Sat.Mar 09, 2024 - Fri.Mar 15, 2024

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Challenges in Strategic-Level Selling and How to Overcome Them

Iannarino

Navigating the world of strategic selling comes with its unique set of challenges. For those dedicated to mastering strategic-level sales, understanding and overcoming these barriers is crucial to executing a sophisticated approach to selling. Here’s a deeper dive into the major hurdles and how to overcome them.

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How to Respond to Common Sales Objections

Anthony Cole Training

Sales objections typically arise in several key areas during the sales process. The first is when you’re trying to secure someone’s time during prospecting, attempting to schedule a meeting on their calendar and obtain a few minutes of their attention. The second occurs when you are delivering a presentation and seeking a commitment or decision.

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Stop Selling: How Business Conversations Improve Value Across the Buyer Journey

Force Management

If you’re leading an organization that’s selling a solution, whether in an established market or a new vertical, you’re competing for your buyers’ attention. The competition is high – we are all faced with hundreds of sales messages each day. Successful sales organizations know how to consistently rise above the noise and command greater market share.

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You Are Your Company’s “Value Proposition”

Partners in Excellence

We still have very antiquated views of our “value proposition.” Most of the time, we restrict it to the value that might be realized through the purchase and implementation of our solutions. Ideally, we will have developed a business case for our solutions, perhaps looking at cost reduction, ROI or some other financial return the customer should expect from our solution.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Why Senior Sales Reps Must Secure New Logos

Iannarino

It is common for large, mature sales organizations to have several salespeople who once acquired new logos, but haven’t signed a new major client in ages. These salespeople won some gargantuan clients because they developed relationships with them and effectively pursued them. Since the contract was signed, these clients have been generating enough commissions that the senior salespeople are comfortable with their income and become complacent.

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Google updates its page experience docs to clarify ranking signals

Search Engine Land

Google updated its page experience help documentation to clarify how Core Web Vitals metrics are used as a ranking signal. Google also clarified that other page experience signals are not directly used for ranking purposes in Google Search. What Google wrote. The updated documentation is in the ranking section of the document and it now reads: Core Web Vitals are used by our ranking systems.

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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Chloe Wold

Partners in Excellence

Preface: I’m departing from my normal process of introducing a new story about selling. Every once in a while you see something so special, moving, and important, you have to change things. Chloe’s story is just that. I’ve told the story of a variety of others. Some with very distinguished leadership and selling careers. People who have managed 1000s and led multi-billion efforts.

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Mastering B2B Sales- How to Outshine Competitors Without Giving Them a Seat at Your Client Meetings

Iannarino

One client answered the call on speakerphone. He wanted to give me the experience he had every day. I wasn’t prepared to hear a competitor trashing my company and explaining how they would do a better job than we were doing. Nothing the caller said made any sense. I was amused. There was nothing professional about his approach.

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What we’re seeing a week into the Google March 2024 core and spam updates

Search Engine Land

We are now just about a week into the Google March 2024 core and spam updates , and boy, has it been busy. In that time, we have seen search ranking volatility, some related to the algorithmic updates and some related to Google issuing manual actions to implement updated spam policies. Not done yet. It is important to stress that these updates are far from over.

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Ad industry steps up to meet signal loss, privacy challenges: IAB

Martech

The ad industry is making major investments in order to adapt to the new privacy-by-design ecosystem, according to an IAB survey of 500 advertising and data experts at brands, agencies and publishers. The 2024 edition of the IAB’s annual “State of Data” report shows how the industry is addressing the new privacy-by-design ecosystem in which the deprecation of third-party cookies and other privacy-protective measures are expected to lead to significant signal loss.

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Dont Let AI Pass You By: The New Era of Personalized Sales Coaching & Development

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales & Devyn Blume, Sr. Account Executive

Are you curious about how artificial intelligence is reshaping sales coaching, learning, and development? Join Brendan Sweeney and Devyn Blume of Allego for an engaging new webinar exploring AI's transformative role in sales coaching and performance improvement! Brendan and Devyn will share actionable insights and strategies for integrating AI into coaching and development - ensuring personalized, effective, and scalable training!

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Grinding It Out….

