Wed.Jan 08, 2025

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Everything I Know About Gap Selling: What It Is And How To Make It Work For Your Sales Strategy [+ Examples]

Hubspot

Youre selling something to someone who just wouldnt budge. No matter how you angle your pitch, how well you attempt to align your solution with their needs, or how many glowing testimonials you share, theyre just not buying it. Literally. Somehow, the deal slips through your fingers, and so does the prospect. Youre left wondering where it all went wrong.

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5 ways to crush sales bottlenecks and accelerate deals in 2025

Martech

The faster the sales process, the faster the revenue growth. Unfortunately, as we learned in science class, of friction slows acceleration or can stop it altogether. Whether thats adding complexity to a simple process or frustrating customers with needless back and forth, friction is bad news for deal velocity. This isnt just a sales problem, either.

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Usage-Based Revenue Models: Successes and Pitfalls from Checkr COO Lindsey Scrase on CRO Confidential

SaaStr

In the latest episode of our SaaStr CRO Confidential podcast, host Sam Blond sat down with Lindsey Scrase, COO of Checkr (and former CRO), to discuss her tactics for driving growth at the background screening unicorn. Having joined Checkr from Google in 2022, Lindsay shared valuable insights about identifying and executing on major opportunities for improvement within an already mature go-to-market organization.

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4 reporting essentials to streamline business intelligence

Martech

Whether you are a small startup with a simple ecommerce system or a global retailer with a complex sales process, clear dashboarding and insightful reporting are key for teams to work effectively. However, reports often take significant time and effort to create, only for the data to be questioned or ignored. Maintaining these reports also uses valuable resources that would be better spent reviewing results and making informed decisions.

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Smart Tools & Strong Teams: A People-First Approach to AI in Sales

Speaker: Matt Sunshine, CEO at The Center for Sales Strategy

AI isn’t replacing salespeople—it’s empowering them. The most forward-thinking sales organizations are using AI to enhance human performance rather than eliminate it. From coaching and messaging to prospecting and pipeline accountability, artificial intelligence is giving managers and SDRs the new tools they need to work smarter, sell better, and close more.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Asana at $750,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

So the overall “project management” space has seen widely disparate impacts from the SaaS partial downturn of 2022-2024. Asana, strong in B2B2B and selling to tech, was perhaps hit hardest, with growth slowing to 10%. Monday.com by contrast, selling mainly outside of tech, saw growth remain strong at 34%. It’s been a tale of two worlds.

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Martech stack complexity fragments audience data

Martech

Seventy percent of marketers say identifying audiences across multiple touchpoints is harder than ever. Sixty-six percent say they are using 16 or more marketing solutions. The conclusions are based on a Forrester survey of 325 marketers in Q4 2024 supported by TruAudience from TransUnion. It’s the complexity of the stack, Forrester concludes, that is throwing up increasing barriers to delivering personalization, scaling marketing efforts, onboarding AI and making marketing spend efficient

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Contentstack acquires CDP Lytics

Martech

Composable digital experience platform Contentstack announced the acquisition of Lytics, the real-time CDP founded in 2013. Contentstack’s primary current offering is its headless CMS. Lytics’ first-party data management capabilities are expected to supplement the existing Contentstack Personalize. Capabilities Lytics will bring include: Real-time engagement data and audience insights for both known and unknown visitors to sites powered by Contentstack.

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Transparency in B2B Branding with Focus Lab’s Bill Kenney [Video]

G2

Explore the importance of trust in B2B branding with insights from Focus Lab's CEO Bill Kenney, including strategies for transparency in the age of AI.

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What’s Better, X/Twitter or LinkedIn? Our Data and Some Learnings

SaaStr

So whats better: X/Twitter or LinkedIn? Im not a social media expert, but we ended last year with about the same views (40,000,000) and followers (250,000) on both. So at least I can share a few learnings: #1. X and LinkedIn perform about the same for us in terms of driving traffic to SaaStr.com itself It used to be different, but in 2024, they both drive about the same amount of traffic to SaaStr.com (about 15% total) and about the same amount of attendees to events #2.

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I Reviewed G2’s 7 Best Operating Systems for Work and Play

G2

Ive tested countless OS software over the years. Here are my 7 best operating systems for 2025 with their pros and cons to help you find the right fit.

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How to Coach Reps on Overcoming Sales Objections with Confidence

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Global Sales and David Phelan, Account Executive

In a world where buyers are more informed and objections are more nuanced, confidence isn't optional—it’s a competitive advantage. In high-stakes conversations, knowing how to handle pushback can make or break the deal. Join industry experts Brendan Sweeney and David Phelan for a behind-the-scenes look at how teams are transforming sales coaching with real-time feedback, objection-handling role plays, and pre-call preparation that actually sticks.

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5 Customer Service Resolutions for 2025

Salesforce

Great organizations take the time to reflect on how they could improve and the customer service industry is no exception. With artificial intelligence and AI agents like Agentforce bringing new and exciting possibilities into the customer support space, now is a great time to set your customer service resolutions for 2025. Not sure where to start? Based on my conversations with leaders in customer service and technology and product development, here are some resolutions you may want to consider

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Nimble CRM Tips & Updates – January 8, 2025

Adaptive Business Services

Right before Christmas, the Nimble team onboarded me to Phase I on the new email marketing platform as a beta tester. I expect that this phase, at the very least, will be available to you sometime this month. Here is what you need to know and to prepare for The new platform will utilize existing Nimble features – From a practical standpoint, you will still send emails, group messages, and message sequences exactly the same way that you do now.

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ProVision: Tackling Multimodal Data Challenges with a Scalable, Vision-Centric Framework

Salesforce

Introduction The development of multimodal language models (MLMs) such as GPT4-V and BLIPs [1,2] have enabled many multimodal applications such as answering complex image-based queries; for example, “How many students are raising their hands in this image?” These models rely heavily on instruction datadatasets that pair visual content with corresponding questions and answers.