August, 2024

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The 4 Key Differences in Selling Value vs. Price

Anthony Cole Training

Every business that has ever been started has done so by wanting to position its products or services on a continuum between the two extremes of value and price. Some businesses (think Apple, Ritz Carlton) are focused on delivering a high value experience. Some businesses (think Walmart) are focused on being the low-cost provider in their industry. Most businesses land somewhere in the middle.

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How wisdom makes AI more effective in marketing

Martech

Warren Buffett, a towering figure in the financial world, voiced his concerns about artificial intelligence during his annual meeting in May. He compared AI to the development of nuclear weapons: “We let a genie out of the bottle when we developed nuclear weapons. AI is somewhat similar — it’s part way out of the bottle.” This underscores the potential risks and benefits that AI presents to society.

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A Day in the Life of An AI Enterprise

Salesforce

Imagine a company where every decision, strategy, customer interaction, and rote task is augmented by AI. From predictive analytics uncovering market insights to intelligent automation streamlining operations, this AI enterprise is what a successful business should look like. Does this company exist? Not yet, but the building blocks for enabling it are already here.

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Google Search Console launches recommendations

Search Engine Land

Google Search Console is rolling out recommendations within Google Search Console for some users. Google said this is an experimental feature and gives you insights and recommendations to improve your site’s performance on Google Search. What are Search Console recommendations. Search Console recommendations is a “feature that provides websites with optimization opportunities and suggests actions they can take to improve their presence on Google Search,” Google wrote.

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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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Effectively Balancing AI and Human Touch in Marketing

Heinz Marketing

By Carly Bauer , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the marketing landscape, offering businesses unprecedented opportunities for efficiency, personalization, and scalability. However, as powerful as AI is, the human touch remains irreplaceable in fostering genuine connections and building trust with customers.

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Discovering the Best Sales Books: Expert Recommendations and Insights

Iannarino

Unlock the secrets to finding the perfect sales book tailored to your needs with expert insights.

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4 ways to achieve early wins with AI in marketing

Martech

Marketers are starting to think big about AI in marketing. Different organizations will take various routes to achieve their goals. Some will hire expensive consultants and embark on a massive AI transformation. Based on my experience watching companies undertake similar transformations, whether in agile marketing or digital transformation , this “big bang” approach is almost certainly doomed to failure.

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Cyber Week Impact on Email Delivery: What Marketers Need to Know Now

Salesforce

Every year our customers gear up for what is typically their busiest sending season of the year: Black Friday and Cyber Monday (or as it has become known in recent years, Cyber Week). Last year was no exception. From November 21 through 27 our customers sent a record-breaking 54 billion messages on the Marketing Cloud platform. Our peak sending day on Black Friday saw double-digit growth at 12% year over year, surpassing 10.2 billion sends.

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Report: Google Search traffic and queries not impacted by new competing AI search engines

Search Engine Land

Traffic to Google Search seems to have not fallen with the rise of new AI search engines and AI based search related features, including from OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot and other specialty search engines. New data from Datos’ clickstream panel, analyzed by Sonata Insights and covered in more detail by Rand Fishkin at Sparktoro shows Google may have grown 1.4% from May 2023 to May 2024. “In May of 2024, Google has slightly more desktop visits than they did in May of 2

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CLG Logistics: Practical Tips for Precision Campaigns

Heinz Marketing

By Tom Swanson, Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing We often think of “Spearfishing” as largely for net-new logos. Embracing customer-led growth gives us more options for how and when we use highly-targeted, precise tactics to drive more revenue. It makes sense to double down on those who’ve already opened the door. This is marketing 101, but how do we actually make it happen?

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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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The Importance of Collaboration Between Sales and Marketing

Iannarino

Unlock the true potential of your sales force by leveraging marketing in innovative ways that go beyond lead generation.

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Understanding the Psychology of Selling

Anthony Cole Training

All salespeople and their managers want to understand the psychology of selling and in fact, is it a highly searched phrase on google. Giving credit where credit is due, The Psychology of Selling is a well-regarded book by legendary sales professional Brian Tracy that should certainly be on every salesperson’s list of must-reads.

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Email marketers sharpen deliverability tactics at MailCon

Martech

Left to right: Lilit Davtyan, CEO, Phonexa and Kristen Haines, CEO, MailCon kick off MailCon New York 2024. Image: MailCon. A year of changes requires a shift in tactics for email marketers. At the start of the year, Yahoo and Google issued new rules for bulk email senders. Now marketers have to decide what steps they need to take to avoid getting emails rejected in the “post-Yahoogle” era.

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AI Agents: The Future of Business Applications

Salesforce

Agents are assistive and autonomous software systems. Based on user input or environmental conditions, they reason, plan, and take action to achieve given tasks or goals. They are like intelligent digital assistants, equipped with the aggregated knowledge and experience of human experts, and access to all relevant data. Agents are set to become ubiquitous across every area of our lives, and to profoundly transform how businesses operate and interact with customers.

