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4 Best Practices for Building a Successful Sales Culture

Anthony Cole Training

We know that there are four things that separate high-performing banks from their peers in terms of their sales and revenue growth. Banks that embrace these four things will almost always outperform the competition. These activities are validated by the Objective Management Groups 30-year history of sales skills assessments across the country.

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Master Your Coaching Sales Funnel Using Smart Tools

ClickFunnels

The post Master Your Coaching Sales Funnel Using Smart Tools appeared first on ClickFunnels. You’ve built your coaching website, created your packages, and even started a mailing list. You’re doing everything “right,” but clients aren’t signing up at the rate you expected. Instead of a steady stream of new business, you’re getting an occasional trickle that’s nowhere near enough to create the thriving practice you envisioned.

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Strategies to Turn Your Windshield Time Into a Competitive Advantage (Ask Jeb)

Sales Gravy

If you're in field sales, you know the reality: You spend hours every week sitting behind the windshield, staring at traffic that's moving at the speed of molasses. Whether you're dealing with Atlanta's notorious I-285 parking lot or any other major city's rush hour nightmare, that windshield time is either making you better or making you bitter. Recently on the Ask Jeb segment of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jacob Kimrey asked about helping his field sales team maximize their productivity while stu

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There Is NEVER “Just One Way!”

Partners in Excellence

I see so much talk about GTM, selling, marketing, customer service strategies. Too many claiming, “We have found the way… ” Others saying “Here is the playbook for your GTM strategy… ” In some sectors, like SaaS, we’ve seen many organizations struggle and fail by implementing the “SaaS GTM model.” The SaaS PLG motion differs from the SaaS individual/team focus which differs from SaaS technologies that can only be implemented on an enterprise

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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 2026 Sales Team: 50% Humans, 50% AIs. All 1 Team.

SaaStr

We’ve already seen something happen in support. You can’t automate 100% of support with AI yet. At least, not reliably. But you can automate 30%-40% of support for real … with top 10% CSAT. So what does that mean for inside sales? Probably something similar by 2026. A 50/50 Sales Team. 50% of your team are humans. 50% are AI. At least for SMB and more routine mid-market sales.

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How to Create a Winning Affiliate Marketing Sales Funnel

ClickFunnels

The post How to Create a Winning Affiliate Marketing Sales Funnel appeared first on ClickFunnels. Want to make money with affiliate marketing? We get it. Who doesn’t like the idea of earning commissions while someone else handles the products, shipping, and customer service? But here’s the reality: slapping affiliate links on your website rarely works.

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On Insularity

Partners in Excellence

We live in overlapping circles on “Insularity.” Our families, friends, communities. Our teammates, functions, organizations, industries. These insular communities provide us different levels of security and comfort. From a professional point of view, they are made up of people doing similar things, facing similar issues/challenges. While we may compete with each other in the markets, we learn from each other, see differing approaches, sometimes seeing new opportunities.

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Dear SaaStr: We Have a Ton of VC Interest But Are Profitable. Should We Still Raise?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: We Have a Ton of VC Interest But Are Profitable. Should We Still Raise? Summary thoughts: Yes, if your balance sheet is weak. Yes, if your gut tells you you need it. Not just want it. But — Probably No if your balance sheet is strong and you’re not sure where to deploy it. Many founders end up regretting taking capital they didn’t need in the end.

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Evaluate LLM Agents for Enterprise Applications with CRMArena-Pro

Salesforce

Were in the midst of a digital agent revolution where AI is no longer just supporting tasks, but actively driving business processes, from handling service requests to closing complex B2B sales deals. Enterprises across industries are starting to deploy AI Agents at scale, moving beyond simple chatbot interactions to more sophisticated workflows. Todays AI agents are often single-task specialists a service agent that summarizes conversations, or a sales assistant that suggests next-best action

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Why Top Sales Performers Use AI as Their Secret Weapon

Sales Gravy

AI isn't here to replace you; it's here to boost your game. Used wisely, AI can be your secret weapon. AI is everywhere: in social selling, content creation, automation, to say the least. Here's the double-edged sword: If you're trying to outsource everything to AI, you won't last. If you're stuck in the old ways, refusing to adapt, you'll get left behind.

