Wed.Jan 04, 2023

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EU hits Meta with $414m fine over advertising practices

Martech

The Irish data privacy board has imposed a fine of 390 million Euros ($414 million) on Meta over advertising practices that are illegal under European Union law. Because Meta’s European operations are based in Dublin, the Ireland board is the company’s EU regulator. Meta’s offense, the board concluded, was to incorporate user consent to use data for targeted advertising purposes within its terms of service, effectively forcing anyone using Facebook or Instagram, for example, to

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Consistent Customer Success is the Key to Scale Up Your SaaS (or Any) Company

Membrain

Happy, successful customers are the lifeblood of growing a SaaS business (or any business). When your business depends on monthly recurring revenue, you can’t afford to churn customers. And that’s not the only reason why a scaling SaaS company must invest in consistent customer success.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Okta at $2 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

So Okta is one of the leaders in SaaS that has always just kept growing. They had a bit of dip in growth as they worked to integrate the mega-acquisition of Auth0 — but then went right back to growth. Even now, even in times of tighter scrutiny of budgets. Okta is now crossing $2B in ARR, growing a stunning 37%. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1. 122% NRR — Basically The Same as 123% at $1B ARR.

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MarTech’s B2B marketing experts to follow

Martech

B2B marketing is as direct and personalized as it gets. You’ve got to know what your customers do, how they do it, their needs and goals. You’ve also got to know their company’s processes, organization and purchasing cycles. Then you have to communicate with them in the best possible way, at the right time and with the information they’re looking for.

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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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Can Malcom Gladwell Explain the Sales Hiring Problem?

Understanding the Sales Force

CEOs, Sales Leaders, Sales Managers and HR Directors are under water when it comes to sales selection. They get it right about 50% of the time and that includes salespeople who stay but underperform. After reading Malcom Gladwell's book, Talking to Strangers , I can finally explain why the success rate is so low.

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Webinar: 7 ways to keep your customers coming back in 2023

Martech

Over half of consumers would stop buying from a company after multiple bad experiences. Is your company doing enough to drive loyalty? . Join PwC in their live webinar as they reveal the results of PwC’s 2022 Customer Loyalty Survey, a comprehensive look at over 4000 customers, and provide insights on what keeps customers engaged. Register today for “7 Ways to Keep Your Customers Coming Back in 2023,” presented by PwC.

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Implementation partner: The final brick in your DAM foundation

Martech

This is the second of a two-part series on building the foundation for digital asset management (DAM). You can read the first part (selecting a DAM vendor) here. You’ve selected your DAM vendor, now where do you go from here? Do you really need an implementation partner? You may be fortunate enough to have an in-house IT team qualified and ready to guide you through building your DAM , but it’s more likely that you’ll be looking to hire a third-party vendor to guide you through the process and d

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Dear SaaStr: What Do You Do With Churned Customers?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What Do You Do With Churned Customers? You put them into a Get Them Back bucket and re-market to them with a dedicated program. And you have sales especially follow-up twice. Once in about 90 days, to see if they might want to come back — importantly. at no cost to them. And then again in about 8-9 months. A good time to steal before a renewal!

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Nielsen announces first module for cross-screen audience measurement platform

Martech

Venerable audience measurement firm Nielsen today announced the upcoming release of Nielsen ONE Ads, the first module of its cross-screen measurement platform. The new product, which will be available on January 11, promises deduplicated measurement across linear TV, CTV, mobile devices and desktop. Kim Gilberti, SVP, product management at Nielsen, said there was a huge need for cross-channel, comparable audience measurement. .

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Microsoft to add ChatGPT features to Bing Search

Search Engine Land

Microsoft may be adding OpenAI’s ChatGPT features to Bing Search in the coming months. According to a report by The Information , two sources from the company is saying the company likely will be adding the popular ChatGPT AI question and answer service to Bing, Microsoft’s search engine. What is ChatGPT. OpenAI-launched chatbot ChatGPT several months ago and it has become incredibly popular across the web.

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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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Workshop Wednesdays: Live this Wednesday, Jan 11, with Harness.io CRO Jason Eubanks: Sales-led vs. Product-led? Today’s Startups Need Both

SaaStr

Join us every Wednesday at 10 AM PST for SaaStr Workshop Wednesdays ! Up Next: Wednesday, January 11th @ 10AM. Topic: Sales-led vs. Product-led? Today’s Startups Need Both. Speaker: Jason Eubanks, CRO @ Harness.io. Workshop Wednesdays is new series where we’ll be bringing some of the best SaaStr speakers to you LIVE, every Wednesday. . Each workshop will be hosted in a live, interactive 30-minute format at 10am Pacific each and every Wednesday.

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Google’s “Remove redundant keywords” recommendations have changed

Search Engine Land

Advertisers running PPC ads on Google may have woken up to an email this morning outlining its new policy regarding redundant keywords. What’s changed. The “Remove redundant keywords” recommendations suggest redundant keywords within the same ad groups. You may see the notification at the top right side of your ads dashboard. But starting January 19, the recommendation can include keywords across different match types.

