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Customer Retention Strategies in Sales

Anthony Cole Training

If your goal is to retain and expand relationships, it is important to create a consistent and remarkable experience for your customers, clients, and potential clients. If you are not providing a superior experience, your clients might start asking, “ Then, who will?

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The fading third place: A reflection on Starbucks and society

Martech

The aroma of freshly ground coffee beans filled the air as I stepped into the Seattle Starbucks in the late 1990s. A college student on the brink of adulthood, I was drawn to Starbucks’s promise of sophistication. More than just a beverage, Starbucks introduced me to a new coffee culture. As I approached the counter, I ordered my first tall latte, or maybe it was a grande; I can’t quite remember, but I do recall having a new, more sophisticated way to say small, medium or large.

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7 tips for delivering high-impact technical SEO audits

Search Engine Land

Many SEO professionals struggle to create technical audits that lead to meaningful improvements for their clients’ websites. Ineffective audits waste time and resources, leave critical issues unaddressed and can damage client relationships. This results in missed opportunities for better search rankings and increased organic traffic. Drawing from five years of experience conducting audits for prominent U.S. brands, I’ve developed seven essential tips for creating impactful technical SEO au

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Unlock Financial Services Data and Scale Impact

Salesforce

Data is crucial for financial services institutions (FSIs) to succeed. Whether you’re looking to understand your clients on a more personal level or looking to gauge the market to capitalize on industry trends, the ability to use data effectively can give you a significant competitive advantage. But many FSIs are held back by data silos and integration challenges.

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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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B2B Buyers: The Latest Stats Salespeople Must Know [+HubSpot Data]

Hubspot

I bought a new car in 2021, when the pandemic had virtually eliminated the gap between new and used prices. Car buyers 30 years ago might have shown up at the dealership wanting a truck, a sedan, or something as vague as a “good family car,” and the salesperson’s job was to help steer them in the right direction based on their needs. That process has changed dramatically.

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6 tips for creating a winning email marketing calendar

Martech

Your calendar is not just a pretty collection of dates and ideas; it’s the blueprint for a successful email marketing program. A strategically built calendar offers a bird’s eye view of your year ahead, ensuring you hit every big sales opportunity and highlight everything that sets your business apart. Below are six tried-and-tested pointers to unlock the full potential of your email marketing calendar. 1.

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Unlock Your Security Potential at Dreamforce ‘24

Salesforce

As we count down the days until Dreamforce ‘24 , the excitement is building with over 1,000 breakout sessions to explore! As Sept. 17-19 fast approaches, you might be asking yourself–where do I even begin? Well, not to worry! We created this Dreamforce Security Guide to help you navigate your jam-packed agenda. Whether you’re a first-time attendee or a seasoned Double Ranger, there’s something for everyone to look forward to.

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The Competitive Edge in B2B Profitability? A Joyful Workplace

Heinz Marketing

By Maria Geokezas , Chief Operating Officer at Heinz Marketing B2B businesses constantly look for ways to be more productive, more competitive and therefore more profitable. That is what drives them and why they exist. This can have an adverse effect on employees, however, as pressure and stress levels increase in the workplace in the pursuit of profits.

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The 4 types of content buyers want

Martech

We now can generate more content than ever before, but should we? What if we knew what buyers wanted and made more of that instead of producing what’s fast and/or easy? Last month, I shared insights from our research highlighting the gap between content marketing and the buyer’s journey. Specifically, roughly 80% of closed sales deals we evaluated couldn’t be connected to marketing content.

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How to boost audience engagement: Top strategies and techniques

Search Engine Land

Too many brands and content creators focus on driving audience growth and lose sight of maintaining engagement. Capturing attention is one thing, but retaining attention and building engagement are greater challenges. Ultimately, it costs more to acquire a customer than to keep one. Let’s examine proven strategies and techniques for boosting audience engagement and exploring methods for building a community around your brand.

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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 Executive

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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3 Ways AI Brings You Better B2B Marketing Solutions

Salesforce

How can AI help me? Whether they are willing to admit it or not, that’s the burning question many B2B marketers have in their minds. B2B marketers are under constant pressure to deliver more with less. They’re tasked with streamlining processes, prioritizing leads accurately, and measuring campaign performance with precision. It’s a tall order. While traditional marketing tactics still hold value, this increasing complexity demands innovative B2B marketing solutions.

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The Ultimate Guide to Building a Lead List

Hubspot

During my time as a sales rep, building a lead list was one of my first activities when I took on a new sales role, territory, or industry vertical. These lists would evolve, grow, and ultimately work best when they were imported into CRM, and were invaluable for helping me to: Meet my productivity goals (and my quota in the long run) Segment companies in my territory or industry Keep track of my prospect interactions Capture important information like competitive install In this article, I’ll e

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Measuring customer acquisition cost: Best of the MarTechBot

Martech

Best of the MarTechBot showcases the MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. See more about how marketers are using MarTechBot here. The language model is based on content from MarTech embedded on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content.

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How to do PPC competitor analysis

Search Engine Land

Knowing what is going on with your PPC efforts is as important as knowing what your competitors are doing. Monitoring your competitors’ activities can help you capitalize on their weaknesses, draw inspiration from their strengths and identify missed opportunities. Rather than copying their actions, you collect information and insights to run more effective and efficient PPC campaigns.

