Sat.Aug 05, 2023 - Fri.Aug 11, 2023

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Don’t Bungle Your Bundles

Neuromarketing

Does grouping products together into a single-price bundle increase the perception of value? Most of us would answer “yes,” but surprising research shows there is at least one condition where such grouping can actually reduce the apparent value. Here’s the most surprising and counterintuitive part: the bundle may be seen as worth not just less [.

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Elevate Your Bank's Performance with One-on-One Sales Coaching

Anthony Cole Training

In the fast-paced world of banking sales, staying ahead of the competition requires continuous improvement. While group training sessions have many benefits, there's no denying the unique benefits of personalized one-on-one sales coaching. With over 30 years of experience working with banks, we have found that tailored coaching can be the key to unlocking your team's full potential.

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Following Up with Existing Clients in B2B Sales

Iannarino

After a long pursuit, you have won your dream client. You have a signed contract, your operations team is executing, and you are pursuing your next prospective client. You have heard nothing from your team or your client, so you assume everything is going as planned—until your client calls to tell you they are having problems.

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On Reflection…….

Partners in Excellence

“We do not learn from experience, We learn from reflecting on experience.” John Dewey, American Philosopher/Psychologist. This was the opening line in one of the best posts I’ve read recently. It’s from the brilliant Suzi McAlpine, be sure to read the post: 5 ways you can build in reflection to improve performance. This is such an important principle for all of us in selling and leadership, but somehow we seem so preoccupied with activity and busyness, we fail to take the

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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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Q&A with Top Sales Leaders: Navigating Success in a Challenging Market

Force Management

We recently hosted a panel discussion with several top revenue leaders in the sales industry, facilitated by sales veteran and Force Management Partner Brian Walsh. Boomi CRO Marcy Campbell , NWN Carousel CEO and President Jim Sullivan , and Battery Ventures Operating Partner Bill Binch joined us to share each of their unique perspectives on what's driving positive revenue outcomes for sales organizations in our ever-changing economic environment.

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My New Perspective on Sales Process and Methodology

Understanding the Sales Force

We were at the Zoo when we came upon this particular monkey. He was holding on to the chainlink fence with both hands and both feet – probably not very unusual for a monkey, but he was sitting on a basketball! So the monkey is following a traditional methodology for hanging on, but being authentic, allowing his silly personality to come through, and getting those who were interacting with him to laugh.

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Do You Believe Your Value Proposition?

Partners in Excellence

I’m amazed at the number of sellers that really don’t believe their value proposition or value creation. How do I know this? They don’t know enough about what I’m trying to achieve to be able to articulate and quantify the value I should expect from their solution. They answer concerns I have with product capabilities, not what the solution means to me and my organization and what we are trying to achieve.

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The Art and Science of Complex Sales Podcast

Membrain

Navigating through tough times can be quite a challenge, especially for CEOs looking to boost shareholder value and profits. Join us in today’s episode with SalesStar's Global Director of Learning, Alex Chan as we delve into how managers can hold their teams accountable and the importance of data-driven decision making.

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How to optimize your blog’s posting schedule to gain traction

Martech

The importance of a well-structured blog posting schedule cannot be underestimated. When done right, it can enhance audience engagement and maximize the impact of your content. Find out how to optimize your posting schedule with the following case studies and best practices. Key takeaways: Optimizing your blog posting schedule can boost SEO and audience engagement When determining blog posting frequency, analyze audience behavior, preferences and peak traffic times.

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Our Communication Breakdown in B2B Sales

Iannarino

Many salespeople want to act strategically but choose transactional communication mediums. You may believe no one wants to talk to you and that they prefer emails or text messages, although this is clearly not true. In sales today, the main variable is what and how salespeople communicate with their contacts and prospects.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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The Problem With The Selling/Buying Process

Partners in Excellence

Recently, sitting with a sales management team, we started discussing the “Sales Process.” They displayed their sales process. As you might expect, the process was divided int a number of stages. Things like prospecting, qualifying, discovering, proposing, closing. (Theirs actually had different labels and a couple of additional stages).

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Dear SaaStr: How Can You Grow a SaaS Startup Without Spending a Ton on Sales and Marketing?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Can You Grow a SaaS Startup Without Spending a Ton on Sales and Marketing? It’s hard but it can be done. A few examples: Mailchimp was bootstrapped to $1,000,000,000 in ARR Qualtrics was bootstrapped to a $6B acquisition Atlassian was bootstrapped all the way to … today $30B+ Veeva is very enterprise but only spent ~$3m in true venture capital.

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How to Prep Your Finances Before Applying for an SBA Loan

G2

Running a small business is no easy feat. Just when you think you've got everything under control, financial challenges can pop up like surprise obstacles to test your resilience.

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B2B Sales and the Dance

Iannarino

For as long as anyone can remember, sales leaders have sought a way to ensure their team wins deals. They spent a lot of time and money developing a linear sales process that promised salespeople could consistently win deals simply by achieving the outcome of each opportunity stage. The fallacy is that the linear sales process disregards any other variables, including the quality of the salesperson, the value of the conversation to the client, and other elements that cannot be defined by a simpl

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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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Google Ads unwraps several new features ahead of holiday season

Martech

Google Ads is rolling out several new features ahead of the holiday season. The platform has made the changes in a bid to improve insights, expand access to the Search top slot, reduce onboarding time for local inventory ads, and enable marketers to quantify the impact of online-only bidding vs. Smart Bidding for store visits. Why we care. It’s important to stay up-to-date with Google’s latest features, and test them so that you can gain early learnings to help shape your campaigns and bidding

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The Official Guide to SaaStr Annual 2023 Parties and Side Events!!

