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5 Critical Factors for Optimizing Luxury Ecommerce Sites

ConversionXL

Selling high-end goods, services or experiences isn’t the same thing as selling the low and mid-tier alternatives. And in the 1990’s, Ford Motor Group learned that the hard way. They bought high-end car brands like Aston Martin, Jaguar and Land Rover thinking they would be able to successfully grow these brands using the same marketing and operational methods that made Ford so successful.

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How To Structure Your Sales Development Team: The Navy Seal SDR Framework

Sales Hacker

In this article, you’ll learn how to structure your sales development (SDR) team for maximum efficiency and scalability. Sales leaders, read on! “The only easy day was yesterday.”. -U.S. Navy SEALs. This is one of the most famous principles of the U.S. Navy SEALs. From a business perspective, to me, this means you have to constantly improve your game.

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The 8 Best Email Apps for Writing Great Messages

Hubspot

Best Email Apps. Crystal Knows. Detective by Charlie. Hemingway. Just Not Sorry. HubSpot Sales. Sortd for Gmail. Shift. Inbox by Gmail. Ah, emails. Love 'em or hate 'em (I fall into this camp), emails are crucial to sales, and reps have to be good at writing them. But emails are a difficult medium to master. Thankfully, you don’t have to do it alone.

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Here's something you should stop doing this year

Membrain

Sometimes improved performance lies in what you do. Sometimes, it lies in what you stop doing. If better sales results are part of your plan this year, here are some things you should stop doing right now.

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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 5 Most Common SDR Stereotypes Debunked

Outreach

When you hear the term “Sales Development Rep”, what comes to mind? For most of us we imagine a tired, overworked, low-level sales rep whose head has been surgically attached to the phone, and whose only goals are to harass you into a meeting and harangue you into seeing the value of their product. We may even recall a bad experience we had with an annoying SDR who pitched us on a product we would never use, or maybe we worked with an SDR who wouldn’t leave us alone after we told them we weren’t

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How To Align Your Sales & Marketing Teams: Before, During & After Events

Sales Hacker

In this article, you’ll learn how to align your event sales strategy to your marketing team’s activities to maximize your event success. At Bizzabo we have a motto, sales is a team sport. Never is that more true than when attending a professional sales conference , trade show or networking event. And, if your team does not include the Marketing team, you’re likely making a huge mistake!

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Nimble Launches Mobile CRM 3.0 and You Are Going to Love It!

Adaptive Business Services

Editors note – The following article is being reprinted with the permission of Nimble, On a personal note, I have always had a love-hate relationship with mobile apps and particularly for CRM. This latest release by Nimble just might change my mind! Nimble Launches Mobile CRM 3.0, A Powerful Contact. RelationshipAnd Pipeline Manager for Office 365, G-Suite.

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Sales Training Videos

A Sales Guy

Ok, they’re not exactly sales training videos, but they offer a s**t load of value in helping you selling and grow your career. I’ve been posting sales videos to Linkedin over the past 3 months and they are pure fire, if I do say so myself. I cover topics ranging from motivation to question asking. I cover all types of challenges and issues sales people struggle with.

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Measure Change in Sales Effectiveness without Numbers and Metrics

Membrain

We want to get better at selling and as sales leaders we want our salespeople to improve. We need them to improve.

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15 Job Interview Questions to Ask a Sales Manager Candidate in 2018

Hubspot

Questions for Interviewing a Sales Manager. Tell me about yourself. How comfortable are you with data analysis? What do you think are the necessary skills and qualifications for success here? Why do you want to be a sales manager? Pretend I'm a sales rep who has missed quota three months in a row. What would you say? What do you think motivates reps the most?

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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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What To Expect At Revenue Summit 2018—Aligning Sales, Marketing & Customer Success

Sales Hacker

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Feb. 15, 2018 – Sales Hacker, the leading resource for sales innovation, acceleration, and the future of sales, is set to host The Revenue Summit , on March 1st, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Who Is The Revenue Summit For? The Revenue Summit is the only conference with a true focus on aligning sales, marketing and customer success through the lens of technology, empowering B2B leaders to accelerate full funnel growth.

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How to Commit to Your Sales Success

Score More Sales

Our colleague Dave Kurlan over at Objective Management Group, a sales candidate assessment and evaluation company made news some years ago with a survey (based on evaluations of over 1 million salespeople over the last 25 years) showing that three out of four sales reps aren’t effective in their jobs.

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The sales + marketing love story you really want

Heinz Marketing

The best relationships between sales & marketing are deep, authentic and sustainable. They are typically built on a foundation of trust, respect, shared interests and mutually agreed-upon priorities. Just like real relationships, things won’t always be chocolate and roses. You will fight. You will disagree. Things will go wrong. But through thick and thin, you’re in it together.

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20 Best Business Books of 2017

Hubspot

20 Best Business Books of 2017. Principles. Invisible Influence. Reset. Finish. Weird in a World That's Not. Tribe of Mentors. Lead and Disrupt. The Four. Pause. Unshakeable. Originals. Adaptive Markets. The Potential Principal. The Captain Class. Hacking Innovation. Barking Up the Wrong Tree. Technically Wrong. Insight. The New Rules of Work. The Power of Moments.

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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 NOT to Write a Cold Email: Real Life Example (Complete Breakdown)

Sales Hacker

This is a real life cold email example, fully broken down step by step, to show you exactly what NOT to do when engaging your prospects. For more actionable guides like this one, check out our Executive Content Blueprint Series in collaboration with Winning By Design. Real Life Cold Email Example: Full Breakdown. This cold email was received as follows (desktop vs. phone).

