Iannarino

JANUARY 15, 2025

Success is within your graspif you can master the art of perseverance and avoid the common pitfalls of giving up.

Product

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube There’s a ton of talk about what isn’t working today in go-to-market. However, companies are still finding ways to grow which means there a some things that are working. In this special episode, Scott Barker is looking at some of the big themes he’s seen in how the top go-to-market leaders are driving growth today.

GTM

Sales Gravy

JANUARY 16, 2025

Sales leadership demands the ability to adapt, motivate, and guide teams toward consistent, high-level performance. In this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount is joined by Charley Bible of KaTom to discuss key strategies for sales leaders, focusing on teamwork, skill refinement, and the power of effective coaching. These insights bridge the gap between individual development and team success, offering actionable takeaways for anyone in sales leadership.

Teamwork

Hubspot

JANUARY 14, 2025

Have you ever wondered what sets top sales performers apart from the rest? I know I have maybe too much. Anyway, I used to think that thing was a well-curated mix of charm, confidence, and a little luck. But after doing some further research, I discovered theres much more to the story than I thought. What I found most surprising is how simple yet effective their methods are no magic tricks, just intentional actions that make a big impact.

Negotiate

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.

Sales

Martech

JANUARY 14, 2025

Its always easy to miss things like software updates in December because the end of the year and the holiday season consume a lot of our attention. HubSpot launched 97 updates in December 2024. Because you’re busy getting down to business in 2025, weve identified the 13 most impactful updates to elevate your teams performance and strategy. These updates focus on helping you manage sensitive data securely, optimize user workflows and enhance team productivity.

Objectives and Key Results

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2025

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. GTMnow highlights the strategies, along with the stories from the top 1% of GTM executives, VCs, and founders behind these strategies and companies.

GTM

SaaStr

JANUARY 15, 2025

While some might dismiss sector-specific vertical SaaS software as ‘too small’ or ‘too niche’, companies like Veeva ($40B), Clio ($3B), Toast ($1.3B), and Slice ($1B) have proven there’s massive value in going deep rather than broad. Mangomint has quietly built an impressive vertical SaaS business in the spa and salon space, growing 100% year-over-year to approach $20M ARR with 110% NRR.

Contract

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 15, 2025

Do you ever circle back, repurpose slide decks and proposals, become nostalgic, rewatch movies or TV series? When my son was small, he loved watching the same movies and shows over and over again. We watched The Lion King with him around one hundred times and Brother Bear another fifty times. When he got older, we watched Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, Elf, School of Rock, and Grown Ups every year.

Process

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 13, 2025

Recently, I was coaching a seller on a critical call he was about to make. His strategy to engage the CRO was to lead with AI and the capabilities it enabled in the product he was selling. “Why are you leading with this,” I asked. “I’ve noticed in my research that he talks a lot about AI, I thought that would be a good way to engage him!

Sell

RAIN Group

JANUARY 15, 2025

Sales enablement leaders are under more pressure than ever. Youre tasked with boosting seller performance, driving revenue growth, and delivering measurable resultsall while working with tight budgets and limited resources. In 2025, doing more with less isnt just a goal; its a survival strategy. But heres the good news: constraints breed creativity.

Sales

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.

Objection handling

SaaStr

JANUARY 13, 2025

By the end of the year, AI should kill the classic human SDR/BDR screening inbound leads Its just a horrible experience for the prospect waiting days for a 20 year old entry level sales rep to get back to you and get on the phone to qualify you out or send you to an AE — Jason SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 10, 2025 Perhaps the single worst experience in B2B sales is Contact Me.

Contact

Salesforce

JANUARY 13, 2025

Managing vast amounts of data is daunting. With millions of records to handle, maintaining high data quality, compliance with regulations , and streamlining processes can seem overwhelming. Yet these tasks are essential for any organization striving to stay competitive and efficient. In fact, data quality is a top priority for analytics and IT leaders.

Government

Sales Gravy

JANUARY 12, 2025

Im hearing sob stories from leaders and individuals everywhere who are waking up to the cold, hard truth that they are staring down the barrel of a thin or empty pipeline. If you are in this situation and dont have enough pipe to cover your numbereither for this month or the first quarterthen you need to take action now to close that gap because getting behind your number at the beginning of the year means loads of stress and chasing your tail - for the rest of the quarter or the entire year if

Pipeline

Martech

JANUARY 16, 2025

For the third time in six weeks, M&A activity made a visit to the customer data platform (CDP) market on Thursday, when Rokt acquired mParticle. Rokt, which uses AI and machine learning to personalize ecommerce experiences for customers, invested $300 million to get control of mParticle. The mParticle solution is now known as mParticle by Rokt. Independent CDPs are a hot commodity right now.

Clients

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

Hospitality

Hubspot

JANUARY 15, 2025

If youre looking for a way to show off the value of your product or service to potential customers, proof of concept (POC) in sales is a real-world method with tried-and-true results. Although I wasnt well-versed in the subject going in, by talking to sales experts I discovered how POC can help you connect with customers, set yourself apart, and lock in that first sale.

Sales

Salesforce

JANUARY 15, 2025

For manufacturers, ecommerce comes with added complexity. Highly technical product details, bulk reorders, and pre-negotiated pricing and entitlements have historically made it difficult to provide cohesive, consumer-like ecommerce experiences for B2B buyers. With Agentforce , its a lot easier to manage all the operational aspects and moving parts of B2B ecommerce.

