Tue.Mar 15, 2022

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How to Increase Sales Activity

Iannarino

Activity gets a bad rap. Just suggesting that more activity might be necessary to improve results makes sales leaders and sales managers nervous. They don't want to ask their sales force to make more calls (yes, calls) and schedule more meetings with prospects whose outcomes you sincerely want to improve.

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Great Sales Managers are Like Great Baseball Coaches Without the Screaming

Understanding the Sales Force

So there will be Major League Baseball in 2022. Suddenly the b g and moaning about the owners has stopped and everyone is just happy that baseball is back. Speaking of baseball and bringing sales into the discussion, let's talk about coaching. First the baseball. When my son was home for winter break, I asked him to rank all of his baseball coaches, an exercise that he found quite interesting.

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Why we care about adtech: The complete guide

Martech

The boom for marketing technology has not left behind advertising technology, or adtech, but the digital acceleration wrought by the COVID pandemic has sped things up more. In fact, between the third quarter of 2020 and the third quarter of 2021, there was a 125% increase in M&A activity for adtech platforms, including several high-profile deals in 2021 like Mediaocean’s acquisition of Flashtalking for $500 million and AdTheorent’s $1 billion SPAC deal to go public.

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Google refine this search and broaden this search now live in search results

Search Engine Land

While the things to know and things to consider feature is not fully live yet. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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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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CTV’s ticket to March Madness advertising

Martech

At MarTech, we’ve been caught up in our own March Madness. The conference will be held virtually March 29 and 30 ( and registration is free ). For marketers reaching sports fans, March Madness is the NCAA national Div. I basketball tournament. Ads on linear TV networks are very expensive, but even marketers who can afford them are out of luck — they’ve all been sold.

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Leveraging ABM to Reach Prospects That Are Actually Worth Your Time

Predictable Revenue

Simeon Atkins joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss leveraging ABM for more effective sales development outreach. The post Leveraging ABM to Reach Prospects That Are Actually Worth Your Time appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Google rolls out Search Ads 360 integration for Google Analytics 4

Search Engine Land

The integration may help contextualize data to enable more efficient campaigns as well as time savings. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Adobe CEO: Make the digital economy personal

Martech

“All businesses must redefine how we engage with customers and deliver digital experiences at unprecedented scale,” said Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen in his opening remarks at Adobe Summit today. Summit, one of the largest in-person events in the marketing tech space — it drew over 16,000 attendees to Las Vegas in 2019 — opened today as a virtual event for the third consecutive year.

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Supercharging Sales Leadership and Salesforce Admin Skills

Salesforce

From bootstrapping to a defined sales process A look behind the Salesforce curtain Five tips for sales leaders in growth mode In good company. After more than three decades as a manager and leader in food service operations, I decided it was time for a change. When I switched from working on the operations side of food service to the sales side with Jason’s Deli, I immediately felt drawn to the hustle and bustle action that came with it.

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Measuring marketing value in a cookieless world

Martech

With a number of privacy changes on the horizon, marketers will soon face new challenges with how we track and measure marketing performance. Measuring marketing ROI using native reporting from media platforms like Facebook and Google Ads will become increasingly less accurate and complete, and ultimately not even possible as third-party cookies are phased out.

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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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From AE to CEO: Entrepreneurial Life Lessons with Asad Zaman

Sales Hacker

In the 200th episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Asad Zaman , CEO of Sales Talent Agency (STA), where he rose through the ranks from AE to CEO, earning recognition as Toronto’s Young Professional of the Year (2019). Join us for an entrepreneurial conversation about how to modernize your talent acquisition approach for both high growth and long-term growth. powered by Sounder.

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Good morning: Fighting misinformation

Martech

MarTech’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s digital marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, we hope you are doing well. Marketing and the war in Ukraine are not things that should go together and, to everyone’s credit, so far they haven’t.

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Redpoint: SaaS Companies Are Now Worth Less Than Their Historical Norms

SaaStr

SaaS investor Logan Bartlett put together a good summary of the tumult in the SaaS public markets here. I like it because it models out two scenarios — one if the current downturn is like 2008, another if it’s like 2000. Personally, I think it this contraction be less severe than either. Why? While SaaS multiples may have gotten too high, the best SaaS companies are growing faster than ever.

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Embrace a value-based approach to agile marketing leadership

Martech

The following is a selection from the e-book “MarTech’s agile marketing for leaders.” Please click the button below to download the full e-book. Download the ebook (no registration required). To lead an agile marketing organization, you must take a value-based approach. Rather than thinking about how your process will change, think about the values you need to live by and get your teams to live by, and then make day-to-day changes that support those values.

