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5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? An Update

Anthony Cole Training

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Product Analytics: A Comprehensive Guide to Using Data for Better Product Decisions

ConversionXL

I remember the first time that a client told me how much analytics had helped their business. They were able to increase their sign up rate for their product by 22% while reducing their marketing costs. It wasn’t magic or fancy tactics. They simply used their analytics data to make informed decisions. They didn’t have to guess or take huge bets. They knew exactly what was working and what they needed to do more of.

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The Missing Link In Sales Performance

Partners in Excellence

Every sales executive is constantly struggling to improve the performance of their organizations. The data on percent of sales people achieving their goals, percent of companies making plan, and so forth is appalling. Millions of person hours are spent in trying to understand how to drive sales performance. Billions are spent on tools, training, consulting services all focused on improving the performance of sales people.

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Sellers: Win By Getting to "No"

Score More Sales

In selling, we've been trained that getting potential customers and clients to say "yes" is the most important part of negotiation. It's time to rethink that strategy.

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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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How Do I Make Sure I Hire Someone Who Has Excellent Sales Skills?

Anthony Cole Training

8 Reasons Why Hiring Elite Salespeople is Difficult:

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Product Analytics: A Comprehensive Guide to Using Data for Better Product Decisions

ConversionXL

I remember the first time that a client told me how much analytics had helped their business. They were able to increase their sign up rate for their product by 22% while reducing their marketing costs. It wasn’t magic or fancy tactics. They simply used their analytics data to make informed decisions. They didn’t have to guess or take huge bets. They knew exactly what was working and what they needed to do more of.

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How Long Should Your Videos Be? Ideal Lengths for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube [Infographic]

Hubspot

When a video pops up on your Facebook feed, what do you usually do first? My guess is that you take a peek at its length, ponder whether it's worth your time, and let that thought process influence whether or not you press play. Once you do actually press play, how many times have you abandoned the video just a few seconds in and scrolled down to the next post?

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#1 Way to Stop Discounting Your Price

The Sales Hunter

Last week I wrote about the issue of discounting, and needless to say it generated a major amount of conversation all over social media and in emails and phone calls to me. A few people pushed back on my thinking. I’m fine with that, as I know what I say won’t always resonate with everyone. […].

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The Number 1 Thing Salespeople Should Do

Jill Konrath

What's the #1 thing you should be doing to drive more sales in today's crazy-busy world? It's something I've been thinking about a lot these days.

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What Is The Role Of Sales Enablement?

Partners in Excellence

I always hate to start a post with a disclaimer or an apology. This post may seem like I’m bashing the sales enablement function and sales enablement professionals. Taken in its most broad context, it’s a critical function. Sales enablement professionals have a tough and important job. Many of the most important initiatives focused on improving sales performance come through sales enablement.

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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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Tracking and Tweaking the Critical KPIs of Marketing Agency Performance

Hubspot

The importance of revenue attribution is just one of a number of factors that marketing agencies need to track in order to measure their performance. Factors such as cost-per-lead, customer value, traffic-to-lead ratio, and others let marketing agencies know how they're doing—and how to tweak their performance to become fine-tuned revenue generating machines.

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: The Impact of the Culture You Create

The Sales Hunter

People say to me, “If culture is so important, then why can’t it be measured?” My response is you can measure culture. Culture is measured in both your top-line sales and your bottom-line profit. Check out this 29-second video as I share thoughts on this issue: Not only does culture matter to you and […].

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Grammar - Why Commas Provide Sales Success Where Periods Fail

Understanding the Sales Force

Image Copyright Eerik. You've heard it all before - but not quite this way. The one thing you need in order to have a successful sales force is CRM. The one thing you need in order to have a successful sales force is a powerful Inbound initiative. The one thing you need in order to have a successful sales force is a customized sales process. The one thing you need in order to have a successful sales force is lots of leads.

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The Buying Process, It Only Happens 1 Time!

Partners in Excellence

Customers struggle with buying. There’s a huge amount of data indicating the majority of customer buying processes end in no decision made. There a number of reasons this occurs, shift is priorities, lack or urgency/attention, fear of change, costs, and so on. One of the major reasons is customers simply struggle with the buying process itself.

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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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How Does a Brand Judge Your Pitch?

Hubspot

May’s talk on #modernwaystogrowanagency came from Dave Parkinson - a 26 year veteran of Nissan and digital - from IT Manager to EMEA Head of Digital. From managing a digital transformation to initiating the social media plan (and launching the Qashqai on the way) Dave knows the brand person’s world. So what are they really thinking at pitch time? Since the word 'digital' crept into marketers vocabulary the gap between doing a digital project and actually becoming a digital business started to fo

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Sales Motivation Video: Make the Quick Winning Phone Call

The Sales Hunter

Make 2-3 phone calls to easy customers or prospects — they think highly of you and are ready to buy. If you start Monday with a few calls where you can find quick sales success, you will build momentum for the week. Check out the video to see what I mean: Copyright 2017, Mark […].

