Thu.Feb 16, 2023

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Competitive B2B Sales and The Imperative of Complex Sales Training

Iannarino

There are two major types of selling. The first type is transactional and the second is complex. The difference between them is based solely on how difficult it is for a decision-maker to come to a purchase decision. The client's complexity becomes the salesperson's challenge.

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3 Ways to Help Sellers Chart the Buyer Landscape

Force Management

Many of today’s top sales organizations are starting to feel the effects of the economic downturn through increased selling criteria and buyer scrutiny. The new B2B customer is more focused on ROI than ever before, and they likely have multiple parties approving the deal through different criteria. What does this mean for sales leaders?

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5 Essential Takeaways For Automated Trading

Sales Pop!

It’s forecasted that the algorithmic trading market will reach $31.49 billion by 2028. The Covid-19 pandemic positively impacted automatic trading, as more people looked into new money-making ventures. Since then, the industry has gone from strength to strength. People enjoy being able to make rapid decisions while reducing human error. However, as is the case with anything new, you shouldn’t dive right in without having a full understanding.

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Dear SaaStr: How Does a SaaS Startup Break Out in a Crowded Market?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Does a SaaS Startup Break Out in a Crowded Market? Find one segment of the market to win in. Where you can build a 10x feature, and then a 10x solution, that solves a niche problem that customers will pay for. Most SaaS markets are crowded today. But the thing is: As Bigger SaaS companies cross $100m in ARR, and then $1B in ARR, they stop focusing on smaller niches.

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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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Sales CRM to Empower Sales

Sales Pop!

As a team of experienced professionals, we understand the importance of having a customer relationship management (CRM) system that meets the needs of modern businesses. There are many CRM solutions available in the market, but we believe that none come close to the functionality and features provided by Pipeliner CRM. In this article, we’ll take a detailed look at Pipeliner CRM and explain why it’s the best choice for businesses that have sales teams and understand the importance of

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Embrace Rejection in Sales: 5 Ways to Use “No” to Grow

Sales Hacker

Rejection is part of the job in sales. That is the absolute truth. 90% of the time you’ll get a “no.” What people need to realize is that success and failure are on the same exact road. They’re not that different from one another. When you hear a no, that doesn’t mean that you have failed. When a door is closed for you, that doesn’t mean it has closed forever.

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The Rise of TikTok: Can B2B Marketers Afford to Ignore It?

Heinz Marketing

By Dan Baron , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing As social media platforms continue to evolve, marketers are always looking for new ways to reach their audiences. One platform that has gained a massive following in recent years is TikTok. With over 3 billion downloads and an average daily user engagement time of 52 minutes, it’s no surprise that marketers are eyeing this app as a potential new marketing channel.

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3 steps to navigating the complex customer journey

Martech

Why is the customer journey so complex? How can we improve the customer journey to deliver better results? Marketers understand the concept and importance of the customer journey. You must know how customers find you and do business with you if you want to succeed. The more you can improve the customer journey , the better customer experience you can deliver and the more effective your marketing will be.

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8 aspects of a sustainable SEO strategy

Search Engine Land

Today’s hot topics revolve around the future of SEO as the race to AI-powered search heats up. Bing will use ChatGPT and Google has Bard. I’m not saying all the buzz is unjustified. These developments simply highlight the nature of search where change is constant and inevitable. Seasoned SEO practitioners know that everything could be turned upside down tomorrow.

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IAB Tech Lab launches first clean room standards

Martech

IAB Tech Lab today announced the launch of its Data Clean Room (DCR) Standards portfolio, which includes the release of DCR Guidance & Recommended Practices, and also Open Private Join & Activation (OPJA) specifications. The standards will remain open for public comment for 60 days, until April 17, 2023. As part of their Building for Privacy Series, the organization also released a primer for clean rooms that outlines the industry with definitions and concepts, and includes a roadmap of

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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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Where is SEO in the business hierarchy?

Search Engine Land

In 2004, SEO as a discipline was perceived as some kind of dark art performed behind the scenes. This “SEO voodoo” had minimal effect on a website and nothing to do with the actual business. Some people bought some links on more or less shady corners of the web and miraculously the Google rankings shot up. Fast forward to 2023, we still don’t have proper jetpacks, flying cars or hoverboards, but modern SEO is a far cry from 20 years ago.

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Find the balance between privacy and personalization with first-party data by Cynthia Ramsaran

Martech

It’s an ongoing dilemma. Customers demand privacy and control over their data, but businesses strive for personalization to improve customer engagement and drive sales. The rise of first-party data can help balance both of these goals. Join this live webinar and hear from OneTrust’s Consent and Preference Management expert, who will share best practices and actionable insights on leveraging first-party data to drive customer engagement and sales while ensuring privacy and compliance.

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The 13 Best Networking Apps Every Sales Professional Needs

Hubspot

Networking is an important part of the prospecting process. It’s a great way to introduce yourself and your products to new audiences in a casual environment. Though it often takes place at formal events and happy hours, effective networking also happens when you least expect it — like standing in line at the airport. So, you must always be ready to make the most of any encounter.

