Thu.Jun 13, 2024

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Decision Making: Proving You Believe You Belong In the Room

Iannarino

In the competitive world of B2B sales, proving you belong in the decision-maker's room is crucial for winning high-stakes deals.

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Being Present

Partners in Excellence

This is one of those knee jerk reaction posts. Two things happened in the past few days. I attended a conference. I was sitting toward the back of the room, there were about 100 people arrayed around tables watching the speaker. The speaker was a noted expert in the subject area. People had paid a lot of money just to hear that speaker (over $1K). As I looked around the audience, few eyes were on the speaker.

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How to Write Effective AI Prompts for B2B Sales

Force Management

Whether you’re a sales leader, manager, or seller, we’ve all been hearing a lot about the potential of AI for sales. You may already be incorporating some AI-powered tools in your sales stack. Like any new technology, generative AI tools require a learning curve to be most effective. Generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini or Claude in particular can give very different quality outputs depending on the input they’re given.

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Summer SWOT

Sales Pop!

Summertime……warm breezes and cool beverages. Living is easy, right? For those of us in sales, not so much. As we speed towards the midpoint in our selling year, we assess our 2024 performance and unless we are among the lucky ones who have nailed big Q1 or Q2 deals, we see that much work remains to be done to position ourselves for a strong year. Not that we can’t enjoy some of our summer but as we all know, in sales there’s no rest for the weary.

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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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The Future of AI in Sales with Gong’s CEO and Co-Founder Amit Bendov

SaaStr

Earlier this month, Gong’s CEO and Co-Founder Amit Bendov sat down with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin at SaaStr Europa 2024 to talk about all things AI and the lessons learned while scaling to billions. Back in 2015, Google AI beat the world chess champion easily. AI was starting to diagnose diseases better than doctors. Amit asked himself, “ How hard would it be to understand customers better than salespeople?

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Is the digital marketing grass really greener in walled gardens?

Martech

As spring blossoms into summer, it feels like an apt time to address “walled gardens” in digital advertising. The term refers to closed marketing ecosystems in which the owner controls the content, data, inventory and engagement experience. Google, Meta and Amazon (a.k.a. the Big 3) are today’s dominant players. Reliance on these platforms can offer marketers significant advantages and limitations.

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Oracle says goodbye to the adtech business

Martech

With one line in an earnings call on Tuesday full of positive talk around cloud computing and artificial intelligence, Oracle CEO Safra Catz put an end to a line of business Oracle built through acquisitions for more than a decade. “In Q4, we decided to exit the advertising business, which had declined to about $300 million in revenue in fiscal year ’24,” Catz said.

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Retailers — Use My Data to Make Me a Better Gift-Giver

Salesforce

Are you using your retail data from holiday shoppers effectively? The data you collect around special occasions and celebrations provides a wealth of information that, if used right, can make shopping easier for your loyal customers and gain you lots of new ones. Each time someone buys a gift, it could provide endless opportunities for the retailer.

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Confessions from email jail

Martech

What’s on your email rap sheet? In my last MarTech column, “ Stop! Or go directly to email jail ,” I listed 10 crimes that could send digital marketers to the email Big House — from misdemeanors like sending transactional emails without even a line of business-building promotional copy to felonies like buying a list or skipping authentication.

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Google Analytics fixes paid search attribution

Search Engine Land

Google is rolling out an update to attribution models in Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to more accurately credit paid search campaigns for driving conversions. Why it matters. The change addresses an issue where conversions that should be attributed to paid search clicks were sometimes incorrectly assigned to organic search, especially for single-page applications.

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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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XR and AD-ID team up for better cross-platform ad experiences

Martech

Adtech platform XR Extreme Reach and ad identification technology company AD-ID announced a new partnership to improve ad experiences through cross-platform identification of creative assets. The collaboration is the first implementation of IAB Tech Lab’s Ad Creative ID Framework (ACIF). “We applaud the IAB Tech Lab for moving the Ad Creative Identification Framework forward and we are thrilled to partner with AD-ID to drive adoption at scale, making it seamless for brands and publishers to trac

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Reddit adds third-party verification for advertisers

Search Engine Land

Reddit is partnering with ad measurement firm Integral Ad Science (IAS) to provide advertisers with third-party validation for campaign delivery across its platform. Why it matters. The integration of IAS’s Total Media Quality suite gives Reddit advertisers globally an added layer of trusted, independent measurement around brand safety, viewability and invalid traffic.

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AI-powered martech news and releases: June 13

Martech

Was the text in the ad AI-generated or did it require a human to create the typo in “where your brush”? Does anyone need a toothbrush with AI? The fine folks at Oral-B think so and have unleashed the Genius X to see if they’re right. For an MSRP of $219, you get “a revolutionary Artificial Intelligence technology that enables it to recognize your brushing style and coaches you for your best results every day.

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PPC client kickoff: Strategies for a successful first encounter

Search Engine Land

Your manager just informed you that you have a new PPC client. How exciting! Once the news settles in, the questions start flowing into your mind: When do I start working with them? What services am I going to provide them with? What does their business do? Where are they located? Overwhelmed and don’t know where to start? Here are a few tips and tricks to help you impress your boss and absolutely nail that first meeting with your new client.

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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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How Verizon puts its business customers at the center

Martech

Pega solutions like Customer Decision Hub, Knowledge Buddy and Blueprint are aimed primarily at large enterprise clients. It takes some digging to understand the architecture of these solutions so it helps to hear from Pega customers about use cases. Some of the world’s largest telcos were talking about Pega’s role in their stacks at this week’s PegaWorld conference.

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The Secret Sauce of Sales Success

Salesfolks

By reframing the cost into an investment and infusing your pitch with humor, you not only de-risk the decision but also make the client feel like you’re both on the same team.

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What to do if you lose your SEO job: The emergency handbook

Search Engine Land

Losing your job in SEO can happen for various reasons, such as redundancy, a shift in the company’s focus or performance issues. However, the reason doesn’t change the outcome. What you need now is a well-crafted, step-by-step plan to not only survive but thrive in this situation. Here it is. The SEO reality check you need to take In May, my friend Nick LeRoy, who runs SEOJobs.com, wrote an article that shocked a lot of people in the SEO world.

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5 Tips On How to Handle Acquisition Talks

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What should I know about getting acquired? My top 5 tips: #1. Listen more. Talk less (on the target side). It’s very difficult to invent an acquisition. It’s almost impossible to create one, though it happens sometimes. Listen and learn. Understand what everyone’s motivations are. Why your champion is doing the deal.

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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.