Thu.Jun 05, 2025

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Payment Options: Risks and Benefits

Sales Pop!

As a small business owner, youve probably thought about acceptable payment options. In a world where people are increasingly tapping to pay, has your business started accepting these types of payments? There are some things to consider when deciding how to handle credit card and digital payments. You want to make sure your business insurance coverage protects you from potential fraud liability.

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How a Drag-and-Drop Funnel Builder Can Boost Your Business

ClickFunnels

The post How a Drag-and-Drop Funnel Builder Can Boost Your Business appeared first on ClickFunnels. If you’ve ever tried building a funnel from scratch, you already know how much work it can be. Landing pages, email sequences, automation, and tech setup can quickly get overwhelming, especially if you’re not a developer or designer. The good news is, you don’t need to be.

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If What We Sell Is Change, Why Is It So Difficult For Us?

Partners in Excellence

The job of every seller is simple. It’s all about change! It can be as simple as, “My product/solution is better than the one you currently are using, buy mine!” Or what too many do, “My product is cheaper than the product you are currently using, buy mine!” When we are more sophisticated, “We can solve your problem, buy my product!

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The New Rules of AI Investing: Why Speed Beats Strategy and Labor Budget Is the New Software Budget with Google Cloud’s COO

SaaStr

Bessemer’s Talia Goldberg and Google Cloud’s COO Francis Duza were kind enough to join us at SaaStr AI Summit 2025 on what’s driving the fastest technology adoption in decades. The New Rules of AI Investing: Why Speed Beats Strategy and Labor Budget Is the New Software Budget The pace of AI advancement has fundamentally broken our traditional frameworks for thinking about technology adoption, market timing, and competitive moats.

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How to Coach Reps on Overcoming Sales Objections with Confidence

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Global Sales at Allego

In a world where buyers are more informed and objections are more nuanced, confidence isn't optional—it’s a competitive advantage. In high-stakes conversations, knowing how to handle pushback can make or break the deal. Join industry expert Brendan Sweeney for a behind-the-scenes look at how teams are transforming sales coaching with real-time feedback, objection-handling role plays, and pre-call preparation that actually sticks.

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Latest Podcasts: Growth and Leadership in Sales

Force Management

This month on the Revenue Builders Podcast, we shared discussions with experienced and forward-thinking leaders. These conversations ranged from stories of powerful leadership, to advice on growing organizations to the latest in financial technology. These episodes offer valuable insight for any CRO, CHRO, CFO, or CEO or those aspiring to the role.

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Dear SaaStr: What Are A Few Top Tips to Hiring The Right First VP of Sales?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What Are A Few Top Tips to Hiring The Right First VP of Sales? Hiring a great VP of Sales is one of the most critical decisions youll make as a founder. Get it right, and theyll scale your revenue and team. Get it wrong, and youll lose a yearor more. Heres how to approach it: Timing is Everything Dont hire a VP of Sales too early. If you dont have a repeatable sales process or at least two reps hitting quota, youre not ready.

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5 Ways to Sell More by Uniting Sales and Marketing

Sales Gravy

Your sales team just closed a $50K deal. Marketing takes credit because the prospect downloaded three whitepapers. Sales takes credit because they nurtured the relationship for six months. Meanwhile, you're wondering why this kind of success feels so random—and why similar prospects are slipping away. Companies with misaligned sales and marketing teams waste more leads and see annual revenue decline.

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Frequently Asked Questions About the B2B Buyer’s Journey and Sales Cycle

Heinz Marketing

By Win Dean-Salyards , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing Understanding and activating the B2B buyer’s journey is essential for marketers looking to drive real revenue impact. A buyer-aligned strategy helps teams build meaningful engagement, personalize content, and collaborate more effectively with sales to convert leads into customers.

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Unlock Trapped Data in Your Data Lakes: Introducing Zero Copy File Federation in Data Cloud

Salesforce

In today’s dynamic data landscape, organizations are grappling with a wealth of information spread across various data lakes and warehouses. This data, while holding immense potential, often remains siloed and difficult to access in real-time hindering agility, inflating costs, and limiting the impact of crucial initiatives like agentic AI, automation, and advanced analytics.

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50+ QR Code Statistics to Boost Customer Engagement

G2

Explore 50+ QR code statistics for 2025 showing how brands are using QR tech to boost engagement, drive sales, and unlock next-gen customer experiences.

