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Pipeliner Security: Why AWS?

Sales Pop!

There are now several Cloud providers available, in addition to Amazon Web Services (AWS). At Pipeliner, we chose to go with AWS over a decade ago and have remained with them ever since. Why have we done so? Continuing in our series on Pipeliner CRM security, here is our path and reasoning. Original Data Center. Going back a couple of decades, to provide development and hosting to our banking compliance client World Check, we established our own complex data center with 50 or 60 rack-mounted Alp

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Sales Management Training: Are You A Truly Committed Leader?

Anthony Cole Training

Committed leaders invest in themselves by taking part in sales management training to become better managers and coaches so they can help their people see greater success.

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Google releases November 2021 spam update

Search Engine Land

The rollout for this Google search algorithm update will take about a week. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Consistency In Direct Sales – 6 x Powerful Tips

The 5% Institute

Having consistency in direct sales, is crucial for a number of reasons. First – it gives you certainty. If you’re having positive results one day, and mediocre results on another; this doesn’t give you the certainty you need to plan your life accordingly. Another reason why consistency in direct sales is important, is because you can gauge as to what’s currently working, and what isn’t.

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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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Why Chatbots Have Become Essential in Customer Service Strategies

Sales Pop!

In an increasingly tech-savvy society, there are a lot of tools available to make the customer experience as smooth and easy as possible. One of the most predominant in business is the chatbot. This little tool found on most business websites is helping customers from all over the world by being a middleman guiding customers to the information they need, like an automated reception desk.

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The Monday Morning Breakfast For Champions Podcast – Episode 46 – Joel Stevenson

Tibor Shanto

Subscribe today , and take the Breakfast on the go! Joel Stevenson is the CEO of Yesware – a leader in sales productivity software. Prior to Yesware Joel was the GM and founder of Wayfair’s B2B division which he grew to several hundred million in revenue. He began his Wayfair career by leading the company’s home improvement products division, followed by his role as Managing Director of Wayfair UK, where he drove growth of the company’s international presence.

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Inside Sales Tips – 5 x To Close Easier

The 5% Institute

Like any sales profession; inside sales can be taxing if you don’t have a process to follow – which is why we created these inside sales tips to make your tasks a lot easier. In this article, you’ll learn some simple yet effective inside sales tips to sell more often, and more consistently. Read on to learn what they are, and ensure you implement and take action on what you learn.

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Do We Really Want Our Sales People To Be Value Creators?

Partners in Excellence

In complex B2B buying, it’s popular to talk about being consultative and/or creating value with our customers. We talk about sales people as problem solvers, working with our customers to identify and help solve their problems. Despite giving lip service to these concepts, it seems our actions are focused on the opposite. Too many organizations seem so focused on their own efficiency, mechanizing our process, and transactionalizing our engagement strategies.

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Don’t Make This Mistake with Your Sales Data | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

I recently worked with a client on a new program and got the opportunity to interview a few of their sales managers. I wanted to identify what differentiated top performing managers from poor performing managers. There was one aspect, in … Read More » The post Don’t Make This Mistake with Your Sales Data | Sales Strategies first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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Google to add page experience ranking signals to desktop search in February 2022

Search Engine Land

The rollout will be complete by the end of March 2022. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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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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The Solution Selling Sales Process

The 5% Institute

In this article, we’ll detail the solution selling sales process that works perfectly for Sales Professionals and Business Owners in service based and consulting industries. Learning, implementing and following a sales process is one of the most important things you can learn in sales. A sales process will give you consistency and will simple to use framework to guide your potential clients towards the sale.

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The Digital Buying Journey Is Very Human

Partners in Excellence

We see tremendous research on the digital buying journey. We know customers spend more of their buying journey finding information in digital and other channels. Engagement with sales people represent the smallest part of their time investment. I’ve written about this transformation suggesting we are going through a transformation of sales led, digitally supported to digitally led, sales supported.

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What got us here won’t get us to where we need to be!

Membrain

The one thing constant in this world is change! Thankfully, if this wasn’t a universal constant, the prospects for all sellers would be bleak. If our customers see no reason to change, there is no reason to buy.

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How to Create a Marketing Funnel by Responding to Customer Behavior

ConversionXL

The marketing and sales funnel is a time-tested framework for mapping the customer journey. However, with every new technology, channel, and distraction served up by the internet, that journey becomes less linear, and the traditional funnel becomes less relevant. In the current landscape, to successfully guide a person from prospect to customer, you need to think about their behavior and deliver marketing that fits their needs at every stage of the funnel.

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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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How To Sell A High Ticket Offer – The Blueprint

The 5% Institute

In this guide, you’ll learn exactly how to sell your high ticket offer, by using a proven step by step formula we teach Sales Professionals, Business Owners and Coaches around the world. Learning and following a sales process would have to be the most important thing you’ll ever learn in sales, because it’ll deliver something you’ll need to thrive in selling.

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Our Latest Podcasts: Four Topics to Share with Your Sales Team

Force Management

Our October episodes provide a refresher on key sales fundamentals that your reps can use to stand out from the competition and move their deals forward faster. Each episode provides tactics your salespeople can add to their approach as they prepare for their next sales conversation. Send these episodes to your sales team today. Have your managers listen as well so they can coach on those critical skills during future opportunity review sessions.

