Iannarino

JANUARY 5, 2023

The answer to the question “What is a good customer acquisition cost?” will be different across companies. One company's cost to acquire a customer may be considered good for their business but awful for another company or another industry.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 5, 2023

I would like to provide you with an alternate perspective to LinkedIn's article- a list of 9 Do’s you can use when looking for and hiring new talent. Because we specialize in helping companies Sell Better, Coach Better, and Hire Better, my comments will focus specifically on sales but understand that these principles will apply for most hires in your company.

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Force Management

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we close out a year of widespread economic uncertainty, many leaders are looking for ways to boost morale and prepare their teams to maintain or even recover revenue in a competitive market. The start of the year is an opportunity to capitalize on the mindset of a fresh start. Your sales team is setting goals and habits for the new year, and SKOs and strategy sessions are shifting their approach.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 5, 2023

In announcing reductions at Salesforce yesterday, Marc Benioff was quoted, saying customers “are taking a more measured approach to their purchasing decisions.” We’re taking deep breaths, trying to understand what that means, looking at how we, sellers, respond and move forward. What does it take to succeed? Pile onto this all the shifts in buyer behavior we see, increasing numbers of buyers actively disengaging with sellers, preferring to navigate their buying processes with o

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 5, 2023

I have a new recommendation for Google Ads advertisers in 2023: Turn off and pause the use of all Google Ads recommendations. Why? On Jan. 4, Google Ads fundamentally changed the definition of a recommendation that users previously implemented. And Google is only giving advertisers two weeks before the change hits. Before we begin here, the moral of this article is neither that the content in recommendations is bad, nor that you should blindly dismiss all recommendations.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 5, 2023

A characteristic of every human being is the tension between Discomfort and Familiarity. Some of you might respond, appropriately, “Well Duugghhh Dave, isn’t that why it’s called discomfort?” It’s obvious, we are comfortable with that which is familiar. How we work, how we spend our time, where/who we find joy. The more familiar it, is the more comfort we have, the more we tend to stick with doing the familiar.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 5, 2023

At SMX Next in November, I was honored to give a talk on making automation work for lead generation when it’s not designed for lead generation. A huge thank you to all who attended – the overtime Q&A was a lively session with many questions! Lead generation automation challenges. Many of us are dealing with the challenges of lead generation in an advertising system that’s built for ecommerce.

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Sales Pop!

JANUARY 5, 2023

As Soren Kierkegard wrote, “ Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”. When sales is successful and beneficial, age-old principles and characteristics are involved. If we go back in time, rediscover these, and bring them forward to be fully applied today, we see that they benefit not only sales and commerce but all of society.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 5, 2023

SEO product managers are the teammates you never knew you needed. In-house SEO teams also can’t live without them. In this article, we will cover what an SEO product manager does, the skills needed to become one, and where the role sits within the organization. What is an SEO product manager? At a high level, an SEO product manager (PM) helps teams optimize features and functionalities on a website so that it’s discoverable by search engines and humans alike.

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Martech

JANUARY 5, 2023

Consumers spent $211.7 billion online in November and December 2022, representing a new ecommerce record and 3.5% growth YoY. This despite concerns about inflation, possible recession and supply chain issues. Demand for toys and video games soared conspicuously compared to pre-season levels, while other categories that performed well included wristwatches, cosmetics, gift cards and — perhaps looking ahead to the spring — outdoor grills.

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Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 5, 2023

Google Webmaster Tools adds ‘unnatural links’ and ‘cloaking’ spam warnings. In 2011, Google Webmaster Tools started sending out two new types of warnings – for “unnatural links” and “cloaking.” The messages were sent out when Google detected pages on websites that were using techniques that were outside of its quality guidelines.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 5, 2023

Duplicate records in Salesforce (or “dupes”) are hands-down the most common issue that we’re called in to clean up at Iceberg. You might think resolving duplicate records should be a quick and easy fix. But as we’ll see in this article, deduping your records actually takes more tactical work than you’d expect. For instance: How do you define a duplicate lead if you sell to separate accounts who are part of the same franchise ?

