Thu.Mar 02, 2023

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Why You Must First Solve Buying Pain Points in B2B Sales

Iannarino

"Whoever is in a hurry, shows that the thing he is doing is too big for him." —The Earl of Chesterfield For as long as anyone can remember, salespeople have been trained to identify their prospective clients’ problems and their implications. This sales strategy has been part of B2B sales processes and is practiced by sales reps in many sales organizations.

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Latest Podcasts: The Leadership Mindset

Force Management

This month on Revenue Builders, our guests reminded us of the power of the mind. In leadership and life, the power of your mindset is clear - it affects your outlook, motivation and most importantly those around you. We look for a great mindset in those we partner with and who we hire. These are four stories that convey the transformative power of the mindset, from entrepreneurship to service.

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58% of Top YC Companies Are HQ’d in the SF Bay Area. But … 82% are Partially or Fully Remote

SaaStr

So if you were on social media this week, you probably saw a ton of YC companies talking about how they were in the 2023 Top Companies. SaaStr Fund has invested in several of them, from Algolia to Treasury Prime to RevenueCat and more and it’s always fun to see awards and similar content from leaders like YCombinator. But beyond the great stories of who is breaking out, I found a quiet set of statistics even more interesting: where they are breaking out.

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Marketing mix modeling: A marketer’s guide

Martech

Boards and the C-suite expect CMOs to lead the way to profitable growth in 2023 despite various macroeconomic pressures manifesting into the “ triple squeeze ,” making everything more expensive. And although marketing budgets, as a share of revenue, rebounded last year to more than 9%, according to the 2022 Gartner CMO Spend and Strategy Survey , they are still lower than they were in 2020, forcing CMOs to achieve more with less.

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Welcome to the Future of Hospitality: Smart Rooms Start Here

Speaker: Jady West, VP of Hospitality & Chris Bennett, Head of Sales & Engineering

The modern hotel room is no longer just a place to stay—it’s an experience to remember. Today’s guests expect seamless 5G connectivity, personalized comfort, and high-tech convenience. From AI-powered smart room controls to in-room entertainment and app-based services, technology is redefining hospitality from the inside out. In this new session featuring industry pros Jady West and Chris Bennett, we’ll explore how high-speed, high-bandwidth connectivity powers the innovations that are enabling

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Dear SaaStr: When Do You Start to Develop a Brand in SaaS?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: When Do You Start to Develop a Brand in SaaS? In my experience, probably about $2m worth of happy customers. At that point, you don’t have a world-famous brand or anything. But you do start to have a “mini-brand”, where folks in your top niche or segment start to have heard of you. If your product costs $2,000 a year, that might be around 1,000 customers.

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Papa Johns and Netspend adopt augmented reality for eGift campaign

Martech

Shaquille O’Neal promotes Papa Johns x Netspend AR campaign. Image: Papa Johns & Netspend. Papa Johns and Netspend recently plunged into augmented reality (AR) through an eGift promotion in partnership with Shaq’s Fun House presented by Netspend. Consumers learned about the campaign courtesy of the Instagram hub hosted by basketball great Shaquille O’Neal.

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OpenAI unveils ChatGPT API at very low prices

Martech

OpenAI has released APIs for ChatGPT and Whisper (which does speech-to-text conversion) at a price the company says is 10 times cheaper than its existing models. “ChatGPT and Whisper models are now available on our API, giving developers access to cutting-edge language (not just chat!) and speech-to-text capabilities,” the company said in a blog post.

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Thanks to Cumul.io, Hook, Jiminny, Leaseweb,and Zendesk for Sponsoring SaaStr Europa 2023!

SaaStr

At SaaStr, our partners are an integral part of our events. In June 2023, we’re heading back to London for SaaStr Europa and we wanted to give a special shout-out to some of the companies that will be there with us! We’ll see 2,500+ of the best SaaS founders, execs, and VCs June 6-7 at 2022 SaaStr Europa ! Grab tickets here. Join these incredible companies to experience all the value of SaaStr!

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Sales Stages: Simple or Complex?

Heinz Marketing

By Win Salyards , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing There are two core schools of thought when structuring your B2B lead and opportunity stages–simplified or complex. Neither is better than the other since it comes down to your needs as a revenue org. A few arguments exist for using a simplified versus a more complex set of stages in B2B marketing and sales.

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How to use ChatGPT for keyword research (with actual prompts)

Search Engine Land

If you’ve used ChatGPT for any period of time for tasks like creating content for SEO , you’ve likely noticed a few things: It’s great and a major time-saver for some tasks. It’s much worse than what you already do for other tasks. To get the most out of it, you must understand how it works, be willing to refine your prompts (sometimes several times), and QA the platform’s output.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Coaching Is A Language!

Partners in Excellence

I wish I were smart enough to be the originator of this term, “Coaching is a language…” All credit goes to Aaron Evans for this term. Coaching is not something we do, it’s not a meeting we schedule with the people we are responsible for. It’s not a specific activity, though we tend to treat coaching as this. High impact coaching permeates every conversation we have.

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SEO opportunities in 2023: Helpful content, E-E-A-T, People also ask

Search Engine Land

AI search is arguably the hottest topic in digital marketing right now. I worry that SEO newbies might think all they need is an AI chatbot to “get rich quickly.” When everybody and their aunt push the next big thing, I try to be cautious and resist the initial hype. After all, focusing on the fundamentals – optimizing your website, creating content and attracting links – still drives SEO results today.

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Three things ChatGPT needs which only you can provide

Martech

Many people writing about ChatGPT have used the gimmick of revealing at the end that it was written by ChatGPT. Not only is it now cliché, it’s a bad idea for more important reasons as well. These reasons underscore the missing elements in discussions claiming ChatGPT will either solve all our problems or bring on the zombie apocalypse. 1. Authenticity Authenticity and its connection to the consumer — to our customers — has always been critical to messaging success, especially during and a

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New Analytics user access management changes in Google Ads

Search Engine Land

In the coming months, Google Analytics 4 audience builder will be integrated into Google Ads, making it easier to create and apply audiences from Google Analytics 4 to Google Ads campaigns. To enable this feature, Google Ads is introducing a new cross-product access management model. This model allows a Google Analytics 4 property Admin to grant explicit permissions to users in a linked Google Ads account.

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Get Higher-Quality B2B Leads That Convert!

B2B marketers face a number of challenges, including: continuously generating great leads converting leads to active sales prospects finding vendors that deliver real results Aggregage has proven content syndication, webinar, online advertising and intent signal marketing programs that deliver higher-quality leads. More than 700 companies have already benefited from our programs.

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This day in search marketing history: March 3

Search Engine Land

Google Panda name revealed In 2011, Google’s Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts revealed that Google Panda was the true name of the update that was informally referred to as Farmer when it launched Feb. 24. “Well, we named it internally after an engineer, and his name is Panda. So internally we called a big Panda,” Singhal said in a Wired interview with Steven Levy.” He was one of the key guys.

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Biden approved to decide fate of TikTok as US ban nears

Search Engine Land

TikTok faces further setbacks as the US House Foreign Affairs Committee grants President Joe Biden authority to prohibit the Chinese-owned app, depending on his evaluation of the situation, amidst ongoing security concerns regarding its possible links to the CCP. The US government has already declared a complete prohibition of TikTok on all government-owned gadgets, following comparable measures in more than 30 American states.