SaaStr

Ok we’ll keep this page and list updated all the way through 2023 SaaStr Annual on Sep 6-8 in SF Bay Area!! This is just an early start: Tuesday, Sep 5: The Night Before Annual ChartMogul and Cladera are hosting a pre-Annual cocktail party at one of our favorite spots, Fogbird in downtown San Mateo just minutes from the venue. Sign up here.

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My New Co-worker Is a … Robot?

Salesforce

The exec summary Robots are coming … to some Salesforce offices. As an experiment to augment security teams, the Cobalt Robotics office robots (inherited from decommissioned Slack offices) recently started quietly roaming hallways to assist security by checking for: Security breaches Environmental issues, such as problems with heating or air conditioning Closed and locked doors The backstory you need With much news around artificial intelligence (AI) and how it can impact business, seeing robots

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Sell To People Who Buy What You Sell

Iannarino

B2B sales continues to regress as many leaders value efficiency above all else. For these leaders, they believe that they need more. activity, more calls, more opportunities, and most of all, more emails. There is, however, one area where they do less: targeting their prospective clients.

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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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Who champions martech replacements?

Martech

The results of the 2023 MarTech Replacement survey are in. In addition to the now predictable first place for marketing automation among solutions replaced — and cost now holding a close second place among reasons for replacements — we saw an interesting development in who advocates for replacements. Not a simple picture. Of course, we recognize that in real life there are likely to be many seats at the table for discussions of expensive software investments.

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Are AI Companies Going The Way of Enron?

David Meerman Scott

The question facing any innovative company forging a brand-new path where regulation doesn’t yet exist is: Are we doing the right thing? Companies with huge artificial Intelligence development efforts including Google/Alphabet, OpenAI, Facebook/Meta, Apple, and Microsoft require moral soul searching. Just because you’re compliant with existing laws doesn’t make everything you’re doing right.

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What Is Network Marketing? Meaning, Types, and History

G2

Network marketing is a business model where distributors earn commissions and recruit people to build a business. Learn its types, and how to get started.

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The Story Your Client Needs to Hear

Iannarino

You have been taught, trained, and told stories in sales. These stories may include your company’s history, starting from its inception up to the present day, or the story of your solution and how your company discovered a better way to deliver value. But the most used story is about a client that bought from the salesperson’s company and achieved amazing results.

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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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GPTBot – OpenAI’s new web crawler

Search Engine Land

OpenAI has published information about its new web crawler named GPTBot. You can read the documentation on GPTBot over here. What is GPTBot. GPTBot is OpenAI’s web crawler, used by OpenAI to crawl the web, consume knowledge for its AI features, such as ChatGPT, and use that to provide AI-generaterd answers to your questions. Useragent. GPTBot’s User agent token is “GPTBot” and its full user-agent string: is “Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compati

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week with Hypergrowth Partners and monday.com’s Co-Founders, SaaStr’s Founder and more!

SaaStr

Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The Second Half of 2024 Could Be Really Good For SaaS Raising Capital in the Second Half of 2023 with Creandum The Top 20 SaaStr Tips to Getting a SaaS Start-Up Going 30+ SaaS CEOs Share The Signs Their First VP of Sales … Just Wasn’t Going to Work Out (Updated) 10+ Of The Most Common Mistakes

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How Does Google MUM Impact Your SEO Strategy?

G2

Google MUM is an AI update that would unravel a plethora of content resources like images, videos, and shippable products in return for search queries.

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Enduring Principles and Changing Sales Methodologies

Iannarino

Occasionally, I am challenged on my belief that sales has evolved—and it continues to. I often hear something like, “The old ways still work.” There are things that should not be lost, but sales methodologies are not among them.

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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Google’s Performance Max Best Practices Guide gets major update

Search Engine Land

Google has rolled out significant updates to its Performance Max Best Practice Guide. The refreshed document now includes information on new strategies, advising retail marketers on how they can better optimize campaigns and improve conversions. Why we care. If you don’t keep up-to-date with the latest best practice guidelines from Google, the strategies you use to optimise your campaigns may be outdated and no longer effective, which could cost you in terms of reach, conversion and ROI.

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The “Headless” Sales Team Never Really Works

SaaStr

So there’s a sort of org chart you’ll probably end up with at least twice as you start scaling in SaaS: The “Headless” Sales Org. What’s that? It’s a bunch of sales reps without anyone to manage them other than … you. There are basically two times I see this happening, and it happens to most of us: First, when you are just getting going, and doing founder-led sales, you start off “Headless” Your job as founders is to close the first 10, 20, 50 customers yourself, then bring on a few reps, then

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Bid shading costing advertisers $6.6 billion yearly

Martech

Media buyers don’t know much about bid shading and it’s costing them $6.6 billion annually, according to a recent study by AI adtech company Cognitiv. What it is. Bid shading is an optimization practice offered by publishers for programmatic advertising buyers as an alternative to first-price auctions, which are thought to tilt the advantage toward publishers.

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You Need to Know Your “Way” Every Bit As Much as The Mandalorian Does

Membrain

Could your sales organization benefit from being more like the Mandalorians?

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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