Thu.Oct 12, 2023

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Measure, Manage, Multiply: The Accountability Playbook for Sales Leaders

Iannarino

Many problems that plague sales leaders and sales managers can be traced back to a lack of accountability. Because B2B sales roles provide more autonomy than most business positions, it is important they also come with the discipline of accountability.

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The Power of Personal Stories: Overcoming Self-Belief Challenges

Sales Pop!

Discovering the Strength of Sharing Your Story In a world where negative self-beliefs often hinder our path to success. The act of sharing personal stories takes center stage. Join us in this insightful conversation between John Golden and Molly Sider. They delve into the transformative power of narratives and the impact they can have on surmounting life’s obstacles.

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Latest Podcasts: Tactical Leadership

Force Management

This month, the Revenue Builders Podcast featured some great deep dives into tactical sales strategies. Each episode covered a different element of a great sales motion, breaking it down step-by-step in conversation with seasoned leaders and experts with years in the industry. The result is a collection of hard-earned lessons, blueprints for success, and golden nuggets of advice that can only come from leaders who have been in the barrel.

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We Need To Think About Retention Differently!

Partners in Excellence

We all know customer retention is important. Creating great customer experiences, making sure we deliver on our commitments, keeping them happy are critical. We are all familiar with the “bow tie” chart, showing the importance of not only retaining, but growing and upselling. And most of the strategies seem built around customer retention.

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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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Google Search officially stops indented results

Search Engine Land

Google has stopped showing indented results in the Google search listings. Google has historically showed an indented search result under the main result when it was from the same domain but over the past few weeks, Google stopped indenting those results. What changed. Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, posted “We stopped doing “indented results” a few weeks ago.” Google stopped the intended results because “especially with continuous scroll, it wasn’t

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“I Can Do It Better Myself!”

Partners in Excellence

One of the biggest mistakes I see sales managers, particularly new managers, make is the view, “I can do it better myself!” It’s easy to understand this. They were probably top performers as sellers. They probably have deep experience and great capability. That’s part of the reason they’ve been moved into a leadership role.

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Google Search Generative Experience can now create images

Search Engine Land

Google Search Generative Experience is now able to generate images, just like other AI-generation tools but in the new experimental search interface. Plus, Google SGE can also provide written drafts, so you can see and change responses sooner. SGE image creation. Google wrote that today it is “introducing the ability to create images with our generative AI-powered Search experience (SGE).” You can ask Google SGE to “draw a picture of” something and it will provide you wit

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Why Small Businesses Need Comprehensive Auto Insurance?

Sales Pop!

In the fast-paced world of small business ownership, every decision and investment counts. From managing finances to overseeing daily operations, entrepreneurs wear multiple hats to ensure the success of their enterprises. Among these crucial considerations is the matter of vehicle ownership and management. For many small businesses, having a fleet of vehicles is essential to carry out various tasks, whether it’s delivering products, providing services, or meeting clients.

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AI-powered marketing in 2024: A playbook for success

Martech

It’s no secret that B2B marketers have a challenging task in front of them: a niche audience, an often technical offering and tighter budgets than their B2C counterparts. However, a recent survey has found that over 50% of B2B marketers have plans to increase their marketing budget over the next year – and they are looking to AI to help them succeed.

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Google Ads rolls out new tool for centralized access to all first-party data

Search Engine Land

Google Ads is rolling out a new tool that allows businesses to manage their first-party data in one place. With Google Ads Data Manager, marketers can analyze and use consented first-party data from different sources without needing to to look elsewhere in a privacy-centric way. The feature will initially launch in Google Ads to make it easier to use enhanced conversions and customer match, but will be expanded to additional ads products over the coming months and years.

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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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Cracking the code on accurate attribution for connected TV by MNTN

Martech

In the old world of TV advertising, accurate attribution was all but mythological, so much so that many marketers seem to be under the impression that the same is true for newer solutions like connected TV. A survey from eMarketer found that of all the ways marketers want to see CTV improve, attribution is at the top of the list. And we get it — attribution is important.

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Dear SaaStr: What Is “Uncalled Capital” in a VC Fund?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What Is “Uncalled Capital” in a VC Fund? This is worth understanding as a founder. In any venture fund of a material size (even just $50m+), the vast majority of the fund is not used for initial checks into startups. Yes, that’s right. Most of the fund is not used for initial checks into new investments! Here’s how it breaks down: First, fees will consume ~20% of most funds.

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Customer data debt: The hidden obstacle to CDP success

Martech

Only half a decade since getting labeled as a marketplace, customer data platforms (CDPs) remain a hot topic in martech and for a good reason. Who doesn’t want to empower marketers and other customer experience specialists with easy access to rich, accurate customer data? Yet at Real Story Group, we see CDPs entering a kind of sophomore slump. Symptoms abound: Difficult initial “MVP” deployments, as enterprises struggle to deal with core issues of data availability and quality, as well as identi

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How to find your niche in SEO

Search Engine Land

In the era of E-E-A-T , it’s not just websites that need top-notch standards for visibility and conversions. SEO professionals also need to step up. I’ve talked to many colleagues, and many struggle with nailing down their areas of expertise. To stand out in SEO and digital marketing, the key is to niche down and pinpoint your unique selling proposition (USP).

