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Transform Your Sales Conversations with a Library of Client Insights

Iannarino

What if you could walk into every sales meeting armed with a mental database of insights into why clients succeed, why they fail, and how you've helped other similar clients achieve success? Building and organizing such a library gives you a major competitive advantage.

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4 Rules to Help Your Salespeople Have Better Initial Calls

Anthony Cole Training

How important is it that you or your sales team close more business, more quickly at higher margins? We can guess that it is pretty important.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing Custom GPT in Social Media Marketing

Sales Pop!

In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, harnessing the power of AI has become an indispensable strategy for businesses seeking to stay ahead of the curve. One remarkable tool that has captured the attention of social media marketers is Custom GPT. This advanced AI technology, based on OpenAI’s GPT architecture, empowers businesses to create highly tailored content, engage with their audience on a more personal level, and streamline various aspects of their social media marketi

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Latest Podcasts: Building Culture As a Leader

Force Management

Whether you're leading an early-stage startup or an established organization, one of the most important things a leader can do is to cultivate a culture of accountability, curiosity and excellence. This month, our guests on the Revenue Builders podcast offered some insightful perspectives on building a successful sales culture. These leaders have spearheaded culture transformations and spurred massive growth at some of the most influential sales organizations of our time.

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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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Outsmarting the Competition: A Guide to Shifting from One-Down to One-Up in B2B Sales

Iannarino

Uncover the secrets of transitioning from a One-Down to a One-Up sales approach to revolutionize your B2B sales performance.

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The Growth Opportunities Are Stunning, Why Aren’t We Capturing Them?

Partners in Excellence

My friend, Matt Heinz, posted a fascinating article which reminded me of some market analysis I’d forgotten. It’s from Gartner analysis, now about 3-4 years old, but still relevant. Summarized, at any point in time, as we look at B2B companies (To help us understand it, let’s imagine the total market size is 1000 companies): At any point in time, 3-4% of companies in an industry are actively engaged in a buying effort.

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Google Search officially retires cache link

Search Engine Land

Google officially removed the cache link from the Google Search results snippets last week and Google confirmed that it will remove the cache functionality completely in the near future. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison told us that Google has “decided to retire it” and removed it from the Google Search result pages and will soon remove the cache completely.

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What Your Client Needs from You Now: 2024

Iannarino

Key Strategies for Meeting Client Expectations in Sales Your clients have a set of needs they expect you to be able to fulfill. Excelling in these areas enhances your results. Neglecting them, however, opens the door for competitors to step in and provide the assistance your client seeks. Here, you will find a set of common things your ideal client needs you to provide.

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How to transform customer experience with AI

Martech

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a game-changing force for revolutionizing customer experience (CX). With the ability to process vast amounts of data and drive automation at scale, AI empowers brands to deliver personalized, seamless CX journeys that foster loyalty and satisfaction. This article explores how leading companies leverage AI across three key areas — clear messaging, frictionless interactions and tailored experiences — to shape customer experience. 1.

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Leadership Uncovered: Navigating with Simplicity and Insight

Sales Pop!

I just wanted to drop in and share some cool stuff from my latest podcast episode. I had an amazing chat with Summer Davies , who knows a ton about making leaders out of regular folks. We talked about all sorts of things that can trip you up if you’re trying to lead a team, especially in smaller businesses. Here’s the lowdown: The Big Oops in Leadership: It’s pretty common to see someone who’s awesome at their job get promoted to a boss.

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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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Are We Leveraging AI To Its Greatest Potential?

Partners in Excellence

My feeds are filled with all sorts of stuff on Generative AI and LLMs. “All sorts of “”Experts” offer miracle cures and prompts to “give us the answers, doing all the work for us.” All of what I see from sellers leveraging ChatGPT and similar tools are well written, most are unimpressive. All these outreaches are similarly ambiguous and non specific, hence usually irrelevant.

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Navigating the Future of Sales in a Low Demand World: Strategies and Insights

Iannarino

Exploring the Unfilled Sales Roles Crisis of 2021 In March of 2021, a Wall Street Journal article reported that there were 700,000 open sales roles that were unfilled. It continued by stating that these jobs paid better than other jobs and offered greater autonomy. There are two questions worth exploring. First, why so many open jobs in sales? Second, why were so few people interested in pursuing a sales role ?

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Humans prefer AI-generated copy, survey finds

Search Engine Land

Humans are more likely to prefer content generated by AI than written by a human, according to a surprising new survey. Why we care. While AI can’t entirely replace humans in content creation, clearly generative AI can create content that resonates with consumers. Generative AI 6, humans 0. In six AI- vs. human-generated content battles, the generative AI version “won” each.

Product 139
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Why you should add predictive modeling to your marketing mix

Martech

Predictive analytics provides a solid foundation for data-driven decision-making for marketing campaigns. But while most marketing leaders already use some form of predictive analytics, specifically predictive modeling, many still struggle to fully integrate it into their decisions. Concerns about data quality and using the right data hinder the wider adoption of predictive analytics.

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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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Problem Or Product Focused Selling?

Partners in Excellence

It’s Monday morning, I’ve just cleared my email and social feeds. Each of us experiences the same thing, grumbling at the terrible quality outreach. Then, too many of us turn around and inflict bad outbound prospecting on our own victims. 100% of the prospecting messages I see are product focused. The outbound communications are something like: “We are known for having the best product/services doing this…… I’d love to talk to you about it and what our custome

Product 138
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Reimagine B2B Sales Training: Sales Accelerator's Pioneering Approach Unveiled

Iannarino

Uncover how Sales Accelerator can tailor your approach to B2B sales, ensuring it's right for you or your team.

