Tue.Mar 21, 2023

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The Art of Certainty - How Consultative Selling Helps B2B Buyers Make Confident Decisions

Iannarino

You might have found sales success using a positioning statement about your company and your offerings. You may have found success by overcoming a corporate decision-maker’s objection. Even so, following the well-worn path of the traditional sales approach and its linear B2B sales process was designed ages ago for a different business environment. That time has long passed.

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8 Things That Are Just Harder in SaaS Now

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What’s Changed in SaaS Today? What’s Harder Now? My list: You have to go twice as far on each dollar of venture capital as in 2021. With public market valuations down 70%+ from their peaks, for startups, that means going twice as far on each dollar. It’s 3x-5x harder to raise a Series A, and 4x-10x harder to raise a Series B, C or D, than it was at the peak.

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5 Ways Your Small Business Can Prepare for Weather Catastrophes

Sales Pop!

Storms cause increasingly worse damage, and if your small business is in the path of a catastrophic weather event, you may feel like there’s nothing you can do. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to minimize the impact of storms and enable a quicker and more cost-effective recovery following weather damage. A commercial insurance policy can be pivotal in recovering from a disaster, while fortifying your building can help minimize damage.

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LinkedIn releases new Pages features for B2B marketers

Martech

Today, LinkedIn rolled out new features to help B2B marketers post content and host live events on the platform. Scheduled posts. Marketers can now schedule the specific date and time for posts to run on their organization’s LinkedIn page. This is a new capability, allowing users to schedule content within the LinkedIn platform, instead of depending on a third-party marketing or publishing tool.

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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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35+ Best Sales Email Templates To Close Deals

SalesHandy

Sales email templates work as a great time-saving blessing when one has to send similar emails to multiple recipients who are in different stages of the sales funnel. Only 30% of emails get opened across all industries, making it important to write a compelling sales email that prompts a click. Every business in every industry drills down to one thing – Sales.

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Adobe announces Firefly for AI-driven creative

Martech

Adobe Summit 2023, Las Vegas “Our belief is that generative AI will enhance human ingenuity, not replace it,” said Shantanu Narayen introducing Adobe Firefly at Adobe Summit today. Firefly is a new group of generative AI models focused on creating images, video and text effects. Firefly uses generative AI with graphics tools like brushes, color gradients and video tools to speed up production and make it easier for creators to make high quality content.

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5 tips to get more value from your tech stack

Martech

Businesses are under increasing pressure to optimize expenses and find ways to do more with less. Tech stacks , which have grown from a small portion of the budget a decade ago to a significant piece of the pie, are often the first to go under scrutiny. As marketers, we need to get more out of our current tech stack, whether through consolidation or more strategic use of existing tools.

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News SEO and generative AI: Inside a ‘parasitical relationship’

Search Engine Land

As reports circulate that AI research lab OpenAI uses news stories from media outlets like the Wall Street Journal and CNN to train its ChatGPT chatbot, an even greater challenge emerges: How do media outlets retain traffic, revenue and relevancy in the generative AI era? AI-generated news has long inspired fear among journalists. In 2016, for example, the U.K.’s Press Association signaled its intent to use AI for some sports and election stories.

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Why we care about data management platforms

Martech

Consumers buying products and services across various online channels leave a trail of every digital marketer’s most important asset — data. But this data is worthless if it can’t be collected, organized and put to use. That’s where data management platforms (DMPs) come in. DMPs allow marketers to understand customers and their purchasing behaviors better.

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Google Search Status Dashboard to gain ranking update history

Search Engine Land

Google is adding a new “ranking” section to the Google Search Status dashboard it launched last December. The new ranking section will include active and historical Google algorithm updates , so that you can see what changed with Google Search related to ranking, not just crawling, indexing or serving. New dashboard. Here is what the new dashboard looks like, Google added a “ranking” section: Here is what it looked like previously, with only crawling, indexing and serving

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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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It Starts With Conversation: On collaboration, allyship, and lifting as you climb

Highspot

Conversations move us forward. As we honor Women’s History Month, we asked three Highspot employees to share stories of the conversations that shaped them –– and the words that will inspire the next generation of changemakers. “Great collaboration and communication start with understanding each person’s unique perspective.” Early on in my career, I was working as a project manager that frequently collaborated with a product design team.

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Google Bard early look: What we’re seeing so far

Search Engine Land

Google opened its Bard waitlist today. Hopefully, you get access soon. While you wait, you can get a taste of how Bard works and behaves. Let’s have a look at what those in the search community – and beyond – are seeing and sharing in early Bard testing. No links/citations initially. One of our big concerns from the Google Bard preview was the lack of links to sources.

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It Starts With Conversation: On collaboration, allyship, and lifting as you climb

Highspot

Conversations move us forward. As we honor Women’s History Month, we asked three Highspot employees to share stories of the conversations that shaped them –– and the words that will inspire the next generation of changemakers. “Great collaboration and communication start with understanding each person’s unique perspective.” Early on in my career, I was working as a project manager that frequently collaborated with a product design team.

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What is quality score and how to use it in PPC

Search Engine Land

Quality score is one of the few constants in PPC marketing. It is a score calculated by Google and Microsoft alongside your bid to determine your ad rank. Yet, the factors of quality score and how much each lever impacts them is often a subject of debate. We will dive into each quality score factor and explore how they impact your overall campaign and account success.

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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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The Business Acumen of an Effective ESG Strategy

The Advantexe Advisor

One of the most interesting elements of designing Business Acumen training programs for business leaders is to engage with them about their challenges and opportunities and how to build the organizational capabilities to move forward. Over the past few years, having an Environmental, Sustainability, and Governance (ESG) strategy has been at the forefront of thought for many leaders.

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Bing Image Creator added to Bing Chat

Search Engine Land

Bing Chat has added integration with its Image Creator tool where you can ask Bing Chat to create images for you and it will. “Bing Image Creator, new AI-powered visual Stories and updated Knowledge Cards” is rolling out to new Bing and Edge preview, Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President & Consumer Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft, said.

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It Starts With Conversation: On collaboration, allyship, and lifting as you climb

Highspot

Conversations move us forward. As we honor Women’s History Month, we asked three Highspot employees to share stories of the conversations that shaped them –– and the words that will inspire the next generation of changemakers. “Great collaboration and communication start with understanding each person’s unique perspective.” Early on in my career, I was working as a project manager that frequently collaborated with a product design team.

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This day in search marketing history: March 22

Search Engine Land

Google Search Console to show event rich results errors for missing locations 2022: Google Search Console’s rich results report could now show you more warnings for event structured data markup if the event is missing a location. Merchant Center can now be linked to Google Analytics 4 2022: Plus, you could now “see your conversions from free product listings by connecting your Merchant Center and Google Analytics property.

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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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PPC salaries 2023: How much do in-house, self-employed, and agency search marketers make

Search Engine Land

Determining how much you should be compensated can be challenging, awkward, and sometimes even intimidating, as it requires balancing personal expectations with industry standards and organizational constraints. However, a recent PPC salary survey might offer some insights, enabling you to decide whether to negotiate a pay raise or explore new opportunities.

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Google begins to open Bard to a limited number of users

Search Engine Land

Google has begun opening up Google Bard , its answer to ChatGPT and other AI chat solutions, to the public. There is now a way to sign up for a waitlist at bard.google.com if you are based in the US or UK. I signed up, but note, that you cannot use your Google Workspace account to sign up; you need to use a personal Google account to sign up. Bard not Search.