Thu.May 23, 2024

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Cultivating Business Acumen as a Sales Superpower

Anthony Cole Training

Business or sales acumen is the ability to connect with prospects and clients on a deeper level by understanding their unique problems, anticipating their needs, and leveraging knowledge of their business and industry to recommend the best possible solution — regardless of whether or not it results in a closed deal.

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How to Understand and Shorten Long Sales Cycles in 2024

Iannarino

Struggling with lengthy sales cycles? Discover actionable strategies to shorten them and close deals faster.

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How to Help Your Sales Team Give More Impactful Product Demos

Force Management

The product demo is an important part of any sales process, but they can also be a tricky stage to navigate while maintaining a value selling approach. We often advocate for sellers to move away from the 'features and functions' conversation in favor of discussing business problems and solutions. The demo is a time to discuss both. That can be a difficult balance to strike, especially when selling complex technical solutions.

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Dynamic Email Content is What Customers Crave: Here’s How To Deliver

Salesforce

What you’ll learn What is dynamic email content? First- and zero-party data is more important than ever Popular types of dynamic email content Dynamic email content can be done simply How to give email subscribers what they want Customers don’t want to feel like just another number to your brand. Going with a generic “ batch and blast ” email marketing strategy is sure to land you in the customer’s filters — or worse, having them unsubscribe.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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Google Analytics GA4 shows real-time users in the last 5 minutes

Search Engine Land

Google has upgraded its Google Analytics, GA4, real time reports to show users in last 5 minutes. It previously showed users in last 30 minutes and now it shows both users in last 5 minutes and users in last 30 minutes. The old Universal Analytics tool showed real-time metrics based on the last 5 minutes, and now GA4 does it too. What it looks like.

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Emergence: Top Quartile Startups Are Still Growing 100% at $10m in ARR

SaaStr

So Emergence Capital put together a great report here on B2B startups, “Beyond Benchmarks 2024” , with a ton of great data across 664 software startups. One piece I loved is how 2023 growth rates compared to 2022 for Top Quartile Software Startups. Now to be clear, and I know this is a bit brutal — “Top Quartile” isn’t in general enough to get funded by VCs.

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HubSpot’s Content Hub: How does it impact marketing’s future?

Martech

Having spent more than a decade working with tools like HubSpot, I’ve seen how powerful these platforms can be for marketing and sales growth. But the launch of HubSpot’s Content Hub in April 2024 brings some new things to the forefront. This new platform component packs a lot of opportunity into one area — in theory, it makes creating and managing content easier.

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New for 2024! Compare 16 top SEO platforms

Search Engine Land

With over 60% of all website traffic originating from organic search and 91.5% of clicks going to first-page results, businesses that neglect SEO are missing out on valuable opportunities to attract, engage, and convert their target audience. But as search engines continue to evolve and competition intensifies, achieving SEO success has become more complex than ever.

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Doubling Down: Karl Alomar, Managing Partner at M13

SaaStr

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. We had a great one last time with Andrew Steele, Partner at Activant Capital. Check that out here. This week we’re focusing on Karl Alomar, Managing Partner at M13! #1. What’s your most recent disclosed investment?

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Driving traffic but not leads? How to win with SEO and CRO

Search Engine Land

The Ton has long observed the struggle between SEO and CRO, two bitter competitors. Deliberately competing for dominance in the packed ballrooms of the internet, there was friction. One side was SEO, which was an expert at drawing attention and attracting large numbers of visitors. CRO stood on the opposite side. It had a delicate way of turning even the briefest glances into fidelity.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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AI-powered martech releases and news: May 23

Martech

This week, WPP announced a new initiative making Anthropic’s Claude AI model family available across its agency network. The Claude models — including Opus, Sonnet and Haiku — are integrated in WPP Open, the intelligent marketing operating system used by 114,000 marketers throughout WPP’s agencies. WPP uses Amazon Bedrock, an AWS managed service, for the Claude integration.

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Broad vs. deep expertise: How to decide which is right for you

Search Engine Land

You can either have broad or deep subject matter expertise. The choice is yours. If you’re in the early or middle stage of your career, then this is the perfect time to decide whether you want to go broad or deep. Here’s how to think about this choice and decide what’s best for your search marketing career. The T-shaped marketer I base my approach on the “T-shaped marketer” model: an expert in one area (vertical bar) with broader knowledge across related disciplines

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Podcast Script: How to Write One (+ Free Template)

G2

Struggling with rambling podcast episodes? Learn the types and how to write a podcast script that hooks your listeners. Free template and tips included.

