Thu.Oct 27, 2022

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Two Approaches to Top Down Selling [+ EXAMPLES]

Iannarino

You’re looking to learn some new sales techniques to help you crush your targets, and you’re wondering if top down selling is the right approach for you.

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Artificial Intelligence in Marketing: Benefits and Consequences

Heinz Marketing

“By” W1n S4ly4rds , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Note: AI tools have completely written, edited, and designed this blog post. We are now in the age where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a thing of fiction but reality. It has changed the way we live, work and play. With its rapid developments, it was inevitable for AI to make its way into marketing.

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Dear SaaStr: The Startup I’m Working At is Getting Acquired. How Much Can I Negotiate?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: The Startup I’m Working At is Getting Acquired. How Much Can I Negotiate? Unfortunately, as a non-CEO, non-founder of an acquired start-up … you have almost no ability to really negotiate. You can try a little, but it’s rough. Overall, your ability to negotiate in M&A in any context, in any job, is based on your ability to walk for something better, or just walk.

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Google rolls out new features for GA4

Martech

Google announced a bunch of updates for Google Analytics 4 (GA4) today. They include a big improvement for the Setup Assistant, real-time behavioral modeling reports, more customization features and a new homepage design. Setup Assistant: Currently the user has to create a new property in GA4 for each Universal Analytics (UA) property and then configure the data collection and privacy settings.

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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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At Even Just $1m ARR — You Need to Stop Doing Stuff Yourself, And Go Make The Hire

SaaStr

In SaaS, I think one of the biggest traps you can get yourself into as a founder is doing Low ROI things for one minute longer than you have to. Of course, this is true in all start-ups. But quickly, in SaaS, it becomes worse. Why? Because they are more functional areas to handle, earlier. You need engineering, product in all start-ups — but in SaaS, even in the very early days, you also need sales, client success, true support, demand gen marketing, etc.

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How to prepare teams for customer journey orchestration

Martech

One of the benefits of a customer journey orchestration (CJO) platform is improved alignment among business units. In order for this to work, teams in those units need to be prepared ahead of the implementation. “The multi-channel marketing approach the customer journey orchestration utilizes also means that things can get more complicated,” said Greg Kihlstrom, principal and chief strategist at GK5A, at The MarTech Conference.

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Brands are betting heavily on CTV advertising

Martech

No fewer than 98% of brands believe that CTV advertising will be bigger than mobile. That’s the eye-grabbing headline from a report released today by mobile analytics and attribution platform AppsFlyer. A quarter of respondents say that CTV advertising will overtake mobile in the next two to three years, and around a third believe CTV is a measurable performance channel.

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The Art of Losing: How & What to Learn from Lost Deals

Sales Hacker

“Failure does not come through making mistakes, but in refusing to learn by mistakes how to avoid them.”. —Walter D. Moody, Men Who Sell Things, 1907. Win rates not where they need to be? Sales cycle lengths extending? Forecast accuracy suffering? There may be an easy path to make a marked impact on all three metrics by studying the fine art of losing.

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Stakeholders: Getting started with the Agile Marketing Navigator 

Martech

We recently introduced you to the Agile Marketing Navigator , a flexible framework for navigating agile marketing for marketers, by marketers in the article A new way to navigate agile marketing. The navigator has four major components: Collaborative Planning Workshop, Launch Cycle, Key Practices and Roles. Within these categories, there are several sub-pieces for implementation.

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10 Effective Responses to “It’s too Expensive”

Spiro Technologies

Some people say that a salesperson’s job really starts after a prospect says “no.” What they mean is that (almost) anyone can make a call and go through a sales presentation, but the complexity and challenge of the job increases significantly when it comes time to influence and overcome objections. Objections can vary, and span the gamut from timing to need and even to trust.

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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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4 Steps to Help You Build a Resilient Marketing Strategy

Salesforce

Nearly every business is worried about — or already facing — slowing or declining revenue growth, as many experts feel we’re heading toward a recession. With this, the “growth at all costs” mantra of the past decade is quickly shifting to one of business resiliency and sustainable growth. Resilient marketing focuses on the ability to absorb stress, maintain healthy business operations, and adapt to new conditions.

