Tue.Feb 21, 2023

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Seeing the Invisible Using Sales Psychology in B2B

Iannarino

Most of the strategies related to sales and buyer psychology come from Robert Cialdini's work. Sales professionals are likely to use the reciprocity principle, social proof, and the other principles of sales psychology you find in Cialdini’s book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.

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3 best practices for B2B ABM marketers

Martech

B2B marketers use account-based marketing (ABM) strategies to engage the right decision makers within prospective organizations. These strategies can help marketers gain a competitive edge when they’re run with the right data. Leading with awareness The first thing to consider in their ABM strategy is the brand presence of their own organization. “I think this is really crucial because you really need to have a baseline level of awareness in the marketplace,” said Megan Creighton, head of digita

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5 Tips to Modernize Your Healthcare Marketing

Heinz Marketing

By Michelle Voznyuk , Marketing Specialist at Heinz Marketing The healthcare industry is constantly evolving, with new technologies and medicines being developed every day. As a result, healthcare marketers must be agile and adapt quickly to keep up with the changes. In this post, we’ll explore the importance of modernizing healthcare marketing and five techniques organizations can use to stay ahead of the game and generate predictable results.

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How AI can help your marketing right now

Martech

Artificial intelligence promises a bold new future but seems to be flailing in the present. Right now, Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing and Google’s Bard are more famous for their mistakes than their milestones. But AI is a lot more than those two. Its successes are all around us, we just haven’t been aware of them. Do you use Grammerly? That’s AI. When Gmail finishes sentences for you, that’s AI.

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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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Google releases February 2023 product reviews update

Search Engine Land

Google has released the February 2023 product reviews update, and it will take about two weeks to rollout. The update brings new languages to the product reviews update, including English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Polish. This is the sixth release of the product reviews update, this one is named the February 2023 product reviews update and was released on February 21 at about 5pm ET.

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Digital advertising automation is here: Are you ready? by Fluency

Martech

The benefits of automation are clear: replace the need to manually manage your digital advertising accounts with fulfilling work, such as strategic planning and forward-thinking conversations. Drastically reduce the stress related to a business exclusively powered by people—such as eroding salaries, mass churn and unbalanced account ratios. While it all sounds great in theory, executives often wonder where to even begin, and how the presumed benefits can become their organization’s reality.

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Why focus is the way forward for high-performing marketing organizations

Martech

In my previous article, I wrote about why creative marketing teams must break free from the outdated operating models to ensure longevity. It included a five-point framework for creating a high-performing organization: Proposition : Aligning and concentrating your marketing firm’s or in-house agency’s efforts with a focused vision, positioning strategy and value proposition.

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3 Ways Generative AI Will Help Small Businesses Sell Smarter

Salesforce

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t just a boon for big companies. It can also help small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) sell smarter and more efficiently, regardless of a company’s resources. In the very near future, I imagine a world in which SMBs use generative AI through Sales Cloud to streamline the sales process and close more deals faster and with fewer resources.

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The first-party data strategy you need in 2023

Martech

Looking ahead to 2023 and beyond, businesses worldwide face lots of uncertainty. One thing will remain constant throughout this period — customers expect excellent experiences when interacting with a brand. According to Acquia’s latest CX Report, businesses plan to prioritize customer retention over the next 12 months: 56% plan to improve customer experience, and 58% will focus more on customer service.

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Your Field Service Contractors Need These 5 Things To Succeed

Salesforce

If you’re struggling to give your contractors what they need for a successful field service visit, you’re not alone. According to Salesforce research , of the 33% of frontline service workforces who employ contractors, 80% of decision makers say contractor management is a challenge. The reason? You don’t have technology that gives you visibility into their skills, experience, and availability.

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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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5 Lessons Learned Evolving From A Sales-Led To Product-LED Go-To-Market Strategy With Planday Director of Growth Frederic Linfjard (Video)

SaaStr

So you’ve heard that product-led growth is all the rage, and now you want to transition from a sales-led motion to a product-led one. Some of the benefits of PLG are: The ability to grow faster A more accessible product for potential customers Greater communication and closeness with customers At this week’s Workshop Wednesday — held every Wednesday at 10 a.m.

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How A Data Lakehouse Can Help Your Team Become More Efficient

Salesforce

As businesses generate more and more data each year, figuring out how to gain the most value from that information is a constant challenge. One survey shows that 95% of businesses polled identified a need to manage unstructured data. To do this, simple systems have evolved into data warehouses, data lakes, and now data lakehouses. But what is a data lakehouse?

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SDR Mindset: What does it mean?

Predictable Revenue

Jesui Ayala joins Collin Stewart on the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss the SDR mindset and what it takes to build a successful sales development career. The post SDR Mindset: What does it mean? appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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How to navigate SEO keyword research in the era of ChatGPT

Search Engine Land

Microsoft’s plan to leverage its investment in ChatGPT’s parent company, OpenAI, is moving fast, with ChatGPT already surfacing in the Microsoft Bing interface. Mere months after Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai referred to chatbots as a “ code red ,” Google soft-launched Bard , its answer to ChatGPT. And user interest is keeping up.

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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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Why Coachability Is Key to Sales Success

Hubspot

Coaches can't win games alone. They need players who are willing and hungry to win. The same is true in sales. An uncoachable sales team is easy to spot — they lack direction, motivation, and cohesion. But when sales reps embrace coaching, they invest in their success — and the success of their entire team. Here, we'll define coachability in sales (and why it matters), explore what it takes to be truly coachable, and how to answer interview questions about this topic.

