Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 19, 2024

From prospecting to closing, today’s mobile, social, big data, and cloud technologies are revamping the sales process in ways that would have been inconceivable a few decades ago.

Technology 275

Technology Technology Sales Closing 275

Partners in Excellence

MAY 22, 2013

This morning, I’m sitting in a series of presentations extolling the value of big data. I get that more data has been created in the past 2 years than in the history of mankind. I get that data is everywhere, we can know so much about so many different things. But we don’t talk about the big questions.

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Construction Presentation Technology Technology 96

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

I’m sure you consider yourself data-driven. You make decisions based on data. Problem is, most companies aren’t using their data to the capacity they could be. You see, the current structure of the modern marketing stack leads to a large amount of data fragmentation. Data Accessibility.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 5, 2012

Many pundits, including me, believe predictive analytics and big data are becoming the “killer apps” for sales and marketing. Developing sales and marketing capabilities in being data driven, both in better targeting market and customers and in helping quantify value in working with customers is a critical skill.

Contract 92

Contract Sales Presentation B2B 92

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

But say “Big Data” instead of “information,” and marketer smiles will turn upside down in a hurry. But Big Data is information—competitive knowledge about the behaviors of customers, helping you learn how to adopt to those customers’ needs. But finding the opportunities in Big Data can be deceptively simple.

A/B testing 95

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 3, 2016

It was a promotion from Top Sales World (TSW) to download a "Free Big Data-Driven Sales Training Report for Your Industry." All three of us are committed to being the best at what we do. Yesterday I received an email that you might have received too. TSW was simply the messenger in this case, with the provider being The Sales Board.

Promote 67

Promote Sales Meeting 67

Salesforce

APRIL 9, 2024

Way back in 1914, engineer and data visualization pioneer Willard Brinton observed that while companies went to considerable effort to analyze and catalog their information, most failed to draw useful conclusions from it. All your data is, at long last, unified, harmonized, and accessible to every business app and user.

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SBI

MARCH 5, 2020

TechTarget Acquires Data Science Central, a Leading Online Resource for Data Scientists and Big Data Practitioners. Nasdaq: TTGT) today announced the acquisition of Data Science Central LLC , an independent digital publishing and media company focused on data science and business analytics. NEWTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 6, 2012

Nearly 80% of companies polled in a new Big Data study find CRM ineffective at helping find external company information. Sales reps are searching as many as 15 different data sources for information on customers and prospects. ” The Big Data revolution is here. Reps are on information overload.

CRM 78

CRM B2B Contact Technology 78

Martech

MAY 15, 2024

What we haven’t seen as much is how you take these personalized interactions that have emerged, particularly with chatbots, and use that data to optimize your marketing campaigns and messaging. The agencies used to have a leg up when it came to the data they have access to across multiple brands. A: Absolutely.

Retail 91

Retail Cross-sell Technology Technology 91

Search Engine Land

MAY 1, 2024

There are other unexplainable swings – some bigger than others – found in other regions as well, based on Statcounter’s data. Before you start cheering, the data seems suspect. Some are expecting Statcounter to “correct” these figures because these sorts of big swings seem impossible and unprecedented.

Market share 124

Market share Territory Engineering Start-ups 124

Hubspot

JULY 25, 2017

The environments where we spend our time increasingly facilitate data collection. There are several implications: 1) We'll have more data on both attention and awareness. Think of “content” as all things that attract human attention that can be represented as data. Content in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

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Gaming A/B testing Technique Entertainment 78

Search Engine Land

MAY 3, 2024

The big picture. For marketers with established marketplace sales, this represents a potentially big new piece of their Google Ads strategy. Google shared three: Use existing marketplace product data like images, descriptions and pricing in ads. Why we care. Key benefits.

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Martech

MAY 16, 2024

How can you use software to build a lead-generation engine that delivers big results? However, delivering big results goes far beyond streamlining efficiencies and expanding your reach. Depending on how you set up the automation, enrichment data can identify the names of users and zip code targeting criteria to identify their location.

A/B testing 117

A/B testing Campaign Lead generation Technology 117

Search Engine Land

APRIL 22, 2024

Google is developing a two-hop proxy to enhance privacy for Chrome users, which has three big implications for advertisers: For ad location targeting, you’ll only have the option to target regions designated by Google, which won’t be accurate. Will consumer data be truly private? Why we care.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 29, 2024

Spoiler alert: our data suggests they might be. So, we recently released our study on domain structures for international SEO to add some data to this conversation. 56% of the top three positions are held by ccTLDs Our data reveals that ccTLDs are the most prevalent website structure in the top three ranking positions globally.

E-commerce 108

E-commerce Territory Represent Up-sell 108

Search Engine Land

MAY 13, 2024

The 2024 edition once again features data on the average conversion rate, cost per lead (CPL), click-through rate (CTR) and cost per click (CPC). Industries with big decreases were Finance & Insurance (down 32.40%) and Dentists & Dental Services (down 19.57%). It’s basically more of the same story as 2023. Why we care.

CTR 113

CTR Conversion Real Estate Click Through Rate 113

Search Engine Land

APRIL 18, 2024

You own first-party cookies and the data they collect, which won’t be impacted by the Chrome update. Third-party cookies, which pass data from your website to external parties (like ad platforms) to your site to paint a picture of the user and user behavior, are what’s disappearing. Data collection is changing. See terms.

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GTM CRM Campaign Conversion 92

Martech

JANUARY 8, 2024

It’s hard to see anything like that happening in today’s world, where marketers are increasingly doubting the accuracy and veracity of their analytics data. Now, it seems as though every massive tech company on the internet is restricting the flow of consumer data on their own devices, operating systems and platforms.

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Martech

MARCH 21, 2024

And as the conversation around PAIR, Google’s new identity solution that allows publishers and advertisers to match first-party data to deliver personalized ads, gathers more and more momentum each day, there’s one thing we can be sure about — when it comes to the deprecation of cookies, this time, it’s for real.

Finance 112

Finance Retail Government Networking 112

Search Engine Land

MAY 6, 2024

We might have been the same age and had comparable work/life experiences, but I always looked at Mark like a big brother. Mark’s achievements Mark was a data magician. He was able to find the story in any data set, and was able to make any industry interesting. That was the beginning of our very special friendship.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Google’s machine learning systems BERT and MUM are becoming more important than user data, he said. “In one direction, it’s better to have more user data, but new technology and later systems can use less user data. User vs. training data. Fortunately, our training data gives us a head-start.

CTR 139

CTR Click Through Rate Engineering Technology 139

Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

This update was indeed a big one, and caused a lot of ranking volatility across many verticals in the Google search results. Data providers on the August 2023 core update Semrush. Semrush data showed that the August 2023 core update hit a peak of 9.3 This looks at its internal US keyword data. RankRanger.

Niche 144

Niche Finance Engineering Retail 144

Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This update, like most previous core updates, felt big in terms of the number of sites that saw ranking volatility and the complaints from SEOs I spotted over the rollout. We will try our best to do the data provider analysis, but with two big confirmed updates rolling out at the same time, it might be hard. Lots of volatility.

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Engineering Conversion 143

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

An AI Strategy that Doesn’t Die in the Hype Cycle You have to think big about your vision. He proved that the innovator’s dilemma causes big companies to get disrupted. The premise is that big companies ride the iterative disruptive wave and get so big that they have to sell big products for big profits.

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GTM Technology Technology Up-sell 102

Search Engine Land

MARCH 1, 2024

Recent Google scandals have raised concerns about search result fairness , accuracy , transparency and the ethics of big brands’ dominance. Typically, it’s pulled from the internal databases of big enterprises. The content aspect of programmatic SEO (i.e., populating the database) can be generated programmatically (i.e., Dig deeper.

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Non-Profits Consult User Experience Presentation 130

Martech

MAY 2, 2024

Shoppers were holding back during Q1 having spent during the holidays; they’re waiting for big online shopping events later in the year. The retail data shows that consumers have tightened the purse strings, as they did for most of 2023. What big shopping moments are there in January and February? Unless it’s not.

Retail 87

Retail Growth Price Start-ups 87

Search Engine Land

MAY 9, 2024

This is a surprisingly big drop, especially considering rumors that SGE could launch ahead of, or during, Google I/O next week. This screenshot shows the data from enterprise SEO platform BrightEdge and the company’s BrightEdge Generative Parser: Why we care. Search results without SGE increase.

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Overall, the volatility was about the same as previous core updates according to some data providers. Overall, the volatility was generally less than previous updates, feeling more muted than what we expected according to data providers. Overall, the volatility was even greater than October spam update, according to data providers.

Niche 138

Niche Launch Engineering Start-ups 138

Sell Or Die

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

He tells us how data is revolutionizing the sales process yet still can't compete with great customer service and a winning attitude. Ben Prusky is the CEO of Freedom Merchants a company that works with new and existing businesses on a variety of services revolving around getting them paid.

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Sales Service Process Customers 40

Martech

APRIL 29, 2024

We’ve all seen companies get so caught up in the pursuit of quick wins that they make impulsive decisions, cut corners and completely lose sight of the big picture. More often than not, the answer was a big, fat “nope.” And in today’s uber-data-obsessed business landscape, they’ve got a point.

Strategize 102

Strategize Negotiate Follow-up Growth 102

Search Engine Land

APRIL 24, 2024

CPC increased by 13%, a big jump from the 6% year-on-year increase in CPC of Q4 2023. The Tinuiti Digital Ads Benchmark Report utilizes anonymized performance data from advertising programs managed by Tinuiti. The data is based on active programs with consistent strategies. CPC increase. Report methodology.

Growth 111

Growth Retail Campaign Represent 111

Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

That has been a big question for many SEOs because ChatGPT does not cite or link to its sources. Clearly, even more of the most popular websites have decided to block GPTBot, presumably because they don’t want OpenAI scraping their data to help train its models – at least not without some form of compensation. Why we care.

Engineering 139

Engineering Service 139

Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

They go to the retailer’s website to create accounts and the data that was being captured by the retailers was all first-party data. That’s when we started leaning into retail media networks in a really big way. We did tests and found that there would be a big spike in sales if retailers took away their [delivery charges].

Retail 117

Retail Networking Customers E-commerce 117

Closing Bigger

MAY 9, 2024

With that said here were the 10 big takeaways: Leverage AI for Productivity, Not Replacement: Utilize AI to handle repetitive tasks, freeing up human creativity for strategic thinking and relationship building. This partnership can lead to more informed and nuanced business strategies.

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Strategic planning Strategize Relationship building B2B 111

Martech

MARCH 27, 2024

But there’s one thing in the way: our data. Ultimately, all the technology in the world isn’t worth the investment if the data it relies on is poor. They see the potential of AI to automate processes and enhance productivity but are cautious about using it with unreliable data. That’s great and exciting.

Territory 121

Territory CRM Manufacturing Pipeline 121

Martech

MARCH 14, 2024

The ad industry is making major investments in order to adapt to the new privacy-by-design ecosystem, according to an IAB survey of 500 advertising and data experts at brands, agencies and publishers. Brands, agencies, and publishers are planning to grow their first party data-sets at a rate almost double two years ago (71% vs. 41%).

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