Wed.Oct 19, 2022

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Business Development versus Sales

Iannarino

The profession of sales continues to evolve. Over time, the role of the salesperson has been sliced into two different roles, the business development representative (BDR) and the salesperson who closes the deal. The business development rep is responsible for cold outreach and qualifying the prospective client. Once they have connected the prospective client and qualified them, the BDR turns the prospect and sale over to an experienced salesperson.

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4 tips for navigating sensitive customer data

Martech

Consumer data collection has exploded over the past decade. As users, we’ve grown too accustomed to sharing very personal data in this loosely regulated digital age through every topic searched, email sent and double-tap on a friend’s post. All these signals build a rich profile for targeting and personalization. Data-driven marketing has had a transformational shift not only in how we engage with our customers but, even more importantly, in how we target new prospective customers.

Customers 141
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Here’s Why We’re Revamping Our Sales Methodology

Membrain

Come VIBE with us! We’re rolling out a new sales methodology, and we’re ready to let you in on it.

Sales 138
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What It Takes to Be a Founder in Today’s SaaS Landscape with HubSpot Co-founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah (Pod 600 + Video)

SaaStr

It’s more accessible than ever to become an entrepreneur and founder in the modern SaaS market. There’s demand for virtually any type of product you can think of, which can be as general or as specific as you’d like. Many startups kick things off with one founder, but just as many have been successful with two co-founders. Like any partnership or business venture, being a founder or co-founder takes a lot of communication and planning upfront to increase the likelihood of success.

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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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Why Implementing Subtitle Generators Can Boost Your eCommerce Business

Sales Pop!

Are you looking to expand your business and enhance your online presence? Creating and publishing videos about your company’s services online is a great place to start. About 72% of customers prefer to learn about a product or service through video. However, as straightforward as this video marketing strategy sounds, creating and uploading video content is only the beginning.

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12 Leaders on the Top 10 Sales Compensation Challenges in 2023

Sales Hacker

Sales compensation planning can be a tricky beast to tame — but know that you’re not alone. I asked 12 incredible sales leaders across the SaaS industry to share their biggest challenges with comp planning and how to overcome them. Read on, take notes, and avoid these roadblocks as you get 2023 comp planning underway. Then, I’ll help you take it to the next level with QuotaPath’s newest free resource — our Compensation Hub.

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Sitecore adds new products to its composable DXP

Martech

End-to-end digital experience platform Sitecore announced a series of product developments this week, as well as survey findings about the releance of the metaverse to brands. The announcements came in Chicago as Sitecore Symposium returned to in-person for the first time since 2019. In addition to over 2,000 attendees at Chicago’s McCormick place, the digital experience platform said around 10,000 were attending online.

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SaaStr’s Heading to the Beach on November 15th! See you in Newport Beach

SaaStr

From Silicon Valley to So Cal – we’re hosting a SaaStr Meetup at the Beach , Newport Beach to be exact! Join 100 of your fellow SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and investors for a SaaStr-style meetup at the Beach on Tuesday, November 15th. . We’ll be taking over the HanaHaus in Newport Beach, Lido Village on Tuesday, November 15th from 5-7:30 for a SaaStr Super Meet Up in So Cal.

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[Sponsored]: Webinar: An SEO guide to fixing keyword cannibalism

Search Engine Land

Keyword cannibalization can occur when multiple URLs on your site rank for the same keyword. This can become a problem for your website if you have multiple pages competing for the same keyword and one or more of your pages are underperforming. If you’re concerned your website is experiencing harmful keyword cannibalization, don’t panic!

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83% of Customers Will Choose Sustainability This Holiday Season — Does Your Brand Deliver?

Salesforce

Consumers are getting serious about values-driven shopping. A whopping 78% of them say a company’s environmental practices influence their spending decisions. And for holiday shopping, the number is even higher: 83% of consumers say they’ll seek out sustainable products and shipping options. For the sake of your customers — and the planet — it’s critical to make sustainable ecommerce a priority.

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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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Google releases October 2022 spam update

Search Engine Land

Google is rolling out a new search ranking algorithm update targeting the more spammy side of the search results. The company is calling this update the “October 2022 spam update.” It should take about a week to fully roll out and be noticed in the search results. Google said this update is global and affects all languages. What are spam updates.