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's impact on your sales organization

Membrain

Most sales trainers and coaches have at least some familiarity with the topics of productivity, motivation, and psychology. Chasing states of optimal productivity, managers may invest in software, process development, and training. To keep salespeople motivated, organizations may bring in speakers, invest in strategic compensation structures, or hire coaches explicitly to keep their people on task.

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Taking Your Customer Experience Strategy To The Next Level

Heinz Marketing

By Carly Bauer, Marketing Coordinator at Heinz Marketing. Last month I wrote a post about the importance of creating good customer experience within your company. It covered what customer experience is, what separates a good customer experience from a bad one, why it is so important, and why it matters in the first place. I highly recommend checking out my previous post before diving into learning how to enhance customer experience within your company in order to have a good foundational underst

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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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The Cold Calling Process – A Step By Step Guide

The 5% Institute

Cold calling incorrectly can potentially harm your sales efforts – which is why in this article, we’ll go through our recommended cold calling process, to help you win more sales. In this article we’ll cover what cold calling is, the cold calling process, and various other handy tips regarding cold calling to help you ethically persuade your potential client and be more successful.

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Think search-first to improve business outcomes

Martech

“Consumers begin their journey with the tool that many of us use tens or hundreds of times a day,” said Craig Dunham, CEO of enterprise SEO platform Deepcrawl, at our recent MarTech conference. “Thus, the connection to revenue becomes really clear.”. He’s talking about search engines and search engine optimization. Even though search is seen as discovery at the upper part of the funnel, marketers know it’s all connected.

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Customer Experience: the Key to Sustained Ecommerce Success

Sales Pop!

In a world where large multinational companies and franchises dominate pretty much every market, there is still one trusted tool that all smaller businesses can use to compete. That tool is customer experience, and eCommerce is no exception. Give your customers the best possible experience (and then some), and you’ll be able to contend with even the biggest players.

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Why CX Fails Without a Solid EX Strategy

Heinz Marketing

By Maria Geokezas , VP of Client Services at Heinz Marketing. Employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX) are equally important in your business. In fact, they are intrinsically linked. One of the key stages in your sales cycle after closing the deal is to build loyal customers; to build evangelists of your brand. But let’s not forget that your employees are actually your first brand advocates.

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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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New Realtor Tips – 8 x To Sell More Homes

The 5% Institute

In this article, you’ll learn eight powerful and effective new realtor tips so that you can sell more homes, consistently. The contacts you make and the people you serve can potentially help you for many years to come; not to mention, may have some terrific referrals for you too. So; what’s the process to learn how to close real estate deals ? In this guide, you’ll learn our recommend new realtor tips and how to sell more homes, by using a system followed and successfully executed by our Student

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Free event: Create a winning cross-channel video strategy in 2022

Martech

Discover the fastest ways to create the kind of content that will attract your audience. You can use these video strategies to rank on each channel, advertise online, and post to social media. In addition, you’ll even get insights into abiding by new privacy laws and the cookieless web. Learn more about this event from Ignite Visibility speakers John Lincoln, CEO, Jen Cornwell, Director of Digital Strategy, Carl Bivona, Director of Social Media and Oscar Lutteroth, VP of Creative. .

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Leasing vs. Buying a New Car: Which is Better?

Sales Pop!

One important decision when getting a new car is deciding whether to buy or lease it. There are benefits to each, so educating yourself is important before making a final decision. We’ll discuss the differences in leasing vs. financing a vehicle and which one is a better option, including a focus on the insurance information for leasing a vehicle. Auto Insurance for a New Car.

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SaaS Rule of 40 Drivers Using KeyBanc’s 2021 SaaS Survey

SaaStr

The “Rule of 40” is one of the most commonly cited valuation benchmarks in SaaS for both public and private companies. The SaaS “Rule of 40” has gained popularity due to its simplicity, requiring only two common financial metrics to be added together. While SaaS is an amazingly transparent community with abundant benchmarking resources, there are much fewer publicly available studies that allow an analysis of the underlying drivers of “Rule of 40.” Fortunately

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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 Overcome Objections In Sales – Step By Step

The 5% Institute

Learning how to overcome objections in sales conversations is a very important part of the sales process , as it’s a part and parcel of everyday sales conversations. So how should you go about overcoming objections in sales? In this article, we’ll explore the five-step approach we teach Sales Professionals and Business Owners and how to overcome objections in your sales conversations.

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What automation looks like in marketing operations today

Martech

Virtually all marketing activities have gone digital in recent years. Technological upgrades, such as marketing automation, have improved campaign efficiency and effectiveness. Yet many marketers find the increasing complexity offputting. “We know that it’s a super crowded landscape of technology that exists for marketers, and I think the important thing here is we often look at this as a bad thing; it’s really not,” said Stephen Farnsworth, Head of RevOps Product Marketi

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Cameron’s App of the Week: Unfold

Heinz Marketing

By Cameron Katoozi , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Are you a content creator who’s always on the go? Or maybe you’ve wondered how your favorite Instagram influencers make those eye-catching stories and posts every day? Sometimes bringing your laptop with you everywhere isn’t the most convenient and having to rely on your phone’s native photo editor leaves you with limited options.

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17 Things We’ve Learned from Top Product Marketers

ConversionXL

Product marketing is today’s most critical marketing function. And yet, it’s unfamiliar and confusing to many. The best way to think about it: product marketing is strategy. Product marketers work to understand the market and what motivates customers. They choose the market segments to target. They determine what attributes the product needs to win against the competition.

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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.