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Top KPI’s to Focus on for Sales Productivity ??

Sales Hacker

Overwhelmed by your Q4 quota? Seeing your conversion rates drop? Let’s be real, the economy is not where it was in Q1. Customers are pulling back on budget or backing out of the sale cycle entirely, while your team is already working overtime. And frankly, we’ve gotta do more with less. We’ve assembled these experts to uncover the things that really matter to give your sales productivity and output a boost.

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How a Technical Writer Helped Us Scale New Technology Adoption to 14 Million People

Salesforce

Is there a secret sauce to getting your customers to adopt new technologies? Ian Glazer, Salesforce’s SVP of identity product management, thinks there is — hiring a technical writer. Ian is part of our leadership team driving an initiative to get all Salesforce customers to consider using multi-factor authentication (MFA) – an increasingly popular tool that verifies your identity.

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The Problem with Pain-Point Selling

Sales Hacker

Let me tell you a little secret about pain-point selling. It’s downright DAMAGING to your pipeline. Becc Holland — fiercely unafraid to take down established sales truths ( anti-personal brand, anyone? ) — is back at Sales Hacker with a masterclass on ditching pain-point selling and rocking your conversion rate by focusing on prospect problems. You’ll learn: The difference between pain & problem for your prospects.

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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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Thanks to Onboard, Paddle, Qwilr, and Upzelo for Sponsoring SaaStr Europa 2023!

SaaStr

At SaaStr, our partners are an integral part of our events. In June 2023, we’re heading back to London for SaaStr Europa and we wanted to give a special shout-out to some of the companies that will be there with us! We’ll see 2,500+ of the best SaaS founders, execs, and VCs June 6-7 at 2022 SaaStr Europa ! Grab tickets here. . Join these incredible companies to experience all the value of SaaStr!

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Why agencies must be transparent with clients

Search Engine Land

Years ago, I was a legal assistant for a criminal defense law firm when my boss assigned me a new task – learning SEO. . I asked him what SEO meant, and he responded, “Search engine optimization. I don’t trust the people I’m working with anymore and need you to learn it.” . As I began to learn and discuss my findings with him, he explained that his website had disappeared entirely from Google’s SERPs. .

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Google Ads podcast placement now available

Search Engine Land

Google advertisers can now advertise on podcasts. Yep, announced today, “advertisers can now align their ads with podcast content globally. Simply create an audio or video campaign and select “Podcast” as a placement.” Why we care. Last month we reported on three new audio, shopping, and streaming features available to YouTube advertisers.

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Google Analytics v3 Search Console report query data restored

Search Engine Land

Google has fixed an issue where the Search Console query report in Google Analytics 3, aka Universal Analytics, was not populating. The data stopped coming in as of October 1st but the other day, Google fixed the issue and backfilled the data in the report. I have verified, the data is now fully populated in the Search Console queries report in Universal Analytics 3.

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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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GA4 gets new homepage experience, 5 new features

Search Engine Land

Google has just unveiled several new Google Analytics 4 (GA4) updates, including a new homepage experience, real-time behavioral modeling reports, and custom channel grouping. Insights through machine learning. Behavioral modeling. Behavior modeling with real time reporting will give advertisers a complete picture of user behavior as it happens, in a privacy-centric way.

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Licensed healthcare providers eligible to apply for new YouTube product features

Search Engine Land

YouTube has just announced that licensed healthcare providers can now apply to make their channels eligible for new health product features – a suite of information resources released last year. What this means. The health product features previously launched include health source information panels to help viewers identify videos from authoritative sources and health content shelves that highlight videos from these sources when you search for health topics, so people can more easily nav

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Reddit is building an Ads API, first 4 partners announced

Search Engine Land

Reddit is working on a new Ads API and have just announced their first four alpha partners. The partners will be integrated into the API and are helping build solution that will inevitably help advertisers build, scale, and optimize campaigns. Who are the partners. The four partners involved in Reddit’s new venture are: Vidmob Sprinklr adMixt PMG.