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AI Tasks and Tools for SDR Success

Heinz Marketing

By Sarah Threet , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing In a fast-paced sales environment, Sales Development Representatives (SDRs) face the constant challenge of balancing high-volume outreach with personalized engagement. As competition for buyer attention intensifies, SDRs are under pressure to work smarter – not harder; this is where AI-powered tools come into play.

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Overcoming workplace politics: A marketer’s guide to cross-functional partnerships

Martech

Trinh Tham (left), founder of Straatt Business Reimagined, discusses leadership with (from top) Marni Puente, SVP/CMO SAIC; Karen Feldman, VP marketing and communications at IBM Consulting and keynote host Drew Neisser, founder of CMO Huddles. How can marketers overcome office politics to build cross-organization relationships needed to do their jobs?

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Google’s Ads Data Hub: What you need to know

Search Engine Land

The Google Ads landscape continues to evolve, with a growing emphasis on data usage that complies with strict privacy guidelines. To support advertisers navigating this environment, Google introduced a robust toolset designed to advance their AI-driven marketing strategies. A key part of this transformation is Ads Data Hub (ADH), a platform built on Google Cloud.

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Prove It!

Engage Selling

Boosting client confidence is key to sealing the deal. Let’s explore how to make your prospects feel good about their decisions with you by offering proof they can’t ignore. For … The post Prove It! first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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Smart Tools & Strong Teams: A People-First Approach to AI in Sales

Speaker: Matt Sunshine, CEO at The Center for Sales Strategy

AI isn’t replacing salespeople—it’s empowering them. The most forward-thinking sales organizations are using AI to enhance human performance rather than eliminate it. From coaching and messaging to prospecting and pipeline accountability, artificial intelligence is giving managers and SDRs the new tools they need to work smarter, sell better, and close more.

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Master Your Marketing Budget: Essential Steps for Planning Ahead

Heinz Marketing

By Lisa Heay , Director of Business Operations at Heinz Marketing Planning for 2025 might be the last thing on your mind—we’re not even done with Q3! But this is the time of year that seems to pick up speed, and before you know it we’ll be drinking eggnog and singing Christmas Carols. So, if you’re not already thinking about your marketing budgets for next year, you could be falling behind.

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Drive ecommerce growth with proven personalization strategies by Edna Chavira

Martech

Discover how personalization can revolutionize your e-commerce business. Attend Personalization at Scale: A Blueprint for Global Success and learn from the success of Le Col, a premium cycling apparel brand that saw a 20% increase in average order value and a 10% boost in customer engagement through targeted personalization. Join us for this webinar where you’ll: Learn how personalization can boost average order value, click-through rates, and customer satisfaction, leading to increased

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7 Steps to Improve Your Outbound Sales Strategy

Anthony Cole Training

Most of the companies and salespeople we work with must do outbound lead generation and relationship building, and many do not have the luxury of filling their sales pipeline with inbound leads. Like most things, if you have a plan and stick to it, outbound selling will be more effective.

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Understanding the Difference Between Transactional and Relational Salespeople

Iannarino

In today's competitive marketplace, building strong customer relationships isn't just beneficial—it’s essential for sustained success.

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Mail still holds appeal for younger generation

Martech

Sixty-five percent of consumers still send letters and packages with nearly half (48%) of Gen Z sending mail one to two times per month. That’s according to new research from online postage and shipping vendor Stamps.com. Why we care. Not only does mail still exist (it’s that stuff in your mailbox) but direct mail continues to play a role in marketing.

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TikTok Search Ads Campaign launch in U.S.

Search Engine Land

TikTok is taking a direct shot at Google with the launch of TikTok Search Ads Campaign in the U.S. Advertisers can now target users on its search results page. Previously, ads on TikTok’s search page were more generic. But now brands can tailor their ads to align with specific search behaviors. Why it matters. TikTok has a growing role as a search engine for younger users – 57% of users use the app’s search function, according to internal TikTok data.

