Search Engine Land

AUGUST 1, 2024

In the evolving world of SEO , staying ahead means adapting to new technologies like Google’s AI Overviews and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. This article explores how these tools function, offers strategies for optimizing your site today and anticipates future changes in search engine technology and user behavior. Today’s landscape of search engine tools powered by AI For many SEOs, Google remains the loudest voice in the room.

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Martech

AUGUST 1, 2024

It is 2024, and we’ve all heard how AI can improve our email marketing efforts. But as we dive into generative AI tools like ChatGPT, it doesn’t take long to realize AI can yield lackluster results, inconsistent and off-brand content and campaigns that feel average. As AI use in business grows, too many companies and solo entrepreneurs try to use it to replace jobs.

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 1, 2024

Enterprise SEO will always be a unique challenge for those who are in the field and doing the work. Most enterprises make changes more slowly than the SEO landscape evolves. This will be even more true in 2024, given how rapidly AI and tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot are building a presence in how people find information and how much they trust it.

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Martech

AUGUST 1, 2024

Our agency conducted an extensive two-year analysis of content consumption across four industries, examining over 50 closed deals. The results? Eight out of ten times, we couldn’t make a connection. In other words, we only saw a connection between content engagement and the buyer’s journey in 20% of closed, won deals. The findings showed that, despite marketing’s best efforts to match the right content to the right stage of the buyer’s journey, they got it wrong the major

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Speaker: Matt Sunshine, CEO at The Center for Sales Strategy

AI isn’t replacing salespeople—it’s empowering them. The most forward-thinking sales organizations are using AI to enhance human performance rather than eliminate it. From coaching and messaging to prospecting and pipeline accountability, artificial intelligence is giving managers and SDRs the new tools they need to work smarter, sell better, and close more.

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 1, 2024

Google Ads is experiencing a significant outage affecting multiple reporting tools and product management features. Why we care. This outage is impacting advertisers’ ability to manage campaigns and access critical performance data. Details: Down: Report Editor, Dashboards, Saved Reports in web interface. Affected: Products, Product Groups, Listing Groups pages across web, API, and Google Ads Editor.

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Martech

AUGUST 1, 2024

Charles II of Spain What do artificial intelligence and the Holy Roman Empire have in common? Inbreeding by both produced something called the Habsburg Jaw. ( physical example at right ) The Holy Roman Empire was a motley collection of pieces of Europe that lasted from 1516 to 1918 and was ruled by the Habsburg family from start to finish. Staying in power for 402 years is no easy task.

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Martech

AUGUST 1, 2024

This week, Experian announced a solution for retail media networks (RMNs) to improve the ability to identify customers within its network, help advertisers reach these customers and measure a campaign’s impact. Additionally, it is designed to find patterns in audience behavior to improve campaign performance. Why we care. RMNs saw 16.3% growth in the U.S. last year as more advertisers took advantage of retailers’ deep connection with shoppers.

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 1, 2024

Digital advertising spend increased across retail media, paid search, and paid social in Q2 2024, despite rising ad prices, according to new data from Skai. By the numbers: Retail media spend grew 21% year-over-year. Paid search spend increased 6% YoY. Paid social spend rose 13% YoY. The big picture. Higher ad prices drove most of the spending growth, while ad volumes (clicks and impressions) slowed or decreased in some channels.

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Martech

AUGUST 1, 2024

Facebook and Instagram parent Meta ad revenue was up 22% last quarter. The company’s overall revenue increased by the same percentage to $39.07 billion, its fourth straight quarter with +20% growth. Net income surged 73% to $13.465 billion. The company’s operating margin improved to 38% from 29% in the previous year. Meta reported 3.27 billion daily active people (DAP) in the quarter.

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 1, 2024

Reddit will continue blocking Microsoft and other search engines and AI models from crawling its content using robots.txt – unless they strike a content licensing deal. That’s what Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in a new interview. Why Reddit is blocking search engines. Noting it’s been “a real pain in the ass to block these companies,” here’s what else Huffman told technology news site The Verge : “Without these agreements, we don’t have any say or knowledge of how our data is

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Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Global Sales and David Phelan, Account Executive

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 experts Brendan Sweeney and David Phelan 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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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 1, 2024

To compete in any marketplace, especially the competitive arena of financial services, advisors, producers, lenders, and relationship managers must have a strategy for success. The top 7% of salespeople, the elite producers, certainly follow a sales strategy and can articulate what they do consistently to find and develop client relationships. There are many ways to differentiate and compete but there are 3 key areas to developing a competitive sales strategy.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 1, 2024

Unlock the secrets to outselling your competition with these proven strategies.

