Iannarino
JUNE 4, 2024
Everywhere you look, you find artificial intelligence. No other technology has been adopted faster than AI. Unfortunately, some sales organizations and their leaders use the technology in ways that cause side effects that make it difficult for salespeople. We need a set of rules that may reduce the damage it might create.
Search Engine Land
JUNE 4, 2024
Google’s AI Overviews now appear less than 15% of the time, according to a new analysis. Google’s AI Overviews (formerly known as Search Generative Experience when it was an opt-in experiment in Google Labs) at one time appeared on 84% of queries. That number of Google Search results without SGE jumped substantially starting in mid-April and continued into May before Google I/O, when Google announced the launch of AI Overviews in the U.S.
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Veloxy
MAY 30, 2024
Cold outreach can sometimes feel like a bad word. (Or two). How can you guide your team to do it effectively? How can you convince them that it can lead to ROI and sales? The reality is, cold outreach is a powerful marketing technique that can unlock untapped potential for your business. Join me as we take a look at this ultimate guide, exploring its benefits, strategies, and how to implement it successfully.
Anthony Cole Training
MAY 31, 2024
“Did I hire my salespeople this way or did I make them this way?” This is the question every sales manager must ask. Fixing performance problems always starts with Standards and Accountability.Accountability means taking responsibility for outcomes – good or bad. A sales leader’s primary responsibility is to put the BEST team into the marketplace.Much like a general manager in sports, a director of a theatre company or an orchestra leader of a symphony, you have a job and a responsibility to hir
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Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.
Search Engine Land
JUNE 3, 2024
Google’s mobile-first indexing initiative started just seven and a half years, while we thought it was completed last October , it is now really going to be fully done after July 5th. “The small set of sites we’ve still been crawling with desktop Googlebot will be crawled with mobile Googlebot after July 5, 2024,” John Mueller from Google wrote on the Google blog.
Martech
JUNE 3, 2024
The 118th session of the U.S. Congress is drawing to a close and the legislators have again failed to pass a national data privacy law. This means marketers will soon have to comply with the regulations in 17 different states. Five are already in effect, 12 more will come online by October of next year. That’s 17 slightly different headaches for marketers to deal with.
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Force Management
MAY 30, 2024
Customer Success (CS) is a critical component of a successful customer engagement process. Growing revenue requires your organization to be cross-functionally aligned on buyer value and solution differentiation before and after the sale. Capturing that value after the initial deal is essential for driving recurring revenue and expansion opportunities within accounts.
Salesfolks
JUNE 3, 2024
Sales is a demanding field, but it’s also rewarding. By prioritizing our mental health, setting boundaries, and taking time to recoup, we can maintain high levels of productivity without sacrificing our sanity.
Martech
JUNE 4, 2024
Martech budgets are falling to historic lows just as generative AI arrives in martech stacks. So, how do marketing leaders make the case for expensive new tools while being pressured to produce profitable growth? Creating value from technology investments requires coordinating both martech and multichannel strategies. Martech at a crossroads: Rebalancing budgets and adopting generative AI Years of aggressive investment in martech have produced tech stacks that may be replete with capabilities bu
Iannarino
MAY 30, 2024
There is nothing more important than developing your sales effectiveness. One of the best ways to unlock your potential is by acquiring a personal sales coach.
Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive
Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an
G2
JUNE 5, 2024
Project milestones are ways to observe, measure, and monitor a project's progress and success. Learn more about benefits, challenges, and best practices.
SaaStr
JUNE 2, 2024
So we took a look at some of the data from Emergence Capital’s survey of 600+ venture-backed software startups the other day , and they updated it with a bit more data on the Top Decline of Venture-Backed Startups Here: The summary data of the Top Decline leads to a rough conclusion: only the top 10% or so of venture-backed start-ups can likely raise another VC round.
Search Engine Land
JUNE 4, 2024
AI-powered search engine Perplexity introduced a new product – Perplexity Pages – to select free and paid users on May 30. Content from these Pages has started appearing in Google’s AI Overviews and featured snippets. What are Perplexity Pages. Perplexity called it a way to share your knowledge with the world, via in-depth articles, detailed reports or informative guides.
Martech
JUNE 3, 2024
As companies prioritize “efficient growth,” vertical software has gained prominence due to its lower customer acquisition costs, higher expansion sales and stronger gross retention than its horizontal counterparts. Here’s why you should consider adapting your horizontal software to attract vertical buyers, plus essential tips to help you go vertical.
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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr
Iannarino
MAY 31, 2024
Are you struggling with sales techniques for software? Discover the key lessons for successful software sales!
G2
MAY 31, 2024
When you started your business, you likely put together a plan that outlined all the key details of what you were looking to do — what your products or services are, who your competitors are, the type of audience you want to sell to, and information about the marketing you want to roll out.
