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Create More Sales Opportunities with These 5 Activities

Anthony Cole Training

Business planning as a sales professional has several components. But, there isn’t a component that is more important than using your calendar to plan for your “green” activity.

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The Irony Of Change

Partners in Excellence

The other day, I was speaking with a colleague about the state of sales/selling. We started talking about the irony of change, how our jobs are all about change–yet we, somehow, seem the most resistant to changing how we sell. Sales/selling has little to do with what we sell. It is strictly about change, helping our customers/prospects recognize the need to change, helping them in that change process.

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What Is Cloud Infrastructure and How Does It Ease Cloud Computing?

G2

A business restricted to a single geographic location is now a thing of the past.

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The Ultimate Guide to Hiring a Great VP of Sales

SaaStr

The toughest hire of all is probably your VP of Sales. What trade-offs should you make? What are the right interview questions? When is too early to make the hire? When do you know that you’ve made a mis-hire? How far can you stretch to make the hire? What’s fair to expect from a VP of Sales, and what isn’t? We’ve pulled together the top SaaStr content over the years on how to make this critical hire.

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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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How to Calculate a Lead Score (With Examples)

Sales Hacker

Lead scoring is a key strategy for any business that wants to efficiently handle leads at scale. There comes a point when your focus shifts from getting enough leads to figuring out what to do with them. If you spend too much time on the wrong leads, you’ll push the wrong ones through your sales funnel and miss out on more valuable potential customers.

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Your Guide to Sales and Marketing Alignment

Heinz Marketing

By Payal Parikh , Director of Client Engagement at Heinz Marketing. Numerous studies have shown that sales and marketing alignment leads to increased revenue, improved campaign performance, better win rates, and improved customer retention. In fact, according to a study by Aberdeen , when sales and marketing teams are aligned, they generate 32% more revenue, retain 36% more customers, and see 38% higher win rates than teams with little to no alignment.

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4 Tips To Earn Respect as a Young SaaS CEO

SaaStr

While age ultimately doesn’t matter — results do — in SaaS, starting off as younger-than-average can create stress in a sales- and customer-driven environment. But Aaron Levie started Box at 19, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates dropped out at 19-ish, you know all this. So some hacks: Start with SMBs. It’s easier to get taken seriously, not just as a CEO, but also as a company, with smaller businesses.

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Building a RevOps Function to Empower Your Sales Team

Sales Hacker

RevOps isn’t just buzzworthy, it’s a movement. Sit down with Harish Mohan, Outreach’s SVP of Revenue Excellence and Operations to: — Get past the buzz and dig into what RevOps can do for your org. — Start taking action on building the team that will break down silos. — Deliver better experiences for your buyers and a better working environment for your teams.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 246: Q & A with Bobby Martin @bobbyhsp

Heinz Marketing

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing. If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals.

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PeopleFinder Gives Reps a Continuous Pool of Relevant Contacts to Help Them Connect with the Right People

Xant

Reps want to spend time selling and closing. To do that, they need a continuous pool of contacts. And not only that, but they need the right contacts. A tool like PeopleFinder gives them the ability to do just that. No more guessing, just connecting with the right people. THE PROBLEM: Sales reps spend on average 35.2% (or ?) of their time selling. That’s only 14-hours in a 40-hour workweek.

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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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How Many Sales Reps Do I Need To Hit The Plan Next Year? Hint: ~2x What You Think

SaaStr

Until founders have real help on the ops side, I usually see everyone get wrong the calculation of how many reps they’ll need. And it’s almost always more than first-time founders think. You can back into it: First, figure out how much revenue you need to close in the next twelve months. Because that’s a lot more than now. And you have to hire ahead (of course).

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Sabbaticals: Because Everyone Needs a Break

G2

Day in and day out, your employees show up, work hard, and take the necessary steps to ensure the company hits its goals.

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The Anatomy of a Cold Call

Predictable Revenue

Gabrielle is a sales dev leader who believes in empowerment, advocacy, and enlightenment with expertise in sales leadership, sales training, sales management, sales coaching, sales enablement, and cold calling. The post The Anatomy of a Cold Call appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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XANT Announces PeopleFinder, a New Buyer IntelligenceFeature That Recommends Additional Contacts in the Buying Group

Xant

SILICON SLOPES, Utah, May 11, 2021 / PRNewswire / — XANT, the enterprise leader in Guided Sales Engagement, announces the release of PeopleFinder, a Playbooks feature that identifies buyer behaviors and recommends additional ideal contacts for reps to engage so they can stop guessing and focus on selling. As part of the Playbooks Buyer Intelligence suite, PeopleFinder identifies individuals who may be part of the buying group, contacts that hold similar positions or were involved in simila

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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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Annual Contracts: Maybe Not All They Are Cracked Up To Be

SaaStr

Bigger customers usually leave simply because your product doesn’t do enough. An annual contract gives you 365 days or so to fix that. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) September 4, 2020. I’ve long been a vocal proponent of annual contracts. I felt like when I was a SaaS CEO and had to go profitable, they helped saved my rear. Close say a $125k contract, even after a healthy sales commission, that’s $100k+ in the bank right now!

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Let’s Talk Talk Tracks: 15 Sales Enablement Leaders Share What Works (and What Doesn’t)

Sales Hacker

Are talk tracks just a fancy new tech take on sales scripts? Not according to these sales and sales enablement experts. Software tools are constantly improving their platforms with new features, new product lines and new uses cases. Talk tracks are a helpful tool for sales reps, both new and experienced, to practice new pitches, share new info and have confident conversations with their prospects.