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How to Coach Reps on Overcoming Sales Objections with Confidence

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Global Sales and David Phelan, Account Manager

In a world where buyers are more informed and objections are more nuanced, confidence isn't optional—it’s a competitive advantage. In high-stakes conversations, knowing how to handle pushback can make or break the deal. Join industry experts Brendan Sweeney and David Phelan for a behind-the-scenes look at how teams are transforming sales coaching with real-time feedback, objection-handling role plays, and pre-call preparation that actually sticks.

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Sales Kickoffs: Removing Roadblocks and Friction

Force Management

The sales kickoff (SKO) is where you the stage for what’s coming, explain what’s changed and chart the path for success in the next year. But let’s get real. Rallying the troops and rah-rah speeches are great, but they are not what helps land high-value accounts or meet the growth imperative. Moving the needle comes by taking direct action on the day-to-day selling motion.

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Hold Your Sales Team Accountable: Proven Strategies for Sales Leaders and Managers

Iannarino

Accountability is the backbone of a successful sales team—without it, even the best talent can fall short of their potential.

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Why AI’s agents and commodification are good news for marketers

Martech

This year’s Dreamforce and Inbound user conferences were all about AI agents. “When we look back at this event years from now, you’re going to remember it as the year of AI agents,” said HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah. “The only thing we’re going to do at Salesforce is AgentForce,” said CEO Marc Benioff. (So long Customer 360 and Data Cloud, hope you enjoyed your time in the spotlight.

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How to maximize PPC and SEO data with co-optimization audits

Search Engine Land

What if I told you that some of the best SEO insights don’t come from organic search data alone? When SEO data is viewed in isolation, it only explains what’s happening in the organic search channel. However, in reality, businesses relying on SEO are supported by multiple channels. Often, PPC and SEO are treated separately, which reduces efficiency and leads to missed opportunities.

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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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The “CEO Card……”

Partners in Excellence

I’ve been reading a number of articles about how win rates skyrocket when you get a very senior exec or founder involved in a sales opportunity. Sometimes opening a deal, sometimes in the final stages of a deal. These experts expound on how to get these exalted people involved in deals to drive executives involved in opening and closing deals for reps, all quoting increases in win rates (one cited a 408% increase which makes me wonder how bad the team really was!

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How Lack of Research and Confidence Undermine Your Cold Calling Success

Iannarino

Are your cold calls falling flat because you're making simple mistakes?

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How to balance ROAS, brand safety and suitability in social media advertising

Martech

As marketers face growing pressure to get the most value from their ad budgets, return on ad spend (ROAS) has become a go-to performance metric. ROAS measures how much revenue is earned for every dollar spent on advertising, providing a simple way to evaluate campaign effectiveness. While ROAS is a good indicator of short-term profitability, it shouldn’t be the only metric for social media strategies.

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4 Reddit ad formats you need to know

Search Engine Land

Reddit is a powerful platform for advertisers looking to reach engaged, niche audiences. It offers unique opportunities for brands to connect with consumers in authentic and meaningful ways. This article explores the various ad formats available on Reddit, from basic promoted posts to high-impact takeovers. We’ll cover: Why Reddit is a valuable platform for advertisers.

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Breaking The Commerce Bottleneck: Your SAP Exit Plan Starts Now

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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Information Asymmetry….

Partners in Excellence

Information Asymmetry has been a powerful tool in buying/selling almost from when Eve convinced Adam to take a bite of an apple. Centuries ago, Francis Bacon said, “Knowledge is power.” We’ve always tended to wield that knowledge as a weapon, creating advantage to us. Information asymmetry occurs where one party has a disproportionate informational or material knowledge advantage over the other party.

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When to Disqualify a Potential Client in B2B Sales

Iannarino

Disqualification doesn’t happen often enough because salespeople have trouble recognizing how much we're connected to the idea of pain or dissatisfaction.