Manufacturing

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2025

So a little ways back Lightspeed Venture Partners put out a new report on 154+ venture-backed cloud start-ups. Full report here. One data point that stuck out to me is that 100% of them reported $250k+ deals take over 6 months to close on average: This isnt a surprise per se. $250k+ deals are almost always budgeted as part of an annual budget review process. $250k+ deals almost always start off with a pilot and evaluation process. $250k+ deals generally are part of business process change planne

Closing

Martech

JANUARY 14, 2025

Let’s be honest: seeing Gartner’s latest CMO spending report probably made your stomach drop. Marketing budgets are down 15% year-over-year. Only 24% of CMOs feel confident about their 2024 funding. This sparked doom-and-gloom predictions about marketing’s diminishing role in 2025. But here’s the truth: this isn’t a crisis of budgets its a crisis of imagination.

Pipeline

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.

Retail

Hubspot

JANUARY 14, 2025

Take everything that you think you know about real estate entrepreneurs and throw it out the window. I know that sounds crazy, but just trust me on this one. Au contraire to the public knowledge youve likely acquired about real estate entrepreneurs and what they do , they arent just people who flip houses or invest in rental properties for a quick buck.

Real Estate

Membrain

JANUARY 12, 2025

Ever wondered how a career in digital media sales can transition from an entry-level position to an industry-leading role? Meet Andrew Barbudo , a digital media sales expert and Author of "Top Sales Producer: How To Crush Your Sales Quota", who shares his intriguing journey from the trenches of budget management and report generation to becoming a top-performing sales producer.

Quota

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2025

It seems the word “Coaching” has become one of those fashionable words, permeating every discussion. Go back 15 or more years, and we barely saw the word coaching. Today, we find coaching applying to about everything we do, both in business and in our personal lives. We see Executive Coaching, Career Coaching, Life Coaching, Performance Coaching, Business Coaching, Health/Wellness Coaching, Agile/Team Coaching, Sales Coaching, Spiritual Coaching, Dietary Coaching, and on an on and on

Objectives and Key Results

Martech

JANUARY 14, 2025

How often have you seen ads promising a single tool or platform as the ultimate solution to all your marketing challenges guaranteeing quality leads and sales while saving you time and money? If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. No one consumes media in a vacuum, so why limit your marketing to a single channel? Focusing on the platform with the highest ROI may seem efficient, but it neglects potential customers at various stages of their journey.

Campaign

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.

Start-ups

SaaStr

JANUARY 16, 2025

Workato’s SVP of Embedded Sales and Director of Solutions Marketing joined us at SaaStr Annual to talk about how to nurture customers — a great topic in general, but especially for embedded sales and APIs that can take a while to scale. The Second Most Important SaaS Hire? Customer Success. Here’s Why It Changes Everything A few key learnings from Workato’s SVP of Embedded Sales Nam Lee and Director of Solutions Marketing Hannah Peacock on why Customer Success is the game

Customers

Salesforce

JANUARY 13, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has left no stone unturned to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in marketing. From data-driven campaigns, automating processes, and optimizing social media strategies, your marketing efforts can be tripled using AI. In fact, 67% of marketing leaders already believe that AI will help them better understand their customers and boost overall growth.

Launch

Salesfolks

JANUARY 16, 2025

In the age of artificial intelligence, where hyper-personalized, automated communication can mimic human behavior with uncanny precision, the very tools designed to enhance outreach may paradoxically undermine it. The unintended consequence of AI-generated messaging is a growing skepticism among recipients about the authenticity of communication. This skepticism may push people to outright reject all messages from outside their known network.

Lead generation

Martech

JANUARY 14, 2025

To paraphrase an old saying: New customers are silver; old customers are gold. Keeping customers you already have is less expensive, consumes less time and provides a reliable income stream. Despite this, marketers spend remarkably little effort on customer retention. About how much time and effort, and on a percentage basis, are you seeing being absorbed by retention marketing in your world?

B2B

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.

High impact

Sales Pop!

JANUARY 15, 2025

The often-utilized original quote is attributed to both Teddy Roosevelt and John Maxwell but whoever used it first, truer words could never be spoken. Its closely connected to what I often refer to as the four most important words in selling Its not about you. Understanding and internalizing these two maxims will go a long way in determining your success in selling and, truthfully, in life in general.

Clients

Salesforce

JANUARY 13, 2025

Scalability can make or break a business. Youre either growing with demand or facing the risk of performance slowdowns, system outages, lost revenue, and unhappy customers. While implementing scalability across an organization can seem like an enormous task, its doable. And the first step to becoming a scalable business? Learning from others. In a recent panel discussion, IT leaders shared their scalability journeys and valuable lessons learned about streamlining operations, improving performanc

Launch

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 15, 2025

“Behind every business objective is the fulfillment of a personal objective.”* In our discovery process, if we conduct a discovery, we seek to understand the customers’ business objectives. “What problem are they solving, why is it important to solve it, what are the risks of solving/not solving it…… ” And we focus the presentation of our solutions in terms of how it addresses the business objectives.

Customers

Martech

JANUARY 15, 2025

Social media platforms are portals to deep, meaningful engagement with customers. They are also the place where content creators and influencers cultivate passionate fan bases. For marketers looking to meet customers where they are , social media cant be overlooked. Here are some predictions about where brands can find opportunities and innovation in 2025 in order to gain an edge in the rapidly changing space.

Niche

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