Wed.Mar 15, 2023

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The Ultimate Guide to B2B Sales Training: Strategies, Techniques, Best Practices

Iannarino

The different types of sales include B2C (business to consumer), B2G (business to government), and B2B (business to business). According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as of May 2020, there were approximately 14.2 million sales and related occupations in the United States, including both B2B and B2C sales roles. It is estimated there are around 3 million B2B salespeople.

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Revenue Enablement: The Complete Guide for 2023

Veloxy

As forward-thinking companies transition from traditional sales enablement to revenue enablement, it’s important to understand that 42% of businesses still don’t have a sales enablement program. That’s a HUGE problem. In this article, we’ll explore the importance of revenue enablement, the difference between sales enablement and revenue enablement, revenue enablement best practices, how to build a revenue enablement strategy, and much more.

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Google releases March 2023 broad core update

Search Engine Land

Google is now rolling out the March 2023 broad core update. This is the first broad core update of 2023. It has been just over six months since Google’s last broad core update – the September 2022 broad core update. The announcement. Google announced this on Twitter and updated its search updates page: “Today we released the March 2023 core update.

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Ability and Dependability

Sales Pop!

In selling, we’re keenly focused on telling prospects and clients what we can do. Showcasing our products and services in the best light possible is, of course, key to successful outcomes. Our offerings and their abilities to solve client problems are top of mind and top of mouth for our selling teams as we pursue business, especially with major accounts.

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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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5 Interesting Learnings from GitLab at $500,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

So at Team SaaStr, we flag certain startups as “hero companies” The ones founders really look up to, and especially want to learn from. We try to get as many of their founders and CROs and CMOs to speak at our events as possible. One of the top ones is GitLab. Whether you use GitLab or not to build and manage your software, you’ve at least looked at it and learned from them.

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What Teams in Complex B2B Sales Need to Know About CPQ (Configure, Price, and Quote) Software

Membrain

Configure, Price, and Quote (CPQ) software can be a critical tool for increasing efficiency on a complex B2B sales team. But, like any software solution, whether it actually improves the effectiveness of your sales team (or not) depends on how it’s used. Here’s what leaders of complex B2B sales need to know about CPQ to make the best of it–and avoid the worst pitfalls.

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Twitter launches new ‘Unskippable’ video marketing series

Search Engine Land

Twitter has launched a new educational series named ‘Unskippable,’ consisting of eight parts focused on video marketing and creating video promotions that stand out on the Twitter feed. The series is part of Twitter’s free education platform called ‘Flight School,’ which offers insights into key advertising best practices on Twitter.

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Customer journey orchestration: What it is and why marketers should care

Martech

The modern customer journey is complex, spanning multiple channels, devices and touchpoints as customers navigate researching and buying products and services. It’s also increasingly digital. The pandemic exacerbated the movement of B2B and B2C customers from in-person to online channels. Two years after the Covid-19 hit, the customer split between online and offline channels was at 61% and 39% respectively versus 56% and 44% in 2020, according to Salesforce’s 5th State of the Connected Cu

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New Google Analytics custom channel groups

Search Engine Land

Google Analytics has introduced a new feature that allows users to build personalized channel groups, either by starting from scratch or by utilizing Google’s default channel group as a foundation. This enables you to tailor your channels to better suit your needs. This feature offers the flexibility to modify channel names according to your company’s preferences, fine-tune the criteria for each channel, and add or delete channels to achieve broader or more targeted perspectives on y

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Don’t apply wishful thinking to your data

Martech

Data is just a pile of numbers until you figure out what they mean. We devise all sorts of metrics and KPIs to find truth in our numbers. But even smart people can unknowingly deceive themselvesby trying to see what they want to see in their data. So how is it that smart people can misinterpret their data? How do they get it wrong? It’s human nature The problem with humans is that they are…human.

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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 Marketing and Sales Alignment Helps With Company Growth

Sales Hacker

There are many benefits of the marketing and sales teams working together. It helps generate better leads, improve conversion rates, and eventually, increase company revenue. But how do you align marketing and sales strategy? In this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, our host Sam Jacobs welcomes Mariana Cogan, the CMO of People.ai. They talk about why buying needs to be a team sport, why forecasting won’t lead to the growth you need, and the importance of diversity in technology.