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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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AI and the Future of Small Business (A Trends Report Recap)

Salesforce

In the past few years, it seems like the markets for small businesses have been changing faster than ever before. Customers expect instant and personalized service. Competition is no longer just local. And digital tools (once considered optional) have become the backbone of how business gets done. This shift is clear in Salesforces latest Small and Medium Business Trends Report , which surveyed over 3,350 SMB leaders worldwide.

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85+ Ransomware Statistics Shaping 2025 Security Trends

G2

Explore 85+ ransomware statistics revealing attacks that disrupted supply chains, led to heavy financial losses, and crippled systems in the last 8 years.

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AI-Powered Account Matching: Inside Salesforce Data Cloud

Salesforce

In today’s world, where customer expectations demand instant and seamless experiences, Salesforce Data Cloud is redefining how businesses harness the power of their data. It transforms how businesses turn fragmented information into dynamic, real-time insights and actions. It ingests, unifies, and analyzes data from Salesforce and external sources, creating a centralized hub that powers personalization and intelligent experiences across Customer 360 applications.

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How CEOs Are Shifting Gears Amid Ongoing Uncertainty

SBI

SBI’s May 2025 edition of the CEO Value Creation Pulse Report reflects a shift in how CEOs are responding to a more complex commercial environment. While demand sentiment remains relatively strong, confidence is being tempered by a growing set of operational and external risks. CEOs are narrowing their focus and refining execution to improve outcomes in a less predictable environment, riddled with unprecedented uncertainty.

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Breaking The Commerce Bottleneck: Your SAP Exit Plan Starts Now

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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How To Launch an Agentic AI Pilot in 10 Steps

Salesforce

Launching a pilot is a great way to explore AI agents in a controlled setting. You can create one, test it, and address any challenges before rolling it out. If you want the pilot to succeed, though, you need to do it right: By some estimates, more than 80% of AI projects fail — twice the rate of failure for tech projects that don’t involve artificial intelligence (AI).

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Why Racing to $100M ARR Doesn’t Actually Predict Generational Outcomes from Scale Venture Partners

SaaStr

Why Racing to $100M ARR Doesn’t Predict Generational Outcomes The latest data from Scale Venture Partners reveals a surprising truth about SaaS growth trajectories Every conversation at Blue Bottle in South Park seems to circle back to the same anxiety-inducing question: Is the traditional “triple-triple-double-double-double” growth paradigm dead?

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How the World’s Largest Jeweler Stays Nimble with Composable Commerce

Salesforce

Known for customizable pieces and its commitment to sustainable craftsmanship, Pandora is synonymous with accessible luxury jewelry. What started as a small shop in Copenhagen has grown into a global powerhouse brand with products sold in more than 100 countries on six continents. That’s a lot of growth and complexity — and it requires a digital strategy that can keep up.

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The hidden cost of playing defense in marketing

Martech

I was digging into a potential client recently, a 10-figure B2B SaaS company with an eight-figure marketing budget, a top-tier team and all the shiny new toys. From the outside, everything was going well: regular product updates, strong positioning as the mature, industry standard and solid revenue performance. Despite all that, they were still losing ground to startups with smaller budgets not dramatically, but enough to raise eyebrows and threaten jobs if things dont turn around.

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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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How The Smartest Founders Are Already Winning with AI: SaaStr on My First Million Podcast

SaaStr

So we came back to HubSpot’s My First Million Podcast with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri to do a deep dive on AI and SaaS. It was a fun one because we approached it more from a content creator and end-user perspective vs. a software builder perspective. The Top 10 AI in B2B Takeaways: 1. AI Clones Can Outperform Their Human Creators. Our SaaStr AI Can Outperform Jason Lemkin.

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The Death of “AI Won’t Touch Enterprise Sales”: How ChatGPT’s Record Mode Just Changed Everything

SaaStr

The most profound shifts in enterprise software happen not with fanfare, but with quiet ubiquity. Today marks one of those moments. The Great Sales AI Skepticism Just Died For months, B2B sales leaders have been saying the same thing across LinkedIn and at every conference: “Sure, AI will help with lead scoring and email sequences, but it’ll never impact enterprise and in-person sales.

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