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CRM Security—At Pipeliner, We’ve Got This

Sales Pop!

There are many IT security concerns in the world today. This is why we’re starting a new series of articles detailing why, when it comes to CRM, you need not have such worries with Pipeliner. Trust. To begin with, a critical factor is trust. Who can we trust today? Trust is a word that is liberally abused, not only by governments but by many others.

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7 Tips To Explode Your Mortgage Lead Generation

ClickFunnels

The post 7 Tips To Explode Your Mortgage Lead Generation appeared first on ClickFunnels. Want to get more leads for your mortgage brokerage? That’s exactly what we are going to discuss today. Frankly, when it comes to marketing, the mortgage industry is way behind the curve – and that’s good news for you! We will show you how you can take some of the most effective digital marketing strategies and then use them to explode your mortgage lead generation… And leave your competitors in the dus

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Sales Management Training: Goal Setting & Motivation

Anthony Cole Training

Goal setting and effectively motivating salespeople by identifying what's important to them is one of the primary focuses in our Sales Management training. In this blog, we discuss the several steps a sales manager can take to establish a motivating, inspiring environment for their people.

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The Sales Manager’s Guide to Sales AI

Veloxy

As you and I both know, there are thousands of professions that require a human touch. Sales is near the the top of that list. In order for salespeople to succeed, they must be proficient at establishing and nurturing value-driven relationships. The question now becomes, how does Sales Artificial Intelligence fit into all this? Does it really play a vital role in sales?

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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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Major Account Selling – What Really Matters Now

Sales Pop!

COVID. Needless to say, it’s a word that’s had significant impact on our lives for the last twenty months. The pain it has caused for those who have lost loved ones or experienced its impacts in other ways is immense. And the changes it has spawned in both our personal and professional lives are countless, causing us to adapt the way we live and the way we do business.

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The Ultimate Sales Funnel Creator – How Clickfunnels Changes The Game

ClickFunnels

The post The Ultimate Sales Funnel Creator – How Clickfunnels Changes The Game appeared first on ClickFunnels. Your sales funnel is the foundation of your business. That’s why you need to make sure that you have the right funnel building software in your arsenal. But there are so many options out there. So how can you know which app would be the best choice for your business?

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On Questions And Questioning

Partners in Excellence

Questions are probably one of the most critical tools for sales people and all leaders. They provide a powerful means of learning and growth. It’s through questions and questioning, we think about change, doing things differently. But sometimes, our questions are less effective or actually weaponize our intent. They don’t help us or the people we are posing the questions to learn and grow.

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3 Ways to Keep Your Customers Happy & Improve Retention

Sales Pop!

In sales, there’s a well-known cliché that states, “It costs five times more to acquire a new customer than it does to retain one,” and while that number may fluctuate depending on the industry you’re in, retaining customers is indeed easier than finding new ones. In the Harvard Business Review, one study even showed that increasing customer retention by only 5 percent will increase profit margin by 25 to 95 percent.

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Getting A Sales Funnel Consultant – Is This Necessary?

ClickFunnels

The post Getting A Sales Funnel Consultant – Is This Necessary? appeared first on ClickFunnels. Your sales funnel is the foundation of your business. So it’s no wonder that more and more companies choose to outsource funnel building to experts that specialize in it. But do you need to hire a sales funnel consultant to grow your business? That’s what we want to talk about today….

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Coaching For Sales Performance – 5 x Reasons Why

The 5% Institute

In this article, we’ll look at five reasons as to why coaching for sales performance is so important, and what it can do for you and your team. Although many businesses – both big and small invest in sales training and coaching, we’ll unpack as to why it should be something you should look at investing in too. Read on to learn why coaching for sales performance is critical for your business, and how it too can boost your profits and revenue.

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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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Reduce Company Silos in a WFH Business Environment

Force Management

The remote work environment is forcing sales leaders to motivate their teams and increase collaboration within groups and cross-functionally. Building alignment around how to best serve your customers can be a force multiplier that drives significant company-wide improvements, even when it comes to motivating employees and improving collaboration in work-from-home environments.