Partners in Excellence

ChatGPT and its colleagues are, too often, a debilitating cheat for sellers who don’t want to put in the work. There, I said it, I got it off my chest. Don’t get me wrong, these tools are very powerful and helpful. I leverage them constantly through my day, but for very different purposes than the majority of sellers. My feeds are filled with tricks and hacks.

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The Strategic Guide to Acquiring 60 Dream Clients and Outsmarting Competitors

Iannarino

There is a logic to identifying and pursuing 60 dream clients. These 60 clients already buy what you sell; in fact, some of your competitors are supplying them now. Because your dream client is already spending a lot of money in your category, you don’t need to qualify them, nor do you need to wonder if they value what you sell.

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Brands unknowingly wasting ad dollars on Made for Advertising sites, claims report

Search Engine Land

Hundreds of major brands unknowingly have their ads served on Made for Advertising (MFA) websites. Ads are being placed on these sites through both programmatic and non-programmatic channels, according to a new study by Analytics. What are MFA websites? MFA websites are sites created primarily for profit through advertising and generally provide a poor user experience, potentially damaging the reputation of digital advertising overall.

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Here’s How Google’s Cookie Crisis Is Impacting Advertising and Martech

G2

As the latest Google, IAB TechLabs, and CMA cookie drama invites a MarTech crisis, this comprehensive analysis gauges the impact and informs scenario planning with G2 buyer insights and expert advice.

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Increase Revenue With Better, Faster Sales Onboarding

Quotas need to be hit. Revenue goals need to be met. This reality makes shortening sales onboarding time a top priority. Organizations with a standard onboarding process boost employee retention by 58% and increase productivity by 50%. Unfortunately, many companies struggle with inefficient processes that lead to high turnover and missed revenue opportunities.

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In Search Of Objections

Partners in Excellence

I don’t know how many conversations I get into on “objections.” Less experienced sellers wring their hands, figuratively, worrying about objections. Poor performers are terrified, often taking objections personally. “How do I avoid or minimize objections?” “How do I best handle them?” “Should I try to anticipate and pre-empt objections?

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Valuable Information versus No-Value Information in B2B Sales

Iannarino

One of the differences between the legacy and modern approaches to sales is the type of information they utilize, as well as the information they don’t use, let alone prefer. Not all information is valuable to your contacts, and much of what some representatives use has no value at all.

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Google to replace perspectives filter with forums filter

Search Engine Land

Google is rolling out a change to the perspectives filter, renaming it from perspectives to forums. A Google spokesperson told Search Engine Land the word “forums” is a more intuitive name when seeking out that content. Google also told us that searchers can use this filter to hone in on results from hundreds of forums from across the web.

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Empower Your Sales Team with a Strategic Enablement Function

Highspot

ValueSelling Associates’ Julie Thomas and Highspot’s Kelly Lewis break down how to maximize the impact of revenue enablement Love it, hate it – or do everything in your power to work around it – when it comes to the revenue enablement function, everyone’s a critic. How can enablement be the hero in one organization and the constant scapegoat for another?

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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Surviving Tough Times….

Partners in Excellence

Slowdowns are impacting many sectors of the economy. We see a lot of uncertainty. Massive layoffs are still happening. Businesses, industries and markets are being restructured, profoundly. Overlay this with disruptions being caused by technologies like AI, global climate changes, and the global political challenges. We struggle with the idea, is there light at the end of the tunnel?

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Unlocking New Dimensions in B2B Sales: A Comprehensive Guide to Sales Transformation

Iannarino

Over time, the strategies, and tactics we use tend to lose their effectiveness. This doesn’t mean that the older approaches were not right for their time. It does mean, however, that B2B sales organizations and their salespeople need to change how they sell today.

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Entity-based competitor analysis: An SEO’s guide

Search Engine Land

Entity competitor analysis is the key to unlocking higher rankings and staying ahead of competitors. By understanding Google’s Knowledge Graph and entity relationships, you can strategically optimize content for increased topical authority and relevance beyond keyword-centric pages. Entity-based competitor analysis isn’t about mimicking existing content.

