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Does What Has Your Attention Deserve It?

Iannarino

There are things we value enough to find them precious (like that one ring), making them dear to us, if only in some sentimental currency. Other things should be more valuable to us, even though we don't treat them that way, undervaluing them to our peril.

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How to Achieve the Success You Desire

STAR Results

3 Steps to Achieving Success . The challenge for most people is knowing how to achieve personal and professional success. Many people compare themselves to others to gauge how successful they are. The problem is that there will always be someone who has more money, lives in a bigger house, has more power or is more intelligent than you. This is an irrelevant success as measured by material gains.

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Why Selling is Part of a Great Client Experience

Anthony Cole Training

There are specific traits that skilled salespeople possess in order to build strong relationships with prospects or clients. They create a great client experience by providing value, asking the right questions, listening to understand, and demonstrating patience.

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Best Sales Acceleration Software

Veloxy

Helping You Sell Faster, Easier, and Smarter. Sales Managers are constantly under pressure to hit BIG numbers. While sales acceleration spent 2021 as a powerful, yet underutilized solution across the B2B landscape, the software market is expected to enjoy explosive growth in 2022. Sales managers are paying close attention. Sales acceleration software is so much more than selling faster.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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What Will You Change in 2022?

Iannarino

I hope that 2021 was your best year ever, despite the pandemic and all the challenges that came with it. It's important to take a full account of the past year, avoiding the tendency to focus just on the difficulties or just on your accomplishments and good luck. Your 2021 balance sheet has both debits and credits.

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How Are Buyer-Seller Relationships Changing

Engage Selling

Having long studied the habits of top-ranked sellers and the changing nature of the marketplace, I’ve seen a steady shift in the power in buyer-seller relationships. Now, study after study confirms what I’ve been observing in the field: today’s buyer … Read More » The post How Are Buyer-Seller Relationships Changing first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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These are the 5 best data-backed sales tips of 2021

Gong.io

This article is part of the Gong Labs series, where I publish findings from our data research team. We analyze sales conversations and deals using AI, then share the results to help you close more revenue. Subscribe here and follow me to read upcoming research. This year Gong Labs uncovered… secrets. . Like the deadly simple negotiation mistake preventing you from winning deals. .

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Improving the Standard of Your Sales Call

Iannarino

Your prospective client agreeing to a meeting is a gift, one you should never take for granted. Agreeing to a meeting means spending time with you instead of doing any number of other tasks, as our always-on working world never runs out of things that need to be done.

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Google Search Console testing announcement bar

Search Engine Land

Google looks to be testing a new announcement section at the top of the Search Console interace. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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2022 Predictions: Data strategy and privacy

Martech

In the year ahead, successful marketers will be using data to initiate more communications while respecting consumers’ privacy. In many cases, one of the most important messages the brand will be communicating is how they are honoring a commitment to privacy. If a message is of real value to a consumer, however, it will be easy to tell based on the actions that follow from it.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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How Do We Make People Better Off By Working With Us?

Partners in Excellence

Reading an article about Patagonia’s and other’s strategies, I was struck by the sentence, “How do we make people better off by working with us?” It’s a fundamental question that has so many applications: Our customers? Our employees? Our suppliers? Our shareholders? Our communities? Usually, when we think about thing, we focus on our return, we answer the question, “How do we make things better for ourselves?

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3 Prospecting Principles: Avoiding Bad Prospecting Approaches

Iannarino

The subject line of the email asked a grammatically dubious question: "Should I speak to, Jim?" The ploy is designed to get someone to engage with the salesperson, something that technically works, but at far too great a cost.

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Google rolls out placement exclusions for Smart Shopping campaigns

Search Engine Land

It’s unclear whether this feature will remain available once Smart Shopping campaigns are rolled into Performance Max campaigns in 2022. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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10 Topics that Resonated with Sales Leaders in 2021

Force Management

Motivating and supporting sales teams in an ever-changing economic environment is no easy feat. Congratulations on making it through another year. As you settle into your new normal or continue to navigate ongoing change, here are a few topics that may help you stay the course.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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2022 Predictions: CTV and cross-channel advertising

Martech

2022 will be another year of growth for streaming services, Smart TV adoption and ad-supported video on demand (AVOD). The CTV landscape will continue to mature with more advertisers, more viewers and more robust programmatic offerings and data partnerships. More streaming. While growth for some subscription services slow down, like for Disney+ , old standbys like Netflix see another surge.

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The Nature of Effort and Your Results

Iannarino

We live in a Universe that seems to impose a law of cause and effect: results, both negative and positive, are always generated through some cause.