SaaStr
MAY 30, 2024
So I firmly you believe you can build an incredible SaaS startup from anywhere now, or at least, any major-ish tech center. See, e.g., Atlassian, Canva, Cloudflare (CEO now in Park City), Adyen, etc. Heck, Oracle apparently is moving to Nashville! And yet … gravity is coming back to the SF Bay Area. So many CEOs have come back, even if their teams haven’t.
Search Engine Land
JUNE 5, 2024
A majority of Americans are spending more time searching for services online today than five years ago — and they’re frustrated about it, according to a new survey. Why we care. Search engines are supposed to help people find information they want or need. This survey indicates that subpar search engine results and experiences may be failing to help users accomplish tasks, frustrating them.
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How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.
Martech
JUNE 5, 2024
With consumers performing an increasing number of transactions online, the importance of digital transformation in 2024 is immense. New digital tools, workflows and AI technologies can increase organizational value and operational efficiency, but it should not come at the expense of the hard-won consumer trust. After all, 63% of a company’s market value is driven by reputation , demanding marketers protect their brand when leveraging new digital tools and workflows.
Iannarino
JUNE 5, 2024
Unlock the secret sales potential hidden within your company's walls.
Membrain
JUNE 5, 2024
A good sales coaching cadence is one of the keys to effectively elevating your sales team. While many companies settle for coaching that happens ad hoc around a water cooler or only when an employee is struggling, top companies invest in proactive, ongoing, consistent coaching that addresses all of the major aspects of professional development for their sales teams.
SaaStr
JUNE 3, 2024
So recently I’ve had conversations with several VPs and senior Directors at leading tech companies. I almost never ask anyone how much they make. I don’t care and it’s not me. But in this case, I was talking with folks thinking of making the jump to startups. Usually more scale-ups, at $20m+ ARR or later. But looking to make the jump.
Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions
There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.
Search Engine Land
JUNE 4, 2024
Search engines continue to evolve, but SEO strategies have failed to keep up. For years, we have relied on keyword research to choose specific searches to target. However, keyword research often prioritizes the wrong goals. Executed well, keyword research helps you craft a balanced keyword strategy for your target market and personas. It prioritizes keywords that attract traffic that converts into customers.
Martech
JUNE 4, 2024
Although it’s hardly surprising that SAP’s CX offering now includes an AI toolkit, the announcement could almost have been lost in the tidal wave of business AI announcements pouring out of SAP’s Sapphire conference this week. The conference showcases SAP’s main line of business which remains enterprise ERP software and the headline news is the extension of SAP’s AI copilot Joule throughout its enterprise platform and business applications.
Sales Pop!
JUNE 5, 2024
Numbers are abundant in varying ways, and monitoring them to adjust for business and career is vital. Most have a keen desire to increase their followings. Our article explores some of the elements necessary for growing the numbers to increase authority, referrals, and business growth. Whichever type of business or career we want to pursue or the associated endeavors, we must realize the concept’s weight; the power is in the numbers for growth.
Adaptive Business Services
JUNE 5, 2024
No new updates on Nimble since our last newsletter have been released. Of course, as Nimble is known to do, they might have sneaked something in without reporting it and I haven’t run across it … yet:) So, on to a different topic … How to Rearrange Info Blocks on Contact Records One of the customizations that I perform with Nimble clients is to configure the look of their contact records to rearrange data and move the most important items (to them) up higher, and/or delete boxes that are not imp
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SaaStr
MAY 30, 2024
Have you ever wondered how you could turn PLG concepts like the freemium model into a fast-growing revenue driver for your company? Former Head of PLG and founder and CEO of Clinch, Uday Chakravarthi, shares insights into how to do just that. With a PLG-heavy background, first working at Microsoft Azure and again with Atlassian, the PLG pioneers, he gives insights into leveraging PLG for the growth of your organization.
Search Engine Land
JUNE 5, 2024
OpenAI has announced 30 significant deals with tech and media brands to date, including three in the past week with Vox Media, the Atlantic and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers. Now there’s an easy way to keep track of them all: the OpenAI Partnerships List from Originality.AI. Why we care. These partnerships will undoubtedly lead to greater discoverability in OpenAI products – think: featured content and citations (links) in ChatGPT.
Martech
JUNE 4, 2024
In the movie “Gone in 90 Seconds,” Nicolas Cage and his crew have to steal 50 cars in a night. The goal is to steal the car in less than a minute and a half to reduce the chances of getting caught. The car is there one minute and literally gone the next. It’s eerily similar to visitors on your website. They’re there, and then they’re gone. You just have to look no further than your Google Analytics report to see it.
Partners in Excellence
JUNE 3, 2024
I hate being trite with this analogy, but I will. My post “Cold Calling Was Never ‘Alive'” generated a lot of interesting questions and conversation. They were variations on the same theme, “I need to get to these people to tell them how we can help them… I need to share our experience in working with customers like them… I need to schedule a demo of what we do……” Repeating myself: Customers don’t care about it until they do!
Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.
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