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How to Stop Procrastinating and Become a Joyful Writer [Infographic]

Hubspot

Whether you're a full-time blogger or a social media marketer who's occasionally tasked with writing social media copy, I'm willing to bet you've experienced the temptation to procrastinate in the middle of your writing process. Maybe you type your introductory sentence and then open Pinterest. Perhaps you finish a section of your post and then, losing steam, decide to wash your dishes, instead.

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Brittany’s App of the Week: Tips

Heinz Marketing

By Brittany Lieu , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Are you taking advantage of your iPhone’s full potential? I may sound like an Apple store employee but that’s because I once was. From my time selling and setting up hundreds of iPhones, I learned a few things: 1) no one really understands what iCloud is, and 2) so many people – including me – have invested in these incredibly handy pieces of pocket metal but have not taken advantage of the many built-in features. .

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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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5 Tips to Making Your Life as CEO Easier

SaaStr

Q: What are your top tips for making life easier as an early-stage SaaS CEO? For a start-up CEO, here’s my list, force-ranked: 1. Spend more of your time recruiting VPs and your senior team — and help in general. At least — 20% of your tim e. More on that here. Your life will be much, much, much simpler once you have a great VP for every core functional area.

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8 Best Free Digital Signage Software Tools

Capterra Sales & Marketing Software

The post 8 Best Free Digital Signage Software Tools appeared first on Capterra. Jump to: Intuiface. NoviSign. Play Digital Signage. Raydiant. Rise Vision. ScreenScape. TelemetryTV. XOGO. Regardless of the industry of operation—be it healthcare, education, or hospitality—your business should aim to have strong audience engagement. And the golden rule of audience engagement is effective communication.

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Why HubSpot is Launching a Podcast Network

Hubspot

We've built HubSpot on the belief that you earn attention by being of value. That belief is at the very heart of HubSpot's success; creating remarkable content is what makes a remarkable brand. We've spent the past decade investing in educational content to help all kinds of business builders be successful. Marketing, sales, customer support, customer success, product, engineering, entrepreneurs are all helping to build and grow businesses.

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Demand Planning: How to Meet Future Needs Using Old Data

G2

To be successful, companies have to be efficient.

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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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What to Expect at 2021 SaaStr Annual Sep 27-29 in SF Bay Area!!

SaaStr

We’re back!! The first major B2B tech event since … well … since Feb 2020 is here! The 7th SaaStr Annual!! Sep 27-29 in SF Bay Area!! What can we expect? A lot of what has made SaaStr Annual great since 2015. A bunch that is new. As things have changed. All outside + open air. Festival style. The event will be an outdoor event at the San Mateo County Fairgrounds instead of inside a convention center.

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3 Little-Known Secrets About Sales Automation

SalesPop

What’s the core of sales automation? To automate, streamline and track daily routine sales activities. Yet, an excellent sales automation system is much more than just facilitating sales reps. Sales automation has grown to be an essential part of many organizations’ marketing mix. Apart from taking care of mundane tasks like call scheduling, meetings, identifying prospects, or creating emails, sales automation is helping in: Offering value to the customers.

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Clubhouse vs. Podcasts: Which Should Marketers Use? [Data + Expert Tips]

Hubspot

Ah, Clubhouse versus podcasts — an age-old debate. Just kidding. But, while both of these audio tools are relatively new to the business world (in fact, Clubhouse is less than two years old ), they've both attracted large, engaged audiences. And, even though each audio tool is vastly different, they serve similar purposes. Hear me out: Podcasts, at their core, are meant to inspire and provoke interesting conversations around a variety of topics, including crime shows, celebrity interviews, healt

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An Effective Business Strategy That Converts in 2021

Beeketing

In 2021, the conversion rate on your website will be the most important factor to consider when running a business. This is why it’s so important to focus on conversion rates from the very beginning of your business strategy. In this post, we’re going to talk about an effective and proven method that you can use for building a converting business strategy in 2021.

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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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5 Tips to Grow 10-20% Faster Than Plan This Year

SaaStr

No matter how well you are doing post-Initial Traction in SaaS … you can almost always do at least 10-15% better. Pretty much almost always. Because there’s almost always more you can optimize, if nothing else. I’m not saying it’s easy. It’s hard to get that last bit of growth out of the engine. But it almost always can be done if you force yourself to work even that much smarter and harder.

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Why Do Customers Buy?

Partners in Excellence

Such a simple question, but too often, we don’t really understand the answer to this question because we focus on what we are selling. Too often, we fail to understand why customers are buying. Often, it’s because we are getting involved very late in the customer buying process, they have made some decisions, conducted research, and are seeking answers to their questions.

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A Wine that Invites Customers to Become Fans

David Meerman Scott

My friend Colin Warwick emailed recently to share his excitement about a wine: “This wine bottle has a peel off token that invites you to become a fan. Peel it off. Stick it in your wallet. Buy it next time you revisit the store.”.

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The complete guide to increasing the value of SaaS sales via workflow automation

Salesmate

Many small-sized SaaS companies don’t reach their full potential because they focus on doing everything manually. While other SaaS companies can’t move towards workflow automation due to the high costs. Workflow automation would make processes faster and more efficient. In reality, Salesmate makes workflow automation affordable, even for small businesses.

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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.