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The Top 3 Reasons AI Sales Tools “Don’t Work” (Spoiler: They Actually Do)

SaaStr

✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) June 16, 2025 The Top 3 Reasons AI Sales Tools “Don’t Work” (Spoiler: They Actually Do, If You Use The Tools Properly) I get this question at least 3x a week: “Jason, we tried AI sales tools and they just don’t work. ✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) June 12, 2025 #3. ” Sometimes?

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Why AI Has Taken Longer to Come to Sales Than Coding with Artisan’s CEO

SaaStr

Insights from Jasper Carmichael-Jack, CEO of Artisan at 2025 SaaStr AI Summit About Artisan: AI-powered sales platform building the end-to-end solution —from marketing personalization to AE automation across the entire revenue cycle. Yamini Rangan, CEO of HubSpot, echoed the same at SaaStr 2025: 3. Let AI handle the activities.

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AI Won’t Replace Sales Reps So Much as ‘Deflect’ Them: What Support’s 70% Deflection Rates Tell Us About Sales’ Future

SaaStr

Today, those same teams report that AI has elevated their roles – handling routine inquiries while humans focus on complex problem-solving and relationship building. For sales, every routine interaction handled by AI rather than a human rep represents immediate cost savings and rep time freed for complex deals.

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Instagram Marketing for Small Business: Top Strategies for 2025

Salesforce

However, avoid excessive hashtag usage and stick to a few relevant ones that accurately represent your content. Relate to your audience on a personal level and build meaningful relationships. With over 2 billion monthly active users , its where trends start, communities grow, and businesses thrive.

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10 Ways AI Will Change Sales Forever. It’s Already Happening, In Fact.

SaaStr

These superhuman sellers will focus entirely on relationship building, complex negotiation, and strategic guidance while their AI handles everything else. Meanwhile, mediocre reps who neither master the technology nor offer exceptional relationship skills will become obsolete.

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Lessons in Buying Group Marketing – Learning to dance with your sales team

Martech

More of a dance than a race, marketing is evolving to look at the entire lifecycle and how to care for the customer relationship at each phase. BGM is about relationship building – externally and internally. As part of this evolution: Buying Group Marketing (BGM). While that sounds great, the devil is in the details.

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The Great SDR Downsizing: 36% of B2B Companies Cut Sales Development Teams in 2025

SaaStr

The Great SDR Downsizing: 36% of B2B Companies Cut Sales Development Teams in 2025 Based on data from Emergence Capital’s “Beyond Benchmarks” report surveying 560+ venture-backed B2B software companies The whispers have been growing louder in SaaS corridors: “Is this the end of the SDR?”

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