Wed.Jul 31, 2024

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How to make the most of GA4 for SEO

Search Engine Land

Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is a powerful tool for analyzing website and app traffic, offering valuable insights into user behavior and campaign performance. This article explores how SEO professionals can leverage GA4’s features to refine their strategies, from linking with Google Search Console to analyzing organic traffic and setting up custom events.

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Second quarter saw slowing ad spend on most platforms

Martech

Most U.S. digital ad platforms saw slowing ad spending last quarter, according to a new report from digital marketing agency Tinuiti. Amazon Sponsored Products, Facebook, Google search and Instagram all saw lower spending growth year-over-year in Q2 2024 than a quarter earlier. YouTube was the only major platform that saw an increase. The video platform saw a 28% increase in ad spend last quarter, compared to 18% in Q1.

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8 free tools for PPC reporting

Search Engine Land

Reporting is a crucial part of paid media management for communicating results to stakeholders and informing optimization decisions. While there are a number of well-made third-party reporting tools, many are pricy and inaccessible to all PPC managers, either due to budget concerns or complex approval processes. Additionally, various tools have different benefits, with some better suited to spreadsheet-nerd analysis and others for visually friendly reporting.

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What CX leaders do that laggards don’t

Martech

Companies that rate highly for customer experience are more likely to have well-integrated technology, make their investment decisions with their customers in mind and are using AI in their CX solutions. That’s according to research conducted by Merkle, an experience transformation consultancy. Every year, Merkle conducts research into customer experience from both the vendor and customer side.

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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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Google updates deepfakes search algorithms and controls and expands About this image

Search Engine Land

Google announced a number of image-related Search features today, including updates to how Google Search handles deepfakes and expanding the About this image feature to Circle to Search and Google Lens. Deepfakes in Google Search Google has updated Google Search around deepfakes in two ways; (1) updated its ranking system to help ensure deepfake content does not rank highly in Google Search. and (2) making it easier to remove deepfakes from Google Search.

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Subscriber acquisition best practices following Gmail’s spam update

Martech

Gmail’s new spam guidelines are putting email and CRM marketers in a bit of a pickle. Responsible list management to stay under spam thresholds means subscriber volume will likely decrease over time. As if that dynamic weren’t enough of a challenge, iOS 15 continues to throw a wrench into the works — any marketers using open rates to measure engagement are trying to make sense of a murky picture.

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Are We Missing The Point?

Partners in Excellence

For decades, tools/technologies have been developed with the promise of freeing up seller time to do that which is most critical–connecting with and engaging customers. We have 1000s of tools that demonstrably improve our efficiency. We can get much more done in much less time. In the past few years, AI and LLMs have amplified that. Not only do these tools enable us to accomplish more in less time, but they provide high levels of personalization and deep research on the organizations and i

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The Hidden Costs Small Businesses Pay To Accept Offline Payment Methods

Hubspot

Think of the last time you wrote a check for something. Can you even remember? For many, the answer is a resounding no. In fact, nearly half of all Americans didn’t write a single check in 2023. Despite the preference for digital payments in our personal lives, 40% of all B2B payments are still made by check. And that’s because for decades, check payments have been the industry standard.

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7 Things the Best Sales Reps Get Right and 8 Ways the Rest Make Things Worse

SaaStr

How do you tell the best reps from the mediocre ones? In this week’s Workshop Wednesday , SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin shares the 7 things the best sales reps get right and the 8 ways the rest make things worse. #1: They listen to your problems and give you the best solution using their product. The best sales reps solve your problems. Some spaces, like OpenAI, are on fire, so it’s order-taking to some extent.

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In Sales It’s Not About You

Sales Gravy

On this episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount sits down with author and speaker, Carole Mahoney, to discuss her path to becoming an entrepreneur by using a buyer first approach. Carole teaches us that when it comes to sales, you've gotta get out of your own head. It's not about you, your quota, or even how great your product is. It's all about the customer.

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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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Dear SaaStr: How Do You Compensate Reps on Multi-Year Deals?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Do You Compensate Reps on Multi-Year Deals? In the early days, when Cash is King, pay the sales reps a full commission on all cash paid up-front. It’s what I did. 95% of the time, this is what you want to do. As as a SaaS founder, I paid nothing on multiyear deals without cash upfront, because we had basically a 100% renewal rate at term expiration.

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The One Funnel Customer Journey feat. Will Yarbrough

Sales Gravy

On this episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount engages Denim CRO, Will Yarbrough, in a fascinating discussion on how to sell more and grow faster by linking the customer journey through a One Funnel Strategy. Sales and marketing strategies come and go, but one approach has been gaining traction for its simplicity and effectiveness: The One Funnel Mindset.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Microsoft at $260 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

So Microsoft is hardly a newly minted public company, the frequest focus of our 5 Interesting Learning series. But it’s become so central to Cloud the past years, and both LinkedIn and GitHub (which Microsoft acquired) are at the pulse and heart of B2B and B2D, respectively. So it’s a great and important one for us all to learn from. And at $260 Billion in ARR, what’s the #1 learning?

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Most SaaS Sales Teams Are Only Tying One Half of the Bowtie

Membrain

Most of us can relate to an “oops” moment when we walk out the door and realize we’ve grabbed the wrong jacket, left our wallet on the countertop, or maybe even mismatched our socks. The consequences of these momentary lapses are rarely significant, but if we are consistently going out in the wrong clothes, it makes life just a little bit harder.

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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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For the Record … I Don’t Sell Nimble CRM

Adaptive Business Services

Some folks that I speak with are under the impression that, as I am a Solution Partner for Nimble CRM, I sell Nimble. Nothing could be farther from the truth. If people decide that Nimble is right for them, I assist them with implementation and training on the system. The absolute last place that I want to find myself in would be in a consulting contract with a person or company who I convinced that Nimble was the right solution for them.

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The Biggest Mistake That Salespeople Make When Closing

Understanding the Sales Force

Our family of three walked into a store where we were invited to recline in an amazing smart chair. It had every bell and whistle you could imagine in a $10,000 massaging recliner. Aggressive salespeople are no more effective than passive salespeople but if I had to choose one over the other I would take my chances with the aggressive salesperson and attempt to get them to tone it down.

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How customer satisfaction fuels B2B profitability

Martech

Ah, customer satisfaction — the soft metric that bites hard, especially in B2B, where we are not blessed with oceans of prospects and customers. Long-term B2B success is inextricable from the human relationship. You might treat customer satisfaction as soft, but your customers do not. Each and every customer is more important to the bottom line, especially as a B2B company moves along the arc of maturity and increasingly focuses on profitability.

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The Biggest Mistake That Salespeople Make When Closing

Understanding the Sales Force

Our family of three walked into a store where we were invited to recline in an amazing smart chair. It had every bell and whistle you could imagine in a $10,000 massaging recliner. Aggressive salespeople are no more effective than passive salespeople but if I had to choose one over the other I would take my chances with the aggressive salesperson and attempt to get them to tone it down.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.