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What Making Assumptions in Sales Does to Your Success

Anthony Cole Training

Doing research and preparing for a prospect meeting so that you know what questions to ask is important. However, it is even more important to have a healthy level of skepticism and not assume anything about what they may or may not need.

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Sales Leaders Must Prioritize Effectiveness

Iannarino

What causes a prospective client to choose to buy from one salesperson instead of another? What creates the preference to buy from one and reject another? Why does one salesperson easily acquire a second meeting while another leaves without a second meeting on the prospective client's calendar? How is it possible for one salesperson to be able to successfully lead the client through the conversations they need to have while another has to follow the client's lead?

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Upselling and Cross-selling: 8 Examples and Why They Work

ConversionXL

Users can access Spotify’s extensive music library for free, yet their Premium subscriptions grew 15% in 2022. Meanwhile, ecommerce marketing software Privy is generating 10% higher average order value for Shopify users with their related product recommendations add-on. These tactics are upselling and cross-selling (respectively). While both effectively drive revenue and enhance the customer experience, upselling is ideal for companies with a single product or freemium model.

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You Win or You Learn

Sales Pop!

So much in selling has changed over the last two years but some things remain the same, standing tall to guide us with time-worn wisdom. One involves that phrase, trite as it is, that packs great potential to gain knowledge in five short words. For all of us in the world of selling, losing happens. No matter how good you are, you will come up short on occasion.

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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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How to Create a Marketing Playbook for Consistent Campaigns

ConversionXL

Consistency is the cornerstone of good marketing. You only have to look at top brands to see this in action: Apple’s sleekness, Coca-Cola’s playfulness, Disney’s magic. Consistency is equally critical for startups. Stacked Marketer turned a free newsletter into a six-figure revenue generator by staying actionable, convenient, and entertaining. Being consistent earns trust and cements brand status—qualities that add 10–20% to your overall growth, according to LucidPress research.

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Building Growth Function From Ground Zero

Heinz Marketing

By Payal Parikh , Director of Client Engagement and Head of Growth at Heinz Marketing. Before I was assigned to be the Head of Growth at Heinz Marketing, I had no experience in how to build something that didn’t exist. Basically, building something from Ground Zero. Matt Heinz trusted me for the job, I wore my ‘Head of Growth’ hat and I knew I didn’t want to let him down.

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Coach Your Way to Sales Leadership Success: Best Practices from the Field

Sales Hacker

Successful sales leaders were once great salespeople. They know how to identify and qualify opportunities, progress them, maximize the revenue, forecast accurately and close the deal. Today’s sales leaders require more than the above. To lead a high performance sales team and to achieve the team’s full potential, leaders must take on the role of cheerleader, coach, disciplinarian, physiologist and administrator.

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Getting started with the Agile Marketing Navigator: Creating a blueprint

Martech

We recently introduced you to Agile Marketing Navigator , a flexible framework for navigating agile marketing for marketers, by marketers in the article, A new way to navigate agile marketing. The navigator has four major components: Collaborative Planning Workshop, Launch Cycle, Key Practices and Roles. Within these categories, there are several sub-pieces for implementation.

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5 Things Salespeople Won’t Do Five Years From Now

Spiro Technologies

The pace of change can be dizzying. Every month, it seems like we’re getting closer and closer to the plot of the Will Smith movie, I, Robot… wait, how does that movie end again? Er, never mind. In any event, technology, and the trends that come with it, mean we can no longer expect things to stay the way they are for long, for better or for worse.

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MarTech Salary and Career: Amanda Donnelly on learning and experience

Martech

As part of the MarTech Salary and Career Survey , we interviewed people about their experiences in marketing. Today we’re talking to Amanda Donnelly. She has a long career in marketing and is currently running her own consulting business. How did you get to where you are today? I spent the first 10 years of my career in the digital ad agency space, really focused on digital media planning and buying.