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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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InMobi launches new identity resolution tool

Martech

InMobi has launched InMobi Addressability Gradient to aid marketers in the transition to an era without third-party cookies and with more privacy restrictions. The platform promises to maximize content personalization while upholding data privacy and user consent. The company says it has options to adjust to changing consumer behaviors, from precise ID-based targeting to privacy-conscious ID-less approaches.

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Share of search: The SEO metric you can’t ignore

Search Engine Land

SEO is about to be taken seriously. And share of search is how we’ll make it happen. Let’s find out why. Share of search: What it is and why it matters Share of search is an SEO metric developed by expert marketers Les Binet and James Hankins a few years ago. The concept of share of search is fairly simple – decide who you’re competing against, add the searches for all the brands and work out the percentage.

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This week’s AI-powered martech releases

Martech

The cost of building, training and operating AI is enormous. At SemiAnalysis , Dylan Patel and Afzal Ahmad estimate it cost Google more than $100 billion for just the servers and networking needed to add ChatGPT/Bard to every search. On a very related note, Reuters reported today that OpenAI is set to unveil updates making “it cheaper and faster to build software applications based on its artificial intelligence models.

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Why an External Orientation is More Important than Ever Before

The Advantexe Advisor

“My team is so inwardly focused because they have all been remote for the past 4 years they don’t know how to function away from their computers,” said the exasperated leader when asked about his biggest challenge in 2024 and beyond. “If we don’t start to help them understand what it means to have an external orientation, we will be doomed.” During a recent set of interviews with business leaders as part of the process of building a new leadership simulation , we heard multiple leaders share the

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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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Amazon Prime Big Deal Days sales hold steady for other retailers too

Martech

Sales during October ecommerce promotions this week held steady with last year’s pre-holiday boost. Once again, ecommerce sellers were in synch with sales created by Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days event, held this year on October 10 and 11. Although Amazon’s deals were exclusive to Prime members, retailers in many categories offered similar deals that boosted sales, according to data from Salesforce that measured non-Amazon ecommerce retailers.

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What Is Sales Data? And How Does It Help You Sell Better?

Salesforce

Every quarter, my clients’ data footprint continues to expand. Whether it’s customer response rates, leads in pipe, or quota attainment, there is always another metric to track. The motivation for this? AI tools and capabilities are expanding at a rapid clip , but they only make sales more efficient if they’re powered by data. The problem is, many clients don’t know what data to pull or how to organize it.

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Introducing Optimizely One: An OS for marketing

Martech

Digital experience platform Optimizely has rebranded its main offering as “Optimizely One,” seeking to offer the flexibility of composability as well as the simplicity of a single workflow. It also announced a rebranding of its proprietary AI capabilities as Optimizely Opal, as well as a new partnership with generative AI content platform Writer.

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LLM optimization: Can you influence generative AI outputs?

Search Engine Land

Since the introduction of generative AI , large language models (LLMs) have conquered the world and found their way into search engines. But is it possible to proactively influence AI performance via large language model optimization (LLMO) or generative AI optimization (GAIO)? This article discusses the evolving landscape of SEO and the uncertain future of LLM optimization in AI-powered search engines, with insights from data science experts.

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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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Episode 29: How Custom Solutions Leads to Long Term Customers for Marlin Technologies

Spiro Technologies

Transcript Adam Honig: I’m going to introduce you and say that you’re the Director of Sales and Marketing of Marlin Technologies, is that still the right title to use? Lloyd Brown: As of this morning anyway. Adam Honig: All right, good. Well, I haven’t checked in with anybody at the home office, so just wanted to know. Lloyd Brown: But I have silence notifications, so you never know.

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AI-powered marketing in 2024: A playbook for success by Cynthia Ramsaran

Search Engine Land

It’s no secret that B2B marketers have a challenging task in front of them: a niche audience, an often technical offering and tighter budgets than their B2C counterparts. However, a recent survey has found that over 50% of B2B marketers have plans to increase their marketing budget over the next year – and they are looking to AI to help them succeed.

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Scaling the Unscalable with John Eitel

Predictable Revenue

Collin Stewart sat down with John Eitel, Chief Sales Officer at Demandbase to navigate the complex terrain of entering a new market. The post Scaling the Unscalable with John Eitel appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Cracking the code on accurate attribution for connected TV by MNTN

Search Engine Land

In the old world of TV advertising, accurate attribution was all but mythological, so much so that many marketers seem to be under the impression that the same is true for newer solutions like connected TV. A survey from eMarketer found that of all the ways marketers want to see CTV improve, attribution is at the top of the list. And we get it — attribution is important.

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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!

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Review: Meta Quest 3 – A Top VR Headset for the Majority

The Digital Technology

Many people often ask me, “Which VR headset is right for me?” For a while now, my go-to recommendation has been the Oculus Quest 2. Since its launch in October 2020, it’s consistently delivered impressive virtual reality experiences.

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Are IPOs Really Back? And Where is Growth Investing? 20VC Roundtable #4 with Jason Lemkin, Woody Marshall, Deven Parekh, Harry Stebbings

SaaStr

Harry Stebbings of 20VC was kind enough to have us back on the latest VC Roundtable with 2 of the very, very best in growth / late-stage investing — the leaders of Insight Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures. They’ve led later stage investments in the best in SaaS and Cloud. And how are they seeing today? With humility, and balanced optimism for the coming months and years.

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