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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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Google declared a monopoly: industry reactions and implications

Search Engine Land

Yesterday the ruling passed that Google is a monopoly after the 10 week trial that occurred last year. Here are the key reactions from search advertisers: Google’s Appeal and the Future Legal Battle Julie Bacchini , president and founder, Neptune Moon, underscores that while the court ruling declaring Google a monopoly is significant, the real impact will emerge during the remedy phase and Google’s inevitable appeal. “Google will appeal (and they said they will in their comical

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Harnessing AI: Heinz Marketing’s Values-Driven Approach

Heinz Marketing

By Maria Geokezas , Chief Operating Officer at Heinz Marketing Here at Heinz Marketing, we are optimistic about AI’s future impact on B2B marketing. We believe it’s essential to continuously explore and test new tools and technologies—including AI—to optimize our work and enhance the B2B marketing strategies we develop for our clients. While this is standard practice for any B2B marketing firm, we go a step further by viewing our work as an opportunity to positively influence careers and

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How Sales Leaders Can Avoid Common Pitfalls That Lead to Team Underperformance

Iannarino

Are your leadership standards inadvertently setting the stage for underperformance?

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3 Keys to Developing a Competitive Sales Strategy

Anthony Cole Training

To compete in any marketplace, especially the competitive arena of financial services, advisors, producers, lenders, and relationship managers must have a strategy for success. The top 7% of salespeople, the elite producers, certainly follow a sales strategy and can articulate what they do consistently to find and develop client relationships. There are many ways to differentiate and compete but there are 3 key areas to developing a competitive sales strategy.

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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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5 key trends we’re seeing in B2B marketing

Martech

Like just about everything in marketing, B2B marketing is changing — and fast. Some of the trends I’m seeing have been developing for a while, but now they’re really taking off. What’s going on? Here are five of the most important developments. 1. Welcome the new generation of buyers Gen X and Y are entering the buying group, in droves.

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B2B Social Media Marketing: How To Build a Strategy That Works

Salesforce

Just because you work for a B2B company doesn’t mean your social media presence has to be dry and super formal. The decision-makers you’re trying to reach are human too. They’re checking LinkedIn, but also scrolling through Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok for entertainment. B2B social media marketing should be engaging and fun, while still helping you get closer to closing business with your customers and prospects.

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The complete guide to optimizing content for SEO (with checklist)

Search Engine Land

Creating high-quality , helpful content that drives search traffic is more important than ever. There’s nothing worse than pouring your heart and soul into a wonderful guide or blog post that nobody ever sees or churning out pieces with little value that disappoint or alienate your potential audience. Standing out from the crowd requires a delicate balance between optimizing content for search and creating pieces that truly resonate with users.

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9th Edition of The New Rules of Marketing & PR Publishes Today

David Meerman Scott

It’s the new, new! The 9th edition of my international bestseller The New Rules of Marketing & PR is available today in print and ebook editions the USA and Canada and will soon be available in other countries! First published in 2007, in the same month as the iPhone 1 was released, New Rules has been completely updated with new stories and strategies to reach buyers directly.

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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.

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A Change at The Sales Blog

Iannarino

I started writing and publishing daily, including weekends, holidays, and any day that ends in the letter "y." Since making the decision in 2008 to write and publish daily, I have published every day, minus 13 days I was in Tibet. Over 14 years, I have published something like 5,400 articles. I will continue to write every day, as this is my practice, one I will keep until I can no longer push the keys on my computer.

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The Rules of the Game for Baseball & Selling

Anthony Cole Training

In 2005, I read Dave Kurlan’s book Baseline Selling. Dave took the fundamentals of effective selling and used the baseball diamond and baseball terminology to explain his sales process. Baseball today is essentially the same game that was formalized in New York around 1840, but we know that selling has changed considerably. The baseball analogy is a strong one for developing a milestone-centric sales process with your team.

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How to use AI in email marketing without losing the human touch

Martech

It is 2024, and we’ve all heard how AI can improve our email marketing efforts. But as we dive into generative AI tools like ChatGPT, it doesn’t take long to realize AI can yield lackluster results, inconsistent and off-brand content and campaigns that feel average. As AI use in business grows, too many companies and solo entrepreneurs try to use it to replace jobs.

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Say Goodbye to Blast Emails – How AI Helps Your Personalized Email Marketing

Salesforce

Blast emails have been a go-to tool for marketers for years. They’re easy, cost-effective, and quick to get your message out to a large audience. But email marketing has come a long way since the days of batch-and-blast strategies. While blast email tools make it easy to send mass messages, the era of one-size-fits-all approaches is fading fast. Now, personalized email marketing is essential for creating meaningful connections and driving better engagement.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Lead gen advertising in the automation era: How any brand can succeed

Search Engine Land

Digital advertising has evolved quite a bit since I started working in paid media. PPC ad platforms work in a completely different way than they did just four or five years ago, with automation and AI featuring so heavily that you can’t work without them. Lead generation advertisers today have access to tools like broad match keywords and offline conversions – powerful when used right, but chaotic and expensive if left unchecked.

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6 Ways to Help Customers Avoid Choice Paralysis and Boost Your Conversions [+Examples]

Hubspot

When was the last time you really looked around the toothpaste aisle? It’s overwhelming. You’re faced with a huge amount of choices — possibly even dozens depending on the store you’re in. Imagine having to actually make a buying decision purely by shopping through the toothpaste aisle. My guess is that you’d either get overwhelmed and choose something that you later regret, or you’d choose to buy nothing at all.

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Understanding the Power of Personal Branding in Sales

Iannarino

In today's competitive sales landscape, your personal brand could be the key to unlocking more opportunities.

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Why B2B Companies Must Prioritize AI Ethics and Risk Management

Heinz Marketing

By Win Salyards , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer just a buzzword—it’s a powerful tool that drives innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantage across industries. B2B companies are adopting AI to transform everything from supply chain management to customer relations. However, with great power comes great responsibility.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.