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One Simple Way to Get Salespeople to Stop Flogging Products

Sales Pop!

Flogging products is disgusting pretty well sums up how I feel about salespeople who try to push the wares of their organization down my throat when I’m looking to get my needs satisfied. The flogging process is a one-way street where the sales person’s sole objective is to sell the product or service inventory they’ve got. It’s a supply-dominated process that has little room for customer input; the engagement profile lacks a conversational element with sales listening skills not required.

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5 Great Marketing Sessions From SaaStr Annual 2021 with CMOs of Datadog, G2, Blackline, Marqeta and Dave Kellogg

SaaStr

Using Dave Kellogg’s “ Four Sources of Pipeline ” framework, marketing should source 60% of the pipeline for a representative enterprise software company. . In a noisy world where there are no practical barriers to creating B2B content, you need a thoughtful approach to engage your Ideal Customer Profile audience. . These sessions from SaaStr Annual 2021 provide a window into what approaches best-in-class marketers in SaaS are taking today: .

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The Consultative Sales Process – Your Ultimate Guide

The 5% Institute

In this article, we’ll detail the consultative sales process that works perfectly for Sales Professionals and Business Owners in service based and consulting industries. Learning, implementing and following a sales process is one of the most important things you can learn in sales. A sales process will give you consistency and will simple to use framework to guide your potential clients towards the sale.

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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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The Pandemic, What Buyers Discovered

Partners in Excellence

As sellers, the pandemic has forced us to rethink our work and how we engage our customers. We’ve seen customers cancel “high priority/committed projects,” and shift funding to “ad hoc” projects that were more important. This creates both opportunity and threats. BTW, this isn’t really a new insight, Hank Barnes has been doing very thoughtful research for years.

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How to move to a first-party marketing strategy

Martech

Most marketers are well aware of the increase in privacy regulations over their data collection activities. These laws, such as the GDPR and CCPA, are designed to protect the privacy of consumers. But they’re also causing marketing teams to shift away from strategies centered on third-party data. “The core of the shift is really moving from targeting consumers using third-party data to knowing consumers very well,” said Giusy Buonfantino, VP of CPG Industry Solution at Google C

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4 Great Sessions On Product From SaaStr Annual 2021 With CXOs from Box, Brex, Loom, and Slack

SaaStr

No marketing budget can compensate for a substandard SaaS product. As Amanda Malko (Chief Marketing Officer at G2) laid out in her SaaStr Annual talk, software buyer expectations are very high: Moreover, if you have a mediocre product offering, you simply will not be able to retain top marketing or sales talent long-term. Why should they tie their career and compensation to a second-tier offering?

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How to Close The Sales Deal In A Consultative Way

The 5% Institute

The most important skill for any Sales Professional or Business Owner, is learning how to close the sales deal in a consultative way. Meaning – you need the framework to consistently close more sales, without being pushy or having to rely on outdated scripts. In this article we’ll give you 8 x solid tips, so you can learn how to close the sales deal in a consultative way, time and time again.

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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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How to stop chasing symptoms and get to the root of your sales problems

Membrain

When I ask sales leaders to talk about problems they’re experiencing with their sales, they all seem to have different ideas about what’s in the way of higher performance. For some, it’s poor forecasting. For others, it’s low win rates. Many invest in training only to be disappointed when it's quickly forgotten.

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Sales Forecasts Do Not Have to Be as Wrong as Fortune Cookies

Understanding the Sales Force

There has been much talk in the news about forecasts - and while most have been wrong they are still more accurate than Fortune Cookies! Thanks to satellites, computer modeling and doppler radar, weather forecasts are more reliable than ever before. Yet despite those advances, they are still guessing - educated guesses to be sure - but guessing about what will happen, when it will happen, and where it will happen.

