Partners in Excellence

APRIL 23, 2019

AI doesn’t necessarily prevent us from doing terribly stupid things. Poorly implemented, it can even accelerate and amplify our stupidity. A few seconds of research would tell you Tamara lives outside Frankfurt and late afternoon is likely to be after midnight her time.

Pitch 78

Pitch Technology Technology Meeting 78

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 24, 2018

But there seems to be no end to this stupid volume, velocity, activity thinking. ” And there are plenty of tools enabling you to automate this stupidity. On top of this, he has a set of technology tools to help him automate, refine, and improve his outreach. We can be smart or we can be stupid. ”).

Technology 90

Technology Technology High impact Campaign 90

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 9, 2020

I have just received 4 of the same emails from one of the largest sales, marketing, analytics automation suppliers (a very large San Francisco based company). When The Incremental Cost Of Stupidity Is $0 Just Because I Downloaded Your eBook. Committed To Stupidity. Stated crassly, “Fools with tools are still fools!”

Contract 91

Contract High impact Technology Technology 91

Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 13, 2021

Stupid me. Does Nimble automate any of these types of activities? To paraphrase … “What does a CRM do?”. This was multiple choice and I answered “It helps you sell more”. . I got it wrong. The correct answer was “It keeps contact records.” That, my friends, is the feature. I focused on the benefit. How should you use CRM every day?

CRM 83

CRM Contact Pipeline Follow-up 83

Martech

JULY 18, 2023

Tools are stupid. You could use a standalone chat tool or, even better, a chat tool from your marketing automation platform, like HubSpot. You might also consider communicating with these customers on and off the site using automated workflows and drip campaigns. We have a saying at my agency, “Don’t trust the tools.”

Process 93

Process Clients Campaign Start-ups 93

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 14, 2020

” It’s really the fault of those selling training and LinkedIn automation tools that seek not to create value in relationships, but only to deluge people with mindless messages. Yes, I know it’s all automated. The post LinkedIn Automation At It's Worst! Below is a message stream I just received.

Construction 70

Construction Management Consulting Consult Prospecting 70

Pointclear

APRIL 21, 2015

In spite of the accountability that CRM brings and the follow-up that marketing automation creates, B2B salespeople have to do the final step. But with the advent of CRM systems and marketing automation, it’s time marketers solved their own problem by automating the follow-up. Out here, a man settles his own problems.".

B2B 98

B2B CRM Follow-up Represent 98

Martech

MARCH 25, 2022

You can’t comb through thousands of automated replies to your email campaigns to find personal comments. How stupid is that? Nothing screams “I don’t care what you think” better than “no-reply,” and its equally offensive cousin, “do-not-reply.” I want no emails.

Real Estate 128

Real Estate Cross-sell Appointment Start-ups 128

Pointclear

JULY 28, 2015

It’s funny because it sounds like marketers are too stupid to be in charge of marketing. When this happens, marketing starts believing that automated marketing can be a genuine substitute or as effective as “real” marketing. This saying always amuses me. And, as a marketer, I love laughing at myself and those who do what I do.

Technology 100

Technology Technology Engineering Service 100

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

He says, "Don't cold call anymore — cold calling returns about 1.25% yield if you take a list and indiscriminately call 100 people at random and say the same stupid script. First and foremost, he suggests that reps stop cold calling. You may want to adopt a sales strategy of warm calling, which is decidedly more evolved.

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Cold Call Pitch Sales Niche 94

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

We have CRM, Marketing Automation, and Emailing systems that enable us to “communicate” in ways we never imagined or had the time to do in the past. We can make intelligent assumptions about the customer based on these automated interactions, but do we really understand what they want to achieve?

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Cold Call Technology Technology Follow-up 98

Accent Technologies

JULY 15, 2019

According to Andrew Moore, VP of AI at Google Analytics, “AI is currently very, very stupid. While it’s true that many tasks can be automated to help streamline work, pure regression analysis alone can’t handle the complexity. It’s really good at things our brains can’t handle, but not things we can do very easily as humans.”.

B2B 40

B2B Technology Technology Sales 40

A Sales Guy

JANUARY 31, 2014

Just to illustrate my point, my point that most messaging sucks – automated ones to boot… here’s a little jewel that arrived in my inbox today. Let’s call this email it what it is… stupid. Stop insulting people. If you want a sales meeting, up your odds of a yes when you tailor and target your message. Dear Manager, How are you doing?