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How Sales and Marketing Can Work Together Better in 2018

SalesforLife

It's the time of year when sales teams wrap up celebrating last year's wins and start setting goals to exceed last year's performance. Likewise, marketing teams are heads-down in planning their own strategies for the year. Too often, though, those teams are so focused on their own planning that they forget they're stronger together.

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Who Are We Designing Our Marketing/Sales Strategies To Serve?

Partners in Excellence

Every day, we are pummeled with experts talking about how to make sales people more efficient. The most fashionable ideas seem to be around extreme specialization/mechanization of selling. These pundits often cite applying manufacturing principles to designing our sales engagement strategies. Some cite the grandfather of lean/agile manufacturing principles, the Toyota Production System (TPS).

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15 Bad Sales Habits & How to Break Them in 2018

Hubspot

How to Break Bad Habits. To break bad habits, begin by defining the behavior you want to change and identifying what triggers that behavior. Then, create a concrete plan for changing the behavior, and ask someone to hold you accountable. Finally, reward yourself when successful. After a long day of sales calls, juggling what feels like a million prospects, and filling out endless CRM fields -- it’s easy for salespeople to slip into bad work habits.

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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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Why Cold Calling Is the #1 Skill You MUST Master to Double Your Income in 2018

Sales Hacker

Cold Calling is the top sales skill you should be developing to gain a competitive edge, not just for prospecting and landing meetings with C-Level decision makers , but at every stage of the funnel. Especially, in 2018 when Artificial Intelligence (AI) is imminently threatening your job. Let me rest my case: 1. Social Selling is an epidemic. But it’s not social to hide behind your computer.

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Gain Without Pain? Little Actions Lead to Big Results

SalesProInsider

Ever notice that if you share a stretch goal or dream to a super achiever, they often respond with the, “No pain, no gain” type of comment? How do you feel when you hear that reaction? Most of us react with a big sigh…pain? As humans, aren’t we wired to avoid pain whenever we can? But what exactly is painful when we are trying to gain by doing something better?

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The Fastest Way to More Sales

Engage Selling

Want more sales? Of course you do. When you ask the typical seller how to create more sales, the mantra is generally to work harder, to grind more, or to double or triple the current efforts.

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Why Every Public Speaker Should be Using Messenger Bots

Hubspot

A few weeks ago, I gave a talk at the Multifamily Social Media Summit in Napa, CA. It was my second consecutive year attending the event, and I wanted to give the audience something fresh? -- ?my talk was going to be about Facebook Messenger. A few days before the talk, a member of the HubSpot Academy team asked me if I would be using Messenger to educate the audience on Messenger (very meta -- I know).

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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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Easiest Way to Assess Degree of Sales Success

Understanding the Sales Force

Recently, I published an article that introduced a way to measure sales progress by means other than conventional numbers and metrics. Today, I received an email from a property leasing salesperson who had his own question about sales effectiveness. He asked, " How do I determine if I am seeing results from me being a good salesman or if it’s from my sheer volume and what kind of selling would you say a Real Estate Salesperson uses most?".

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Never Miss a Feature with our Product RSS News Feed

Outreach

Do you live and breathe in Outreach and want to be the first to know about exciting new features and major product releases we’re developing for you? Now we have an easy way to keep your whole team in the loop about our latest releases — our RSS News Feed for Slack (or your tool of choice). With this feed, you and your team will automatically be notified about product news and updates, right when we publish updates.

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Managing a Remote Team? Make Sure You’re Doing These 4 Things

SalesFolk

Here’s a question that’s going to become more and more relevant over the next decade: How do you manage employees when you’re working with a remote team? When I started SalesFolk, one of the first things I made sure to do was create definite ideas around how employees would communicate and collaborate remotely, whether with me or one another, in groups or one on one.

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15 of the Best Lifestyle Mobile Apps You Need in Your Pocket

Hubspot

Want to track your packages with the swipe of your finger? Now you can. Need to split a complicated dinner bill? It's no longer a 10-minute math problem. Lifestyle apps constanly appear in the Apple App Store and Google Marketplace and at least attempt to make our lives easier. Not only have some of our favorites gone through redesigns and similar changes, but a ton of new apps have been created since we last looked.

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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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Lifecycle Operations: Nurturing Customers from Prospect to Advocate

InsightSquared

Guest blog by Ashley Coleman, Director of Marketing Operations at UserIQ. The concept of the customer journey is all the rage these days. It seems like every SaaS business wants to structure their sales, marketing and customer success team around a “customer journey framework” as the ultimate display of alignment. But for the most part, sales and marketing operations professionals have been busy working to unite sales and marketing around a spiraling technology stack, causing us to neglect a fu

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Introducing Beyond the Number

Outreach

What is it like to go through a divorce, while still having to hit quota? What is it like to deal with a condition like anxiety when you have to talk to people on the phone all day? What is it like to have your sales manager drill you on process when what you really need are some tips on how to be more confident? . These are the types of questions that inspired Beyond the Number, a new content destination celebrating the human side of sales.

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C-Suite Selling Perfected: How Salesforce is Winning More Mega-Deals

Openview

Salesforce is a company I follow very closely. Given their phenomenal growth and the fact they are a longtime customer of ours, I read their quarterly earnings call transcripts regularly. Back in 2016, Salesforce reported “an all-time high in the number of large transactions,” including a net-new nine-figure deal, a nine-figure renewal, and more than 600 (600!

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I Used Three Smart Speakers at the Same Time. Here's What Happened.

Hubspot

"OK, Google. Good morning.". My name is Amanda, and these are the words I use to start my day. And no later do I utter them, it seems, than a smart home speaker responds with, "Good morning, Amanda," followed by a brief weather report, and tech news briefings from a handful of sources. For many consumers, there isn't anything about this routine that sounds terribly out of the ordinary.

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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.