Iannarino

MARCH 13, 2024

It is common for large, mature sales organizations to have several salespeople who once acquired new logos, but haven’t signed a new major client in ages. These salespeople won some gargantuan clients because they developed relationships with them and effectively pursued them. Since the contract was signed, these clients have been generating enough commissions that the senior salespeople are comfortable with their income and become complacent.

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Force Management

MARCH 14, 2024

If you’re leading an organization that’s selling a solution, whether in an established market or a new vertical, you’re competing for your buyers’ attention. The competition is high – we are all faced with hundreds of sales messages each day. Successful sales organizations know how to consistently rise above the noise and command greater market share.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 22, 2024

Google is now testing AI overviews in the main Google Search results, even if you have not opted into the Google Search Generative Experience labs feature. Google said this is an experience on a “subset of queries, on a small percentage of search traffic in the U.S.,” a Google spokesperson told Search Engine Land. In May 2023, Google opened up a Search Labs section for searchers to opt in to see and use the Google SGE results, that contained AI overviews.

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Launch Engineering Technology Technology 145

Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 20, 2024

Although this is an article about sales process, the first two paragraphs have more to do with religion than sales. To fully understand this powerful analogy, you’ll want to read the next three paragraphs and allow me to make my case. It will be worth it! My wife thought I would enjoy a book she found at the airport bookstore and I agreed that it looked compelling.

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Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

User Experience

Salesforce

MARCH 19, 2024

When you’re a Serviceblazer, staying ahead of the curve isn’t just an advantage — it’s an absolute necessity. You understand the pivotal role technology plays in shaping the future of customer service. And you love building community with others who know what it’s like to walk in your shoes. If you’re looking for new ways to connect with your peers, the Salesforce Serviceblazer Community is a great place to start.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 6, 2024

Just as selling has evolved, buying has evolved–but differently. Too often, there is an alignment challenge between what buyers need and what sellers do. We seem to be on diverging paths, and this creates problems for both buyers and sellers. What don’t buyers need from sellers? While it’s always dangerous to make generalizations because there are always exceptions, but with that as a disclaimer, let’s focus on what buyers don’t need from sellers.

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Education Trust Sell Presentation 128

SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2024

So Redpoint Ventures published some of the slides they recently presented to their Limited Partners (their own investors) here. There’s a ton of good data there, but this one slide stood out to me, because it was put together in a really clear fashion, better than other data sources I’ve seen. And what it says is that even though Seed stage investing remains arguably as strong as ever … Series A hasn’t bounced back.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 20, 2024

Google’s March 2024 spam update rollout is now complete. The spam update started March 5, about 15 days ago. The March 2024 core update is still rolling out and will likely continue to roll out for the next couple of weeks. The spam update took 14 days and 21 hours to roll out, starting on March 5, and ending on March 20. Google wrote this morning, “The rollout was complete as of March 20, 2024.” March 2024 spam update.

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G2

MARCH 11, 2024

As the latest Google, IAB TechLabs, and CMA cookie drama invites a MarTech crisis, this comprehensive analysis gauges the impact and informs scenario planning with G2 buyer insights and expert advice.

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Salesforce

MARCH 19, 2024

In 2023, Canada-based Algo Communications found itself facing a challenge. The company was poised for rapid growth, but it couldn’t train customer service representatives (CSRs) quickly enough to keep up with its expansion. To tackle this challenge, the company turned to a novel solution: generative AI. Algo adopted a large language model (LLM) to help onboard new CSRs faster.

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Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales at Allego

Maximizing sales rep performance is no easy task. 📈 Traditional sales training methods focus heavily on the first few weeks in the sales role. Companies dedicate time, resources, and budget to onboarding new hires, only for them to forget what was learned in those first few weeks, lose motivation, and struggle to come to grips with their role.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 31, 2024

Preface : I’ve been introduced to Daniel Schmidt by my friend Don Mulhern. While I haven’t met Daniel, it’s fascinating to read his perspective on selling. Like so many other participants, Daniel didn’t set out to be in sales, but found himself selling. There are words Daniel uses in his story which are common to my own experience and what so many other participants in this series say, “solving problems……energizing… passion… imagining possibi

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Martech

MARCH 4, 2024

Marketing automation is a great tool. It allows companies to set up campaigns that run on their own without further human intervention. This saves time and greatly expands what your marketing team can accomplish with limited resources. Unfortunately, marketing automation can also go wrong somewhat spectacularly. In this article I’ll provide a list of things to check to make sure your automated programs aren’t giving you or your company a big black eye.

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Highspot

MARCH 12, 2024

ValueSelling Associates’ Julie Thomas and Highspot’s Kelly Lewis break down how to maximize the impact of revenue enablement Love it, hate it – or do everything in your power to work around it – when it comes to the revenue enablement function, everyone’s a critic. How can enablement be the hero in one organization and the constant scapegoat for another?

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 5, 2024

Google is unleashing multiple measures aimed at improving the quality of its search results beginning today. Google is releasing the March 2024 core update and a number of spam updates (aka March 2024 spam update). Also, Google’s helpful content system has been incorporated into its overall core ranking system. In addition, Google announced several new and updated spam policies that it will begin enforcing through automated algorithms and manual actions.

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Engineering Start-ups User Experience Technique 145

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

Customers

G2

MARCH 28, 2024

While the way we learn has come a long way from dusty textbooks and stuffy classrooms, the corporate training journey still struggles to cater to the diverse needs of a modern workforce.