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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 Way We Search for Products Is Changing. Here’s How to Keep Up

Salesforce

Generative AI has already transformed the way shoppers find products online. As a product manager focusing on search and SEO at Salesforce Commerce Cloud , I’ve seen first hand the significant shifts happening at break-neck speed in customer behavior and business strategy over the past year. Generative AI, in particular, is redefining digital commerce and influencing everything from how consumers search to how merchants optimize their sites.

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40% Margins: How This Entrepreneur Built A Profitable Smash Room Business

Hubspot

You know the beloved tradition of sports fans throwing TVs out of their window after a loss? Not demure. Definitely not mindful. But there are moments in life where we get mighty close to acting that way. And rage rooms were invented for those moments. Source: Google Trends, six-month rolling average Also known as “smash room” or “anger room,” these are places you can pay to de-stress by destroying objects, from plates and bottles to full-sized appliances.

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Salesforce launches new, ‘more trustworthy’ generation of AI bots

Martech

Yesterday, Salesforce launched Agentforce — generative AI bots the company says can be trusted to take action on their own. Agentforce is “the third wave of AI — advancing beyond copilots to a new era of highly accurate, low-hallucination intelligent agents that actively drive customer success ,” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said during the press conference.

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How to handle negative Google reviews: Remove, respond, recover

Search Engine Land

“No one answered the phone. Sure, it was after business hours, but that’s still no excuse! One star!” Ever received a review like this on your Google Business Profile – a review so unreasonable that all you can do is hang your head and wonder what’s wrong with certain people? Don’t worry. Every business owner has received a negative Google review at some point or another – many of which are spam, fake, or completely unreasonable.

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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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101 Motivational Sales Quotes for Sales Managers

SalesPop

Sales managers live in a beautiful world of constant mixed emotions -negative and positive. Apart from pressures arising from sales targets, sales team and management , sales managers still have to contend with keeping the right frame of mind to deliver optimally. We are constantly dealing with happy emotions that come from closing deals , and painful moments of near-close-but-never-closed deals.

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Yes, Brands Can Turn Customer Service Into a Profit Center

Salesforce

Over the years, you’ve put a lot of money into your customer service centers. You’ve upgraded technology, upskilled your agents, and invested in 24/7 self-service options. And that was a smart move, because white-glove customer service – for both B2B and B2C – is essential for consumer goods (CG) brands who want to build long-term, loyal relationships with customers.

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Nearly half of US consumers feel ignored by marketers

Martech

Do your customers feel like you’re giving them enough attention? Forty-four percent of Americans say they feel ignored by the media and most advertisers. And it’s not that consumers aren’t hearing from brands. Part of the problem is they’re inundated with ads and worry about being tracked online. A full 67% of consumers said they hate being “trailed” by targeted ads.

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Google Search adds Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine links to about this page

Search Engine Land

Google Search is rolling out a change to its About this page/result feature where it includes links to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. This enabling searches to view the previous version of a given webpage. Google added this feature likely because of the complaints about Google removing the cache link from that feature. What Google said. “We know that many people, including those in the research community, value being able to see previous versions of webpages when available.

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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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How to Get Your Call Returned

Engage Selling

Tired of your voicemails being ignored, then this video is for you. Learn a simple yet effective technique to dramatically boost the number of return calls from prospects. For more … The post How to Get Your Call Returned first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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Why You Should Never Qualify Sales Prospects Too Early: Building Relationships for Long-Term Success

Iannarino

Discover why letting go of early qualification methods can open doors to valuable sales opportunities and long-lasting client relationships.

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Scaling local advertising with automation in the new media landscape by Fluency

Martech

Today’s advertisers face a daunting operational challenge: scaling customized, local advertising campaigns across a growing number of channels. Overall digital ad spend continues to grow, and new channels, financial media and retail media networks are emerging. As the space gets more complex, both in-house and agency ad teams are stretched thin, trying to do more with the same — or less — people and budget.

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Does generative AI save time, money and resources in SEO?

Search Engine Land

Generative AI is undeniably making its mark on the SEO industry, but the real value lies in understanding how it affects the bottom line for SEOs and businesses. Can these tools truly streamline workflows, save valuable time and optimize resources or do they still require significant human intervention to get things right? Today, we’ll dig into whether AI is living up to its promise of saving time, money and resources in SEO.

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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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Revise Your Approach to Improve Sales and Business Growth

Sales Pop!

Should it appear you are experiencing unstable selling, it’s wise to review what is in place and how to improve the process. An all-too-familiar approach offering a ‘golden opportunity’ appears to be in vogue, but it’s the wrong one for earning a returning and referring clientele—defining the Smooth Sale. If anything, these company types are experiencing high waves and rocky sailing, not to mention the possibility of capsizing.

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Productivity Is Completing Your Major Projects

Iannarino

I was talking to a group of people today about productivity, and we discussed what to do to produce better results. As I was talking to them, I thought back to how I learned a lot about my own productivity.

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Martech - Untitled Article

Martech

Meta is implementing new data restrictions in its Business Tools, which could affect how businesses target ads and measure performance. Why we care. This move reflects Meta’s ongoing commitment to privacy but could complicate ad targeting and reporting for you. Key changes. Automatic restriction of certain URL parts and custom parameters. Potential pausing of ads using highly targeted UTMs.

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Key SEO, UX and CRO tips to boost brick-and-mortar retail sales

Search Engine Land

The same SEO , UX and CRO concepts we use to help users find the correct product on a website apply to retail locations and in-store experiences. These include internal linking, cross-selling and upselling, regional searches and volumes, filtering and trust builders. Using these skills and the information below, you may be able to help retail locations increase their AOV, how many customers shop per day and an increase in items per purchase.

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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.