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SEO 2021 year in review: Endless updates, title rewrites, GMB becomes GBP and more

Search Engine Land

Despite facing a still-raging pandemic and a slew of updates, SEOs rose to the challenge. Here’s our recap of the year’s most important SEO stories and news. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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The Secrets to Scaling Zapier to 500 Employees from Employees Themselves with Wade Foster, Co-founder & CEO at Zapier (Podcast 510 and Video)

SaaStr

Zapier grew from a small SaaS startup to a company with over 500 employees over a decade. Want to know how they did it? . Wade Foster, Co-Founder and CEO, shares secrets from 20 of the earliest employees at the company. The employee names and numbers in which they are listed below correlate to the order in which they joined the Zapier team. Here’s the advice they had to offer on scaling your SaaS company.

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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Your Top 10 Sales Resources of 2021

RAIN Group

For most sellers, the focus of 2021 has been about adapting to the new sales environment. Those who got ahead in 2021 did so by adopting new methods to stand out and stay competitive. For many, this meant excelling in a virtual environment. But virtual selling is only one piece of the puzzle. Fundamental relationship-building skills and mastery of sales conversations, among many other factors, allowed savvy sellers to gain an edge.

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Selling in Unpredictable Times

Iannarino

As we wrap up a second pandemic year and begin a third one, it's worth a moment or two to reflect on the world in which we find ourselves.

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4 tips for creating visually stunning display ads

Search Engine Land

Advertisers aren’t just competing for their audience’s money, they’re also competing for their attention. At SMX Create, Rebecca Debono and Julia Thiel discussed how they create eye-catching ads that can help brands secure both. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Inbound or Outbound Sales? The Answer is Yes

SaaStr

There’s a meme, a CommonThink, among certain segments that Outbound Sales is Bad, or at least, a Little Unseemly. And maybe a lot bit Old School. That we’re in a new world of sales, a new Product-Led world, where leads come in, prospects can try and learn before they even talk to a human, and then sometimes,, a sales rep thoughtfully answers questions, models business process change, and helps them decide how and why, and if, to buy.

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5 Inspiring B2B Marketing Campaigns to Take Yours to the Next Level

Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con

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Social Media Trends That Will Dominate 2022

Selling Power

Understanding the popular social media trends of the moment is all-too-important to staying relevant. In this blog you will learn the social media trends that will dominate in 2022.

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5 Mental Tricks Salespeople Can Use to Get More Work Done

Spiro Technologies

If there was one thing (besides flaky prospects) that salespeople could change about the role, there’s a good chance that most of us would choose to be more productive. There are so many demands competing for our time and attention, and so many other distractions that take time away from selling, that when you break down the actual time most of us spend focusing on activities that move the needle you’d be lucky to break fifty percent.

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Google algorithm updates 2021 in review: Core updates, product reviews, page experience and beyond

Search Engine Land

Google had a busy year of search algorithm updates in 2021, but some might question the timing of many of those updates during an already super stressful year. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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It Was an IPO-a-Day in 2021. We’ve Never Seen That Before

SaaStr

The Wall Street Journal had a great summary of IPOs in 2021 and before. One of the top takeaways is the sheet rate of IPO creation. Much as Unicorn creation more than doubled in 2021, so did IPOs: There’s a lot you can read into this: * First, it’s good IPOs grew as quickly as Unicorns were minted , more or less. A top liquidity worry we should all have is if there won’t be enough IPO demand for the ~1000 Unicorns we already have (with far more to follow).

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.

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Reflecting on 2021

Iannarino

This is my last Sunday Newsletter of 2021.

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B2B Reads: Crisis vs. Predicament, New Year Planning & Transforming Companies

Heinz Marketing

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the web each week. We’ll miss a ton of great stuff, so if you found something you think is worth sharing please add it to the comments below. How To Thrive In Uncertainty: Separate Crisis From Predicament. Crises are things that usually rally people to find solutions.

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Google Merchant Center allows retailers to save product filters

Search Engine Land

Save-able product filters can enable marketers to more quickly zoom into the product category they want to analyze. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Dear SaaStr: What’s the #1 Most Important Thing To Look For In Your First Sales Rep?

SaaStr

The #1 most important criterion for your first 2 reps is: would you buy from her? Leads are too precious in the early days, your brand is non-existent, and everything is quirky and undocumented. Later, this is the wrong criterion. Later, you’ll need all sorts of reps, and beyond that, you’ll have so many customers and so many different types of customers that what you would buy isn’t representative of the sales process anymore.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.