Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

An effective sales proposal is less about what the proposal includes and more about what the end result is supposed to achieve. In fact, many sales proposals are delivered much too soon and inappropriately, often generated because the prospect asked to "see what you can do." If a salesperson follows a stage-based sales process, they know that a proposal only follows when the prospect has hit certain milestones in the discovery process, and they will be ready to give an answer, whether yes or no,

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Iannarino

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Last month, the Department of Labor revised a years’ worth of data for new jobs added. It turns out there had been an overcount of 818,000 jobs between March 2023 and March 2024, and the correction signals that job growth has been worse than previously reported. The corrected numbers are 28 percent lower. This morning, the latest job numbers were released, and they were below expectations.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

On Monday, Google and the Justice Department will begin their second antitrust trial of the year. The tech giant lost the last case , which was about monopolistic practices in online search. Now the DOJ is accusing the company of using its adtech to create a monopoly. That trial begins Monday. “Having inserted itself into all aspects of the digital advertising marketplace, Google has used anticompetitive, exclusionary, and unlawful means to eliminate or severely diminish any threat to its domina

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Dear SaaStr: What are The Pros and Cons of Raising VC Money from a Corporate VC? The pros, and the cons, are both limited. The issues here are smaller than they used to be. Cons: Usually won’t carry the company or write many “second checks”. So not an ideal lead investor. This is the biggest issue, or a least. trade-off. Traditional VCs usually reserve another 1x-2x of their first check for later investments.

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Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales & Devyn Blume, Sr. Account Executive

Are you curious about how artificial intelligence is reshaping sales coaching, learning, and development? Join Brendan Sweeney and Devyn Blume of Allego for an engaging new webinar exploring AI's transformative role in sales coaching and performance improvement! Brendan and Devyn will share actionable insights and strategies for integrating AI into coaching and development - ensuring personalized, effective, and scalable training!

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Salesforce announced Thursday it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Own Company for $1.9 billion in cash. Own, which provides data protection and data management solutions, will help Salesforce accelerate the growth of its Platform Data Security, Privacy, and Compliance products, the company said in a release. The two companies are not strangers to each other.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Google Ads will phase out the option to use enhanced cost-per-click (eCPC) for new Search and Display campaigns starting in October. Key dates: October: eCPC option removed for new campaigns. March 2025: All remaining eCPC campaigns transitioned to Manual CPC. Why we care. ECPC is the most light touch of automated bid strategies, so it allowed you to dip your toe into automated bidding without giving Google full control by just working toward a conversion target.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

AI winter is a term that describes funding cuts in research and development of artificial intelligence systems. This usually follows after a period of overhype and under-delivery in the expectations of AI systems capabilities. Does this sound like today’s AI? Over the past few months, we’ve observed several key generative AI systems failing to meet the promise of investors and Silicon Valley executives – from the recent launch of Open AI’s GPT-4o model to Google’s AI Overviews to Perspecti

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Continuous improvement is critical to our ability to grow, both as individuals and organizations. Whether it’s to drive higher levels of productivity/performance, responding to changes in our customers or markets, addressing new opportunities, or anything else. We have to constantly be assessing what we do, who we do it to/with, how and why we do these things—and how we improve and do more.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Brand visibility measures how well a brand is known and how often potential customers encounter it across various channels, such as search engines, social media, advertising, public relations or word-of-mouth. High brand visibility means that a brand is easily recognizable, leading to increased awareness, customer trust and, eventually, higher sales.

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Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Dreamforce is a whirlwind of innovation, interaction, and inspiration — especially for a first-time attendee. This will be my seventh conference, but there’s nothing quite like experiencing it as a newbie. It’s exhilarating, informative, and so much fun. But navigating sessions, networking, and the vast Dreamforce campus can be overwhelming. As you gear up for the three-day event Sept. 17-19 in San Francisco, I want to help make Dreamforce an unforgettable – and smooth – experience.

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Quotas need to be hit. Revenue goals need to be met. This reality makes shortening sales onboarding time a top priority. Organizations with a standard onboarding process boost employee retention by 58% and increase productivity by 50%. Unfortunately, many companies struggle with inefficient processes that lead to high turnover and missed revenue opportunities.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Paid search isn’t generally at the top of marketers’ minds when they think about audience planning, but it’s a vital part of all campaigns. Though paid search is a “pull” instead of a “push” marketing channel, there are still plenty of audience signals to implement when building and optimizing PPC campaigns. Search is a unique channel because customers tell you who they are in their search queries and path to purchase journeys (i.e., YouTube > search attribution paths ).

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

When a prospect first reaches out for more information, I’ve found that engagement is at its peak. Even when talks progress all the way to a signed contract, they will never be as engaged as they were in that initial moment when a problem arose and curiosity about your solution struck. Many times I’ve been frustrated trying to chase down a once-excited prospect whose priorities have already shifted to the next item on the list.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

YouTube rolled out a new “website visits” goal in YouTube Studio’s promotions feature. This goal allows creators to drive traffic directly to their websites while growing their channel’s audience and video views. Why we care. This update makes it easier for you to turn video views into website visits, helping to promote products or services directly from your channel.

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Predictable Revenue

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Customer success employees ensure customers achieve their outcomes by guiding them through ongoing support to maximize product adoption. The post The True Cost of CS Tools and Software appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Publishers impacted by recent Google algorithm updates might never fully recover to previous traffic levels. That’s one thing that stood out to me in a newly published interview with Google Search Liasion Danny Sullivan, conducted by Barry Schwartz. Ranking improvements possible? Schwartz pointed out examples of websites impacted by recent Google algorithm updates to Sullivan.

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RAIN Group

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

What Is Business Development? Business development is the process of growing an organization, fostering opportunities, and expanding revenue. For professionals, business development often means bringing in new business, developing relationships, uncovering needs and opportunities, communicating value, demonstrating impact, and expanding accounts. When it comes to business development for professional services , one of the biggest challenges professionals face is finding time to do it all.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

HubSpot’s August 2024 updates focus on helping your teams work more efficiently, connect with customers in a more personalized wa, and make better decisions backed by solid data. From improving how you engage with your audience to getting more out of your analytics, these updates will give you better visibility into your organization, and better tools to act on what you learn.

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Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Generative AI has officially entered its second act, driven by a new generation of AI agents capable of taking action just as deftly as they can hold a conversation. These autonomous AI systems can execute tasks, either in support or on behalf of humans through their ability to leverage external tools and access up-to-date information beyond their training data.

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Are your sellers unsure about using AI in their day-to-day workflows? Or are they eager to try but uncertain where to start? They might be asking: Which tasks are best suited for AI? How will using AI affect my relationship with my customers? With so many tools available, which ones are the most useful to me? To help answer these and other common questions about using AI during the sales cycle, we surveyed B2B sellers who were early adopters to get their insight and advice about how to use gen A

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

We’ve come to the end of my series, “Decoding generative AI: A marketer’s guide to text-based and visual AI content.” Because this series focused on generative AI and content, I asked AI assistant Claude Sonnet to help co-create this article with me. I instructed it to use my voice and supplied all the previous posts in this series for reference.

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Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The history of software development is an ongoing pursuit to build increasingly higher layers of abstraction. More abstractions mean less boilerplate and infrastructure code, freeing up time to build differentiating features and innovation. Early applications had very few abstractions and were true monoliths, tightly coupling UI, business, and data access logic into a single code base.

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