Mon.Feb 20, 2023

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Stop Sending B2B Sales Breakup Emails Now

Iannarino

It isn't easy to schedule a meeting with your dream client. If you are in an industry where you must practice competitive selling , you are not the only B2B salesperson asking for a contact’s time. Between you and the many other B2B sales teams calling on your potential customer, your contacts are overwhelmed and overrun by the immense cold outreach each day.

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“Vendor Viability”: It’s a Risk Big Customers Know How to Take.

SaaStr

Vendor Viability. The question for bigger customers especially on if a vendor will actually stay around if they you buy. This remains a large risk with start-ups. But it’s been mitigated to some extent in the minds of customers. With 100+ public Cloud companies, it’s now a bit clearer that at least after a certain point in time, SaaS vendors have a lot of stability.

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Corporate Training Challenges Addressed By Microlearning

Sales Pop!

With decreasing attention spans among employees, corporate training now faces challenges in the form of fatigue experienced by corporate learners due to traditional training programs. Microlearning has emerged as a potential solution to address this challenge. Microlearning comprises bite-sized chunks of information, which is offered to learners in the form of digital resources through a learning management system(LMS).

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Ode to the $100,000,000 Exit

SaaStr

Underrated: How great of a business model SaaS is. You can literally do almost nothing but make your customers happy and usually you will still grow. Underestimated: Just how expensive the incremental customer gets beyond your core, highest velocity ICP. — Jason Be Kind Lemkin  (@jasonlk) February 20, 2023 So in the Boom Times of late 2020 though early 2022, all we talked about was Unicorns. 1,000+ Unicorns bloomed, hundreds of them in SaaS.

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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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Land, Expand, Repeat: 3 Steps to Sell More with Account Hierarchies

Sales Hacker

If you’re having trouble getting in the door with new logos, it could be time to land and expand with your existing enterprise customers – where the door is already open. When properly nurtured, customer relationships can turn one deal into a long-standing partnership that benefits both the customer and the seller. The secret to success using land and expand with enterprise customers?

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Dear SaaStr: When Is It “Too Early” To Hire Your First Marketer?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: When Is It “Too Early” To Hire Your First Marketer? In a perfect world, you’d learn something about marketing first before you hire someone to take it over. I.e., you’d experiment and at least make some progress in: Content Marketing. Can you get even 1 or 2 customers from blogging and writing? Growth Hacking. Can you get even a couple of customers by emailing to a small list you’ve built?

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4 tips to get the most out of CTV advertising

Martech

Connected TV (CTV) targeting has long been anticipated to revolutionize advertising. It’s taken longer for that promise to become real, but we’re now at the inflection point. The rise of streaming services and the proliferation of smart TVs are leading more people to cut the cord and turn to CTV. This switch leads to many advantages, including the ability to target specific demographics.

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Bringing Together Product Managers and Commercial Reps Unlocks PLG with Pleo VP of Product Growth, Haresh Baraj, and Commercial Director, Aiyana Scully Moorhead (Video)

SaaStr

If you’ve ever had to file an expense claim after a business event, you understand how inconvenient and time-consuming it can be. Pleo has been around for seven years and has developed distinctive ways to make the expense reporting process more manageable and efficient. Pleo’s VP of Product Growth, Haresh Baraj, and Commercial Director, Aiyana Scully Moorhead, share their stories on breaking down barriers to build trust and empathy that enable collaboration and push.

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Meta is bringing the blue verification badge to Facebook and Instagram

Search Engine Land

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has introduced a new subscription service, Meta Verified, that provides users the opportunity to acquire the highly sought-after blue verification badge on their Instagram and Facebook accounts. Users can achieve this by verifying their identity for a monthly fee of up to $15. How it works. Meta Verified is now available in New Zealand and Australia, with plans to expand globally in the near future.

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How to Make Your First RevOps Hire

Sales Hacker

Almost every week, Iceberg RevOps’ founder Taft Love gets messages from executives and CEOs at growth-stage companies asking for help with their first revenue operations hire. These leaders are looking for the right person to own the implementation and management of their company’s go-to-market tech stack. This usually includes a CRM and marketing automation plus any other systems related to sales, marketing, and customer success.

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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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This day in search marketing history: February 21

Search Engine Land

Google Search Console sends alerts for big drops in clicks In 2019, Google Search Console started sending notifications when it detected a “substantial drop” in clicks from Google search results to a website when compared to the previous week’s data. It read: “Search Console analyzed your performance report and found that your site had a substantial drop in clicks last week compared to the previous weeks.

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Consultant vs. Contractor: What's the Key Difference?

Hubspot

As self-employment rates continue to reach new heights , terms like contractor, consultant, and freelancer have become more commonplace. While these roles provide valuable services, they have key differences — namely, in the work they carry out and their level of expertise. Here, we'll explore the role of contractors and consultants, and pinpoint the differences between the two.

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Video content guide: Why you should start creating videos now (plus examples)

Search Engine Land

We’re no longer in that phase where everyone was saying, “Video is blowing up.” Nope. Video has blown up, and it’s here. It’s there. It’s everywhere. These days, audiences expect and demand video content from creators and brands. On average, people watch 19 hours of online video per week – and across the last three years alone, consumption increased by 8.5 hours per week.

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The Subjectiveness Of Value

Partners in Excellence

I’m a fan of Larry Levine, he provokes thoughtful discussions. Recently he led a discussion around value creation comparing two organizations with very different value propositions, Walmart and Nordstroms. The conversation was interesting, a little confusing. Some were taking positions the “high touch” of the Nordstrom experience is superior to that of the low touch, low cost (?

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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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Bing limits chat sessions as OpenAI founder says AI tools are ‘somewhat broken’

Search Engine Land

Bing chat sessions are now capped at 50 questions per day and 5 per session, Microsoft announced. There have been many bad examples shared of the new Bing AI chat sessions featuring everything from gaslighting to accidental racism. Microsoft has said it didn’t anticipate extended chatting , which “can confuse the underlying chat model.” What’s changing.

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Ten Prospecting Myths and Misconceptions

Sales Coach Dew

Don’t fall for these common misconceptions about prospecting clients! Sales professionals tend to build their careers the old-fashioned way—start at the bottom and work their way up. Besides the occasional book or seminar, most don’t have a formal sales education—we learn as we go. Unfortunately, the self-taught approach can lead to misunderstandings and misconceptions.

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Call tracking: What it is and how it works

Search Engine Land

Pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns live and die by their conversion data. Call tracking allows marketers to get valuable insights on all their campaigns. However, there can be some hesitations to use it. Brands are afraid of missing out on brand equity with an established number. The cost on top of any other marketing cost seems high. Understanding what call tracking is and how it can help will mitigate these concerns.

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