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Amazon’s share of seller revenue is now 50%

Search Engine Land

Based on P&Ls provided by a sample of sellers, the fees incurred by a typical Amazon seller include a 15% transaction fee, referred to as a referral fee by Amazon, and 20-35% in Fulfillment by Amazon fees, which encompass storage and other fees. Additionally, advertising and promotional expenses on Amazon can amount to up to 15% of the total fees, with the overall costs varying according to category, product price, size, weight, and the seller’s business model. marketplacepulse.com Whi

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Important Artificial Intelligence Case to be Argued in the US Supreme Court Today

David Meerman Scott

Oral arguments begin in the U.S. Supreme Court today in Gonzalez v. Google , an important case about Artificial Intelligence amplifications of content on social networks. The lawsuit argues that social media companies should be legally liable for harmful content that their algorithms promote.

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How to write an effective SEO job description

Search Engine Land

Do you know what makes an SEO eager to apply for an open position and what makes them click “back” quicker than a guest posting request email? I do. At SEOjobs.com, I’ve been reviewing thousands of job descriptions for open SEO positions for almost a year now. Some were bad, many were OK but few were great. Today, we take the first step in addressing all the above.

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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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What is a Franchise?

Hubspot

With a franchise , you can reap the benefits of business ownership without starting from scratch. You can get tools and guidance from a broader business that has a vested interest in seeing you succeed. So, should you look into investing in a franchise of your own? This post will discuss what franchising means, the different types, and why you should or shouldn't get into one.

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Google Search Console adds daily bulk data exports to BigQuery

Search Engine Land

Google is rolling out a feature over the next week that will allow you to automate a daily bulk export of your Search Console performance data to BigQuery. This will allow you to run complex queries over your data to an external storage service, where you can do deeper analysis in a more automated fashion, Google announced. The export. Google said you could configure an export in Google Search Console “to get a daily data dump into your BigQuery project.” This includes all of your Se

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Hacking Business Acumen With ChatGPT

Partners in Excellence

Regular readers will know among a number of things, I’m obsessed with ChatGPT and I’m obsessed with business acumen. I decided to test how Chat could help us better understand and connect with our customers. I’ve mixed feelings about it, but realized my expectations may be unrealistic. For sellers having no or very basic understanding of how businesses work, key business drivers for a role or industry, ChatGPT can be a very quick hack to learning about key issues and challenges

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The first-party data strategy you need in 2023 by Cynthia Ramsaran

Search Engine Land

Looking ahead to 2023 and beyond, businesses worldwide face lots of uncertainty. One thing will remain constant throughout this period — customers expect excellent experiences when interacting with a brand. According to Acquia’s latest CX Report, businesses plan to prioritize customer retention over the next 12 months: 56% plan to improve customer experience, and 58% will focus more on customer service.

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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.

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Creative Advertising that Gets Results with the Harmon Brothers CEO, Shane Rickard

Sell Or Die

In this episode we talk Shane Rickard, the CEO and partner at Harmon Brothers! While at Harmon Brothers, the ad agency that has collectively driven more than 1.5 billion views, over $700 million in sales, and is behind viral ads like Lume, Squatty Potty, and Kodiak Cakes. He graduated from UVU with a degree in Digital Marketing—and a PHD in Arrested Developer.

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Digital advertising automation is here: Are you ready? by Fluency

Search Engine Land

The benefits of automation are clear: replace the need to manually manage your digital advertising accounts with fulfilling work, such as strategic planning and forward-thinking conversations. Drastically reduce the stress related to a business exclusively powered by people—such as eroding salaries, mass churn and unbalanced account ratios. While it all sounds great in theory, executives often wonder where to even begin, and how the presumed benefits can become their organization’s reality.

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Dear SaaStr: How Many Hours Per Week Do VCs Expect Founders to Work?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Many Hours Per Week Do VCs Expect Founders to Work? Most investors don’t care how many hours you work, per se … all they care about is that you get it done. Grow the company, hit the plan, etc. How you get it done — that’s your job. It’s up to you. None of my VCs ever asked me how many hours I worked. They asked about the plan, the numbers, the team, and the future.

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PPC management checklist: Daily, weekly and monthly reviews

Search Engine Land

Despite the hype surrounding automation and machine learning, managing a PPC account requires human hands on the wheel. If anything, all these capabilities make it more complex. So set and forget, but at your own peril. No one truly understands this more than PPC pros who manage a diverse set of accounts – large and small – in B2B, ecommerce and serveral other industries.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Microsoft and NVIDIA announce a new partnership

Search Engine Land

Microsoft and NVIDIA have announced a 10-year partnership on Tuesday to make Xbox PC games available on NVIDIA’s cloud gaming service, GeForce NOW. The service currently has over 25 million members across 100 countries. As per the agreement, players will have the ability to stream Xbox PC games from GeForce NOW to various devices like PCs, macOS, smartphones, Chromebooks, and more.

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This day in search marketing history: February 22

Search Engine Land

Google page experience update for desktop rolls out In 2022, Google began a nine-day rollout of the desktop version of its page experience update. Page experience was made up of several Google search ranking factors, including the mobile-friendly update, Page Speed Update, the HTTPS ranking boost, the intrusive interstitials penalty, safe browsing penalty and Core Web Vitals.

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