Iannarino
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
One challenge in employing a modern sales approach based on providing insight is that your contacts often harbor beliefs that are false, outdated, or both. Attempting to argue with a decision maker to get them to forfeit their beliefs is a fool’s errand.
Anthony Cole Training
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
We know that salespeople reporting to a manager with strong coaching skills tend to have 28% more close-able late-stage opportunities. This is from the deep data warehouse of Objective Management Group, our partner and the pioneer of the sales assessment. Unfortunately, we also know that less than 10% of sales managers are considered highly effective at this critical role of coaching.
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Partners in Excellence
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
One of my favorite things to do on Friday mornings is to listen to Matt Heinz and Brent Adamson’s “Coffee with Brent/Matt.” If you aren’t watching it, you should. It’s huge fun–and every once in a while they get onto some really interesting issues. Brent made a comment, “There’s room for humanity in business… ” It struck me oddly, my initial reaction was, “Well duhhhh!
Salesforce
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Generative AI chatbots are helping change the business landscape. But they also have a problem: They frequently present inaccurate information as if it’s correct. Known as “AI hallucinations,” these mistakes occur up to 20% of the time. “We know [current generative AI] has a tendency to not always give accurate answers, but it gives the answers incredibly confidently,” said Kathy Baxter, principal architect in Salesforce’s ethical AI practice.
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
Martech
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
The struggle is real, and it’s here to stay: browser privacy is making an impact on your marketing campaigns. Organizations are facing an increasingly challenging landscape to track users. The combination of regulation, tracking prevention technology, and user privacy results in businesses making the wrong decisions from inaccurate and incomplete marketing attribution and customer behavior dashboards.
Sales Hacker
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Hiring was a common thread in conversations at both community dinners we hosted this week – one in San Francisco and the other in Austin (included a picture further along – great time as always!). It’s a strange hiring market out there especially at early-stage companies. All three of these seem to be true: 1. Almost every company seems to be hiring. 2.
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Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Google has rolled out its Ads Editor version 2.4, with 16 new features and updates for advertisers to utlize to improve the efficiency of their capaigns. Below is a breakdown of what’s new. New Features: App Install Ads deep links. You can add app deep links to App Install Ads using the App URL field, just like with App Engagement Ads. Automatically created Ad Strength assets.
Martech
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Many enterprises are now doing annual planning for 2024. For marketing departments, it can be a challenging time. How can we make a plan that’s firm enough to serve as the foundation for an annual budget and flexible enough to adapt to unexpected market changes? Amid the demands, marketing operations (MOps) teams emerge as potential game-changers — serving as strategic partners among marketing leaders and innovators in the planning process.
Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Generative AI has emerged as a driving force in the marketing industry. We have already seen many use cases, from content creation to campaign optimization. It is also poised to revolutionize how we gain deeper insights into our marketing data. In this article, we’ll dive deep into how generative AI is reshaping marketing analytics and uncovering its potential to drive data-driven decisions and insights.
Martech
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
This article was co-authored with Dan Gutter , Sr. Research Specialist, covering Consumer and Culture Insights in the Gartner Marketing Practice. Marketing leaders looking to expand their customer database should focus on delivering value to the customer as the top priority in their strategies and campaigns — or risk undermining their customer data exchange efforts and investments.
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.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Dear SaaStr: Is 5 Co-founders Too Many When Raising Venture Capital? Yes, it can work. My first venture investment was Pipedrive, it had 5 co-founders and sold for $1.5 Billion. 10 Years of Investing pic.twitter.com/zsSupe0CRP — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin ?? (@jasonlk) September 13, 2023 But — it will be a flag. My recommendation: maybe have 2, or 3 max, of the founders be the “C-level founders” going forward.
Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Google has rolled out a new Ad Review Centre for AdSense, Ad Manager and AdMob. Five major changes have been added to the platform – all aimed at improving the user experience for advertisers. Below is a breakdown of what’s new. New Features: Larger area to view ads. The new Ad Review Centre features an improved layout to maximise the area that you have for viewing ads.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
We just did one of our many reviews with our top partners and sponsors for SaaStr Annual and Europa and here’s some of the feedback we got. It’s pretty strong. Want more leads, pipeline, influence, and awareness in 2024? Sponsor SaaStr Annual and Europa 2024 ! Leading Public Cloud Company: “We got 110 qualified opportunities and converted 40 to sign-up for our offer.
Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Stress, anxiety and burnout are rampant. With the worries of global conflicts, economic turmoil, and mass layoffs across industries, fear becomes a prominent feeling. We’re all a little on edge, waiting for that last-minute meeting invite or the “have a second?” Slack message. We’re worried by all the uncertainty, and it’s impacting our well-being and our work.
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SaaStr
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
We’ve talked about Toast a bit here on SaaStr – most recently we wrote up the 5 Interesting Learnings from Toast at $1.1B in ARR ! Stunning. Toast is the latest SaaS leader to get much more efficient in the past 12-18 months, along with monday.com, HubSpot, MongoDB, and many others. They’re still cruising — growing a stunning 45% YOY – which led us to the question: How?
Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
If you are anything like me, once you start diving into a project, it can be difficult to stop. Doing SEO feels like dealing with a never-ending set of tasks. Setting boundaries is essential for managing expectations and caring for your well-being. When I tell people what I do, they often envisage me tapping away at the keyboard into the early morning hours, pizza boxes and half-drunk mugs of coffee littered around me.
Hubspot
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Sales teams dedicate a lot of their time to forecasting. Yet, over 50% of sales leaders question the accuracy of their sales forecasting efforts. Getting your estimates right is vital to your future business decisions. Since sales forecasting is a rather complex and time-consuming process, organizations seek ways to improve it, with many turning to machine learning.
Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
The struggle is real, and it’s here to stay: browser privacy is making an impact on your marketing campaigns. Organizations are facing an increasingly challenging landscape to track users. The combination of regulation, tracking prevention technology, and user privacy results in businesses making the wrong decisions from inaccurate and incomplete marketing attribution and customer behavior dashboards.
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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.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Harry Stebbings was kind enough to invite us back to 20VC’s latest roundtable on a niche but very interesting topic — Founder-Led VC Funds. When we raised the first SaaStr Fund in 2016, this concept was still fairly new. Fast forward to today, it’s blow up. Some top SaaS CEOs now run true institutional venture funds managing hundreds of millions, including Jack Altman and Auren Hoffman, both who joined Harry and me on 20VC.
Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
The U.S. Department of Justice has released several new trial exhibits – including internal Google presentations, documents and emails related to ranking. Here are seven that specifically discuss elements of Google Search ranking. 1. Life of a Click (user-interaction) This is a heavily redacted PowerPoint presentation put together by Google’s Eric Lehman – and like most of the other documents, it lacks the full context accompanying it.
Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
The Guardian has accused Microsoft of damaging its brand by adding an offensive AI-generated poll to one of its articles. In a story reporting on the death of 21-year-old Lilie James, whose body was found with serious head injuries in Australia, the tech giant’s AI asked readers to vote on the cause of her passing, giving them the options of murder, accident or suicide.
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