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Gartner Forecasts Enterprise Software Spending Increases >Another< $110 Billion in 2022

SaaStr

So in January of 2021, Gartner predicted enterprise SaaS spend would grow by a stunning 10.2% next year. Unprecedented levels of growth for business software in the enterprise. They’ve now updated that and predict an even further, and stunning, acceleration in enterprise software spend in 2022 — now up to 11.5% growth: Put differently, Gartner after surveying 2,000 CIOs i s now projecting enterprises will spend $110 billion more on enterprise software in 2022 … than they predi

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The 6 Steps Of Selling For Consistent Sales

The 5% Institute

In this guide, you’ll learn the 6 steps of selling – without coming across as pushy, needy, or manipulative in any way. Learning and following a sales process would have to be the most important thing you’ll ever learn in sales, because it’ll deliver something you’ll need to thrive in selling. And that thing – is consistency. Read on to learn the 6 steps of selling, and how you can implement it into your sales strategy.

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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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How to implement new marketing technology to drive innovation

Martech

“Leading companies will win digitally by continually innovating brand experiences that drive transformative results,” said Dave Mankowski, Chief Growth Officer for CX software company Bounteous, at our recent MarTech conference. Many of these digital wins don’t come easy though. In Mankowski’s experience, he sees that innovation often comes slower than expected.

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Hidden sales competition and why it could happen to you

Membrain

I recently took these pictures of mushrooms on our property that I had not seen prior to this year. Bright reds, bright oranges, whites and more. After living on this property for the past twenty years, it really surprised me that these bright colored mushrooms appeared out of nowhere.

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30+ Founders and Execs Share Pricing and Billing Practices … That Just Weren’t Worth It

SaaStr

Q: What billing or pricing tactic have you found in the end just wasn’t worth it? “[You] have to get some sort of dollar commitment for pilots in Mid Market and Enterprise deals. 9/10 times they don’t work otherwise.” and “Something we found really effective at CoursKey, and other vSaaS businesses will likely find as well: Instead of running pilots, sign a multi-year contract but give them an opt-out after 3-6 months.

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How To Handle Sales Objections Effectively

The 5% Institute

One of the most important parts of the sales process as well as your sales conversations, is learning how to handle sales objections effectively. Knowing how to handle sales objections effectively can either help you close the sale, or potentially break rapport if you handle them incorrectly. So how should you go about overcoming objections in sales?

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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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How Can You Run Python Scripts? How Will Python Training ® Be?

Sales Pop!

The idea of installing and running a Python script from a web server for use in applications that require some computer-programming knowledge is nothing new, but there is a new technology in today’s world that simplifies this exercise to a large degree. The Internet can now be used as the interface for installing and running nearly any type of program, and the Python code is embedded into an HTML page and is executed in the context of that web server.

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The Monday Morning Breakfast For Champions Podcast – Episode 45 – Mareo McCracken – Includes Overtime

Tibor Shanto

The episode includes Overtime segment not seen on live broadcast. Subscribe today , and take the Breakfast on the go! Mareo McCracken is the Chief Revenue Officer at Movemedical, where he guides the sales, marketing, and customer success efforts. Prior to helping lead this Med Tech SaaS company, Mareo was the top performing salesperson at multiple companies in various industries including financial services, marketing, logistics, manufacturing, and commodities.

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4 Tips for Writing an Effective Marketing Email

Heinz Marketing

By Michelle Voznyuk , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Everyday we are bombarded by marketing emails. Yet as marketers, we still send them. Why? Because they’re still proven to be one of the most effective methods for reaching prospects and customers. Targeted ads are great, but they can take a big bite out of our budget. Marketing emails have little to no overhead and can be sent in a “batch and blast” approach, reaching a broad audience in one click.

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How To Ask For The Sale Without Breaking Rapport

The 5% Institute

One of the most critical parts of sales training , is learning how to ask for the sale. Without the close; your discovery call and everything else after may be wasted time, so learning how to ask effectively is critical for consistent sales. In this article, you’ll learn five ways how to ask for the sale in a non-pushy way, so that you can maintain rapport, and avoid buyer’s remorse.

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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.