Wed.Aug 31, 2022

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Filling the Pipeline

Iannarino

Your path to revenue growth begins with your ability to fill your pipeline. Without a full pipeline, growth isn't likely. It's easy to believe that generating more opportunities is the best strategy, which is why some sales leaders require 300 percent of goal. However, the comfort of looking at more opportunities than you need often produces a false confidence.

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Creating A Successful Digital Marketing Plan For Restaurants

ClickFunnels

The post Creating A Successful Digital Marketing Plan For Restaurants appeared first on ClickFunnels. Digital marketing can be a great way to get people to come to your restaurant. However, most restaurants are approaching it haphazardly, without any clear strategy behind their digital marketing efforts. That is a waste of time, energy, and money. You can’t afford to flail around hoping that something works!

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Prepare For Economic Change: Use Your SKO To Invest In Your Salespeople

Force Management

Your sales kickoff is a crucial tool for maximizing your sales team's potential. As the economy shifts, leaders are looking to increase efficiency in critical areas to hit their revenue goals.

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Is Your CRM Built for Technology Experts or Sales Experts?

Membrain

When choosing a CRM , companies often focus on what the CRM can do, how much it will cost , and whether it will integrate with their environment.

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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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Insurance for the Risks of Running a Business

Sales Pop!

Insurance is one of the basic building blocks of a successful business. And deciding if your company needs a basic business policy, a comprehensive business policy, or commercial auto insurance is up to you and your risks. No one knows the investment risk of time and assets required better than you as a business owner. Ideally, your commitment to building your business will result in steady growth free from catastrophe.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Cloudflare at ~ $1 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

So Cloudflare is that quiet Cloud leader that just keeps … killing it. We last checked in on them at $500m in ARR, growing 50%. Today, they are at just about $1B in ARR … and growing even faster at 54% year-over-year than they were at $500m in ARR! Wow. And while everyone has taken a hit in public market valuations, Cloudflare has outperformed.

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How video SEO can boost your overall digital marketing strategy

Martech

When we talk about creating a video strategy, people usually see it as getting found on YouTube. And for good reason – billions of users access the platform every single month. And then comes an inevitable argument: “I don’t think my product or service is a good fit for YouTube.”. Yet, creating and marketing videos goes far beyond YouTube findability.

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You Need Just One Hour To Kickstart a Trust Action Plan

Salesforce

With trust in government and the media gradually eroding , business leaders have a vacuum to fill. For the first time in decades, the global business community has an opportunity to lead through unstable times. But record turnover — 88% of executives report higher than normal turnover , according to PwC — suggests there may be more work to be done to build trust in the workplace.

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New Taboola feature fights fake news on social media

Martech

Today, native advertising and discovery platform Taboola announced a new product feature aimed at fighting misinformation shared on TikTok and other social media. The update to Taboola News gives recommendations for reliable news sources via publishing partners, as well as working directly with device manufacturers like Samsung. Read next: TikTok is setting the ground rules for social media.

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You Can Build Customer Trust With Values-Based Marketing – Here’s How

Salesforce

Trust is the connective tissue between a brand and its customers. Marketers play a special role in building trusted relationships because we are in many ways the face and voice of the brand. Everything we say – and do – as marketers is an opportunity to build or destroy trust. That’s why values-based marketing is important. Values-based marketing is more crucial than ever as we near Year Three of the pandemic.

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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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Scaling From $10M to $100M ARR: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly with Showpad Co-Founder Pieterjan Bouten (Pod 586 + Video)

SaaStr

The $100 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) mark is a magnificent milestone for companies that indicates sustainable business growth. While every startup is eager to hit this mark quickly, it’s a process that takes time. Scalability is about capability, so businesses need to understand whether they have the capacity to grow and whether their infrastructure and team can accommodate growth.

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One Bank Set Out To Close the Racial Wealth Gap — Here’s What Happened

Salesforce

OneUnited is a 50-year old Black-owned bank with one mission: to close the racial wealth gap. It designs banking practices with its community in mind — recognizing the impact systemic inequalities and the traumatic history of racism has had on Black wealth. In the U.S., banks have played an integral role reinforcing racial segregation and blocking the potential for the economic advancement of Black communities.

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What will have the biggest impact on consumer holiday shopping?

Martech

It’s not just you, the holiday shopping season is getting longer — particularly this year. Inflation means the longer you wait the more expensive things get and that is top of mind for U.S. consumers right now. To understand what else is on their mind and how it may impact their buying, we put together a statistical overview. Read next: No matter the time of year, there’s a holiday you should be planning a campaign for.

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Great Field Service is Agile and Efficient — These Tips Can Help You Get There

Salesforce

If field service agility isn’t currently a priority for your business, it should be. It can boost efficiency, cut costs, improve the employee experience, and grow customer loyalty. On the flip side, a lack of agility can wreck the reputation your company has worked so hard to build and frustrate your frontline service team. Field service agility is what gives your company the ability to quickly adapt to business, customer, or environment changes.

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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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Baseball That Puts Fans First! Banana Ball from The Savannah Bananas

David Meerman Scott

The Savannah Bananas baseball team absolutely puts fans first. So much so that my friend, the Banana’s owner Jesse Cole , just announced that his team will leave the Coastal Plain League to exclusively play its own version of baseball called “Banana Ball”.

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Sales Enablement, Upping The Game….

Partners in Excellence

Again, this is one of those posts where I have to issue a disclaimer upfront. This may be my own ignorance of programs leading sales enablement organizations are implementing. It’s driven by an observation about discussions I hear among sales enablement folks and observations from perusing my feeds. Something I seldom see in sales enablement training and development programs are things that help sellers better understand the worlds of their customers.

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Take Extra Care of Loyalty Members During Uncertain Economic Times

Concentrix Catalyst

It’s not rocket science, and they’ll reward you for it. Just when brands thought they’d survived the pandemic and global supply chain shortages, two and half years later, customers and […]. The post Take Extra Care of Loyalty Members During Uncertain Economic Times appeared first on Concentrix Catalyst.

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How bad data can spoil good personalization

Martech

In the space of three days recently, I received three individual emails that showed me brands are beginning to take the concept of “helpful marketing” seriously. That’s good news because I believe helpful marketing is the future of email marketing. But each email had a personalization failure that shows this transition from promotional to customer-focused email marketing still has a long way to go.

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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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How to Be Charismatic: The 9 Habits of Insanely Likable People

Hubspot

Whether working in sales or support, the best reps know how to be charismatic. When these team members walk into a meeting or join a call, they immediately put customers at ease with their conversational tone and genuine demeanor. While some people are naturally charismatic, instant likeability doesn’t come easily for everyone. For the reps who are on the more introverted side or maybe even new to a management role, rest assured that charisma is something that can be learned, according to a stud