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Sales Up-sell Prospecting Sell 121

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 6, 2016

The problem was that in downloading the paper, I immediately get emails and phone calls asking my interest in Marketing Automation Solutions — because that’s what this particular company sells. Stop Making Sales People Look Stupid! Stop Wasting Money On Marketing Automation, Personas, And… When The Script Works.

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Prospecting Sales Conversion Follow-up 50

Hubspot

JANUARY 7, 2020

Have you heard of the "keep it simple, stupid" (KISS) principle? The challenge with today's marketing automation tools is that they offer either enterprise-grade power or consumer-grade ease-of-use, but never both. Keep systems simple.

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Drivers/motivators Technology Technology Engineering 97

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Alternatively we rebel, doing exactly the opposite, thinking, “I’ll show him how stupid he is.” Related Posts: Automating Sales Coaching How Do We Find The Time To Coach Our Sales People? ” Whether it works or not, we create a terrible situation with our managers.

Growth 48

Growth Promote Start-ups Conversion 48

Partners in Excellence

MAY 11, 2012

They can magnify poor strategies and stupid execution. Creating Crap At The Speed Of Light Stupid Twitter (and Social Media) Tricks Who Is The Beneficiary Of Sales And Marketing Automation? But we run an even greater danger–used improperly they can have exactly the opposite affect. Related Posts: Does Sales 2.0

CRM 93

CRM Trust High impact Presentation 93

Lead Fuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

This could lead to making stupid decisions that we otherwise wouldn†t have made, so I†ve learned not to compare myself anymore. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? I†ve been patient with myself and haven†t let my social media pressure me into living a perfect life.

Sales 52

Sales Follow-up Start-ups Drivers/motivators 52

Partners in Excellence

JULY 15, 2012

Whether for some strange sense of expediency or out of sheer laziness, sales people do stupid things. We have tools that allow us to script sales calls, generate proposals, automate our responses to customers.

Technology 96

Technology Technology Cold Call CRM 96

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 2, 2015

Two of the hottest markets for “tools” are Sales and Marketing Automation markets. Best Practices of the Sales and Marketing Automation Suppliers: But the lessons I’ve discerned from their practices are: 1. But smart people and great teams sometimes do really stupid things (me included.).

CRM 87

CRM Sales Pitch Customer Relationship Management 87

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 10, 2018

If this, in fact is true, 100% of the process can be automated. The Death Of Selling—Deja Vu All Over Again Automating Stupidity Deja-Vu All Over Again, Death Of Sales People. The naive/wishful thinking that technology, particularly AI/ML will save the day.

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Sell Assembly Line Up-sell Cold Call 80

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Over the past several months, I’ve been on a bit of a rampage on sales and marketing automation tools. Or are we instead “dumbing down” the sales person, making them less effective in engaging the customers, but offsetting this with higher volumes of interactions, playing a stupid numbers game?

High impact 48

High impact Sales Drivers/motivators B2B 48

Hubspot

JULY 5, 2013

a post about all the stupid 4th of July-themed posts we could write, and explaining why we decided not to write them. well, because it''s a stupid idea. In addition, a lot of the post would focus on what you can automate, and it seemed like a post that''d already been written a million times over. How meta, right? It was just.

Entertainment 67

Entertainment Education Follow-up Start-ups 67

Hubspot

JUNE 17, 2015

Both sets of research are complementary: Scientists have found that when people form habits (like learning to group related words together), the neurons in their brains can change their firing patterns so that these habits become more automated and take less mental energy when they're repeated. What does this have to do with grammar mistakes?

Territory 78

Territory Start-ups Follow-up Conversion 78

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 5, 2019

They run reports in Salesforce to find hidden honeypots in the CRM and often find a way to automate most of their job without telling anyone. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”. MORE HIRING TIPS: How To Build (And Scale) A Successful Sales Development Team.