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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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The New Sales Process

Partners in Excellence

Most of our “sales processes” are failing us. There are a couple of core reasons we’ve found. First, sales people don’t pay attention to them or execute them poorly. This post isn’t for those people. Second, we have outdated views of the sales process. We design it to be a relatively linear progression of activities we undertake with the customer.

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Crossing 100,000 on Twitter — The Top 10 Top Tweets of All Time!

SaaStr

So the @jasonlk account on Twitter finally crossed 100,000 followers. I’m not sure the most popular tweets are necessarily the absolute best, but it’s still interesting to see what resonated most with folks over the years. Here are The Top 10 @Jasonlk Tweets of All Time! Well, at least so far! #1: First time reporting to a CEO? 3 simple things to learn: – admit your mistakes.

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How To Develop A Sales Enablement Strategy

SalesHood

In SalesHood’s Sales Enablement Leadership Course, Sheevaun Thatcher, VP of Global Digital Learning and Enablement at RingCentral shares what it takes to bring a strategic approach to sales enablement. Keep reading to find an overview of strategic sales enablement and expert advice on implementing this in your organization. Sales enablement is an essential strategy for [ ] The post How To Develop A Sales Enablement Strategy appeared first on SalesHood.

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Dear SaaStr: How Do VCs Really Feel About Founder Salaries?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Do VCs Really Feel About Founder Salaries in the Early Days? Let me add just one thought to the discussion on founder salaries, once you are venture-backed. There are lots of good ideas for all different situations: 75% of market for founders’ salaries. As little as possible, until it doesn’t matter. $10k a month. Market once you are well funded, not until then.

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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

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Women in Sales & Closing the Gender Gap

Sales Hacker

Women have overcome incredible hurdles for their careers in professional sales. While we’ve made progress, there’s more distance to go to attain true equity. powered by Sounder. In this episode, Heidi Solomon-Orlick , Founder & CEO at GirlzWhoSell , and Janice B. Gordon , Founder at Scale Your Sales , join the show to discuss what they learned from the stories from women in sales featured in their new book, Heels to Deals.

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The Power of Compliments.

SalesBlog!

Who doesn’t want to be recognized and complimented? I can tell you I do. My guess is so do you. One of the greatest tools for a manager, business owner, and/or sales professional to use is to sincerely offer compliments. A tool not easily understood by most and typically not used. Why? In my article Top 6 Management Skills I talk about employee motivators and what they are; Appreciation, recognition, working with people they like and respect, and feeling like they contribute to something worthwh

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Building a brand strategy: Essentials for long-term success

Martech

Brand strategy is built on a platform of differentiation, where a company can use its value prop to create competitive advantages and satisfy customer needs. The key to long-term success is using brand strategy to define your market position in order to create market share and revenue growth. A brand marketing strategy is a set of guidelines that help businesses determine their core values and what they want to achieve with the business.

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Can Machine Learning Transform Sales Forecasting? Yes, Here’s How

Gong.io

Sales forecasting isn’t revolutionary — it’s been around since the dawn of time. But the issue: It’s not always real. Forecasting relies on opinions … subjective percentages tied to “what we think” will happen. Take a single deal: A sales rep who is overly aggressive may have a different looking forecast compared to a rep who is more conservative.

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.

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The evolution of digital analytics and marketing

Martech

The transformation of how marketers need to approach analytics is underway. It is time to stop thinking about user flow and instead think of a series of events (tasks) that we expect from engaged users. Long before the first web banner ad appeared (Oct. 27, 1994, in Wired magazine), marketers wanting to help their clients with their marketing efforts embraced the marriage of analytics and marketing.

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The Ultimate Guide to Startup Sales

Hubspot

Startup sales make for difficult, exciting, often unpredictable waters to navigate. Everyone involved in a startup sales org — from founders down to reps — is bound to face a host of challenges as their company gets its bearings. To help you get a better feel for how to approach the trials and tribulations that come with sales at a startup, we've put a comprehensive guide on the subject together.

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How app marketplaces are putting marketers in the driver’s seat

Martech

As the martech space matures, so have app exchanges that offer easier access for marketers to load up their stacks. Today, Salesforce unveiled a new homepage for their AppExchange that helps marketers better navigate the marketplace of over 7,000 prebuilt partner apps. And this serves no small portion of Salesforce’s client base. They report that 91% of their total business customers use AppExchange apps, and that the exchange has surpassed 10 million downloads.

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Measuring What Matters Most in Sales

Highspot

The global pandemic has changed the B2B selling environment. Research shows remote buying and selling is the preferred way of doing business, and this is expected to continue in the future. However, only 25% of sales organizations are directly measuring virtual sales behaviors that drive sales success. ValueSelling Associates and Training Industry recently conducted research that uncovers a glaring gap between the most impactful sales behaviors and what sales leaders measure today.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.