Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 8, 2024

Most sales managers spend less than 10% of their time on coaching, and only one third of managers actually coach their people on a weekly basis. Yet, the Coaching Competency is the most critical part of a sales manager's responsibilities; it is also the most difficult skill set to learn and master. There are many reasons for this, but among them are: the managers themselves were not coached or they had a bad experience with coaching; they were elevated to a team lead or manager position based on

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Iannarino

MARCH 4, 2024

There are people who still believe that the sales contest is between two companies and their solutions. The truth is that the contest is between the salespeople vying for the opportunity.

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Veloxy

MARCH 5, 2024

When it comes to choosing an email service, you’re likely wondering about the “Outlook vs Gmail” debate and which will best meet your needs. Currently, 60% of businesses use Gmail as their email service provider, while Outlook is the preferred email application for 95% of large and very large companies. How do you choose? Start by understanding the key features, user experience, and overall functionality unique to Gmail and Outlook.

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Cerebral Selling

MARCH 4, 2024

The Massive Impact of Great Sales Leadership I started my career as a research scientist before spending nearly two decades in sales leadership roles across four high-growth tech startups and five years as a Vice President at Salesforce. I’ve spent a lot of time studying the patterns and research around what makes great sales leaders. That’s because in a profession often plagued by poor experiences and bad reputations, great sales leaders are not only a beacon of light to their teams, but the te

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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.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 5, 2024

Google is unleashing multiple measures aimed at improving the quality of its search results beginning today. Google is releasing the March 2024 core update and a number of spam updates (aka March 2024 spam update). Also, Google’s helpful content system has been incorporated into its overall core ranking system. In addition, Google announced several new and updated spam policies that it will begin enforcing through automated algorithms and manual actions.

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Iannarino

MARCH 8, 2024

Once, a friend invited me to a fundraising event for a politician. There were hundreds of people all vying for the politician’s attention. At some point, I had a few minutes with the politician, and I asked him a question. When he spoke to me, he blocked out all the people and noise around us. For those few minutes, I was his only focus. What was impressive was his ability to ignore the throng surrounding us and speak to one person.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 6, 2024

Just as selling has evolved, buying has evolved–but differently. Too often, there is an alignment challenge between what buyers need and what sellers do. We seem to be on diverging paths, and this creates problems for both buyers and sellers. What don’t buyers need from sellers? While it’s always dangerous to make generalizations because there are always exceptions, but with that as a disclaimer, let’s focus on what buyers don’t need from sellers.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 8, 2024

The day after Google released its new search spam policies , including the March 2024 spam and core updates, Google began penalizing websites that the search company felt violated those spam policies. The result of these search penalties was that some sites were completely or partially de-listed from Google’s search results, and all or part of their search traffic was wiped out.

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Iannarino

MARCH 3, 2024

If you asked a group of salespeople about the relationship they want with their clients and prospects, you would hear the phrase trusted advisor. No one would argue against the idea that being a trusted advisor is the high-water mark in B2B sales. Unfortunately, too few salespeople reach this summit, mostly because, despite how much their clients may trust them, they fail to provide valuable advice.

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Martech

MARCH 4, 2024

Marketing automation is a great tool. It allows companies to set up campaigns that run on their own without further human intervention. This saves time and greatly expands what your marketing team can accomplish with limited resources. Unfortunately, marketing automation can also go wrong somewhat spectacularly. In this article I’ll provide a list of things to check to make sure your automated programs aren’t giving you or your company a big black eye.

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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

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 6, 2024

Preface : Who doesn’t know Anthony Iannarino ? Anthony has been a friend/colleague for years. One of the things that has made me fascinated about his work is he thinks differently and deeply about selling. And it’s that difference that makes him so special. Thanks for your contribution Anthony! When I was twelve, someone told me that if I knocked on every door in my apartment complex and each of the ones on each side, people would give me money.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 7, 2024

Several features and tools within Google Business Profiles are currently temporarily unavailable. These features include the ability to check verification status, manage appeals and manage reviews. Google said they are working on recovering these features. What is not working. Google said that some of its support tools are impacted by some outage of sorts.

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Iannarino

MARCH 7, 2024

If you want to know what the future looks like, you look for futurists that study demographics and geography. The first book in the One-Up Book Club was this kind of book.

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Martech

MARCH 8, 2024

As organizations grapple with the complexities of AI adoption, a strategic framework becomes essential for assessing readiness and ensuring successful implementation. Before introducing even more tech into your stack, you must know what you’re working with. How confident are you with your team’s readiness for change? Can you also sustain those changes?

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 7, 2024

Preface : Surprise!! Marketers sell! At least Carlos Hidalgo sells. Sometimes, “we” have mis-conceived notions about selling, thinking that only those in some sort of formal sales role sells. But selling goes far beyond the titles. And some of the very best have never had a selling title. Carlos is one of those. Carlos nets it out, “Selling is helping.” But he also goes further, talking about selling forces us to be students–constantly learning about our customers a

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 8, 2024

In November, I conducted a survey aimed at SEO professionals, delving into their perspectives on climate change. This article unpacks the survey results, highlighting key findings and offering practical advice for SEO professionals looking to impact the environment positively. But first, let’s explore why the link between SEO and climate change matters.

