Fri.Apr 07, 2023

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The Ultimate Guide to Building a Successful B2B Sales Funnel

Iannarino

A sales funnel is a concept that illustrates the various stages of a customer's purchase decision process. While sales approaches their work using a pipeline, marketing uses B2B sales funnel strategies. As a salesperson, it is important to understand your organization’s funnel.

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How Sales Skills Can Help Grow Your Audible Business

Sales Pop!

Sales skills are crucial in any business. It enables a company to attract customers, increase revenue, expand into new markets, and build a loyal client base. Every outstanding salesperson is a company’s asset and an indispensable one. With the rise of e-commerce, the shift to the online platform from brick-and-mortar stores has transformed selling styles.

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Dear SaaStr: How Much Of My Startup Do I Need to Sell In Each Venture Round?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Much Of My Startup Do I Need to Sell In Each Venture Round? It definitely can vary based on what type of investor. But for venture-backed start-ups raising from more traditional funds (the ones you’ve heard of), here are some rough rules: Seed VCs would like to buy 10%, sometimes 15%, if they can. They often “settle” for a bit less.

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How B2B marketers can help sales overcome customer indecision

Martech

Customer indecision is now a leading reason for missing B2B marketing and sales pipeline and revenue targets. Historically, the status quo — doing nothing — was the ultimate competitor. But new research uncovers customer indecision, not customer indifference, is a major roadblock costing companies millions of dollars in new revenue. That’s a whole bundle of opportunities stuck in your funnel, clogging your pipeline and baffling your stakeholders.

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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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21 best ChatGPT alternatives

Search Engine Land

I’ve been excited about ChatGPT , its API , and its SEO applications – everything from local SEO to title tags and content editing. And like many (including OpenAI’s founder ), I’ve also seen its limitations. While ChatGPT is remarkable, once you’ve used it long enough, you likely know the following: It frequently “hallucinates” answers, acting as if it knows the correct answer when in reality, the platform is “confident but wrong.” There are areas

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This week’s new AI/ChatGPT-powered martech products

Martech

Artificial intelligence (AI) is sprouting everywhere in marketing technology. While it has been a part of many products for some time, ChatGPT’s launch made the topic white-hot. As a result, more and more AI-powered solutions are being announced every day. Dig deeper: Three essentials for writing a good ChatGPT prompt Here is a roundup of actual AI-powered martech products, platforms and features announced this week.

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How SEOs can embrace AI-powered search

Search Engine Land

The race toward AI-powered search is heating up. Microsoft has Bing Chat while Google has Bard. Yet, many are concerned about what all these developments mean for content creators and the larger publishing industry. Embracing AI in search is inevitable. But the issues causing some SEOs to grumble must also be addressed. In this article, I’ll look back at Google’s history with AI and what SEOs can do to keep up with changing times.

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Generative CRM — Here’s What It’ll Mean For Your Business

Salesforce

The employee view Imagine you’re a sales rep today and you’ve just been assigned a new account. How many hours would it take you to find a company overview, catch up on the latest company news, find the right contacts, and draft an intro email? Now imagine your customer relationship management (CRM) platform doing all this in seconds, so you can fine-tune that email and send it sooner.

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How to create review content that’s helpful for users and Google

Search Engine Land

Whether they’re buying online or in a store, more shoppers rely on review content to help them make smart decisions on almost any purchase. Shopping for a new car? Face cream? Yoga mat? Rechargeable battery? Diapers? Pajamas? Peanut butter? Do a quick Google search and you’ll find a wealth of reviews, comparisons, best-of lists, worst-of lists, and “this product changed my life” content.

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How to Sell Digital Products [+ 10 Best Digital Products to Sell]

Hubspot

What do ebooks, graphic design software, and online courses have in common? They're all digital products. These products aren’t tangible, but they play a role in our daily lives and are no less valuable than physical products. Because digital products are so ubiquitous, selling them can be profitable for your business. Doing so comes with some unique benefits like low overhead costs and not having to worry about storing inventory.

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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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Twitter: Blue subscribers will now see ‘approximately’ 50% fewer ads

Search Engine Land

Twitter is now delivering on its promise to show less ads to Twitter Blue subscribers. The company has added details of how “Half ads” will work to its Help Center. Why we care. If you’re advertising on Twitter or thinking about it, this change could have a minor impact on ad reach. “Minor” because the total number of Twitter Blue subscribers is less than 1% of its overall user base.

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How Do We Win?

Partners in Excellence

Probably one of the most important questions to sellers, at all levels is, “How do we win?” Probably a close second is, “Can we win enough to achieve our goals?” I’ve written extensively about the latter in my posts on win rates. But, the first question is more fundamental, “How do we win?” Asking a random set of sellers, the answers were unsurprising.

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Webinar: How CTV can boost performance for SEOs by Cynthia Ramsaran

Search Engine Land

As new ad solutions with in-depth data tracking emerge, the chasm between brand and performance marketing has narrowed. Connected TV, for example, creates high-impact brand awareness and can be used as a performance tool, moving viewers down the funnel. Even SEO whizzes may be surprised to find the symbiotic relationship between their current strategy and CTV.

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AI-Generated Customer Summaries Help Manufacturers and Distributors Manage Relationships

Spiro Technologies

Manufacturers and distributors rely on healthy customer communications to run a sustainable business. The best customer relationships require a salesperson or account manager to know everything going on with that customer. The challenge is maintaining consistent relationships with many companies or branches, at scale. Having that level of insight in tens of thousands of customers is one of the more direct ways that Spiro’s artificial intelligence (AI) can help.

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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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What Happens When You Design With Your Customers?

Salesforce

When a designer weaves customer voices into the design process, it’s a win for the user and the business. This approach proved effective for our newly released product Briefcase Builder , which invited user research from concept to pilot to adoption. Designing with users led to many pilot companies happily converting to post-launch production last month.

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11 High-impact sales activities to focus on for big results

Accent Technologies

The post 11 High-impact sales activities to focus on for big results appeared first on Accent Technologies.

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The SaaStr Europa 2023 Agenda is Here! The Best in SaaS Come to LONDON

SaaStr

It’s here! We’re so excited to announce our launch speakers for SaaStr Europa 2023 in London. Join us on 6-7 June at the Tobacco Docks to learn from the leaders of UiPath, Rippling, Zapier, Bill, Braze, Loom and more! Check out the detailed agenda here. For 2 days, more than 75+ sessions and 100+ expert speakers will be sharing their best practices on scaling, revenue, profitability, venture and so much more.

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What is Revenue Enablement and Why is it Important?

Accent Technologies

The post What is Revenue Enablement and Why is it Important? appeared first on Accent Technologies.

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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.