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7 Brutal Truths About Being an Outside Sales Representative

Iannarino

So you're considering becoming an Outside Sales Representative ? That's gutsy! You must love a challenge. Perhaps you're an adrenaline addict. Perhaps you simply prefer a career where you don't have to pretend to be busy sitting at a desk for eight hours a day. Either way, congratulationsyou're about to leap into one of the most unpredictable, untamed, and rewarding careers on the planet!

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Where Is The Customer?

Partners in Excellence

I speak with lots of leaders about their GTM strategies. My social channels are dominated by experts suggesting the GTM strategies. One of the things I’ve started doing is counting how many times they use the word, “Customer.” It’s surprising how seldom the word is used. When it is, it’s used in the context of the customer being the target of a set of strategies and activities.

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AI agents will infiltrate your martech stack

Martech

The past two years saw incredible innovation around AI, and in the past year, much of the AI developments focused on AI agents. Our conversation with Scott Brinker, editor of chiefmartec.com and VP of platform ecosystem at HubSpot, focuses on how AI agents will change the way we manage our marketing technology. While examples abound of AI agents being used in customer-facing applications, theyre making headway in martech stacks, where they can take requests for data, then reach out to various ap

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Personal Branding Services for Industry Domination

Iannarino

Want to stand out, attract clients, and become an industry authority? Learn how personal branding services can turn you into the go-to expert.

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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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The 10-Point Checklist For When You Sell Your Company With Founder Collective

SaaStr

David Frankel is Managing Partner at Founder Collective, a successful seed fund with investments in companies like The Trade Desk, Olo, and Coupang. With decades of experience as both a founder and investor, David brings a unique perspective to the often-misunderstood process of selling a company. He openly admits that many of his past exits were mistakes, which makes his advice on the topic particularly valuable.

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What is a CRM Manager? Complete Guide for Startups and SMBs

Salesforce

Building strong customer relationships is at the heart of every successful business. For startups and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) , the challenge often lies in managing those relationships efficiently as the company grows. Enter the customer relationship management (CRM) manager a professional dedicated to ensuring your CRM strategy and tools work effectively to support your business goals.

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CRO Confidential: How Codium Built A Billion-Dollar AI Company and a Winning Sales Machine with VP of Worldwide Sales, Graham Moreno

SaaStr

Codium is one of the fastest-growing startups in the AI coding assistant space, having scaled its go-to-market team from 3 to 75 in just under a year. Recently valued at over $1 billion , Codium is proving that AI-driven software development is not just the futureits the present. In our most recent episode of CRO Confidential , hosted by Sam Blond , Graham Moreno , VP of Worldwide Sales at Codium, shared invaluable insights on what drove this growth, the challenges they faced, and how other SaaS

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Why digital brands like Netflix and Wayfair are betting on physical stores

Martech

Ecommerce may be thriving, but brick-and-mortar retail remains a critical brand touchpoint. Companies like Netflix and Wayfair are proving that physical stores arent just about transactions theyre influential brand ambassadors that shape perception and loyalty. The challenge is clear: How can brands create in-person experiences that draw people in and build lasting connections?

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5 Interesting Learnings from Snowflake at ~$4 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

So Snowflake looked immortal in 2021, looked a little more mortal in 2024 … and is now, like many of the best in Cloud and B2B, reacclerating in 2025! And come meet and hear from CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy LIVE at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! Snowflake is on a tear again: $4B ARR (just about) 28% revenue growth 44% free-cash flow last quarter (WOW!

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Marketing automation vs. email delivery platform: Which tool is right for your team?

Martech

Email is an essential tool for marketing teams across sectors and industries. Most of these teams rely on email delivery or marketing automation platforms (MAP) to send emails. How do you decide which tool is right for your team? To evaluate whether your marketing organization needs a full marketing automation platform (MAP) or an email delivery platform, you must comprehensively assess your business needs, staff capabilities, management support and financial resources.

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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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Nimble CRM Tips & Updates – March 5, 2025

Adaptive Business Services

My apologies as this is going to be long. I have now completed my first large scale test of the email marketing feature and I survived. I did run into a few bugs that are in the process of being squashed. This is why they call it beta testing. I sent the messages in groups of 500 so that I could easily monitor and manage the results. I sent some batches with both open and link tracking and others with link tracking only.

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What is the Purpose of Your CRM System?

Membrain

It may seem obvious on the surface what the purpose of your CRM system is. Its to help your teams increase efficiency, provide insights into data, drive behaviors, and improve overall sales effectiveness. But what if the purpose of a CRM system is not what we want it to do, but what it is actually doing? Would you still say that the purpose of your CRM is to improve the effectiveness of your teams?

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Five Lessons from Business Simulation Wobblers on Tariffs

The Advantexe Advisor

In anticipation of the Presidential Memorandum on Tariffs, many of our Advantexe clients have been focused on understanding the tariffs' impacts on their business from a business acumen learning perspective. Over the past few weeks, we have launched a tariff wobbler portfolio into our business simulations so leaders can prepare and learn what to do in the real world.

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Copying Your Competition

David Meerman Scott

By measuring yourself against the competition, you risk becoming a slightly better version of what already exists.

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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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The Role of Being Social in Customer Acquisition with Courtney Krstich

Predictable Revenue

You dont need the perfect product from day one to turn an idea into a business. You need constant validation, adaptation, and execution. The post The Role of Being Social in Customer Acquisition with Courtney Krstich appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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The ROI of Effective Sales Training: Making the Business Case

RAIN Group

As a sales enablement or learning & development (L&D) professional, you know that sales training is critical. But securing executive buy-in and budget for training requires more than just intuitionit demands a compelling business case backed by data.

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Launch Products Like a Pro With PMM Camp’s Tamara Grominsky [+ Video]

G2

Launching a product isnt just about the grand entrance. Its about coordination, strategy, and making sure the right teams are aligned every step of the way.

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