Mon.May 15, 2023

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Mastering the Art of Selling Value—Strategies for B2B Salespeople

Iannarino

Many salespeople believe they are selling value when they are really selling their products and their services. This is the result of a legacy approach to selling that teaches salespeople that their company and their offerings create value. Because they believe that their solution is the value, their selling strategy is poor. You should avoid this approach to sales.

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10 SEO challenges faced by fast-growing SaaS companies

Search Engine Land

“We’re at around 100,000 monthly organic traffic, but we cannot sustain the SERP positions and conversions…” “We are at 530,000 monthly organic traffic, but our growth has become stagnant and we’re unable to scale up…” I hear plenty of similar SEO concerns from SaaS companies. After working on numerous audits, I found that most of them struggle with SEO issues that impact their customer acquisition costs and diminish revenues. 1.

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My #1 Best Hack for VC Fundraising

SaaStr

So raising VC capital has gotten a lot harder than it was at the peak of 2021 — when it was still hard for all but the best and more privileged. But boy, it’s harder today. Everything has slowed down, the bar has gone up, and even VC funds themselves are struggling to do their own fundraising: Fundraising By VC Firms Themselves Is At a 10 Year Low.

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Search ad conversion rates down, cost per lead up in 2023

Search Engine Land

Paid search advertising conversion rates have decreased across nearly all industries year over year. Meanwhile, the cost of generating leads through search ads continues to increase, although not as drastically as in prior years. That’s according to a new 2023 search advertising benchmark report from LocalIQ’s WordStream. It features data on the average conversion rate, cost per lead (CPL), click-through rate (CTR) and cost per click (CPC), compared to 2022.

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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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4 Sales Tips To Thrive — Not Just Survive — In an Economic Downturn

Salesforce

We thought selling would be easier after the pandemic. Instead, we’ve been hearing “no” more often. Customers are fearing for their jobs, tightening their belts, and “ starting to freak out.” It’s no surprise that almost 70% of reps agree that selling has gotten harder. After talking with other sellers, and using Dale Carnegie’s principle to “get them saying yes, immediately,” I’ve come up with four key sales tips that can help you land

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What’s behind the MarTechBot curtain?

Martech

We all have experienced the unprecedented pace of AI-driven change in the last six months. The catalyst for that change was “access.” AI’s inflection point was OpenAI’s decision to provide free and unfettered access to ChatGPT — the result: 100 million users in less than two months. As martech and marketing operations leaders, this open access is both a blessing and a challenge.

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Google Bard adds genuine citations in responses and more concise summaries

Search Engine Land

Google Bard has added classic and more genuine citations to the answers it provides and also is able to provide better summarization. We do not yet see these improvements and enhancements live yet but Jack Krawczyk from Google shared some examples on Twitter. Citations improved. Google Bard now shows sources with numbers, like true citations, next to the responses.

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Becoming The “Topic Authority”

Partners in Excellence

Most of our marketing and selling efforts focus on becoming the “product/solution authority.” “We have the leading CRM solution on the market…… Our manufacturing technologies are the best solutions available… We are the leading provider of financial services solutions… ” Our content and our selling efforts focus on demonstrating the superiority of our solutions. “We have the best references, we have more features/functions, we are cheaperR

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Founders: Before You Hire a Sales Team, Consider These Options

Sales Hacker

Running a startup is easier said than done, especially when you have a tight budget and limited resources. It’s hard to know when you’re ready to hire a sales team — and the consequences can make or break your startup. Perhaps not surprisingly, about 40% of new companies go out of business because they run out of cash or fail to raise capital, reports CB Insights.

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Data Makes the Difference: Episode one by Cynthia Ramsaran

Martech

What do craft beer, food delivery and B2B buyers have in common? A call for more personalization because of younger, more digitally native buyers. These themes are explored in episode one of The MarTech Podcast: Data Makes the Difference series. Sponsored by: Kim Davis, editorial director at MarTech and Chris Garza, regional vice president, field and inside sales at Dun & Bradstreet, discuss how the buyer’s journey has transformed significantly in recent years, forcing marketers/seller

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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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Data Makes the Difference: Episode one by Cynthia Ramsaran

Search Engine Land

What do craft beer, food delivery and B2B buyers have in common? A call for more personalization because of younger, more digitally native buyers. These themes are explored in episode one of The MarTech Podcast: Data Makes the Difference series. Sponsored by: Kim Davis, editorial director at MarTech and Chris Garza, regional vice president, field and inside sales at Dun & Bradstreet, discuss how the buyer’s journey has transformed significantly in recent years, forcing marketers/seller

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Targeted Sales – How To Boost Business

The 5% Institute

Are you struggling to increase your sales despite all your marketing efforts? Are you tired of trying different strategies that just don’t seem to work? Then, it’s time to focus on targeted sales. In this article, we’ll discuss what targeted sales are, why they matter, and how you can implement them to improve your business’s bottom line.

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How to Use Ecommerce Invoicing to Improve Your Cash Conversion Cycle

Sales Pop!

In today’s competitive ecommerce landscape, optimizing your cash conversion cycle (CCC) is critical to the success of your business. One effective way to improve your CCC is through effective invoicing. By streamlining your invoicing process and improving your payment terms, you can accelerate your cash flow and reduce your financing costs. In this article, we’ll provide you with eight tips on how to use ecommerce invoicing to improve your cash conversion cycle.

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9 Ways to Successfully Move to DevOps

The Digital Technology

DevOps merges development and operations into one cohesive unit in the software development lifecycle. By adopting this approach, you will experience less rework, fewer defects, better communication, understanding, and easier testing and deployment. So, if you’ve decided to adopt DevOps for your organization, it’s critical that you start your DevOps journey the right way.

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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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Discover New Release Features with the Learn MOAR Summer ’23 Quests

Salesforce

What are the Learn MOAR Summer ’23 Quests? Why Trailblazers love learning MOAR How to participate in the Learn MOAR ’23 Quests Salesforce releases thousands of innovative features and functionality with every Salesforce release in Spring, Summer, and Winter. Hundreds of pages of release notes and dozens of resources that review the new features accompany each seasonal release.

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Beyond ‘click here:’ 4 rules for better email CTAs

Martech

I’ll get straight to the point: “Submit” and “Click here” are ineffective calls to action (CTAs) for your email campaigns. (I’ll explain why a few paragraphs down.) If you need help with CTA samples you can test, language models like ChatGPT or Google’s Bard can be your best new copywriting tools. But you still need to prime the pump with a well-written prompt that recognizes the values of a good CTA.

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SEO and website design: How to build search engine-friendly sites

Search Engine Land

Your website is the center of your digital marketing world. It’s where you have the most control and where all digital marketing rivers run toward. Generally, the largest of those traffic sources is organic search. Yet, all too often, SEO is not deeply embedded when a new website is being designed (or redesigned), and SEO thinking is often only addressed after a site has launched.

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Advertisers and audiences refute the idea that podcasts are on the wane

Martech

“The podcasting boom is over.” We all know that, right? We know this because it’s been reported everywhere. Since the start of the year The New York Times, Bloomberg, Vanity Fair, The Financial Times and many others have published stories about podcasting’s demise. Advertisers and audiences missed the memo and continue to flock to podcast programming.

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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