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Networking 111

Salesforce

MARCH 4, 2024

Nine out of ten leaders know a strong data strategy is critical to AI success – so why are only a third of them integrating a unified data strategy across their company? In January 2024, Salesforce commissioned Forrester Consulting to find answers to these gaps and more in the rapidly developing AI landscape. The research , conducted with 773 business leaders in 14 countries, sheds light on global business decision-makers’ mindsets around AI-powered CRM.

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Commission CRM Education Trust 116

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 18, 2024

We have become masters at describing our “how.” That is, we present all the capabilities of our products and solutions, the “how” of achieving a goal or solving the problem. We provide endless content, demos, and discussions focused on the capabilities of our products. But are we addressing the most important issues our customers face?

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Martech

MARCH 27, 2024

Leading CRM platforms like Salesforce, Dynamics, Zoho and HubSpot are introducing new AI features for autonomous chats, automatic campaign launches, product suggestions and sentiment analysis. That’s great and exciting. But there’s one thing in the way: our data. Ultimately, all the technology in the world isn’t worth the investment if the data it relies on is poor.

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Territory CRM Manufacturing Pipeline 119

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The Digital Technology

MARCH 13, 2024

As companies pursue large-scale digital transformation initiatives, managing the exploding volume of data generated across a proliferating technology landscape grows increasingly complex. This forces many to reevaluate their traditional centralized data warehousing approach. Does it still make strategic sense?

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 18, 2024

Google is making a number of changes to its executive team running Google Search: Liz Reid , who was leading up core search experiences, will now be the Head of Search at Google. Cheenu Venkatachary will be the new lead of Search quality and ranking. With these changes, Pandu Nayak is stepping down as lead of search quality and ranking and will become Chief Scientist of Search.

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G2

MARCH 6, 2024

Moving through the workday with a million tasks on your mind can be draining, especially when you’re on the move without much time to spare. We always look for new ways to improve efficiency for ourselves and our team without interrupting workflow.

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CRM Product Networking Sales 111

Salesforce

MARCH 20, 2024

Do you trust generative AI to help you with tasks at work? While AI-powered tools are great at projecting confidence and certainty in their responses, chances are you know little about the origin of the AI’s data. Did it come from a trusted source, like a peer-reviewed journal in your industry, or a dubious one, like a smart-sounding comment scraped from social media?

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Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

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Retail

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 20, 2024

Our feeds are filled with hacks, prompts, “cheat sheets” offering things like, “What are key decision maker roles for this… ? What are qualifying questions… ? What are trends… ? How do I handle objections… ?” I take these hacks, trying them out myself. At best, I get responses that are mediocre and non specific.

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Gaming Engineering Presentation Start-ups 123

Martech

MARCH 11, 2024

Google’s full deprecation of third-party cookies is right around the corner. Time is running out to get all those well-laid marketing plans off the whiteboards and into action. No matter where your company is at in the post-third-party preparation curve, the truth is that we won’t fully realize the impact on our marketing efforts until Google finally flips the switch and we head into the unknown.

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Objectives and Key Results Campaign Government Launch 119

The Digital Technology

MARCH 4, 2024

Social media has become a goldmine of consumer, prospect, and market data in our hyper-connected world. But raw data alone provides little value. Targeted social data mining is the key differentiator to unlock growth in 2024 and beyond.

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Growth Prospecting 111

Search Engine Land

MARCH 12, 2024

Google updated its page experience help documentation to clarify how Core Web Vitals metrics are used as a ranking signal. Google also clarified that other page experience signals are not directly used for ranking purposes in Google Search. What Google wrote. The updated documentation is in the ranking section of the document and it now reads: Core Web Vitals are used by our ranking systems.

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User Experience 139

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Promote

G2

MARCH 6, 2024

Learn how generative AI is making its way into the industrial sector to automate tasks and optimize workplace productivity to achieve business objectives.

Product 119

Product 119

Salesforce

MARCH 7, 2024

Personalize, personalize, personalize. We all know it’s the key to great email marketing , but it’s one thing to know it and another to do it. That’s where email segmentation comes in. By grouping your email list properly, you set yourself up for targeting the right people with the right content. But what exactly is segmentation in practice, and how do you make sure you’re doing it correctly?

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 12, 2024

Preface : Don Mulhern is a great friend and colleague. One thing that struck me in Don’s contribution is the joy in “doing the work.” Reflecting on other stories, everyone is excited to “do the work.” Another thing struck me: “And I love what professional selling is not. It isn’t the smarmy, pushy approach using sleazy tricks and gimmicks that unfortunately is how it’s still perceived by many.

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Sell Assembly Line Territory Sports 121

Martech

MARCH 8, 2024

As organizations grapple with the complexities of AI adoption, a strategic framework becomes essential for assessing readiness and ensuring successful implementation. Before introducing even more tech into your stack, you must know what you’re working with. How confident are you with your team’s readiness for change? Can you also sustain those changes?

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Objectives and Key Results Strategize Government Technology 118

Speaker: Jamie Bernard

Success in product management goes beyond delivering great features - it’s about achieving measurable financial outcomes that resonate across the organization. By connecting your product’s journey with the company’s financial success, you’ll ensure that every feature, release, and innovation contributes to the bottom line, driving both customer satisfaction and business growth.

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