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How to Cross-Sell, Up-Sell & Land More Deals In a Down Market

Sales Hacker

The probability of selling to a new prospect is <20% , while selling to an existing customer boosts your chances up to 70%. In today’s economic climate, it’s more important than ever to grow your smallest accounts into your biggest. This LIVE event will give sales and sales ops leaders the land and expand tactics they need to cross-sell, up-sell and win their way out of a down market.

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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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Microsoft shares positive and negative feedback on the new Bing AI search and chat

Search Engine Land

Microsoft has found out a lot – both good and bad – in just a week since it launched the new Bing AI search and chat features. The company has shared some of the positives and negatives of this new search experience. The good. Overall, most searchers seem happy with the results, Microsoft said. In fact, 71% of searches graded the results a “thumbs up” in the search interface. “Increased engagement across traditional search results and with the new features like summarized answe

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How to Book a Meeting Over Email

Predictable Revenue

Josh Garrison joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to share his best sales development prospecting tips and how to book a meeting through email outreach. The post How to Book a Meeting Over Email appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, is stepping down

Search Engine Land

Susan Wojcicki, one of the longest-serving Googlers is stepping down as the CEO of YouTube after nine years in that role and 25 years at Google. In her personal update blog post she said, “after nearly 25 years here, I’ve decided to step back from my role as the head of YouTube and start a new chapter focused on my family, health, and personal projects I’m passionate about.” Over her 25-year career at Google, she “managed marketing, co-created Google Image Search, led Goo

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These 6 Keys and New Data Help Your Sales Team Outperform The Rest

Understanding the Sales Force

Four weeks ago, Marc Wayshak , Founder of Sales Insight Labs , an Allego company, emailed me a very insightful infographic. Returning from two weeks vacation, I was buried in work and filed the email until I had time to review it. Today, a client was nice enough to postpone their training to next week and that provided me with two hours to dig into both the infographic and data from Objective Management Group (OMG) that might correlate to what he sent me.

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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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How Googlers were told to fix responses from Bard, its AI chatbot

Search Engine Land

Google has asked its employees to test Bard – Google’s answer to ChatGPT – by rewriting answers or providing other forms of feedback. Googlers have received an email with a list of dos and dont’s for fixing Bard’s responses in an email from Prabhakar Raghavana, the senior vice president at Google who oversees Search. This followed a companywide email from CEO Sundar Pichai, who asked employees to spend two to four hours of their time helping improve Bard.

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Preaching To The Choir….

Partners in Excellence

I was confronted with a really discomforting thought today. As I listened to a brilliant webcast hosted by Aaron Evans , with Todd Caponi , Matt Dixon , and Anthony Iannarino. It was a brilliant discussion. The comments from the 300 plus participants showed the wild agreement from the audience. But then, I realized, while interesting, informative and, sometimes, entertaining (Matt, I get such great joy in laughing at you… ), I realized the audience weren’t the people that needed to h

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Ads for cannabis are now allowed on Twitter

Search Engine Land

On Wednesday, Twitter revised its advertising guidelines to permit the promotion of cannabis on its platform in states where it is legal, while following federal regulations. How it works. According to a policy update published on its website , Twitter will only allow a limited number of cannabis ads. CBD and THC firms are permitted to advertise their brands and provide cannabis-related information, but the ads must not sell or promote cannabis products, with the exception of topical (non-ingest

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Increase Sales Efficiency with MEDDPICC: A Use Case Study

SalesHood

The post Increase Sales Efficiency with MEDDPICC: A Use Case Study appeared first on SalesHood.

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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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Find the balance between privacy and personalization with first-party data by Cynthia Ramsaran

Search Engine Land

It’s an ongoing dilemma. Customers demand privacy and control over their data, but businesses strive for personalization to improve customer engagement and drive sales. The rise of first-party data can help balance both of these goals. Join this live webinar and hear from OneTrust’s Consent and Preference Management expert, who will share best practices and actionable insights on leveraging first-party data to drive customer engagement and sales while ensuring privacy and compliance.

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Proven sales forecasting methods for small businesses

PandaDoc

You’ve probably turned on CNBC long enough to hear about big companies hitting or missing their “sales forecasts,” and you’ve probably seen company stocks going up or down based on how analytics compare historical sales data to those forecasts. But while business forecasting and quantitative analysis is definitely a hot topic for big companies and their sales managers , it’s a foreign concept for most solopreneurs and small businesses.

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How to create winning B2B programmatic ad campaigns

Martech

Programmatic ad campaigns live and die on getting customer segmentation right. For B2C that means looking at large behavioral trends of big groups of people For B2B it’s a more detailed and intricate process, focused on the behaviors of very small, specific groups. We asked Annamarie Andrews, VP for global marketing at Cielo , an international talent acquisition partner, to walk us through two programmatic B2B ad campaigns — how they did it and what they learned along the way.

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This day in search marketing history: February 17

Search Engine Land

Microsoft introduces the Bing Network In 2016, Microsoft announced the launch of the Bing Network, marking the end of the Yahoo Bing Network. Bing Ads continued to serve ads on a sizable percentage of Yahoo’s search results. The Bing Network was the result of a renegotiated search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo , which was originally a 10-year deal.

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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!