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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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How I get fired up for my cold calls, insights from my 18 years in sales (+ tips for reps)

Hubspot

When I was in 5th grade, I was voted Most Reserved in the yearbook at Dewey Elementary School in Cherry Hill, NJ. I had just moved back to Jersey after bouncing around SoCal. I was a shy kid, nervous about making new friends. No one would expect me to go into sales, a field thats all about forging new relationships. Yet, I started my career in sales at 19 years old.

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Top SaaStr Post of the Week: The Great AI Reset, OpenAI to Hit $12.7 Billion in Revenue, The 250,000 Customer Club

SaaStr

Top Posts You May Have Missed: #1. The Great AI Reset: Its Time to Refound Your Start-Up. Now. #2. OpenAI to Hit $12.7 Billion in Revenue This Year. But Wont Be Profitable Until $125 Billion in Revenue #3. The 250,000 Customer Club: How HubSpot and Monday Both Created SMB+ Empires #4. The Bar Today for a Series B #5. Dear SaaStr: How Do I Become a Great Sales Rep?

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What If We Started Thinking About Durable Revenue and Revenue Quality?

Partners in Excellence

We’ve been trained to worship the recurring revenue model. It’s the star metric in every SaaS pitch deck, with ARR growth as the bedrock of business models. It dominates our feeds, the press and much of our thinking in business. Unicorns have been built on this recurring revenue model. But lately, that model has been shaky. And, I have to confess, I’ve always been a little confused.

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Salesforce finally bags Informatica to bolster AI push

Martech

After more than a year of trying , Salesforce announced today it is buying data management company Informatica for $8 billion. The purchase will bolster the CRM giant’s push into AI. It will also boost Salesforce’s portfolio in data management and governance, aiming to “deploy powerful and responsible agentic AI.” “Truly autonomous, trustworthy AI agents need the most comprehensive understanding of their data,” Salesforce president and CTO Steve Fisher said in

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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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Is Your Brand Invisible to AI? The New Rules for B2B Marketing

G2

AI is revolutionizing B2B marketing, reshaping SEO, and influencing buyer behavior. Learn how to adapt your strategies to get ahead in an AI-driven world.

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AI, Sales + GTM in 2025/2026: This Changes Everything with Jason Lemkin and Owner CRO Kyle Norton

SaaStr

At SaaStr + AI Summit 2025, Jason Lemkin and Kyle Norton CRO of $1B+ vertical SaaS leader Owner (where Jason is on the board) did a deep dive on AI in Sales today. And where it will be very soon. The AI-Native CRO: How Revenue Leaders Must Evolve or Risk Obsolescence 4 Top Learnings for Revenue Leaders 1. AI Curiosity Is Now a Firing Offense to Lack.

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Podcast - Building Foundations in a Shifting Sales Landscape with Dave Brock

Membrain

In this episode of The Art and Science of Complex Sales, we're welcoming Dave Brock , founder of Partners in EXCELLENCE back on the podcast for a second time. Dave unpacks the challenges and contradictions facing modern sales teams, from cultural drift to leadership dysfunction, and explore what it really takes to build resilient, high-performing organizations in todays environment.

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Time to First Value: The CX metric you can’t afford to ignore

Martech

According to a 2024 Gainsight report , 73% of churned customers said they never saw value early enough to justify their investment. In an era of instant gratification and eroding patience, your product or service isn’t judged by what it can do, but by how fast it delivers something meaningful. Customers don’t just buy products, services or subscriptions they buy solutions to problems; they buy outcomes.

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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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The CRO & CMO Playbook for Creating GTM Alignment

Sales Hacker

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. GTMnow highlights the strategies, along with the stories from the top 1% of GTM executives, VCs, and founders behind these strategies and companies.

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3 Ways I’ve Changed Venture Investing at SaaStr Fund

SaaStr

So I’m mostly made good investing decisions. My first VC investments were Pipedrive ($1.5B cash exit to Vista), Algolia (IPO candidate), Talkdesk ($10B last round, IPO candidate), Salesloft ($2.3B cash exit to Vista). And I have a few rocketships in the next batch, from Gorgias to RevenueCat to $1B+ Owner and more. A huge congrats to @RevenueCat to adding $50m at a big valuation increase to its Series C!

