

Martech

CTV ads hold viewers’ attention eight times longer than mobile, on average, and 16 times longer than desktop ads, according to a new study using facial tracking on volunteers in the U.S. and Australia. Ads on CTV achieved 9.7 seconds of “active attention” as measured by the study. Mobile ads clocked in 1.2 to 2.4 seconds, depending on how premium the domain was.

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Coate: We Have a 25 Year IPO Backlog. But Software Will Bounce Back Soon.

SaaStr

So Coate a leading multi-stage VC firm put up a ton of great data in its East West conference. A few that I thought we were super helpful for SaaS folks: “At the 8th annual East Meets West (EMW) conference, we gathered technology leaders from around the world for three days of thought-provoking conversations and connection building. We kicked off the event with our annual “Coatue View on the State of the Markets” to provide an outlook on the macroeconomic landscape that helps guide our vi

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What Fuel, Coffee, and Hot Dogs Have to Do with Generative AI

Salesforce

How MOL Group went digital to become their customers’ number one travel companion. With AI assistants now automating customer service , writing scripts, and balancing budgets, the business uses of generative AI seem endless. Yet, AI outcomes directly depend on having the right input data. Ideas and prompts matter more than you may think. The truth is simple: Your output will only be as innovative as your input.

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7 strategies to maximize your AI-powered search market share

Search Engine Land

In this new age of AI-driven search, it’s essential to move away from siloed marketing strategies and realign to future-proof your position in the SERP. This article outlines seven key focus areas for maximizing your brand’s presence in AI-driven search. The evolving AI-powered search landscape and the rise of zero-click results Up to 59% of Google searches end without a click , with nearly 30% of clicks getting directed toward Google-owned assets like images, videos and social prof

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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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Unlocking the full potential of GenAI in marketing by Edna Chavira

Martech

Experts predict a revolution in marketing productivity thanks to GenAI. But how do you unlock its true potential? This webinar dives deep into how GenAI, combined with the power of data and analytics, can help you personalize experiences at scale, boost your marketing efficiency and rurn insights from data into actionable marketing strategies. In Unlocking the Full Potential of GenAI in Marketing: The Critical Role of Data and Analytics , you’ll discover: Why data and analytics are the fou

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Post-Sabbatical Takeaways on People, Places and My Professional Life

Mike Weinberg

Not sure why it took working full-time for 35 years before pulling the trigger to make this happen, but I am so thankful that I finally listened to advisors, mentors, friends, and peers telling me to do it. I recently completed my first-ever sabbatical. 30 days off… The entire experience was wonderful, instructive, life-giving, convicting, … Post-Sabbatical Takeaways on People, Places and My Professional Life Read More » The post Post-Sabbatical Takeaways on People, Places and My Prof

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How to Bridge the Gap Between Sales and Tech Teams to Drive Customer Success with HashiCorp’s CTO and VP

SaaStr

How can you bridge the gap between sales and tech to drive customer success? Sarah Polan, EMEA Field CTO at HashiCorp, and Louise Fellows, VP NEMEA at HashiCorp, explore the relationship between Field CTO and sales to help you understand why it exists and how you can leverage this relationship when you have a highly technical product. The 3 Building Blocks The three building blocks that bridge the gap between sales and Field CTOs are: Product knowledge Balance Trust Building Block #1: Product Kn

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Content marketing and SEO: Creating an integrated SEO plan

Search Engine Land

SEO often finds itself siloed away from other marketing tactics when the best results come from tight integration. Two tactics that should absolutely be integrated for the best results are SEO and content marketing. This article examines how to combine your SEO strategy with your content marketing efforts to create an integrated SEO plan. What is content marketing?

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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.