Tue.Apr 01, 2025

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AI Role Play for Sales Managers: How to Train and Sell Better

Highspot

Key Takeaways Traditional sales role play often feels forced and anxiety-inducing, limiting a reps ability to build genuine sales confidence. AI-driven simulations provide judgment-free, personalized feedback, helping managers improve skills without peer scrutiny. Traditional onboarding can take up to 26 weeks at the executive level; AI role-play cuts this time dramatically.

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AI vs AI: Is This Cybersecurity’s Moment of Reckoning?

G2

While "AI in cybersecurity" might conjure images straight from a tech-thriller deepfakes perfectly mimicking your CEO or sophisticated social engineering attacks it might actually be the dawn of something far more interesting: AI-versus-AI warfare.

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A Smarter Future: How AI Coaching Secures Big Wins

Highspot

Weve all seen the headlines. AI isnt just emerging; its here and taking over nearly every aspect of our livesand business. Smart leaders understand the impetus to integrate this transformative technology into all of their teams, processes, and systems. On top of that, they know AI has a particular power when it comes to sales: a whopping 97% of sales leaders understand that AI-powered tools can help their teams perform at the highest level.

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9 essential tips for building a website that drives conversions

Martech

Your website is more than a digital brochure. Its the foundation of brand credibility, lead generation and customer engagement. Unlike social media, which has algorithms dictating visibility, your website is a platform you own, so you have complete control over messaging, user experience and conversion pathways. But if your website doesnt communicate your expertise, solutions and value proposition, visitors will leave without engaging, never mind converting.

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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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Salesforce Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Customer Data Platforms: Highest in Execution and Furthest in Vision

Salesforce

We are thrilled to announce that Salesforce has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Customer Data Platforms for the second consecutive year. Gartner evaluated 12 vendors, and we are proud to be recognized as highest in Ability to Execute and furthest in Completeness of Vision. We see this Leader position as an acknowledgment of Salesforces unwavering commitment to delivering exceptional customer data solutions that empower businesses worldwide to achieve true Enter

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Someone Else Is Creating Your To-Do List! Posted on April, 2025

Partners in Excellence

No, I’m not going to talk about the latest/greatest way we can leverage AI to manage our calendars. What I’m focusing on is how little control most people are exercising over their own to-do lists. Sadly, perhaps unconsciously, we have ceded control of our to-do lists to our inboxes, text messages, calls, and social channels. As much as we try to leverage effective time management and time blocking techniques, others are controlling our to-do lists.

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Thoma Bravo: Software Spend Will Grow 19% a Year Through 2028. AI is The Accelerant.

SaaStr

No one has a true crystal ball when it comes to Cloud spend in the coming years, but the leaders have a lot of data. Thoma Bravo is one of them. It’s the #1 Private Equity firm for B2B and SaaS companies and it surveyed 501 Cloud and SaaS buyers. Here’s what it found: Software spend will grow 19% a year the next 4 years SaaS will grow 13% a year, still substantial but lower than some Gartner estimates CIOs and enterprises are about 60% of the way in their digital transformation journ

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13 must-try B2B marketing optimization tools

Martech

B2B tech stacks are becoming increasingly complex, with too many point solutions some rarely used and mounting SaaS subscription fees. Even worse, many stacks aren’t fulfilling their intended purpose. Only 17% of companies feel their tech stacks meet all their needs, a recent Webflow report reveals. New and promising tools are emerging almost daily and deserve a closer look.

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Unleash the Power of Now for AI-Powered Agents: Introducing Real-Time Ingestion and Actions in Data Cloud

Salesforce

In today’s fast-paced world, waiting is not an option, especially when your customers need immediate assistance. They expect instant responses, and your business demands real-time insights to empower your agents. Every millisecond counts in delivering exceptional service. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce a leap forward in Salesforce Data Cloud that significantly enhances Agentforce : Real-Time Ingestion and Real Time Actions.

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The Top 5 Mistakes Founders Make With Their VC Investors

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What Are The Top 5 Mistakes Founders Make With Their VC Investors? In rough order: #1. Hiding Important Things. VCs are wired to take bad news. But not for it to be thrown at them at the last minute: If Times Are Tough — Don’t Hide. Be Present. #2. Not Knowing the Zero Cash Date Cold. You just have to know exactly when the cash runs out.

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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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GTM 140: How Microsoft Scaled from $600M to $5B: The Enterprise Playbook with Hayden Stafford

Sales Hacker

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more. Prior to joining Seismic, he served as President of Global Field Operations at Pegasystems.

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How a Marketing Automation Strategy Boosts Business ROI

G2

Today, marketing automation isnt just about convenience it's the default standard for executing marketing strategies and plans. In fact, a well-structured marketing automation strategy can be the difference between wasted effort and measurable revenue impact. Lets start with the basics. Marketing automation is using software and technology to simplify and automate as much of the marketing process as technologically pragmatic.

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AI Agents: What They Are, How They Work, and Why You Should Probably Invest in Them (Especially If You’re An Enterprise-Level Business) [+ New Data]

Hubspot

Before you start Googling: No, AI agents arent secret spies fueled by mysterious government schemes. The AI agents Im talking about actually serve an entirely different purpose. And I know youre probably like, Whats this lady even going on about? I know I sound cryptic AF, so allow me to explain further. Despite their misleading name, AI agents were designed to assist, enhance, and optimize the operations and workflows of various businesses, especially enterprise-level ones.

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The GTM revolution is here. Are you ready?

Martech

The go-to-market (GTM) landscape is undergoing a fundamental transformation. It is moving away from outdated strategies and embracing new imperatives driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and evolving buyer behavior. Four GTM experts discussed these changes and how to respond to them at “The GTM Revolution Will Not Be Televised” panel during The MarTech Conference last month. “Artificial intelligence, business-to-consumer marketing tactics and financial accountability are resh

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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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Sam Blond + Jason Lemkin “GTM in 2025: How It’s Changed, How It’s Changing, and What Hasn’t Changed (Yet)”

SaaStr

Sam Blond and Jason Lemkin joined together for a live SaaStr Workshop Wednesday looking at what has and what hasn’t changed in 2025 in GTM in general and in the age of AI. They did a deep dive looking at top learnings not just from their own ecosystems, but from the top CROs Sam has interviewed recently on the CRO Confidential series: the CRO of Toast, the CRO of Databricks, the VPS of Windsutf/Codeium, the CRO of Wiz and more!

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