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How sales, training, and revops leaders use learning analytics to boost results

Highspot

Key takeaways Learning analytics connects training investments directly to business results, helping teams prove impact and make faster, smarter decisions. Sales enablement, training, and RevOps teams can leverage analytics tools uniquely. 61% of high-performing organizations actively monitor performance metrics , while less than one-third of low performers do.

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How to integrate CTV with other PPC channels for a full-funnel growth loop

Martech

There are two key reasons CTV is likely to be among 2025s fastest-growing advertising channels : Its big-screen storytelling capability. Its digital targeting functionality. CTV isnt yet a stand-alone revenue driver. Where it shines and where its important to assess impact is the lift it creates for your other active marketing channels. Used strategically, CTV can support and amplify your performance marketing efforts.

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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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Full AI Keynote – Shane Gibson Speaker on Sales and Sales Leadership with AI

Closing Bigger

By Shane Gibson Keynote AI Speaker and Sales Author This is podcast is my full AI Sales Keynote that I delivered in Montreal, Quebec (Canada) at the MicroAge Innovation Conference almost a year ago. This conference was a business growth focused conference for IT Channel MSPs and MSSPs across Canada. There’s a few stats that needed updating but I decided to share it with my podcast listeners anyway.

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Dear SaaStr: We’re Starting a Big Paid Pilot. How Do Maximize the Chances of Success?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: We’re Starting a Big Paid Pilot. How Do Maximize the Chances of Success? For a paid pilot, especially with a big expansion opportunity, you need to be laser-focused on setting clear goals and success metrics that align with the customers pain points and desired outcomes. Heres what you should cover on the planning calls: 1. Clearly Define the Customers Success Criteria Start by asking the customer: What does success look like for you at the end of this pilot?

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Beyond the echo chamber: Reimagining go-to-market impact

Highspot

Reflecting on my 25+ years leading revenue organizations, one thing has remained constant: the pressure to deliver consistent, predictable growth. Yet for much of that time, the concept of enablement has occupied a curious place in the business lexicon, important, certainly, but often misunderstood. Enablement was a well-intentioned category, championed by many leaders, myself included.

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How to build B2B authority in the AI search era

Martech

B2B buyers aren’t searching the old way anymore. Google’s AI Overviews , OpenAI’s ChatGPT ,Perplexity and Copilot Search in Bing have changed how we find content. Goodbye, traditional ranked blue links. Hello, generating direct, synthesized answers. That has toppled long-held assumptions in B2BSEOand content strategy.In the next-gen search era, where users rely on summarized results, B2B marketers must adapt how they: Build visibility.

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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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Salesforce's $8B Bet on Informatica Signals the Dawn of Reliable AI Agents

G2

Salesforce's $8 billion acquisition of Informatica combines robust data management with AI agent platforms to solve enterprise reliability challenges. Learn how this strategic deal could accelerate autonomous AI adoption.

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The Wild Ride of Informatica: 32 Years, 2 IPOs, to $8 Billion Acquisition by Salesforce

SaaStr

Informatica acquired for $8 Billion! Boom!! But founded … in 1993! First IPO in 1999 First acquisition for $5.3 Billion in 2015 Second IPO in 2021, $10 Billion market cap Salesforce acquires them in 2025 for $8 Billion Man, it's a journey pic.twitter.com/Lmi9NPQbj6 — Jason SaaStr.Ai Lemkin (@jasonlk) May 27, 2025 Salesforce just agreed to finally acquire Informatica for $8 Billion after trying for some time.

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Building a high-performing channel ecosystem

Highspot

Imagine if you walked into the office one morning and, all of a sudden, were expected to build and deliver a compelling presentation about a new, company-wide initiative that, before that moment, you had never even heard of. What would you be feeling? Panic is probably an understatement. Unfortunately, thats the exact scenario that partner sellers often find themselves in.

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What’s inside IAB and MRC’s attention measurement guidelines

Martech

Attention is a promising metric in advertising, but its meaning, value and measurement remain widely debated. Providers have taken different approaches, separately defining and capturing attention. Marketers are left to navigate the differences and determine what aligns with their objectives. With so many methodologies in play, the industry has lacked a standard foundation.

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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now

Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how a composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.