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Google search CPCs up 19%, pushing ad spend up 17%

Search Engine Land

Spend on Google search ads in the U.S. rose by 17% year-on-year in the final quarter of 2023. Google click growth remained steady at 8% year-on-year, while cost-per-click accelerated to 9% during the same period, according to a the Tinuiti Digital Ads Benchmark Report. Why we care. The increase in Google search ad spend suggests that people are feeling more confident in digital advertising after a rocky start to 2023, when CPS dropped.

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What’s New at Automattic and WordPress with Co-founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg

SaaStr

In the latest installment of our What’s New series where SaaStr’s very own CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin, sits down with the top CEOs and leaders in SaaS to discuss What’s New, what’s top of mind, and what every SaaS founder should be thinking about – Jason sits down with Matt Mullenweg , CEO of Automatic and Co-Founder of WordPress.

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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 I Am Obsessed With Selling!

Partners in Excellence

I wrote a post, “ Sellers, Are You Really Interested In Selling ? ” My friend, Christian Mauer , true to form, often poses some of the most challenging questions to my post. He did this asking, “Dave, why are you so interested in selling?” The answer is easy, but perhaps worth explaining. I’m obsessed with selling—all things selling.

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Excel in B2B Sales: Leveraging One-Up Strategies for Enhanced Client Success

Iannarino

Uncover the power of being One-Up in sales and learn how to outperform in the competitive B2B landscape.

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Boost Your Team’s Efficiency: Top Sales Productivity Metrics to Track in 2024

Veloxy

Measuring the right sales productivity metrics is crucial for any sales team looking to boost its performance. This guide unveils essential metrics such as lead response time, conversion rate, and quota attainment to help you understand where your team excels and where there’s room to grow. We’ll explore how these metrics can sharpen your sales strategy and improve efficiency.

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Redefining ‘leads’ in B2B: Why data enrichment is key for lead gen

Martech

Lead generation for B2B has undergone quite a transformation. Gone are the days when gating all content to meet quarterly MQL KPIs was effective. Today, digital platforms and data enrichment strategies are the status quo, reshaping how we identify, engage and nurture potential customers we’d like to have. But have we deviated too far from sustainable lead generation practices and become too reliant on pay-to-play databases to fuel outbound initiatives?

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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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Google exec addresses advertisers’ automation concerns

Search Engine Land

Google needs to re-evaluate its approach to automation, according to some advertisers. The search engine announced several AI-driven updates to Responsive Search Ads (RSAs) earlier this week to help streamline ad creation and boost return on investment. However, some interpreted this update as another move by Google to promote automation – a direction that doesn’t resonate well with all advertisers. ‘We need choice regarding automation’ Greg Finn, Director of Marketing for Cypr

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Team Communication in Sales and Operations: Strategies for Success

Iannarino

These key strategies bridge the gap between sales and operations teams for enhanced client satisfaction and business success.

Sales 242
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How to Find Someone’s Phone Number and Email Address

Veloxy

Are you a field sales representative struggling to reach potential customers? One of the biggest roadblocks you might face is figuring out how to find someone’s phone number, especially when you’re in unfamiliar territory. Luckily, there are tools out there that can help. This comprehensive guide will explore some of the best ways to find someone’s phone number and email address.

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5 Interesting Learnings from ServiceNow at ~$10 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

So there’s a new member of the $10 Billion ARR Club. ServiceNow is the enterprise workflow leader than most folks have heard of, but don’t fully understand or know too much about. It’s because you don’t work in a big enterprise. ServiceNow simply dominates there. It’s a $10 Billion ARR rocketship, still growing a stunning 27% (!

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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 to measure organic traffic in GA4

Search Engine Land

With Google Analytics 4 (GA4) reports, you can better understand the performance of your organic search efforts. Knowing how much traffic is coming from Google or other search engines lets you enhance your SEO strategy for better results. This article will cover how to view and analyze your organic traffic data in GA4, the key dimensions to look at, such as source and medium, and the main metrics to assess, like total users and sessions.

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Generative AI use explodes for RevOps

Martech

The use of generative AI in business processes grew by 400% in 2023, and the biggest adopters were RevOps (48% of use cases) followed by IT (31%). Perhaps surprisingly, customer support lagged behind at 12%. Highly complex automation cases have almost doubled over the past two years, while 50% of automation cases stretch over four or more departments.

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How To Build the Email List of Your Dreams

Salesforce

If you build it, they will come. That famous quote from Field of Dreams refers to a baseball field for ghosts, but can it also be applied to an email list? It sure can. According to our research , email remains the best way to connect with customers. A good email list brings in new prospects, increases engagement with your community, and provides you with valuable customer and performance data to keep refining your efforts.

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CRO Confidential: What It Really Takes to Be Successful in Enterprise SaaS Sales with Christian Smith, CRO of Splunk

SaaStr

In this week’s latest episode of CRO Confidential , Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex, sits down with the CRO of Splunk, Christian Smith. Splunk is a 20-year-old Enterprise software giant that has accomplished many things — a 2012 IPO, a $28B+ Cisco acquisition in 2023, and $3.7 billion of ARR last year, with a market cap of $25.7 Billion.

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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.