Iannarino

MAY 9, 2024

Unlock the secret to turning your pipeline coverage into a revenue-generating machine with these proven strategies.

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Force Management

MAY 9, 2024

MEDDICC is an industry standard for determining the strength of a deal and charting the path to get the deal closed. Many times, deal qualification can hinge on whether your team can identify the Economic Buyer and build enough influence in the organization to both access and evangelize them. But the power of MEDDICC for influencing deal decision-makers extends far beyond the “E” in the acronym.

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Salesforce

MAY 9, 2024

Learn to unlock data and build with AI Show off your AI innovations with the #BuiltWithEinstein Quest Join an AI + Data Community Tour stop Attend the AI NOW Tour Participate in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Salesforce Developers Attend a World Tour in your city We are in the midst of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, which is creating the most significant shifts and opportunities for Salesforce Admins and Developers in decades.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 9, 2024

The number of Google Search queries without SGE increased last month from 25% to 65%. This is a surprisingly big drop, especially considering rumors that SGE could launch ahead of, or during, Google I/O next week. Search results without SGE increase. Why did this happen, starting in mid-April? The reduction of SGE can be traced to Google’s Opt-in results type (when users must request an AI-generated answer).

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Martech

MAY 9, 2024

AI will soon be able to handle up to 95% of the work currently done by marketing agencies, creative professionals and specialists, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Here’s how this shift could lead to the rise of the “marketing generalist” — a new type of marketer who uses AI tools to rapidly execute campaigns across various disciplines, such as content, digital, branding and more.

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Closing Bigger

MAY 9, 2024

This week’s weeks podcast episode is part one of a podcast series on using AI and Emotional Intelligence for Business Success. Joining me is Nick Usborne from BeMoreHuman.ai. Unlike our regular sessions, these podcasts are a collaborative exploration rather than a conventional interview, focusing on how AI impacts sales and marketing through emotional intelligence.

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G2

MAY 9, 2024

Conflict management styles are the specific ways people handle disagreements. Learn why these are important to understand, especially as a business leader.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 9, 2024

Your online reputation is what users can learn about your brand within a few seconds. But today, it’s not only about what users might think. We also need to care about AI. In this article, you will learn: How to properly monitor what is said about your brand online across different platforms. Why not all Amazon mentions might lead to the ecommerce giant (and what it means for AI).

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Martech

MAY 9, 2024

HubSpot’s earnings and revenue beat expectations for the ninth consecutive quarter amid more reports of a sale to Google’s parent company Alphabet. The Cambridge, Mass., digital marketing vendor reported earnings at $1.68 a share and revenue of $617.4 million for the first quarter of 2024. The earnings are up 40% from the same period last year and a 23% increase in revenue.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 9, 2024

Some Meta advertisers received an alert yesterday when they opened their accounts. A source from Meta confirmed this alert was sent in error. What was announced? The message said setting new detailed targeting exclusions would no longer be possible when creating campaigns after June 28. Existing exclusions would remain unless ad set targeting is modified.

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What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Martech

MAY 9, 2024

This week saw the annual release of The Martech Landscape which has 14,106 “tools,” an increase of about 3,000 from last year. Please read Kim Davis’ excellent analysis of what that does and doesn’t mean. A closer look at the 3,000-ish new tools underlines that point. No fewer than 77% are genAI-based and more than half of those relate to content creation.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 9, 2024

The new buzzword in SEO is information gain. And like all new buzzwords, SEOs are throwing it around like we’ve just discovered fire. But there’s a massive problem. Information gain means different things to different people. In this article, you’ll learn about information gain and how to use it to your advantage. The 3 schools of information gain: Humans, machines and search engines Information gain can be used in three topics: Machine learning.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2024

Dear SaaStr: How Many Hours a Week and On The Weekends Did You Work as a Founder? The first time I worked at a start-up, I was confused. I came in that first Saturday to the office to work, and no one was there. Right before that first start-up job, I had been a young “grunt” in a services business before that for 22 months. I worked in the office constantly.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 9, 2024

One of the things I love about SEO is its inherent duality. We get to leverage both sides of our brains: The right brain when it comes to on-page, content and even link building campaigns. The left brain when it comes to technical, data analysis, etc. However, it’s easy to think of SEO as predominantly left-brained. SEO tactics tend to rely heavily on data and numerical figures.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. We had a great one last time with Luci Fonseca, Partner at Base10 Partners. Check that out here. This week we’re focusing on Andrew Steele, Partner at Activant Capital! #1. What’s your most recent disclosed investment?

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Martech

MAY 9, 2024

Understanding the “entry points” where your ideal customers first experience the acute pains your product or service can solve is critical for marketing success. An entry point is that pivotal moment when a prospective customer feels intense pain from a problem that your solution could instantly alleviate — if only they were aware it existed.

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PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

So, what is a sales spiff, exactly? You’ve come to the right place. It’s no secret: sales is a fast-paced industry. Launching a new product can necessitate an overnight shift in objectives and strategy, which often damages morale and causes high staff turnover. How do you hold onto your top salespeople and keep hitting those targets? For many businesses, the answer lies in offering incentives like spiffs, spivs, or commission structures.

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Salesforce

MAY 9, 2024

In today’s highly competitive consumer goods (CG) industry, success often hinges on the strength of your relationships with key accounts. Effective key account management isn’t just a tactic, it’s a vital strategy for achieving profitable growth. But what sets your key account managers (KAMs) apart from your competitors’? From building trust and fostering deep, meaningful relationships with your most valued customers to seizing new opportunities to elevate your brand, effective key account manag

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Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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G2

MAY 9, 2024

When most people think about turning a profit from a business, they assume it comes from traditional ownership, where you’re the boss and oversee the entire operation.

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Sales Pop!

MAY 9, 2024

From coordinating with the vendors to managing logistics, event planners juggle many responsibilities to orchestrate memorable experiences for their clients and attendees. Whether it’s a corporate conference, a wedding, or a charity fundraiser, event planners will do whatever it takes to bring their clients’ vision to life. To ensure everything runs smoothly, event planners are always on the go, moving from one site visit to the next meeting.

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G2

MAY 9, 2024

An About Us page builds trust with website visitors. Here’s how to craft a compelling one, along with examples for inspiration and mistakes to avoid.

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PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

Sales velocity is a robust metric used by sales managers for good reason. It presents a snapshot of how your entire sales process is performing. This guide will explain the sales velocity formula and what it means for your business. Key takeaways Sales velocity measures the rate at which your sales force generates revenue. The four factors of sales velocity are number of opportunities, average deal value, win rate, and sales cycle length.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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Predictable Revenue

MAY 9, 2024

In this episode, Andrew Sykes, founder of Habits at Work, re-joined us, this time exploring the pivotal role of founder-led selling. The post The Role of Founders in Sales with Andrew Sykes appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Martech

MAY 9, 2024

Ivan Ostojic is Chief Business Officer at Infobip, the omnichannel marketing platform focused on communications, conversations, chat and messaging. When we spoke, he was driving to an airport in Croatia, but he was still able to address the “trough of disillusionment” that might be just around the corner for some — not all — uses of generative AI.

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