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CRO Confidential: What’s Changed for Hiring a VP of Sales in 2023 with Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond and Stage 2 Capital LP and Former Lattice CRO Dini Mehta (Pod 622 + Video)

SaaStr

It may seem counterintuitive to seek out a sales leadership hire during this time of slowed hiring, but it’s the number one topic that many founders talk about and many SDRs, AEs, and sales managers ask about. . Founders may ask, “how do I find the right sales leadership hire?” While someone in sales may ask, “how do I become a CRO someday?”. In today’s episode of CRO Confidential, Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund, discusses these very questions with the previous CRO of Lattice, Dini Mehta. .

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Effortless Enablement: Maximizing Sales Content Impact for Sellers

Sales Hacker

Are you struggling to effectively use all of the enablement content at your disposal? Do you feel like you have a hodgepodge of resources and don’t know when and how to deploy them? In this masterclass, we’ll discuss how the best sales reps employ enablement content to move deals forward and accelerate pipeline. We’ll share real-life examples of how the fastest growing companies manage sales enablement assets, so you’ll come away with practical tips and techniques that you can put in

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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: January 5

Search Engine Land

Google AdWords introduces click-to-call ads. In 2010, Google sent out notification to its AdWords advertisers that “your location-specific business phone number will display alongside your destination url in ads that appear on high-end mobile devices. Users will be able to click-to-call your business just as easily as they click to visit your website.

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Get to the C-Suite Faster: How to Navigate Unpredictable Sales Cycles in 2023

Sales Hacker

Between the multiple stakeholders, differing needs and opinions, endless calendar blocks, and trying to get a deal across a finish line that’s anything but straightforward… Today’s buying cycle has sellers like: Brooke Freedman, Katie Miles, and Ted McKenna join us to share the most successful strategies they’ve found for navigating complex buying cycles in 2023.

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EU rules that Meta’s ad practices are illegal

Search Engine Land

Meta has been fined 390 million euros ($414 million) after European Union (EU) regulators found it had illegally forced users to accept personalized ads. What happened. According to the New York Times, Meta includes language in its terms of service agreement, the very lengthy statement that users must accept before accessing services like Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, which effectively means users must allow their data to be used for personalized ads or stop using Meta’s social media service

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What Will You Accomplish This Year?

David Meerman Scott

The new year is here! What interesting new things are you planning on this year? In 2023 I have embarked on some exciting writing projects that are a departure from what I have written in the past. It’s too early to share details quite yet, but I’m writing some articles for an outdoor magazine and working on a new book that's not related to business.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Google drops the character limit for headlines in article structured data

Search Engine Land

Google has updated the article structured data help documentation to remove the hard character limit for the headline property. Instead of Google saying there is a 110-character limit, now Google just says you should be concise with your headlines for your articles. The revision. Google’s article structured data help documentation used to write “The title of the article.

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Partners in Excellence

A little over 40 years ago, in mid June, I walked into the lobby of 205 E42nd Street in Manhattan. I took the elevator to the 11th floor and walked in to the reception area of IBM’s NY Financial Branch Office. About a week earlier, I had graduated from UCLA with my MBA. I didn’t take much time off, I was so excited about starting my new job selling computer systems for IBM.

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4 tips to build a data-centric culture in your agency

Search Engine Land

As we ring in a new year, among your 2023 goals as an agency may be to level up your data game, deliver excellence to your current clients and stand out to prospects. Using the following tips will help you start laying the groundwork to build a culture of data within your organization. 1. Hire expert personnel to guide your strategy. Developing a solid data foundation requires experienced leadership to steer the ship.

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The #1 priority for a VP Sales that most people get wrong (hiring)

Predictable Revenue

Daniele Di Nunzio joins Collin Stewart on this episode of the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how to hire SDRs and AEs and what to look for in your first sales hire. The post The #1 priority for a VP Sales that most people get wrong (hiring) appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.

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Webinar: 7 ways to keep your customers coming back in 2023 by Cynthia Ramsaran

Search Engine Land

Over half of consumers would stop buying from a company after multiple bad experiences. Is your company doing enough to drive loyalty? Join PwC in their live webinar as they reveal the results of PwC’s 2022 Customer Loyalty Survey, a comprehensive look at over 4000 customers, and provide insights on what keeps customers engaged. Register today for “7 Ways to Keep Y o ur Customers Coming Back in 2023,” presented by PwC.

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How to Train Your Sales Team

Iannarino

B2B selling has never been easy, but in our current environment it is more challenging than ever. The contacts you sell to today are doing more research themselves, avoiding salespeople, and struggling to acquire the consensus they need to move their improvement initiatives forward. It's not uncommon to find a prospective client aborting their initiative soon after meeting with salespeople.

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Twitter is lifting its ban on political, cause-based ads

Search Engine Land

An announcement by Twitter, on Twitter, says that the company is going to relax its ban on cause-based ads (such as those for climate change or women’s rights). They also plan on lifting their own restricitions on political advertising. We believe that cause-based advertising can facilitate public conversation around important topics. Today, we're relaxing our ads policy for cause-based ads in the US.

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A 5-step framework to scale your content operations and SEO

Search Engine Land

Don’t lie. Show of hands. How many times have you uttered the following in the last year alone? “I can’t find any good writers.” “No one can create content as well as me.” “Content marketing / SEO doesn’t work in our niche.” “That agency just doesn’t understand our unique POV.” “I can’t publish more than X articles/mo without quality dropping.” Probably all of them at one point.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!