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How Canva is approaching B2B customers with AI-powered tools

Martech

Creative technology company Canva launched its latest campaign promoting a growing number of collaborative and AI-powered tools for businesses. The “What Will You Design Today?” campaign was created with Canva’s platform by an in-house team and depicts real-world use cases for AI tools used by marketers and colleagues across any organization. Why we care.

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Business Intelligence 101: How To Make The Best Solution Decision For Your Organization

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Don Mulhern

Partners in Excellence

Preface : Don Mulhern is a great friend and colleague. One thing that struck me in Don’s contribution is the joy in “doing the work.” Reflecting on other stories, everyone is excited to “do the work.” Another thing struck me: “And I love what professional selling is not. It isn’t the smarmy, pushy approach using sleazy tricks and gimmicks that unfortunately is how it’s still perceived by many.

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A Scale of Sales Status

Iannarino

We are pro-salesperson. We want you to succeed in B2B sales, which requires you to have a high sales status in your client’s view. By possessing a status greater than your competitor, you have an advantage in a contested deal. There are levels to this game, and you will need to move up over time. Common sales levels, from lowest status to highest status, are described here.

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Creating Google Ads campaigns with Gemini conversational AI: How good is it really?

Search Engine Land

Earlier this year, Google announced the expansion of its Gemini generative AI model to support more products, including ad campaigns such as Search and Performance Max. “The conversational experience workflow is designed to help you build better Search campaigns through a chat-based experience,” says the article by Shashi Thakur, Google Ads Vice President and General Manager (Search Ads & Ads on Google Experiences).

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How to augment market research and glean customer insights with AI

Martech

Surveys and focus groups are the go-to methods for gathering customer insights to drive marketing strategy. However, they have major flaws like inherent biases, poor predictive power, high costs and responder fatigue. It’s time to move beyond these outdated tactics. Today, AI-powered tools like data mining and sentiment analysis offer a powerful way to augment and improve customer research.

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Beyond the Basics: How to Develop and Retain a Top-Performing Sales Team

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales at Allego

Maximizing sales rep performance is no easy task. 📈 Traditional sales training methods focus heavily on the first few weeks in the sales role. Companies dedicate time, resources, and budget to onboarding new hires, only for them to forget what was learned in those first few weeks, lose motivation, and struggle to come to grips with their role.

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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” John Callies

Partners in Excellence

Preface : I met John Callies in our very first sales training class for IBM. We were at Endicott, New York, where most of entry sales training was conducted. Through our first year, every few months we’d see each other in Endicott at another class. We lost track of each other–John ended up going to senior executive levels in IBM, eventually was the General Manager of IBM Global Finance.

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Data Mesh vs Centralized Warehouses: Choosing the Right Architecture for Your Digital Transformation

The Digital Technology

As companies pursue large-scale digital transformation initiatives, managing the exploding volume of data generated across a proliferating technology landscape grows increasingly complex. This forces many to reevaluate their traditional centralized data warehousing approach. Does it still make strategic sense?

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Internal link building for an E-E-A-T-focused content strategy

Search Engine Land

While many factors contribute to experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness ( E-E-A-T ), SEOs focus more on content-based cues. Internal linking, however, is often overlooked. A powerful yet significantly underutilized strategy, internal linking, is crucial in showcasing your website’s E-E-A-T and boosting your SEO performance. It involves strategically placing hyperlinks within your website’s content to connect relevant pages within your site.

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Riding the AI tsunami: Harnessing creativity and efficiency in the digital age 

Martech

In the dynamic world of consumer-packaged goods (CPG), my curiosity has converged around brands, consumer behavior, behavioral economics and the intriguing domain of artificial intelligence. What excites me most about this landscape is AI’s ability to increase efficiency and drive creativity. AI: A driver of creativity and efficiency AI isn’t just a tool; it’s a transformative force for creativity, augmenting human ingenuity rather than replacing it.

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Using Generative AI in Sales: Pros, Cons, and Considerations According to Sellers

Are your sellers unsure about using AI in their day-to-day workflows? Or are they eager to try but uncertain where to start? They might be asking: Which tasks are best suited for AI? How will using AI affect my relationship with my customers? With so many tools available, which ones are the most useful to me? To help answer these and other common questions about using AI during the sales cycle, we surveyed B2B sellers who were early adopters to get their insight and advice about how to use gen A