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Bing Search outages since early this morning

Search Engine Land

Starting at around 1:30am ET, Bing Search and the sites Microsoft Bing powers, have been experiencing global and widespread outages. This leads to many Bing Searches failing, and then third-party services that rely on Bing Search, such as Copilot for web and mobile, Copilot in Windows, ChatGPT internet search, DuckDuckGo and Ecosia, also failing. Downdetector.

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5 Inspiring B2B Marketing Campaigns to Take Yours to the Next Level

Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con

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Dear SaaStr: A Big Customer Paid But Doesn’t Use Our Product. Should I Count Them as Churned?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: A big customer payed for a year but doesn’t use the product. Should I just mark them as churned? No. Instead, what you should try to do is renew them, especially in the enterprise. I’ve had many customers, especially big old customers, get excited, plan and buy … and then for internal reasons, deployment got pushed out. Many of them never used the product at all in Year 1.

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Survey: Shoppers open to using AI search to discover products

Search Engine Land

Search engines that incorporate AI-generated results have the potential to make it easier for people to discover products and services, according to a new survey from Botify, shared exclusively with Search Engine Land. Why we care. Search marketers tend to look at search much differently than everyday Google Search users. So it’s interesting to see what consumers know and think about AI-powered search.

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Day 2 of ATD: AI doesn't mean always inclusive!

The Advantexe Advisor

Advantexe is pleased to share with our Learning & Development colleagues our thoughts and insights from the floor of the ATD International Exposition and Conference. Each day we will share three megatrends and provide some insights and observations. Day 2 1) Understanding the inherent bias of AI @tarynfoye , Advantexe’s Director of Business Leadership Solutions attended an informative session on the interesting and potentially harmful impacts of the current way AI talent development solution

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Amazon: AI-powered ‘Performance+’ ads offer 30-90% lower CPAs

Search Engine Land

Amazon recently launched a new automated ad product called Performance+. Using a black box approach, it employs machine learning to optimize campaigns based on predicted conversion rates. The big picture. Performance+ marks Amazon’s entry into the AI-driven ad automation space, pioneered by Google and Meta. This puts Amazon in direct competition with these internet giants for ad budgets.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

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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A SaaS Fairy Tale….

Partners in Excellence

Once upon a time in a Silicon Valley, not so far away, a fascinating new business model was developed. It was a model focused on getting software in the hands of end users much more quickly and easily. Rather than waiting for IT to implement new solutions, this software was hosted in the clouds. It enabled users to immediately have access to software solutions.

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How to Build Your Custom GPT: Step by Step

TaskDrive

TaskDrive CEO Tim Cakir, known for his fun and one-of-a-kind webinars, is back in a not-to-be missed session. In this specific webinar, attendees witnessed the live creation of a Custom GPT model. Check out the highlights of this webinar: What is GPT? Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) is a multimodal large language model. They learn via: […] The post How to Build Your Custom GPT: Step by Step appeared first on TaskDrive.

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Google AI Overviews, clicks and traffic impact: Unraveling the mystery

Search Engine Land

Google began adding AI Overviews (AIO) to the U.S. search results on May 14. While vaguely mentioning that links in AIO get higher click-through rates (CTRs), Google has remained evasive when directly asked about this. When discussing this important topic with my clients, we talk about two things: AI Overviews provide a fundamentally different user experience, so thinking about CTR in the traditional way may be misleading or make you overlook potential opportunities.

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Canva introduces Canva Enterprise, Work Kits and adtech apps

Martech

Today, visual creative technology company unveiled Canva Enterprise, a new offering for large enterprises, along with a number of other tools for businesses, including tailored Work Kits, native adtech apps and new AI capabilities. The announcements came at the company’s first international Canva Create event, held in Los Angeles. The tools are part of a dedicated effort to serve teams across large organizations, helping them produce visual assets and simplifying creative work.

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

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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You need to glue your martech stack together. Here are some of your options.

Martech

Most marketers today understand that marketing is a science driven by data. Yes, creativity and innovation matter, but relying on a spark of genius at the start of each campaign is not a strategy. The insight data provides about audiences can be the spark that kindles the flame of creativity. Data really matters. The best marketing teams use data effectively to improve their campaigns, but it’s not easy.

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