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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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Top 10 Learnings Architecting a High-Throughput Critical API With RevenueCat Co-Founder & CTO Miguel Carranza (Pod 564 + Video)

SaaStr

What makes a great API? And how do you go about building a successful one? Miguel Carranza, CTO at RevenueCat, shares ten learnings from firsthand experience in architecting an API & SDK that is currently on 5,000+ apps and has seen 3x growth Year-over-Year. . Carranza begins by sharing his high-level thoughts on making a top-tier API: “In my opinion, there are two main things that make a great API.

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Adobe: Online prices were up only 2% in May

Martech

Online prices were up only 2% last month compared to a year earlier, according to The Adobe Digital Price Index. That’s a far better showing than the rest of the U.S. where the inflation rate hit 8.2% in May. May’s online prices were down 0.7% from April and 1.6% from March’s record 3.6% increase. The DPI tracks prices across 18 categories, 10 of which saw decreases last month.

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Creating Sales Goals as a Sales Manager [Expert Tips & 11 Examples]

Hubspot

The role of a sales team is to sell. The sales manager is responsible for creating, advancing, and managing the people, processes, and systems for their team to be successful. While this job routinely requires setting goals for the team, sales managers must set goals for themselves as well. These goals focus on personal development improvements and bettering the sales team through leadership.

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“Appealing To Everyone Means You Appeal To No One!”

Partners in Excellence

This morning I had a fascinating conversation with a CMO for a very large technology company. We were talking about a huge challenge they faced in driving growth. They have a very large customer base, built of decades with truly innovative products. Within those traditional markets, they had a dominant share. But those markets wouldn’t support their growth ambitions.

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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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How Sustainability Data Can Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

Concentrix Catalyst

Corporate environmental sustainability initiatives are increasingly important to enterprise organizations, and for good reason. According to Forrester, “As more government mandates take shape around the world, investor scrutiny on sustainability […]. The post How Sustainability Data Can Reduce Your Carbon Footprint appeared first on Concentrix Catalyst.

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Make it. Move it. Sell it. — Welcome Episode

Spiro Technologies

Transcript. Adam: We’ve got to get excited for this, Kari. Kari: Right, right, right. I notice we’re apparently coordinated on pink . Adam: I know. I was out of purple. I don’t know. Hello, and welcome to Spiro. ai podcast, which we’re calling Make It, Move It, Sell It. You know, our goal is to have a lively conversation about what’s changing the game for companies in the supply chain.

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Introducing #Changemakers: How We Make Change Happen

Highspot

We’re on a mission to transform the way millions of people work by helping our customers drive positive, lasting change across their sales teams. But our power to ignite action and unite people around meaningful missions doesn’t stop with the world of work. This summer, we’re proud to spotlight three organizations that create positive change in our communities: Food Lifeline, EarthCorps, and Year Up.

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Prioritize and Stop Feeling Guilty.

SalesBlog!

A week doesn’t go by that I don’t get questioned on how I fit all I do and keep it together. “There’s not enough time, Chris! How do you do it?” Just thinking about that question makes me tired and yet I do my daily, weekly, monthly and annual tasks with consistency. I have a 1.5 to 2 hour commute each way, work at least 9 hours a day, design and maintain our company website and my three sites, write articles, perform church leadership responsibilities and most importantly be a

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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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We Asked 9 Successful Sales Leaders About the Economy

Sales Hacker

It’s been a tough couple of years, Sales Hackers. And it’s about to get tougher. From layoffs at Redfin and Tesla to the plummeting crypto markets , companies are starting to tighten their belts — and the economy has shifted from the so-called “Great Resignation,” with a job market heavily favoring employees, to the “ Forced Resignation.”. What do the changing market conditions mean for RevOps and sales?

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Episode 2: 60 Seconds with Richard Harris (San Francisco)

Sales Hacker

Go from zero to sales in just 60 seconds. I’m Nick Capozzi (head of Storytelling at Demostack and 2x’s Top 10 LinkedIn Sales Superstar), and I’m on a roadshow across the U.S. where I’m putting sales leaders in the hot seat. In each city, I get your favorite sellers on camera for 60 seconds to answer your burning questions — as many as they can in under a minute.

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