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Iannarino

MARCH 6, 2024

Evolution from Spray-and-Pray to Ideal Customer Profile Targeting In the last decade, sales organizations moved away from a spray-and-pray approach, adopting a strategy engineered to target their Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). As part of this change, sales organizations began personalizing their cold outreach emails, incorporating strategies such as acknowledging the contact’s role, identifying a trigger event or concern, offering a compliment, and addressing the client’s interests.

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Martech

MARCH 6, 2024

Marketers are ready to embrace AI in the retail media space. A majority (53%) of marketers believe AI will “significantly enhance” the way shoppers are targeted and served relevant ads, according to a survey of 200 CPG advertisers commissioned by in-store media technology company Cooler Screens. Another 37% of marketers said AI’s impact on the space will be “moderate, improving some aspects [of retail media], but not transformative.

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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.

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Salesforce

MARCH 4, 2024

Nine out of ten leaders know a strong data strategy is critical to AI success – so why are only a third of them integrating a unified data strategy across their company? In January 2024, Salesforce commissioned Forrester Consulting to find answers to these gaps and more in the rapidly developing AI landscape. The research , conducted with 773 business leaders in 14 countries, sheds light on global business decision-makers’ mindsets around AI-powered CRM.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 5, 2024

Microsoft updated Bing Webmaster Tools with new helpful insights and reports to help you with your site performance within Bing and Search in general. Bing Webmaster Tools has a new IndexNow Insights report that shows you more than just the URLs submitted to IndexNow. Bing also added a new top SEO insights report that shows you your top SEO issues. Fabrice Canel, the Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Bing, announced this today at PubCon and published the news on the Bing blog.

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Iannarino

MARCH 2, 2024

There is something better than leads. In some industries, you are better off with a strategy built on a list of targets. These targets will not need to be qualified because you know they already buy what you sell, even though they are currently buying from one of your competitors. This is something we describe as a competitive displacement , a nicer way of saying "stealing your competitor's client.

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Martech

MARCH 8, 2024

The marketing industry is in an interesting position when it comes to women in the workforce. Women hold 60% of all North American marketing jobs, according to data from LinkedIn , and women now hold 52% of CMO roles. But modern marketing roles are incredibly diverse in their nature. As marketers know, the roles in the modern marketing organization include people who analyze data, create content, develop platforms, buy media and more.

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Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con

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Salesforce

MARCH 7, 2024

Personalize, personalize, personalize. We all know it’s the key to great email marketing , but it’s one thing to know it and another to do it. That’s where email segmentation comes in. By grouping your email list properly, you set yourself up for targeting the right people with the right content. But what exactly is segmentation in practice, and how do you make sure you’re doing it correctly?

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 4, 2024

Google Ads launched a new tool simplifying the management and automation of tasks within your account. The “Solutions” tool, which is available for free in Google Ads under Tools, enables you to quickly and easily generate reports that show you how your campaigns are performing against your business goals and automate simple management tasks.

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Iannarino

MARCH 5, 2024

Maximizing Sales Success: Understanding and Reducing the Error Rate in 2024 It is crucial for a salesperson to know their win rate. If you are a sales leader or manager, you should be aware of your team's average win rate, as well as each individual’s win rate. This is arguably the most important metric, surpassing even pipeline coverage, because the win rate provides more insight than any other KPI, be it deal size or sales cycle.

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Martech

MARCH 7, 2024

Can it be that it was all so simple then? Mozilla deprecated third-party cookies in its Firefox browser in 2018; Apple did the same for Safari in 2019. In January 2020 Google announced it would deprecate cookies in the Chrome browser, and here we are, more than four years later. Deprecation has been postponed again and again. It’s now set to happen in the second half of this year — and indeed one percent of Chrome’s 2.65 billion default users have already been permitted to opt out.

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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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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 5, 2024

Some of you may be reading my series, “ Why I’m So Interested In Selling.” I have several dozen stories so far, releasing a few each day. Everyone that’s responding is an extreme high performer. They come from varied industries ranging from motorcycles and extreme sports, professional services, software/SaaS. medical devices, semiconductors, industrial products and others.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 7, 2024

Google launched a new measurement tool for advertisers in anticipation of its plan to phase out third-party cookies later this year. Meridian, an open-source Marketing Mix Model (MMM), has been introduced to help advertisers analyze campaign performance while prioritizing user privacy. Accessibility. Meridian is currently available to select users. However, Google plans to make it accessible to all marketers and data scientists in the near future.

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G2

MARCH 6, 2024

Moving through the workday with a million tasks on your mind can be draining, especially when you’re on the move without much time to spare. We always look for new ways to improve efficiency for ourselves and our team without interrupting workflow.

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Martech

MARCH 4, 2024

As a leader, you must be agile enough to pivot as you learn new information about the marketplace, your customers and disruptive new technology. We know with certainty that we’re in uncertain times and what we know today will be different tomorrow. It’s critical to constantly re-evaluate how you market and sell our products to customers because what worked last year, or even last month, may no longer be relevant.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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