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 5, 2023

When analyzing consumer behavior at scale, decision-makers need to keep up – making consumer insights matter more now than ever. This means staying on your toes with actionable consumer intelligence from continuous social listening is a must. Join this live webinar and learn how Purdue University’s Center for Food Demand Analysis and Sustainability created a visualization of online and social datasets to help people throughout the food system.

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Martech

JANUARY 5, 2023

At CES, OTT streaming service Roku unveiled new HD and 4K TVs. These first-ever Roku-branded sets will be available to consumers in 11 models this spring. Roku Select and Plus Series TVs range in size from 24-inch to 75-inch-screen models. They are priced between $119 and $999. All HD offerings feature Roku Voice Remotes, while Plus Series TVs have the enhanced Roku Voice Remote Pros.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 5, 2023

Consumers in a 12-year-long class action lawsuit against Google say that Google shared their queries with third parties without their permission. What happened. The lawsuit alleged that Google violated both the Stored Communications Act, a federal law that governs access to records held by internet service providers, and state laws in California. The settlement.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2023

Dear SaaStr: What Percentage of Software Sales Reps Have Earned Over $1m a Year? It’s rare and it’s tough in SaaS as a sales rep to earn a fairly stunning $1,000,000 a year. But … it’s not impossible. I remember the first time I saw a rep make $1m. I was in the HQ of a well-known SaaS company just passing $100m in ARR. The rep closed his second multi-million dollar, multi-year deal — of the year.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 5, 2023

Microsoft has just announced Store Ads to promote desktop apps on Windows 10 and 11 devices on desktops. When you create the ad on the Microsoft Advertising Platform, you can see it in the Microsoft Store, allowing your customers to click, download, and then start using your app. The Microsoft Store in action. The Microsoft Store, for those Apple users, is where PC users go to learn about games, apps, and new software from Microsoft.

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Martech

JANUARY 5, 2023

When analyzing consumer behavior at scale, decision-makers need to keep up – making consumer insights matter more now than ever. This means staying on your toes with actionable consumer intelligence from continuous social listening is a must. Join this live webinar and learn how Purdue University’s Center for Food Demand Analysis and Sustainability created a visualization of online and social datasets to help people throughout the food system.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Hubspot

JANUARY 5, 2023

The software buyer's journey has shifted dramatically over the past few years. As G2's Director of SMBs, Mike Buscemi , puts it: "Software buyers today act like B2C consumers because they have so many options. There are hundreds of thousands of software vendors out there, and over 115,000 on G2. Buyers have an abundance to pick and choose from.". Which ultimately means the seller's journey is going to have to shift, too.

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Sales Pop!

JANUARY 5, 2023

It’s a new year, and with a new year comes new goals, and for many of us these goals include tackling our finances. The last few years have been pretty rough on most of us, even if we have been stringent with our finances. And many of us have turned to doing a loan application online. However, now it is time to settle your finances, and figure out how you can better manage your funds.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2023

Salesforce is ceding the startup CRM market to HubSpot. Does it matter? Maybe not. Salesforce is focused on $100m+ deals, and SFA/CRM is a minority of their revenue. Perhaps they’ll still get them when they cross $50m, $100m ARR. But maybe someday, they … won’t anymore. — Jason Be Kind Lemkin  (@jasonlk) December 30, 2022. So for many years, I was one of those guys.

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Martech

JANUARY 5, 2023

How organizations will transform their martech stacks and digital experiences. Experience, Ecommerce and Transformation. Digital media and advertising. Retail media networks. How data will change marketing in the new year. Data is at the center of what marketers do, and this will be a prime focus for marketers in 2023. Changes like Google’s delayed third-party cookie wind down, and new legislation in states like Virginia, will put extra pressure on organizations in the coming year.

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Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2023

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. Looking back on its explosive growth, however, the company realized just how badly it needed the valuable services of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Eva Pittas (Co-founder and COO at Laika) and Dicken Chaplin (CFO at Laika) discuss the value a well-versed CFO brings to their business as well as a few key lessons they’ve learned along the way.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 5, 2023

You know that demos are critical to the success of your sales team and, ultimately the business’s bottom line. So why should only a select group of people be responsible for presenting them? The math is simple MORE DEMOS = MORE SALES. Guests: Nick Capozzi – Head of Storytelling at Demostack. Sam Collin – Solutions Engineer at Demostack.

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