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Why public relations is thriving in today’s global marketing mix

Martech

This article was co-authored with Ronen Shnidman , Head of Content at okoora. With digital marketing and social media taking center stage, it’s easy to assume traditional public relations (PR) is outdated. However, PR is thriving in today’s marketing landscape. Around the world, PR remains invaluable for shaping perceptions, building credibility and connecting brands with their audiences.

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Optimizing Largest Contentful Paint: 5 tips for a faster website by DebugBear

Search Engine Land

Page speed is important for a good user experience. Google’s Core Web Vitals metrics also can impact organic search rankings. This article will review some new and less well-known approaches to make your website faster. What is Largest Contentful Paint? Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) measures how soon visitors can see the main content after opening a webpage.

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New Research-Backed Strategies to Empower Managers as Culture & Engagement Leaders

Speaker: Beth Sunshine, SVP, Up Your Culture

When culture isn’t consistently lived out across the organization, engagement suffers—and it often starts with a disconnect at the top. In this session, Beth Sunshine, SVP of Up Your Culture at The Center for Sales Strategy, will reveal how HR and executive leaders can close the gap between vision and execution by equipping frontline and mid-level managers to become culture carriers.

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Control Disguised As Coaching

Partners in Excellence

Often, when I talk to managers, they tell me how much time they spend coaching. They tell me stories of meeting, weekly, with their people, doing reviews, pipeline discussions, activity discussions—-all sorts of “coaching meetings.” They say, “Dave, coaching is important and we are spending a lot of time coaching… ” I often ask, “How’s it working?

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Navigating the Post-Literate Society: Insights and Strategies for the Digital Age

Iannarino

As an author of this daily sales blog and seven books, I think writing and reading are incredibly important to personal and professional development.

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3 ways to optimize your marketing automation beyond technology

Martech

Memo To : Marketing directors, VPs, SVPs and CMOs Re : Recommendations to optimize your automated marketing campaigns Your investment in technology to support marketing automation was smart. Automated campaigns increase relevance for your target audience and boost the productivity of your marketing team, which together should improve your bottom-line performance.

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The truth behind AI checkers: A cautionary tale

Search Engine Land

Browse the web these days, and you’ll likely run into AI-created content (whether you realize it or not). The line between AI and human-written content continues to blur rapidly, causing confusion and misplaced trust in flawed AI detection tools. But these so-called electronic gatekeepers – meant to separate human-crafted content from its artificial counterparts – mistakenly flag genuine human writing as AI-generated.

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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 You Interested In Your Customers?

Partners in Excellence

Pop Quiz! Clear your screens/devices, put down your pencils. This is a thought experiment. Now, here’s the question: I want to talk to you! I want to arrange a Zoom meeting to talk about what we do as a business. I want to talk about our offerings, our happy customers, and how great we are as a company? Can we arrange a 30 minute conversation to talk about these things?

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Psychology of Decision Making

Sales Pop!

The Psychology of Decision Making: How We Choose Every day, we make thousands of decisions that outline our lives-from smaller ones, such as what to eat for breakfast, to major life-changing ones, involving careers and relationships. But how often have you wondered about the psychological processes behind these choices? Let’s delve into this intriguing world of decision-making psychology and discuss a few key insights that may lead us to the best choice. 1.

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U.S. FTC ban on fake, AI-generated reviews takes effect Oct. 13

Martech

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ban on fake and AI-generated customer reviews takes effect on Oct. 13, 2024. The final rule, which was announced in August, goes beyond a prohibition on fake product reviews. It also prohibits the buying and selling of followers and views on social media. The rule was in the works for nearly two years. The effort started with an “advanced notice of potential rule making” in November 2022.

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Google Search Ads 360 (SA360) starter guide

Search Engine Land

Since its rebranding in 2018, Google Search Ads 360 has continued to be a powerful tool for PPC advertisers. However, many marketers still struggle to understand its full potential. This confusion often leads businesses, agencies and corporations to miss the benefits of integrating it into their marketing strategies. This article will address some of the most common questions about Google Search Ads 360 and help clarify how it can enhance your marketing efforts.

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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.