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Expert B2B Sales Plays & Best Practices

Iannarino

How you sell is a major factor in sales success. Even though the sales process is no longer linear, we still divide it into stages. Each stage of an opportunity requires you to achieve a corresponding outcome for you and your potential customers.

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Will AI Really Help You Sell?

Membrain

It’s almost the only thing people want to talk about these past few months: Artificial intelligence. ChatGPT and its many children and siblings have set the internet and our industry ablaze with speculation about what it means for us.

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How To Scale Your Go-to-Market Strategy at Every Stage with Cipio Partners Managing Partner Rolan Dennert (Video)

SaaStr

Most startup founders create companies to grow them. While all organizations are different, one core truth remains — Everything changes. This is true in life and business. If you don’t want your company defeated by change, you need to adapt your Go-To-Market strategy at every stage of growth. Managing Partner of CIPIO Partners, Rolan Dennert, shares how companies need to readjust and rethink GTM fit — and even product market fit — from time to time.

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Am I Ready For This Meeting?

Partners in Excellence

We spend a huge amount of time getting customers to accept a request for a meeting. Customers are busy. They have an aversion, even a preference, not to talk to sellers. They worry about wasting their time. On our side, we are incredibly busy. We are juggling all sorts of balls, prospecting, managing qualified opportunities in our pipelines, making sure our current customers are happy, doing the endless amount of internal reporting our managers seem to want us to do.

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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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Top Sales Operations KPIs to Track & Optimize

Iannarino

Sales operations is the business function responsible for supporting the sales force by improving efficiency and effectiveness. Sales organizations may assign different tasks and outcomes to sales operations. Some of these responsibilities include sales strategy , sales planning , managing technology, sales training , or optimizing the sales process.

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Coaching Championship Sales Teams: Pat Summitt Says it All!

Anthony Cole Training

There are five pillars that make up a strong Sales Managed Environment which in turn will help you build a consistent, championship-quality sales team.

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The end of marketing or a new beginning? The truth about AI

Martech

Love it or hate it, the artificial intelligence revolution is here. People can’t stop talking about ChatGPT, OpenAI and how AI will fundamentally change the world. Marketers everywhere are obsessing over the newly discovered power of AI. Amid the jaw-dropping realizations of what AI is capable of, marketers are faced with an existential question that’s a bit daunting to consider: Is this the end of marketing as we know it?

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How to Survive the Coming B2B Sales Apocalypse in Outbound Sales

Iannarino

Reaching prospective clients will be more challenging in the future. I know, you think it’s difficult enough now, but the regulatory environment is going to become more restrictive. You should expect something like the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) in the United States. Other regulations being considered would make it more difficult to make robocalls or share contact information without permission.

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Latest Podcasts: Leading Through Challenges

Force Management

As leaders, we serve as guides for our teams through challenging times. In the current economic landscape, when the challenges are unpredictable, it helps to have guides of our own. Last month on the Revenue Builders Podcast, we talked to multiple leaders who have guided teams successfully through crises. They spoke to the power of gratitude, communication, culture, and humility.

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Why next year’s SEO results depend on your SEO work this year

Search Engine Land

Stop reading. Now. Go open Google Analytics. Click on Behavior , then sort by Top Content , and add a Secondary dimension for google / organic. Now, what do you see? If you’re like most websites, the top trafficked pages are also often at least 12 months old. That means three things: Traffic is a lagging indicator, a byproduct of previous output.

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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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6 tactics to create recession-proof email marketing

Martech

Are we in a recession or not? It doesn’t matter whether the national economy meets the classic definition (i.e., when a country’s gross domestic product falls in two consecutive business quarters). What our customers think matters more — and right now, they’re pretty pessimistic. Up to 91% of consumers are changing their shopping habits in response to bleak economic news, according to a new SheerID study.

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The Ultimate Guide to Building a Successful B2B Sales Funnel

Iannarino

A sales funnel is a concept that illustrates the various stages of a customer's purchase decision process. While sales approaches their work using a pipeline, marketing uses B2B sales funnel strategies. As a salesperson, it is important to understand your organization’s funnel.

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Open Letter: An Urgent Call to Pause AI Development Beyond GPT-4

David Meerman Scott

This morning, I signed an Open Letter , putting my name together with academics, researchers, and business people calling on all Artificial Intelligence labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.

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Has AI changed SEO for better or worse?

Search Engine Land

Google first turned to artificial intelligence and machine learning to power its search engine algorithm back in 2016. With ChatGPT ‘s launch in late 2022, however, artificial intelligence truly became mainstream and significantly impacted the SEO industry. While some believe these changes have been for the better, others have argued that they have made things worse.

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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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Conversational marketing: A guide to a key B2B GTM strategy

Martech

Did you know that 91% of business buyers and 86% of consumers consider the company’s experience as important as its products and services? If your B2B go-to-market strategy doesn’t prioritize delivering a personalized and engaging experience for your audience, you could be missing out on potential customers and growth opportunities. Fortunately, conversational marketing can help you create the kind of experience that modern buyers expect.

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Are You Creating Value, Building Value or Adding Value?

Iannarino

As a writer, I care deeply about words. Words and phrases have meanings. When used incorrectly, words can confuse others or obscure the meaning. The terms "creating value," "building value," and "adding value" are often used interchangeably. This makes it difficult to distinguish them.

