Wed.Aug 14, 2024

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Email marketers sharpen deliverability tactics at MailCon

Martech

Left to right: Lilit Davtyan, CEO, Phonexa and Kristen Haines, CEO, MailCon kick off MailCon New York 2024. Image: MailCon. A year of changes requires a shift in tactics for email marketers. At the start of the year, Yahoo and Google issued new rules for bulk email senders. Now marketers have to decide what steps they need to take to avoid getting emails rejected in the “post-Yahoogle” era.

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Lead gen advertising in the automation era: How any brand can succeed

Search Engine Land

Digital advertising has evolved quite a bit since I started working in paid media. PPC ad platforms work in a completely different way than they did just four or five years ago, with automation and AI featuring so heavily that you can’t work without them. Lead generation advertisers today have access to tools like broad match keywords and offline conversions – powerful when used right, but chaotic and expensive if left unchecked.

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How to gear up email for a strong finish to 2024

Martech

I’m still buzzing from a call a few days ago with a marketer working for a well-known Western university. These calls are always energizing because we talk about people’s struggles, what kinds of success they’re looking for, and what we can do to help. After the call, I felt more optimistic than I had in weeks. I wasn’t just talking with someone who understands the advantages email can bring to their organization.

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How to Optimize Your Sales Team's Performance: Key Metrics, Strategies, and Effective Leadership Techniques

Iannarino

Discover the essential metrics and strategies that can transform your sales team's performance and drive your business success.

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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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7 strategies for getting the most from your martech stack

Martech

This is the second part of a series on using the 80%/20% rule to get the most from your martech stack. The first part is here. The Pareto Principle states that roughly 80% of outcomes come from 20% of causes. In martech terms, that means 20% of your tools drive 80% of your results. But how do you determine which tools are in that group? Here are seven strategies to do that. 1.

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FTC finalizes rule to combat fake reviews, testimonials

Search Engine Land

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced a final rule aimed at cracking down on deceptive practices in online reviews and testimonials. Why we care. Fake reviews can mislead consumers, waste time and money, and unfairly disadvantage honest advertisers. This rule gives the FTC more power to enforce against violators and deter AI-generated fake reviews.

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8 questions to ask your new PPC clients

Search Engine Land

Starting new client relationships can be stressful. You know very little about their business (since you just started working together), so it’s harder to apply your marketing knowledge. On the other hand, the PPC client’s trust in you is at an all-time low (because you just started working together), so it’s easy to feel a lot of pressure to perform.

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AI Copilot for Field Service: An Introductory Guide

Salesforce

In an era where efficiency and customer satisfaction are paramount, AI is becoming an indispensable tool. With 79% of field service organizations already investing in it and 83% of decision makers planning to increase their investment next year, AI is transforming the landscape of how we make our customers happier, lower costs, and give our employees time back to spend on valuable and fulfilling tasks.

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Hot take: Why SEO’s oldest tactic must evolve now by Edna Chavira

Search Engine Land

Staying up-to-speed with the latest in SEO is critical to continued success… but it doesn’t have to be a full-time job. Spend ten minutes with DemandJump’s Ryan Brock as he presents The People vs. The Editorial Calendar: Why SEO’s Oldest Tactic Needs to Evolve. In the time it takes you to finish that cup of coffee, you’ll hear a bulletproof case for ditching the outdated editorial calendar in favor of a better, faster, and more impactful path to SEO results.

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Coaching Must Focus On “What’s Next….”

Partners in Excellence

We have endless tools to help us analyze sales performance. Whether it’s performance dashboards, looking at performance to date, or conversational intelligence tools that help us understand what happened. We know the gap, and our coaching focuses on, “You have to make the number, go do more!” There are a number of variations of this, but most of it is retrospective.

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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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The Official Guide to SaaStr Annual 2024 Official, Semi-Official and Unofficial Parties and Side Events!!

SaaStr

By the time we get to SaaStr Annual 2024, Sep 10-12 in SF Bay , we’ll be overloaded with side events, official, semi-official and unofficial parties, and so much more! We’ll update this list at least weekly but here are some of the events already lined up you can sign up for! Tuesday, September 10 Taco Tuesday on-site!! 4-7pm at SaaStr Annua l. We’ve have the best gourmet tacos, margaritas and more right at the venue, Come on Tuesday, join some braindates and mentoring sessions, and then grab

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Leveraging Application Integration Services for Enhanced Business Intelligence

Sales Pop!

Application Integration Services play a pivotal role in helping organizations rely on analytics and insights for a competitive edge in today’s data-driven world. Unifying disparate data sources, streamlining workflows, and increasing overall business intelligence capabilities through integration services have never been more essential. By connecting various applications together, real-time data exchange can take place, giving a holistic view of operations and leading to informed decision-m

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Dear SaaStr: Once You Hit Product-Market Fit, What Should You Do To Take The Market?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: Once you find product market fit in SaaS, what should your next steps be to take the market? Hire a VP of Demand Gen / Marketing. I say this not because it’s the only step, but it’s likely the most important step you can take to grow faster after product-market fit that basically always work — that you probably haven’t already done. I hired mine at $20k in MRR, and it wasn’t too early.

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Sales Techniques from the Tao Te Ching

Sales Pop!

There are many extremely useful lessons learned from the Tao Te Ching that were written in approximately 400 BC, which can be adapted for better sales techniques and general professional development. Embrace Change “The only constant is change,” it says in the Tao Te Ching. This is true for the constantly changing market conditions, evolving customer needs, and changing sales techniques.

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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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Value-Based Selling: Benefits and Strategies

RAIN Group

What Is Value-Based Selling? Value-based selling is a sales approach where sellers maximize buyer value by redefining reality, understanding and shaping buyer need, crafting compelling solutions to address need, communicating maximum impact, and driving change with ideas that matter. Value-based selling encompasses both consultative selling and advanced consultative/insight selling.

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Performing Your Due Diligence – Sales 101

Adaptive Business Services

What we are about to discuss is applicable for sales, marketing, and job hunting. Different applications, but you are trying to sell something nonetheless. Hell, like it or not, you are all salespeople:) Let’s start with this … We are living in a world where everyone happily places their personal and professional lives online. I might suggest that they have made the choice to share their profiles and interests with anyone and everyone who will read it.

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Profiling Your Ideal Customers

Membrain

In the previous article in this series on Outcome-Centric Selling® we addressed the importance of identifying and targeting our customer’s most pressing business issues - and now we are going to turn our attention to identifying and targeting our most valuable potential customers.

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The Power of Thought Leadership Ads with Omni Lab Co-founders [Video]

G2

Explore the power of thought leadership ads in B2B SaaS marketing with insights from Omni Lab Consulting's co-founders, Jonathan Bland and Jason Steele.

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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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When Do I Need to Think About Territory Design?

Predictable Revenue

In this episode, Collin, Hayes, and Lily explore the intricacies of territory design and its impact on sales performance. The post When Do I Need to Think About Territory Design? appeared first on Predictable Revenue.