Fri.Aug 12, 2022

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How to Improve Your Sales Approach by Changing the Order

Iannarino

There are certain B2B sales conversations that are important to both the salesperson and their prospective clients. One of the reasons salespeople struggle to create value for their contacts is because the sequence of the conversations doesn't match their client's needs. Could improving your sales approach be as simple as changing the order of the conversations?

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Whatever happened to customer journey orchestration?

Martech

Five years ago, it seemed like customer journey orchestration technology was having a moment. . Since then, the marketplace for standalone journey orchestration engine (JOE) platforms has receded. A plateau in sales and numerous vendor acquisitions absorbed nearly all the independent JOE vendors. What happened, and what does it mean for you, the martech leader?

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Dear SaaStr: How Much Money Does a VC Make If Their Investment Sells for One Billion?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Much Money Does a VC Make If Their Investment Sells for One Billion? Often not as much as you’d think. Each general partner might make $5m here on a $1B exit. And a non-true general partner might make quite a bit less. Let’s say: The fund owns 10% at exit, with a blended entry price of ~$100m (fund invested early, but also did some pro-ratas) and thus a total blended investment across rounds of ~$10m.

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Kaizen and Feeding the Sales Pipeline With Cumulative Prospecting

Sales Gravy

Putting Aside Time Every Day to Prospect Will Keep Your Pipeline Full Kaizen is a theory that developed in Japan after World War II and revived the country, their spirit, and their commerce. It’s similar to what we call “feeding the pipeline,” and involves the art of cumulative prospecting. If you set aside time every day for prospecting, you will find a steady flow of success and less stress!

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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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10 Things I’d Do Differently as a Founder Next Time

SaaStr

What will you do differently to succeed, if you were to start again? My top list: Don’t start a startup if the founders aren’t 100% aligned, especially on how committed you all are. I’ve done this, and it worked out OK, but not even close to as well as when we were all on the same page. Having a long vesting schedule for the co-founders. This ensures the quitters don’t walk away with too much.

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Use Outreach? Here’s 3 Strategies to Organize Your Sales Team’s Content

Sales Hacker

Whether you’ve used Outreach for two months or two years, having organized content is vital to your bottom line. When thinking about organizing content, my mind immediately goes to shopping. And in the content world, there are only two types of stores — thrift stores and department stores. Think about it. You’re walking into a thrift store, and the entire place is filled with racks of clothing.

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Intangible Benefits Aren’t

Engage Selling

Are you converting intangible benefits into tangible ROI? The post Intangible Benefits Aren’t first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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Webinar: The key to email marketing success

Martech

Marketers are being asked to do more with available resources while still delivering against tough targets. Pivoting this from a no-win mission to a job-well-done scenario is a no-brainer. The simple solution? Entrusting your email marketing to a reliable and scalable platform. During this webinar, you’ll learn how Hertz has tackled their ESP sprawl, grew its marketing team and scaled operations through consolidation efforts.

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Everything You Need to Know About Payment Gateways

Hubspot

Imagine you run a brick-and-mortar store and a customer comes into the shop and wants to pay for a product. But, they don’t have any cash and would like to pay with a credit card. To accept the customer’s payment, you’ll need a payment gateway, or point of sale (POS) terminal to obtain payment information by card or mobile device. If you can’t accept their card, you might lose them as a customer to the competing store next door.

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What is Conversation Intelligence? Your Questions Answered

Gong.io

You’re staring at your notes, trying to remember every detail from the prospect conversation you just had. . In an instant, it all comes back – pain points, objections, weather in Chicago. . There was something else they said that really stuck with you as being insightful. . Was it something about the competition? . You cringe at the thought of sifting through 2 hours’ worth of a zoom call. .

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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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Getting Around to Responding to Cold Emails

The Advantexe Advisor

As you are painfully aware, the average business professional receives about 300 emails a day. About 50% of them are unsolicited “cold” emails where the writer is trying everything and anything to capture the reader’s attention. Attention-grabbing subject lines, playing up on keywords, and sometimes flat-out exaggerations. Just for fun and since it’s a nice summer Friday, I took a few moments to “respond” to some of the more "interesting" ones….

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Make it. Move it. Sell it. — Episode #5

Spiro Technologies

Transcript. Adam Honig: Hello and welcome to Make it. Move it. Sell it. On this podcast, I talk with company leaders about how they’re monetizing the business of making, moving and selling products, and of course having fun along the way. I’m your host, Adam Honig, the CEO of Spiro.ai. We make amazing AI software for companies in the supply chain, but we are not talking about that today.

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Discounts Provided by Amazon – How it Impacts Pricing Policies

TrackStreet

What to watch out for with Amazon Discounts! These discounts may violate pricing policies and reseller agreements in place with the manufacturer without the knowledge of the seller. In this post, we’ll offer a few tips. The post Discounts Provided by Amazon – How it Impacts Pricing Policies appeared first on Trackstreet.

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Catalyst Interview: Adobe Analytics Champion Gitai Ben-Ammi

Concentrix Catalyst

Gitai Ben-Ammi, Principal Digital Strategist at Concentrix, was recently named an Adobe Analytics Champion. We talked to Gitai to illustrate why he was chosen for this honor, and how his […]. The post Catalyst Interview: Adobe Analytics Champion Gitai Ben-Ammi appeared first on Concentrix Catalyst.

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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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Activity Before Sales Leads. KPI For Success.

SalesBlog!

I’m a big fan of tracking performance metrics, in-depth and granular. I’m talking about much more than just tracking sales leads, appointments and opportunities however. I monitor actual daily activity that rewarded a salesperson with sales leads in the first place. Where did the lead come from? What activity was performed to get that lead? Are the sales leads quality?

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The Latest in VC Funding + Scaling SaaS: An AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 581)

SaaStr

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling and VC funding. Episode 581 of the podcast is an excerpt from the recording, and you can find the full transcript below. Jason Lemkin: Today certainly is an interesting week. If you didn’t catch it the other day … and you can read about it on SaaStr …Microsoft and Google Cloud both had extremely strong quarters, Microsoft Azure grew 40% last quarter , and a record number of nine-figure and billi

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