Sales 56

Sales Promote Closing Quota 56

ConversionXL

JUNE 21, 2015

If they’re about to buy, don’t do something stupid. ROAR: Risk( 1000 conversions / mo ) -> Optimization ( 10 000 conversions / mo ) -> Automation -> Re-think. Get your attention ratio (stuff you can do vs stuff you should do on a page) in order. Optimal ratio is 1:1. Remove unnecessary copy near your CTAs.

A/B testing 105

A/B testing Campaign Start-ups Conversion 105

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

3) Automating your Pinterest content. Marketers can't use an automated service to post content to their pinboards, repin or like other pinners' content, or create links. On a similar note, you can't use automation to scrape content from Pinterest. You'll look stupider doing that than they will, anyway. Aptly named, eh?

Networking 78

Networking Promote Follow-up Contact 78

Hubspot

JANUARY 19, 2015

And it’s all automated and super easy to set up! Instead of asking your readers for something, you need to continue adding value at every opportunity. Next time you send an email to your subscriber list, capture their attention by being stupidly generous. Not everyone will have the time to visit your blog every time you post.

Presentation 78

Presentation Networking Promote Technology 78

Martech

JANUARY 8, 2024

That’s stupid, run it once, make a library store it. It’s called “Automate the Boring Stuff with Python.” So it’s really stupid. Dig deeper: 5 ways CRMs are leveraging AI to automate marketing today But you are starting to see action here. Q: Many of us don’t know that. No one is teaching this.

Education 68

Education Networking Technology Technology 68

ClickFunnels

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Email Marketing Tip #3: Create an Automated Welcome Sequence. Email Marketing Tip #4: Create Automated Email Workflows. Automated email workflows are automated email sequences that include behavioral triggers – they allow you to personalize the content based on the subscriber’s behavior. Fortunately, ClickFunnels 2.0

Lead generation 130

Lead generation Cross-sell Pitch Consult 130

Heinz Marketing

MAY 11, 2020

We’re trying to do all of them through automation, through in the product, through sales touches, marketing touches, and I think that’s definitely one that I would consider people to rethink. So I don’t know. It’s just human nature I guess. Matt: It’ll be interesting to see how that continues to evolve.

Pipeline 85

Pipeline Healthcare Sales Manufacturing 85

SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Pauline Fumeron | Marketing Automation Manager @ OpenC lassrooms. It might look a bit stupid, but our OpenClassrooms were always even a bit of a fight. Let’s move to the, to Emil who’s asking a question about OpenClassroom, how do you work with marketing automation, et cetera. Want to see more content like this?

B2C 60

B2C CRM Product Engineering 60

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

To ensure velocity of testing throughput and what you learn, by completely removing wastage, stupidity and inefficiency from the process. Is the future of split testing in part automation? And the trick of a large scale optimisation programme, is to reduce the resource cost to opportunity ratio. Conclusion. Yes – I think so.

A/B testing 109

A/B testing Start-ups Trust Drivers/motivators 109

Search Engine Land

JANUARY 8, 2023

This was welcome news for advertisers who had been adding the same lists of negative keyword accounts manually or using a script to automate cross-account negative lists. . Google is launching automated call extensions in mobile ads on February 6. Do YouTube Videos, Stupid! Google Has Well Over A Million Advertisers.

Referrals 91

Referrals CTR Launch Engineering 91

Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Who wouldn’t want to automate or streamline or replace inefficiency?! Typically, you’ll find that even bad amateur writers aren’t often stupid enough to “directly” plagiarize something. Why brands are flocking to AI-written content Look. It makes sense. AI’s promise is incredibly seductive. As a red-blooded capitalist, I empathize.

Sports 115

Sports Start-ups B2C Drivers/motivators 115

Salesmate

JULY 17, 2020

Smart Queue feeds you one activity after another in a row so a user can complete the maximum number of tasks in a time frame using task automation. The concept behind the Smart Queue task automation. If you automate the 3rd step, it will naturally complete in less than a day. How Smart Queue can help your sales team.

Pipeline 114

Pipeline Cold Call Contact Entertainment 114

Sales Pop!

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In many quarters, automation has replaced human labor for the same reasons as before: cost, human error, frailty due to sickness, and the requirement for time off now enforced by regulation. Automation is rapidly replacing humans for repetitive, labor-intensive tasks—but we now increasingly see technology replacing intelligent jobs as well.

Territory 52

Territory Non-Profits Education Healthcare 52