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3 Ways to Transform Your Career: How to Become a Salesforce Consultant

Salesforce

Trailblazing a new opportunity 1. Step outside your comfort zone 2. Discover your unique skill set 3. Remain a lifelong learner Grow as a #ConfidentConsultant. I began my career at a telecom company where I had various roles, from hooking up cable lines in households to working in customer service call centers, to managing a call center. These experiences eventually led to landing my dream job as a Salesforce Functional Consultant at Deloitte.

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The Secret to Revenue Performance: Leading Indicators and Ongoing Corrective Actions

Sales Hacker

Revenue performance is the focus of the entire sales org. Yet questions still arise around the data being used to inform the strategy that will drive revenue performance… i.e. How do I benchmark my team? What are the individual skill gaps of my team? Who needs coaching on what? How can we increase our win rates? Join Anastasia Chihai from Outreach, and Colby Oefinger and Helen Waite from Mindtickle to learn how to identify and use those leading indicators to best inform your corrective actions

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How To Manage Workplace Anxiety — Your Own and Your Team’s

Salesforce

Earlier this year, Salesforce research highlighted a major awareness gap between C-suite leaders and their employees: 71% of leaders said their employees were engaged with work, but only 51% of employees said they were. What’s more, 70% of leaders reported their employees were happy, but only 44% of employees said they were. This gap in perception versus reality — what I call the Great Disconnect — is stunning and has real consequences for the health of your company.

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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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Create an Exceptional Buying Experience: New Strategies for B2B Sales

Sales Hacker

In case you missed it, buyers are at the top of the food chain. . B2B buyers expect the same convenience and ease as when they purchase B2C products. (They want to research vendors online, read reviews and product comparisons, and prefer “rep-less” interactions whenever possible.). That’s why you need to give your buyers all the materials they need to engage with you while you’re not in front of them—keeping you top of mind.

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4 communication best practices agencies must employ early in Q4

Search Engine Land

Let’s run through a scenario that agencies see from time to time (not just in Q4, but the stakes are higher across the board right now): On the client side, a main point of contact is relatively new to the team. It’s Q4. They’re feeling stressed. On the agency side, things seem to be going well. KPIs are in line with established goals, there’s a strategy in place for the next few months, weekly calls haven’t surfaced any concerns, and there’s a healthy test-and-learn methodology in place for cre

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Why Do Today What You Can Put Off Until Tomorrow?

Adaptive Business Services

Or the next day, the next week, or even the next month? I spent the majority of my life as a terrible procrastinator. I would study for tests the night before (Cliff’s Notes). I would write papers the day before they were due. Most often I got by with good grades and thus … a habit was formed. This trait carried through to the business world. I rarely made my time commitments to clients.

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How To Avoid Product Feature Creep

David Meerman Scott

Last week, my article about product simplicity (or, more commonly, product complexity) generated a bunch of reactions on my social feeds and email inbox. It turns out I’m not the only one frustrated with bloated software and gadgets with way too many buttons.

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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.

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7 Ways to Increase Sales Productivity

Gong.io

How are your sales reps using their time? Are they spending most of their days hitting the phones, cold emailing prospects, and hosting product demos? Or are they losing the bulk of their time on non-sales tasks? If you’re like most sales organizations, the latter scenario probably rings a bell. Rest assured, you and your team are not alone. A lot of sales teams spend more time than they should on non-sales activities.

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I Don’t Care How Many Calls You Make Or Emails You Send!

Partners in Excellence

I read an article about the key productivity metrics managers are tracking. According to the survey of over 1000 sales managers, the five most popular metrics were: CRM utilization, Calls made, Emails sent, Conversations, Use of sales tools. I was left scratching my head, thinking, “WTF??????” With the exception of conversations, none of those have been metrics I’ve cared about.

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Introducing Generation 3 Conversation Understanding

Gong.io

I’m excited to introduce Gong Smart Trackers—the first user-trainable system that goes beyond keyword recognition to understand the context of all your customer conversations. This changes the landscape of Revenue Intelligence, by enabling companies to better detect deal risk, quantitatively track adoption of strategic initiatives, and more. Generation 1 Tech: Audio/Video.

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What every marketer needs to know about programmatic advertising

Martech

This year programmatic digital display ad spending will hit $115.23 billion, and more than 90% of all digital display ad dollars will transact programmatically, according to eMarketer. Why? Because it can deliver everything traditional media ad buying can’t and more. Traditional media ads can’t measure the true ROI of media campaigns in real-time. They don’t let you pinpoint what makes an ad and a campaign successful.

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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.