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How to Perfectly Tailor Your Calls to Each Buyer

SalesLoft

The way you speak and act on the phone changes depending on who you are speaking to. If you’re calling your mother versus a friend versus a co-worker, your call tone and demeanor adjust to fit the person on the other end. Which makes sense, right? Tailoring your tone makes each of those people feel comfortable and connected to you. This exact same methodology needs to be applied in your sales calls.

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Cutting Sales Expense

Partners in Excellence

Recently, I got a call. When I filter out all the prospecting calls, usually when people call me, it’s a CEO, VP of Sales/Marketing, or someone in the sales organization. This call was from the Controller of a relatively large organization. He had been chartered by top management to look at their sales organization. It wasn’t meeting it’s goals, so he was doing an audit.

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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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Why Your Design of Experiments Is Probably Wrong

Hubspot

Sometimes, I think that we here at HubSpot are just a bunch of mad scientists. We love to run experiments. We love to throw bold ideas at the wall to see if they stick, tinkering with different factors, and seeing how what happens can be incorporated into what we do every day. To us, it’s a very hot topic -- we’re writing about it whenever we can, and trying to lift the curtain on what, behind the scenes, we’re cooking up on our own marketing team.

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Closing by Using Micro-Commitments

The Sales Hunter

One of the best ways to keep a sale moving forward is by using the micro-commitment strategy. The approach is simple to use and very effective for those who are dealing with a customer who is hard to engage and hard to move forward. The micro-commitment strategy is built around finding ways to gain the […].

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Strategic Customer Relationships Boost AE Upsells

SalesLoft

You closed a deal! Your former prospect has been upgraded to a brand new customer. Signed, sealed, and delivered to their customer service manager (CSM). They are no longer on your radar. Job well done, right? Not so fast. You could actually be throwing potential revenue out the window when you cut off ties and hand a new customer to their CSM. According to Forrester, upselling can bring in up to 30% of your revenue and that initial close could be your company’s first step in the door to bigger

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Teaching Sales People To Lie….

Partners in Excellence

Just when you think you have seen the very worst prospecting email ever, you get one that takes you to new lows! I opened my email today and read: “Hello Dave, It has been some time since we last spoke, let alone worked together. The fault of this is mostly mine. However I want to make up for my time of neglect and reach out to you today to ask you a simple question.

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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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Just Getting Started With Video Marketing? Here’s the First Video You Should Make

Hubspot

One of the most controversial phrases in the marketing today is, "pivot to video.". It strikes fear into the hearts and minds of writers, as we worry that our skills will be replaced by the looming popularity of videos. Luckily, our research has shown that audiences still want to read blog and news content. But the fact remains: People want more video content, too.

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Embarking on a sales lead generation project: What could go wrong?

Pointclear

“What could derail this project?” a prospect asked me, following our discussion about PointClear’s lead generation, qualification and nurturing services. We had just finished talking about the importance of marketing and sales coming together to mutually define a lead prior to starting a lead generation program. We’d spent some time on the persistent yet professional cadence we employ.

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Take Action on Loss Triggers

Engage Selling

In my last article, I talked about the importance of being able to anticipate lost customers as part of having a healthy growth strategy for your business. That included a case study that identified several loss triggers.

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Author Karen Salmansohn helps us stay happy

Sell Or Die

Karen Salmansohn, author of Think Happy and Enough, Dammit joins us to discuss the secrets to maintaining a positive attitude in any environment. 4:40 - Can you become instantly happy? 7:05 - Is happiness innate or learned?

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Marketers: This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Hubspot

The next evolution of marketing is upon us. The sharp uptake in consumer use of messaging apps, the shift in content consumption from text to video and audio, and the finally consumer-ready advancements in artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and voice recognition all signal that marketers and consumers alike are in radically new times. Everytime consumer behavior evolves, marketers have new opportunities that were never before available.

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10 Things That Will Improve Your Career

Sales Gravy

Think what you could do as a professional if you practiced these simple principles every day. You could land a dream job - and keep it. You could advance in your career. You could sell more products and services.

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9 Brands That Thrive Without a Traditional Marketing Budget

Hubspot

“Brands So Popular They Don’t Need to Advertise!” “10 Companies That Don’t Do Marketing!” You’ve seen the headlines, you’ve rolled your eyes, and you’ve probably still clicked through. But, let’s be honest, we all know there is no such thing as a brand that doesn’t advertise. And really, wouldn’t that take some of the fun out of it? We love being wooed by brands.

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What Happens When You Make Gated Content Free?

Hubspot

Whether you love ‘em or hate ‘em, chances are, you have an opinion about forms. Trust us -- they’re not evil. We still use them, and still believe that many marketers should continue to do so, too. But truth be told, the "Should we gate our content?" question has been flying around HubSpot for a few years now. We’ve looked at the topic through various lenses, from SEO, to lead generation, to channel-specific implications.

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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.