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Dear SaaStr: How Much Of My Startup Do I Need to Sell In Each Venture Round?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Much Of My Startup Do I Need to Sell In Each Venture Round? It definitely can vary based on what type of investor. But for venture-backed start-ups raising from more traditional funds (the ones you’ve heard of), here are some rough rules: Seed VCs would like to buy 10%, sometimes 15%, if they can. They often “settle” for a bit less.

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Dumbing Things Down….

Partners in Excellence

As I look at the plethora of tools we leverage to engage customers and each other, I worry. While they are intended to help us accomplish more. They are intended to help us, make us more efficient, eliminate some of the work we have to do, Instead, I wonder if they are dumbing us down. We have tools that present everything about the customer to us—the financial performance of the company, performance relative to the market, key issues facing them and their customers.

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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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ChatGPT under threat from European regulators

Martech

On Friday, Italian regulators imposed a ban on generative AI tool ChatGPT with immediate effect while giving its creator, OpenAI, 20 days to address concerns about the way data is collected and processed under penalty of a fine of $21.7m or up to 4% of annual revenues (whichever is greater). There have been indications that other European regulators may swiftly follow suit.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Growth Initiatives-Boost Your Revenue in 2023

Iannarino

Supply chain issues and wage growth have been pushing the Fed to raise rates faster than ever, but despite these strong headwinds, there is no reason to give up on your sales goals. Interest rates are high, and it looks as if they will stay that way through the rest of 2023. We may avoid a recession, but the business environment has been affected by the rising costs following the pandemic.

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New Bing attracts new Edge users – who then use Google Search

Search Engine Land

People who rushed to download the Microsoft Edge browser to try out the New Bing Chat experience – ironically – ended up using Google Search on Edge, according to new data from enterprise SEO platform BrightEdge. Why we care. We’re watching closely for any data indicating whether the New Bing is starting to chip away at Google’s massive lead in search.

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Getting What We Want….

Partners in Excellence

We want to achieve our goals—make quota, get the bonus, get the promotion, get the recognition. We want people to act/behave in a certain way. We want to work for a certain company or in a certain role. We want customers to respond to our outreach, to buy our products. The problem with getting what we want is that we are usually dependent on those we work with getting what they want/need.

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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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Marketing technologists are well-rewarded

Martech

If you work in marketing technology or marketing ops, there’s a good chance you’re better compensated than your peers among general marketers. That’s one takeaway from the 2023 MarTech Salary and Career Survey. Those members of the marketing operations team more focused on tech and operations (“maestros”) than the design and execution of campaigns earned, on average, $25,000 more than their campaign-focused peers.

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Revolutionize B2B Sales: 5 Strategies for Team Success!

Iannarino

As B2B sales organizations continue to reorganize their go-to-market (GTM) sales teams, there is a convergence into revenue teams. These teams comprise sales, marketing, sales operations, sales enablement, and customer success (once called customer service). The full-cycle B2B salespeople who used to walk into the client's office alone are now accompanied by a phalanx of team members.

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Google to sunset 4 attribution models in Ads and Analytics

Search Engine Land

Google will soon retire four rules-based attribution models in Google Ads and Google Analytics: First-click. Linear. Time decay. Position-based. Why we care. This will impact anyone who still uses these models in Google Ads. Anything that isn’t last-click will be much harder to track because the data-driven attribution formula is different for each advertiser – and not visible. “In the past, you could use linear and give each touch the same credit.

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Who Is a Salesblazer?

Salesforce

I dropped out of college to sell cell phone accessories. Thirteen years later, I’d worked my way up to become a top seller at IBM and eventually, Grubhub. I got to where I am because I had the support of my community at every step. So many of us have similar stories. We’ve dedicated valuable time searching for answers to do our jobs and get ahead, all while feeling the pressure to close deals.

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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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How to increase website engagement with content recommendations

Martech

Every content provider wants more engagement with their online content. Effective content recommendations are one way to achieve this. but there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Here’s how to develop the best recommendation strategy for your site, content and audience. Most off-the-shelf content recommendation engines will not have all the capabilities discussed here, but knowing what’s possible will help you find the best solution for your business.

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How Sales Skills Can Help Grow Your Audible Business

Sales Pop!

Sales skills are crucial in any business. It enables a company to attract customers, increase revenue, expand into new markets, and build a loyal client base. Every outstanding salesperson is a company’s asset and an indispensable one. With the rise of e-commerce, the shift to the online platform from brick-and-mortar stores has transformed selling styles.

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How to create review content that’s helpful for users and Google

Search Engine Land

Whether they’re buying online or in a store, more shoppers rely on review content to help them make smart decisions on almost any purchase. Shopping for a new car? Face cream? Yoga mat? Rechargeable battery? Diapers? Pajamas? Peanut butter? Do a quick Google search and you’ll find a wealth of reviews, comparisons, best-of lists, worst-of lists, and “this product changed my life” content.

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Sales pipeline prioritization: formulas to improve your win rate

PandaDoc

As your company grows, you may find you have less resources available for closing each opportunity. Your company’s sales managers only have a select number of sales reps to work with, and those reps only have a limited amount of time to close deals. A good sales pipeline management strategy is essential because every potential opportunity uses up your most valuable resource — time.

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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.