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Digimind’s new product combines two AI engines to monitor and analyze social media

Martech

Digimind, the social listening and marketing intelligence platform, today unveiled a new social listening program which it says is the first to use two AI engines to monitor and analyze online conversations. What it does. The new product combines Digimind’s AI Sense with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. AI Sense monitors social media, blogs, reviews, podcasts and more, to detect key events about any brand or topic.

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Microsoft Ads broad match modifier keywords now serving ad broad match

Search Engine Land

Starting on March 15, Microsoft Advertising will be changing the way broad match modifier (BMM) keywords are served for search ads. What’s happening. Currently, BMM keywords serve as phrase match, but they will now begin to serve as broad match. This change will be rolled out gradually, and Microsoft Advertising expects to maintain stable performance.

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How to define your marketing organization’s rules of engagement

Martech

This article is part of a series about designing a high-performing marketing organization. Organizations thoughtfully designed to run lean, easily adapt to changing priorities, and produce remarkable work at the speed of modern marketing, have an advantage over others. They have clear, actionable rules of engagement for how they will and won’t operate.

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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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This day in search marketing history: March 16

Search Engine Land

Google Univeral Analytics: The beginning of the end In 2022, Google announced its plan to deprecate Universal Analytics on July 1, 2023. (That’s 106 days from today.) Previously processed data in Universal Analytics will be stored for at least six months after the deprecation date. Why was Google making the switch to Google Analytics 4? Because it didn’t rely on cookies and used an event-based data model for measurement.

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Choose to do the Opposite – Selling 101

Adaptive Business Services

When defining and honing your personal selling style, you have a built-in advantage. While you may be a seller in your professional life, you are a consumer after hours. In other words, instead of being the predator, you are the prey and you are constantly bombarded by those who wish to sell to you. Even better, you know what works with you and you also know those selling tactics that either don’t or may well downright p**s you off.

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Andi Search adds Generated Content feature

Search Engine Land

Andi is adding a Generated Content feature to its search results. It promises “the most accurate generative AI content and reliable source citation in the industry.” That’s a big claim from a small search engine. So is Andi truly more accurate than the new Bing, which is now powered by GPT-4 ? As with all things generative AI, the output isn’t perfect.

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ACH vs. Credit Card: Which is Right for Your Business?

Hubspot

All businesses need a way to accept payments — but which method is the best? ACH, or Automated Clearing House network, and credit cards are both methods that enable people to make payments. However, there are a few key distinctions including guarantee of payment, automated clearing house processing times, and fees. In this post, we cover the following: What is ACH?

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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.

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How to deploy advanced schema at scale

Search Engine Land

Implementing structured data to your key pages has many potential SEO benefits, including higher click-through rates, faster indexing and more impressions. However, deploying schema is challenging. It is not a one-and-done approach where you only need to add some code to your website. Getting results from schema markup entails deploying and maintaining it correctly amid constant website and content changes.

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What About Our Competitors???

Partners in Excellence

We are obsessed with our competition. We study them and their strategies. We compare them, their solutions, their capabilities to ours. We read their reviews, reveling over the customer complaints, trying to figure out how to leverage them into our strategies. We develop playbooks and battlecards to help position ourselves. And then there’s the comparison checklists on our websites.

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SEO product management: Key framework and fundamentals

Search Engine Land

Two qualities are at the core of what makes a great SEO product manager : Adaptability. Critical thinking. This article will cover how to think critically and creatively in the following areas of SEO product management : Fundamentals for SEO product managers. Methodologies for prioritizing an SEO roadmap and SEO backlog. How to write an effective SEO ticket.

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The new Bing: No more waiting list?

Search Engine Land

Is the waiting list to test drive the new Bing gone? It sure looks that way. We were alerted to this development by a story on Windows Central. Why we care. Many of us (including me!) have been waiting weeks to gain access to the new Bing. If you were in this group, fire up Microsoft Edge, make your way to Bing and sign in to see if you have access.

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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.