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GTM 136: How Asana & Calendly Scaled: PLG to SLG Playbooks That Work | Jessica Gilmartin

Sales Hacker

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Jessica Gilmartin has nearly 20 years of go-to-market leadership experience, most recently serving as both the Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Calendly. Prior to that, she led marketing teams at an impressive array of companies, including Asana, Honor, Google, and Microsoft.

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How to Find Time to Cold Call So Your Pipeline Doesn’t Run Dry (Ask Jeb)

Sales Gravy

Matt from Grand Rapids says, If I dont make my cold calls, our pipeline will go dry. He is juggling everything from operations to customer service escalations, all while trying to generate fresh leads through cold calls. Sound familiar? In this Ask Jeb segment of the Sales Gravy Podcast I walk Matt through practical strategies to carve out time for prospecting and target the right prospects so that he can keep his sales pipeline fulleven while being pulled in a dozen directions.

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Breaking into New Markets: Strategies from Top European SaaS CMOs

G2

Expanding into new markets represents both the greatest opportunity and the greatest challenge for many ambitious SaaS companies. At G2's Reach Europe event, a panel of go-to-market experts shared their knowledge of what worksand what doesn'twhen pursuing international growth.

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How B2B marketing is becoming a strategic growth driver

Martech

B2B tech marketing is shifting from a traditional, product-centric approach to a data-driven, AI-powered, customer-first model. Digital transformation, changing buyer expectations and the proliferation of martech tools have reshaped how tech brands engage, convert and retain customers. Data is central to this shift, enabling more intelligent decision-making, better personalization and measurable revenue impact.

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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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Top Data Analytics Trends Shaping the Future of Integration

G2

Modern data integration solutions and analytics practices are rapidly evolving through automated and real-time processing. Businesses that stay ahead of these trends gain a competitive advantage with faster decisions and smarter insights.

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The Top 10 Customer Success Metrics Investors Really Care About in 2025 with Gainsight’s CEO Nick Mehta

SaaStr

After meeting with over 5,000 companies and hundreds of investors over the past 12 years as CEO of Gainsight, I’ve learned one thing for certain: investors are scrutinizing customer success metrics more closely than ever before. For most at least, gone are the days of 2021 when capital flowed freely and metrics could take a backseat to growth at all costs.

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3 ways to boost your VOC program’s value through journey management

Martech

A major challenge for voice of the customer (VOC) teams is proving their value. Their impact is often marginalized because they struggle to drive action that improves the customer experience. This makes it harder to demonstrate their effectiveness, reducing their visibility and influence. Why does this happen? Many VOC teams focus too much on metrics and reporting , diverting attention from meaningful action.

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Attending SXSW? We Made This Cheat Sheet for You

G2

This March, Austin, Texas, will once again host one of the biggest tech conferences, music festivals, and cultural phenomenons: South by Southwest (SXSW).

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Top Business Advice From an SVP: What She Learned From Her Parent’s Values

Salesforce

Marie Rosecrans is the Senior Vice President of Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) Marketing at Salesforce. She’s passionate about empowering small business owners to use technology for success. Marie’s parents emigrated from the Basque region of France and Spain, starting their own businesses in the U.S. She’s lived the life of a small business owner through her parents and shares advice on growing the business.

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7 barriers advertisers need to overcome to grow CTV

Martech

Connected TV has the broad reach for brand building and the targeting capabilities for performance marketing, but advertisers are holding back for various reasons. That’s according to Samsung Ads’ Q1 2025 “Ahead of the Curve” report. Despite consumers shifting to streaming, the report found advertisers’ mindset, over-targeting and measurement fragmentation are causing them to underinvest in CTV.

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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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Egnyte Sells to Private Equity for $1.5 Billion after 18 Years. Slightly Slower and Steady Wins, Too.

SaaStr

So Egynte is one of those SaaS leaders in the content management space that has always been quieter than its peers Box and DropBox. It focused on enterprise workflows early, and while thats Boxs focus today, Egynte was there early. Its one of the Old Times in Documents and Content Management in SaaS. Ive only met the CEO once but hes been the CEO since Day 1 in 2007 and will remain the CEO too after their exit to Private Equity for $1.5 Billion.

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Salesforce Customer Success Awards 2025 Nominations Are Open

Salesforce

We are so inspired to see our thousands of global customers transform and become Agentforce companies. Thats why we are excited to announce our NEW Salesforce Customer Success Awards*, celebrating the remarkable achievements of Salesforce customers using Agentforce. These awards will recognize innovation, leadership, and the impactful use of Agentforce to drive success, foster trust, and inspire others.

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Dear SaaStr: What Are Great Examples of Fast Follower Companies That Become Market Leaders?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What Are Great Examples of Fast Follower Companies That Become Market Leaders? In many ways, All of Them. Microsoft. Bought 86-DOS, turned into MS-DOS (which Gates did not invent), which in turn was an improved clone of CP/M. Did not invent BASIC, either. Office in many ways built in part on top of Lotus 123s success. Windows after/alongside Mac OS.

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Prompt Injection Detection: Securing AI Systems Against Malicious Actors

Salesforce

AI-powered solutions like Salesforce CRM are revolutionizing customer engagement, streamlining workflows, and providing deeper insights into customer needs. However, with the rise of large language models (LLMs), new security challenges have emerged. One significant threat is prompt injection attacks, which attempt to manipulate AI systems through carefully crafted inputs.

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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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Hunting? Farming? Funting?

Partners in Excellence

Just as a humorous preface, I wanted to write about our mistaken impressions of Hunting and Farming. I wanted to suggest both co-exist, both in new and current accounts. So I was looking at how I might combine the concepts into one word. At first I came up with Harming—which I discarded for very obvious reasons. That left me with with the concept of Funting.

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6 Ways Sandboxes Prepare Your Agentforce for the Real World

Salesforce

Between rising customer expectations, skill shortages, and growing pressures for AI adoption keeping up is a challenge. Enter Agentforce. Were now in the third wave of AI , where intelligent agent networks are reshaping the workplace. Agentforce unlocks a new level of productivity, powering limitless digital labor. From offering support 24/7 to seamless customer interactions, AI agents are transforming every part of an organization.

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