Mon.Mar 13, 2023

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The Value Proposition of Your First Meeting in B2B Sales

Iannarino

In The Lost Art of Closing: Winning the 10 Commitments That Drive Sales , you will find one of the most powerful sales strategies for acquiring a first meeting with a prospective client. That strategy is the Trading Value Rule , which states that your cold call request for a meeting must include the value you intend to create for your client in the meeting.

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Martech spending continues strong despite rocky economy

Martech

Some 60% of businesses are increasing their spending on martech this year, according to a study by Clevertouch Marketing and the University of Southampton. However, more B2B businesses are reporting trouble in the stacks. This year 23% of B2B firms said their stack was several, unconnected disparate platforms. That’s a huge increase from 2022 when only 10% of companies said this.

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An SEO guide to understanding E-E-A-T

Search Engine Land

Google recently added an extra “E” to the search quality standards of E-A-T to ensure content is helpful and relevant. The extra “E” stands for “experience” and precedes the original E-A-T concept – expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness. We know that E-A-T was already of high importance. Hyung-Jin Kim, VP of Search at Google, confirmed this at SMX Next : “E-A-T is a template for how we rate an individual site.

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5 Ways To Honor and Advance Equal Pay

Salesforce

What I admire most about this company is that even in the hardest times we strive to lead with our values. I am filled with pride that — guided by our value of equality — we continue to deepen our commitment to equal pay and are empowered to have this important conversation about the gender pay gap. March 14, 2023, is Equal Pay Day — symbolizing how far into the year women must work on average to earn what men earned in the previous year.

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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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How to Create User Delight When Building a Bottom-Up SaaS Business with Scratchpad Co-Founder/CEO Pouyan Salehi and OpenPhone Co-Founder Daryna Kulya (Video)

SaaStr

To expand using a bottom-up model, SaaS businesses need to create a more delightful experience for every user. These experiences don’t just happen when customers unlock your product’s value without jumping through several hoops. The opportunity to delight goes beyond the product level and occurs with every encounter on social media, marketing channels, and with company executives.

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4 Ways To Supercharge Your Digital Sales Team (and Save Revenue)

Salesforce

As a sales leader for the past 10 years, I’ve spent thousands of hours listening to digital sales calls looking for the best examples to use in training. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought: I wish I could just listen to every call, without needing to listen to every call. Now, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), it’s finally possible – all while saving hours of time every day, and never missing another key moment.

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Live Replay: How to create and close more pipeline in 2023

Sales Hacker

The shift from “growth at all costs” to “profitable growth” has given rise to a new era of B2B sales. One where marketing and sales must work together – with the sole focus of creating and closing more pipeline. Join Andrew Arocha , CRO at Drift and Melton Littlepage at CMO, Outreach to learn how GTM teams working in synergy can: Create quality pipeline with qualified buyers Increase seller efficiency and productivity to deliver more revenue per seller Accelerate deal velocity and win rate

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Roku, Roblox and other martech companies relieved by Silicon Valley Bank bailout

Martech

Several big martech-related companies — including Roku and Roblox — are breathing easier following news they won’t lose their deposits in the failed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). On Friday SVB was taken over by government officials, following a bank run. The run followed the bank’s announcement that inflation had cut the value of its U.S. government treasury bonds and it was selling a block of stock to increase its cash reserves.

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How to successfully scale your content marketing and grow traffic

Search Engine Land

You’ve probably heard how successful content marketing can be when you do it consistently. Consistent content earns 55% more visitors coming to your site and 67% more leads. (Overall, creating content is your best bet for increasing traffic – ranking in organic search brings in 1,000% more traffic than organic social media.) But you can’t produce one blog post per month or blog randomly at a whim and expect to move that needle.

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5 AI writing assistants in action

Martech

This is part one of a two-part article. In this part, we look at ChatGPT, Writer and Jasper. ChatGPT’s launch in November 2022 spurred a debate among marketers. Proponents of generative AI envision a future where these highly sophisticated tools will replace human writers. Some are confident in AI’s capability to deliver high-performing copy for ads, landing pages and even white papers and ebooks.

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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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T-minus 2 weeks until MarTech: Grab your free pass now to discover cutting-edge solutions and strategies

Search Engine Land

Delivering personalized customer journeys while respecting privacy. Effectively and responsibly leveraging generative AI. Supercharging your funnels with qualified leads. These are table stakes for modern marketers like you. And marketing technology is your key to making it all happen. Attend MarTech, online March 28-29 for FREE , to unlock… Nearly 50 tactic-rich sessions on how to leverage marketing technology for ongoing organizational success 50 tactic-rich sessions from Sysco, Forrester, Ele

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Pipeline Management

Partners in Excellence

The sales pipeline is, perhaps, one of the most misunderstood things in selling. We know the pipeline is critical to helping us answer the question, “Are we pursuing enough opportunities to achieve our goals?” We harass sellers to use CRM, keeping their opportunities updated so we can track our pipelines. Yet, too often, they are very inaccurate, gamed, or we don’t understand what the pipeline is telling us.

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Microsoft Doctor and Clinic ads are now in open beta

Search Engine Land

Microsoft has just launched a new set of tools and services designed to help healthcare professionals grow their businesses and reach more patients. These services include: Microsoft Advertising Microsoft Audience Network Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing Doctor and clinic ads. Healthcare providers can create targeted ads based on location, demographics, and search keywords.

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How to speed up your sales cycle in 2023

PandaDoc

If you are a business, then you are well aware of what a sales cycle is. It is a repeatable process salespeople follow to turn a lead into a customer. These days, there is a tendency toward sales cycles becoming slower. In the Demand Gen Report 2020 , 68% of B2B respondents stated that their purchasing cycle is longer when compared to the previous year — which clearly contributes to all sales, on average, taking longer to close.

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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 may replace Bing Search answers with Bing Chat responses

Search Engine Land

Bing may replace the standard answers you get at the top of the Bing Search results with Bing Chat answers. The current answers on Bing Search “use old technology and crowdsourcing” and that Bing “will replace them ASAP” with Bing Chat responses, Mikhail Parakhin, who leads up Bing Search and Bing Chat, said on Twitter over the weekend.

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Episode 20: How SEF Energy is Innovating Oil Field Manufacturing with Automation and AI

Spiro Technologies

Transcript Adam Honig: Hello and welcome to Make it. Move it. Sell it. On this podcast, I talk with company leaders about how they’re modernizing the business of making, moving and selling products, and of course, having fun along the way. I’m your host, Adam Honig, the CEO of Spiro.ai. We make amazing AI software for companies in the supply chain, but we’re not talking about that today.

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Close 50% More by Systematizing Your Sales Follow-Up Process

Sales Hacker

If you systematize your sales follow-up process you will close more deals — and I am about to show you how **Disclaimer** This has been written with sales executives (SEs) and account executives (AEs) in mind. I am not saying that you won’t get any value from it but if you aren’t an SE or AE, or working directly with SEs/AEs and new business sales pipeline, then this wasn’t written for you. ( Plays miniature violin for the people who just left. ) Okay, now that it’s just stone-cold sales killers

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Is Cold Calling Dead? 74% of You Say No!

SaaStr

So even after doing SaaS all this years, and being perhaps the biggest fan of SaaS sales and sales processes out there … I still struggle with the idea of cold calling. Personally, I never answer a cold call, and want at least my initial discovery to be done over email. But I’m not the average tech buyer, and you probably aren’t either. So I put out the latest survey to see how many folks were successful doing cold phone outbound (not email) in 2023?

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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.