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Force Management

AUGUST 1, 2024

This month's Revenue Builders Podcast episodes covered how to build and lead a top-tier sales team, strategies for bringing a new product to market, and novel approaches to leadership. In these conversations, our guests share strategies and experiences that demonstrate how innovation in leadership styles and strategies can pave the way for unprecedented growth.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 1, 2024

We want our people to take initiative. When they see opportunities to drive greater success, we want them to seize those opportunities. When they encounter a difficult customer situation, we want them to figure it out and resolve it. While we develop playbooks, processes, and methodologies to help our people perform and succeed, these can never anticipate everything that will arise.

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Speaker: Beth Sunshine, SVP, Up Your Culture

When culture isn’t consistently lived out across the organization, engagement suffers—and it often starts with a disconnect at the top. In this session, Beth Sunshine, SVP of Up Your Culture at The Center for Sales Strategy, will reveal how HR and executive leaders can close the gap between vision and execution by equipping frontline and mid-level managers to become culture carriers.

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Salesforce

AUGUST 1, 2024

Imagine rolling out the red carpet for every single customer, tailoring a customized experience instead of making them feel like just another number. That’s the power of lifecycle marketing. It’s not just about attracting customers and leaving the rest of the job to another department. It’s about treating them like VIPs and personalizing their experience across every touchpoint with your brand — from ad click, to chat bot convo, to online purchase, to loyalty member, to in-stor

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SalesProInsider

AUGUST 1, 2024

Do you want more clients to serve? Do you want to build your business? That’s the main topic for every advisor conversation that I have. Often advisors are looking for the “big thing” to make this growth happen. Yet, there’s a problem with that mindset: from what I’ve observed, there often isn’t a “big thing” at all. Instead, it’s the consistent and persistent activity that eventually pays off.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 1, 2024

Dear SaaStr: What’s Your #1 Opener in Sales? The best opener is sharing how a very similar company or a competitor uses your product — and the exact specific ROI that customer gets. Everyone wants to know the playbooks of similar companies and competitors. How often does your sales team actually do this? Put in the effort to share how another, very similar and/or competitve company, also uses the product?

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Salesforce

AUGUST 1, 2024

B2B ecommerce used to be a simple thing: businesses would just put up a website and wait for their customers to come. Now, those days have gone the way of VHS tapes and answering machines. Today’s ecommerce world is a place of: 24/7 seamless engagement personalized communication omnichannel customer experiences Businesses don’t sit back and wait for something to happen — they reach out and meet their customers in their favorite spots.

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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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SaaStr

AUGUST 1, 2024

There’s no question growth has slowed and gotten harder for the average B2B SaaS company. Take a look at the latest data from Sapphire Ventures here of 133 leading enterprise software companies: Rough. Growth for these leaders — all at scale, granted — has on average fallen to 13%, the lowest rate on record. But here’s the thing, especially for newer startups: The reality is for most startups, budget comes from disruption.

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SalesHood

AUGUST 1, 2024

In this piece, we explain more about the Sandler pain funnel and show you how to use the strategy to motivate buyers.

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Salesforce

AUGUST 1, 2024

As a small and midsize business ( SMB ) owner, you’re always looking for ways to get ahead and grow your business. That’s why we’ve put together a comprehensive guide to the must-attend events for small business owners. Attending these SMB networking events isn’t just an option — it’s an investment in the success of your business. These events are designed to help you learn, connect, and get inspired.

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SalesHood

AUGUST 1, 2024

In this piece, we explain more about the Sandler pain funnel and show you how to use the strategy to motivate buyers.

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 1, 2024

We walked by a brackish pond and one morning it appeared that two of the fish had babies. Not just a few babies. Not a lot of babies. There were two schools of baby fish which, at first glance, appeared to be underwater swarms of bees! There had to be hundreds of thousands of them! My first thought was to calculate the percentage of baby fish that would survive their first year.

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Predictable Revenue

AUGUST 1, 2024

In this episode, Collin Stewart is joined, once again, by Belal Batrawy, founder of Learn to Sell and Death to Fluff. The post The Power of Core Messaging with Belal Batrawy appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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