Fri.Mar 15, 2024

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How to Respond to Common Sales Objections

Anthony Cole Training

Sales objections typically arise in several key areas during the sales process. The first is when you’re trying to secure someone’s time during prospecting, attempting to schedule a meeting on their calendar and obtain a few minutes of their attention. The second occurs when you are delivering a presentation and seeking a commitment or decision.

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The Strategic Guide to Acquiring 60 Dream Clients and Outsmarting Competitors

Iannarino

There is a logic to identifying and pursuing 60 dream clients. These 60 clients already buy what you sell; in fact, some of your competitors are supplying them now. Because your dream client is already spending a lot of money in your category, you don’t need to qualify them, nor do you need to wonder if they value what you sell.

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Google to replace perspectives filter with forums filter

Search Engine Land

Google is rolling out a change to the perspectives filter, renaming it from perspectives to forums. A Google spokesperson told Search Engine Land the word “forums” is a more intuitive name when seeking out that content. Google also told us that searchers can use this filter to hone in on results from hundreds of forums from across the web.

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The Growth Power Trio: Aligning Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success for Maximum Impact

Heinz Marketing

By Maria Geokezas , Chief Operating Officer at Heinz Marketing B2B purchases are complex, involving multiple decision-makers, each with specific needs. So if you want real, predictable revenue growth, it’s time to forget the one-off quick-win tactics. The days of extracting short-term value from customers are over, and those outdated growth hacking strategies of yesterday won’t cut it today.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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Navigating the cookieless future with cross-functional teams

Martech

The shift away from third-party cookies represents a significant change in how advertisers and businesses collect and use data. The change isn’t just a technical issue but will require unprecedented cross-functional collaboration. Marketing, IT, legal, compliance, customer service teams and other parts of the business must work together to navigate the complexities of collecting and managing data flow.

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“Should We Do Things Differently?”

Partners in Excellence

The key opportunity we sellers face is our customers posing a question to themselves, “Should we do things differently?” This is the critical question that initiates a change process, creating opportunities that we can pursue. Sometimes, there are things that provoke the customer to pose that question of themselves. Performance problems, missed goals, competitive challenges, new opportunities.

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How to Prepare for AI With a Solid Manufacturing Data Strategy

Salesforce

AI has taken center stage, but the question on many manufacturers’ minds is “how do I get started with generative AI?” While many manufacturers have taken advantage of predictive AI when it comes to planning and supply chain, forecasting, wallet share, and market share, generative AI presents new opportunities and challenges. To take advantage of all the promise of AI, it’s critical for manufacturers to lay a solid data strategy foundation.

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Microsoft Advertising testing new interface similar to Google Ads

Search Engine Land

Microsoft Advertising is piloting a new user interface for select users. The platform is yet to confirm a timeline of when the new UI will be rolled out to more users, however a spokesperson told Search Engine Land to expect more updates in the coming weeks. Navigation revamp. Microsoft Advertising’s new navigation layout is set up like the latest Google Ads interface, with two vertical menus on the left side of the screen.

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Dear SaaStr: How Do You Take Care of Yourself As a Founder?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Do You Take Care of Yourself As a Founder? Quiet quitting, feeling sorry for yourself, working 30 hours a week, etc. — that doesn’t really work for a founder. It may feel good in the short term, but it doesn’t work. It doesn’t get you to success. But you do need to take care of yourself, at least as much as possible. What works: Go hire one great VP.

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3 underutilized Google Search Console reports for diagnosing traffic drops

Search Engine Land

As Google continues to roll out massive updates , you may be looking to diagnose drops in organic traffic. A great tool to start with here (particularly if you’re in the NeverGA4 crowd or your GA4 reports just aren’t adding up ) is Google Search Console. Google’s released a surprisingly useful guide of their own on this topic with some good high-level approaches to this diagnosis.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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LinkedIn now allows brands to sponsor any organic post

Martech

LinkedIn is now allowing businesses to promote content from any user on the app, not just their own employees, expanding its Thought Leader ads into a form of branded content promotion. Previously, brands could use Thought Leader ads to turn posts from verified employees into promotions. Now, businesses have the option to promote posts from non-employees too.

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Meta will sunset CrowdTangle in August

Search Engine Land

Meta announced that CrowdTangle will be discontinued on Aug. 14, 2024, as the company shifts its focus toward developing new research tools. Until then, users can still access CrowdTangle and its Chrome Extension, with data updating in real-time. However, during this period, no new users can be added to accounts as the platform will be in maintenance mode.

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What are Virtual Assistants?

Sales Pop!

I chatted with Chris McShanag , who knows much about using virtual assistants (VAs) to help businesses grow. Here’s a simple breakdown of our talk. Understanding Virtual Assistants Chris Mechanic introduces virtual assistants as remote workers who can handle various tasks from around the globe. These tasks encompass a wide range of administrative and support functions, such as managing finances through bookkeeping, offering customer support over the phone, and performing various other offi

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Q&A with David Iscove: The MarTech Conference

Martech

David Iscove is creative technology practice lead at Cella by Randstad Digital. At the MarTech Conference next week, he’ll be sharing a new blueprint for customer experience that he summarizes as: “Always on, always listening.” David is one of a number of speakers that will be not only emphasizing customer-centricity but offering actionable advice about how to become a customer-centric organization.

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5 Inspiring B2B Marketing Campaigns to Take Yours to the Next Level

Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con

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Lead Generation: How To Turn Interest Into a Sale

Salesforce

What you’ll learn What is lead generation? What are the most effective lead generation strategies? How do lead qualification and nurturing work? What are some methods for nurturing leads? What are the current trends in lead generation? How do you measure the success of your lead gen strategy? What are the best practices for lead generation? It’s no secret that people are inundated with countless messages and offers daily.

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What It’s Like Running a Profitable $400M Public SaaS Company with Vimeo CEO Adam Gross 

SaaStr

Vimeo CEO and SaaS veteran Adam Gross and Jason Lemkin, SaaStr founder and CEO, recently hosted a fireside chat at SaaStr Miami, talking about running a profitable public company with $400M in revenue, including themes around: Using a combination of self-serve and sales-led motions How to juggle and manage several different ICPs How to avoid over-monetization during tough times Who owns “free” What to expect from AI in the near future Adam is an OG in Cloud and SaaS.

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Link devaluation: The hidden threat of SpamBrain

Search Engine Land

As I write this, we’re in the first week of the March 2024 core and spam updates – and the aftermath has been savage. Sites with spam policy violations were hit with manual actions. Many SEOs are in a state of fear. This is just the beginning. SpamBrain is just getting started and it’s coming for your links. There are only so many ways to build links Links have been called the currency of the web for as long as I can remember and no matter what anyone tries to say, they still matter.

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5 impactful ways to level up your email marketing designs

Martech

Turning to templates might seem the most prudent option when it comes to delivering eye-catching emails, especially when deadlines are fast approaching. However, as I’ve seen from working on thousands of campaigns for clients in every industry, bespoke email campaign designs are always more beneficial in the long term. From including interactive elements in your layouts to finding the right font, here are five things you can do to ensure you create every email campaign with optimal performance i

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr