Mon.Apr 03, 2023

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Are You Creating Value, Building Value or Adding Value?

Iannarino

As a writer, I care deeply about words. Words and phrases have meanings. When used incorrectly, words can confuse others or obscure the meaning. The terms "creating value," "building value," and "adding value" are often used interchangeably. This makes it difficult to distinguish them.

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Conversational marketing: A guide to a key B2B GTM strategy

Martech

Did you know that 91% of business buyers and 86% of consumers consider the company’s experience as important as its products and services? If your B2B go-to-market strategy doesn’t prioritize delivering a personalized and engaging experience for your audience, you could be missing out on potential customers and growth opportunities. Fortunately, conversational marketing can help you create the kind of experience that modern buyers expect.

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Getting What We Want….

Partners in Excellence

We want to achieve our goals—make quota, get the bonus, get the promotion, get the recognition. We want people to act/behave in a certain way. We want to work for a certain company or in a certain role. We want customers to respond to our outreach, to buy our products. The problem with getting what we want is that we are usually dependent on those we work with getting what they want/need.

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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Best Way to Retain Control of Our Startup?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What’s The Best Way to Retain Control of Our Startup Once We Start to Raise Outside Capital? Sell less of the company. And in particular, raise fewer venture rounds. Let me give you my learnings on the SaaS side. At Adobe Sign / EchoSign my answer was only to raise $8m, get to cash-flow positive with much of the money still left in the bank, and sell for an exponential multiple.

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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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Open Letter: An Urgent Call to Pause AI Development Beyond GPT-4

David Meerman Scott

This morning, I signed an Open Letter , putting my name together with academics, researchers, and business people calling on all Artificial Intelligence labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.

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MarTech’s content marketing experts to follow

Martech

The challenge in writing about content marketing experts is they’ve likely already written it and written it better. The people in this group have authored enough important and influential business books to stock a library. They write and produce content, they talk about it at conferences and they know where it’s going and why. If you want your content to connect, these are the people who can tell you how.

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Sales pipeline prioritization: formulas to improve your win rate

PandaDoc

As your company grows, you may find you have less resources available for closing each opportunity. Your company’s sales managers only have a select number of sales reps to work with, and those reps only have a limited amount of time to close deals. A good sales pipeline management strategy is essential because every potential opportunity uses up your most valuable resource — time.

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UK publishers sue Google for $4.2 billion in lost ad revenue

Search Engine Land

A new lawsuit alleges that Google abused its dominance in display advertising since 2014 and seeks £3.4 billion ($4.2 billion) in damages for all UK publishers. The bigger picture. Google is facing similar scrutiny in the U.S. The Department of Justice and eight states sued Google in an effort to dismantle its ads division. Google had hoped to avoid that by offering to restructure its ad tech business.

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10 Sales training techniques every manager should know

PandaDoc

Training your team requires providing them with more than a manual and a few workshops before sending them out into the field. In fact, if that’s your current sales training program, all of that hard work and education could be forgotten by your team in just a few months. There is no room for failure in today’s competitive sales landscape. Instead of focusing on assigned reading and sporadic training sessions, concentrate on effective sales training techniques that stick.

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The State of Sales Enablement in 2023

Sales Hacker

Sales Enablement → Revenue Enablement. So what? WE ARE NOT A COST CENTER! How do we feel about ‘Do More With Less’? Wait, did I just get quite hired? And other mental health questions. 3 Tech Trends: AI, Tool Consolidation, All-in-One Enablement, DSRs – Digital Solution Rooms Who/where should enablement roll up to? Less Reactive, More Proactive Outcomes, Not Outputs Why is everyone talking about MEDDIC?

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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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Decoding the SEO success of LinkedIn collaborative articles

Search Engine Land

On March 3, LinkedIn introduced collaborative articles , a new type of content that LinkedIn publishes with the help of AI and LinkedIn users. While it was marketed as an initiative to surface the expertise of LinkedIn users (i.e., “Unlocking nearly 10 billion years worth of knowledge to help you tackle everyday work problems”), it is also a brilliant AI-driven SEO play.

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How to create a sales playbook that drives results

PandaDoc

Even if you hire the best sales reps , this doesn’t guarantee success. You need to train them and equip them with the right strategies and tools to succeed, such as the right CRM system , and a sales playbook. In this article, we’ll be concentrating on the latter: the sales playbook and its role in the sales cycle. In this article, we’ll give you a step-by-step blueprint for creating and maintaining a winning sales playbook for your team.

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How to create, optimize and promote an ebook

Search Engine Land

As far as lead magnets go, an ebook is a great one. A well-written, well-designed, optimized ebook can be an enticing appetizer for your audience. It’s a complete example of your brand voice, expertise, and knowledge in a portable, endlessly sharable format. And if your appetizer (your ebook) impresses, your audience is likelier to partake in your main course (your products/services).

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Sales Enablement Software: 9 Implementation Mistakes to Avoid

SalesHood

The post Sales Enablement Software: 9 Implementation Mistakes to Avoid appeared first on SalesHood.

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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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Who’s verified? Who’s not? Who knows, it’s Twitter

Search Engine Land

Did a Twitter account get a blue checkmark by paying for Twitter Blue or is it a legacy verified account? Right now it’s nearly impossible to tell. Why we care. Twitter’s designation for “notable” accounts was supposed to disappear April 1. Some have (e.g., The New York Times lost it ) but many others have not yet lost the designation.

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What is the sales and operations planning process?

PandaDoc

The sales and operations planning process should guide your inventory-related decisions, and it should help you develop better relationships with your customers, but “should” can only take you so far on its own. That’s why we’re going to explore all the details regarding S&OP. What is S&OP? If you’re wondering “what does S&OP stand for”, the quick answer is “sales and operations planning”.

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ChatGPT under threat from European regulators

Martech

On Friday, Italian regulators imposed a ban on generative AI tool ChatGPT with immediate effect while giving its creator, OpenAI, 20 days to address concerns about the way data is collected and processed under penalty of a fine of $21.7m or up to 4% of annual revenues (whichever is greater). There have been indications that other European regulators may swiftly follow suit.

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Using a sales pipeline to boost your revenue

PandaDoc

For every business, it’s crucial to establish a steady stream of leads for generating the same stable revenue. As Invesp claims , 80% sales require five follow-ups, and 3 out of 5 customers prefer to say “No” four times prior to saying “Yes”. Along with that, 48% of salespeople never even make a single follow-up, and 44% of the rest make just one before giving up.

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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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Inside vs. outside sales: Which suits you best?

PandaDoc

Closing more sales makes for a more successful business, but how can you figure out what kinds of sales suit your company best? We’ll explore inside vs. outside sales to show you what both entail and which kinds of companies need either one. Understand inside and outside sales While there are some key elements every sales proposal must have , there are also going to be some key differences depending on your business needs.