Fri.Sep 15, 2023

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How Long to Train Your Sales Force

Iannarino

Every year, usually at the sales kickoff meeting , a sales organization will provide training. If they provided negotiation training last year, this year they might focus on discovery. There are several reasons to use a different approach, especially if you want to improve your win rates. Not every salesperson needs training on discovery, even though there is nothing wrong with a refresher.

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Google search antitrust trial updates: Everything you need to know (so far)

Search Engine Land

Google is on trial for allegedly using underhand tactics to ensure it stays the world’s leading search engine. The U.S. Justice Department claims Google, which owns a 90% market share in search, paid massive sums to companies like Apple to make it the default search engine on products like the iPhone. These multibillion-dollar deals gave Google an unfair advantage, the DOJ alleges, making it nearly impossible for rival companies to compete.

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Adobe CX Cloud on pace for record earnings

Martech

Adobe’s third-quarter results topped Wall Street estimates and revenue for its Adobe Customer Experience Cloud was a big reason why. Overall, the software company reported adjusted earnings of $4.09 per share compared to estimates of $3.98. It also reported record revenue of $4.89 billion versus expectations of $4.87 billion. Dig deeper: How Homethreads is leveraging data to create a new customer experience Adobe Customer Experience Cloud brought in $1.2 billion this quarter, roughly flat

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What’s new with the Google helpful content update

Search Engine Land

The September 2023 Google helpful content update is rolling out as of yesterday at about 4:20 pm ET and while we expect it to continue to roll out for the next two weeks, everyone wants to know what to expect from this update. Thankfully, Google dropped some clues in its revisions to its search documentation about what has changed with the Google helpful content system.

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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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Stensul introduces dynamic content authoring for Salesforce and Marketo

Martech

Email creation platform Stensul has created the ability for teams to collaborate in authoring, reviewing and approving dynamic content within Stensul itself for deployment in Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Adobe Marketo Engage. Previously, emails containing such content had to be deployed to Salesforce and Marketo in order to be reviewed. The aim: time-saving.

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Google launches new AI tool to improve YouTube ad optimization

Search Engine Land

Google Ads has launched a new feature to assist advertisers in optimizing their YouTube campaigns Known as Creative Guidance, this innovative tool is now available through Recommendations and has been integrated into Video Analytics within Google Ads. Creative Guidance leverages AI to evaluate your content and offer best-practice feedback. For example, if critical information is missing from your video ad, Creative Guidance will notify you, ensuring that your campaigns are as effective as possib

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A guide to multichannel marketing for one-person marketing teams

Search Engine Land

Being a one-person marketing team can be both exciting and stressful. You have a high level of control over the company’s creative messaging, which gives you the power to truly launch a brand. But you’re responsible for building and executing a company’s entire marketing strategy, which can feel overwhelming given the sheer amount of effort it takes to be present in the right places at the right times.

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The Best 10 CRM Software for Small Business

Hubspot

As a small business owner, you toggle between marketing, sales, operations, and customer service daily — and sometimes within the same hour. To serve your customers without dropping the ball, you need a tool to help you track and manage all of your relationships. What you need is customer relationship management (CRM) software. If you think a CRM is an expensive tool only for large businesses, think again.

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SEO, generative AI and LLMs: Managing client expectations

Search Engine Land

Large Language Models (LLMs) remain a hot topic in SEO – especially with the popularity of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other generative AI tools with user-friendly chat interfaces. It’s so easy to get excited about the potential of generative AI and what it means for an SEO strategy. But managing client expectations remains critical. This overarching guide serves to help SEOs educate clients on the potential functionality of LLMs as it applies to SEO from the client perspective.

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Start Your Tech Adventure: Explaining Basic AI Concepts

G2

At the beginning of the summer, I walked into G2’s corporate headquarters in Chicago, wide-eyed and nervous about whether I had gotten the business casual outfit right.

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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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Microsoft calls deceased NBA player ‘useless’ in AI-written obituary

Search Engine Land

Microsoft has been criticised after publishing an AI-generated obituary for NBA star Brandon Hunter. The former Boston Celtics and Orlando Magic player passed away suddenly this week, aged 42, after collapsing during a hot yoga class in Orlando, Fla. Shortly after his passing, fans were shocked to see the father of three described as “useless” in an obituary published on MSN.

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Elevate With Quality Data: Tips for Crafting and Maintaining Strong Datasets

G2

So you have the data. What’s next? Find out what building blocks create a dataset and how to create datasets that adhere to quality standards every time.

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Properly preparing for the predictable: Peak seasonality

Search Engine Land

Peak seasonality is here. It’s the time of year when demand – and paid search – accelerates for goods or services that brands provide. When this happens, queries, traffic, sales and (fingers crossed) your conversions increase noticeably compared to the rest of the year. This almost definitely will lead to more optimizations, reporting, forecasting, analyzing and the dreaded influx of meetings (many of which could honestly be emails).

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What Is SQL Injection? How To Prevent SQLi Attacks

G2

Web applications power our online experience day in and day out. We connect, interact, shop, and watch funny cat videos – all using web apps. They deliver vital business services and hold sensitive data, but the more we use something, the more prone it becomes to assaults. One cyberattack to watch out for on apps that exploit vulnerabilities in structured query language (SQL) is the common and dangerous SQL injection.

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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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What is Microsoft Error Code 0x0? Fix It In 5 Ways

The Digital Technology

All the window users out there must have probably encountered error quotes that might frustrate you. One of the common error codes with which many users are struggling is microsoft error code 0x0. This is a cryptic combination of numbers … What is Microsoft Error Code 0x0?

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Why tight budgets mean maximizing content

Martech

Drastically reducing your content marketing is like stepping over a dollar to chase a dime, especially in a down market. Here are four reasons why: 1. Keeping your pipeline flowing Content marketing is all about momentum. At our firm, we have to continually emphasize that results take time, but consistency and quality always yield results. Buyers still have needs during a slump, but they’re more careful about who they’ll buy from and how much information they require to pull the trigger.