Iannarino

AUGUST 27, 2024

Unlock the secrets to handling complex sales meetings with multiple stakeholders and ensure your next deal is a success.

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 30, 2024

We all love to take a little time away from the grind during the slow season (which for many of us is right now), but smart PPC marketers are also using the time to get in the prime position when the tide is higher. In retail, that will fire up in October (probably earlier than ever this year). In B2B, that means prepping for the end-of-year push that comes from needing to hit quotas and engaging brands about to be flush with new yearly budgets.

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Martech

AUGUST 26, 2024

I watched “OpenAI Sora’s first short film — ‘Air Head,’ created by shy kids,” when it debuted in March and assumed Sora would be publicly available in a few months. But it’s already August and only a limited number of visual artists, designers and filmmakers have been granted access to “gain feedback on how to advance the model to be the most helpful for creative professionals.

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Salesforce

AUGUST 29, 2024

Just because you work for a B2B company doesn’t mean your social media presence has to be dry and super formal. The decision-makers you’re trying to reach are human too. They’re checking LinkedIn, but also scrolling through Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok for entertainment. B2B social media marketing should be engaging and fun, while still helping you get closer to closing business with your customers and prospects.

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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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Hubspot

AUGUST 27, 2024

As a former salesperson in hyper-competitive industries like tech, telecommunications, and media, I’ve seen firsthand the importance of getting your product and service pricing approach right. A well-crafted AI-powered pricing strategy helps companies to be competitive in their target market. It can help them to be resilient to changing market conditions, and achieve their profitability goals.

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 30, 2024

Welcome to the first installment of our article series on artificial intelligence (AI) for marketing beginners. This aims to demystify AI, providing foundational knowledge and practical insights on how AI can help your marketing efforts. This introductory article explores AI and why it’s significant and highlights key milestones. I’ll also share actionable steps you can take to start integrating AI into your marketing strategy.

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Salesforce

AUGUST 29, 2024

Agents are assistive and autonomous software systems. Based on user input or environmental conditions, they reason, plan, and take action to achieve given tasks or goals. They are like intelligent digital assistants, equipped with the aggregated knowledge and experience of human experts, and access to all relevant data. Agents are set to become ubiquitous across every area of our lives, and to profoundly transform how businesses operate and interact with customers.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 26, 2024

I remember it like it was yesterday — I was just starting out in SaaS sales, and I had identified a promising account I wanted to target. I identified a key stakeholder with purchasing authority, reached out with a simple yet elegant email pitch, and they responded asking me for a contract they could sign right away. I woke up to my alarm clock shattering that fantasy.

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 29, 2024

For two years, my team ran 54 Google Ads experiments in one lead gen (non-ecommerce) account, testing various features, including: Bidding techniques. Keyword match types. Campaign setting adjustments. Ad copy changes. This article delves into those tests, explaining the rationale behind them, the outcomes achieved and the implications for your own Google Ads accounts.

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Martech

AUGUST 26, 2024

Like just about everything in marketing, B2B marketing is changing — and fast. Some of the trends I’m seeing have been developing for a while, but now they’re really taking off. What’s going on? Here are five of the most important developments. 1. Welcome the new generation of buyers Gen X and Y are entering the buying group, in droves.

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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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Salesforce

AUGUST 27, 2024

Are B2B marketers overwhelmed by all the data at their disposal? The short answer is yes. Several years ago, B2B marketers were only using marketing, sales, and service data to create connected customer experiences. But now, they have access to more B2B data than ever, allowing for a more complete view of the customer – but also creating challenges.

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Engage Selling

AUGUST 26, 2024

Sales success hinges on relentless follow-up. Let’s explore a follow-up strategy that’s assertive yet professional. I’ve got the plan; you bring the hustle. For more strategies like this, check out … The post My Formula for Follow Up Success first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 30, 2024

Google rolled out a significant update to Google Analytics 4 (GA4), allowing users to compare their performance with other businesses in their industry. Why we care: This new feature will provide valuable context for advertisers trying to understand their performance relative to their peers, potentially informing strategic decisions and goal-setting.

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Martech

AUGUST 27, 2024

Google today introduced four updates to help retailers ahead of the holiday shopping season. Key updates: Shopping trends insights. You can now access real-time shopping trends in Google Merchant Center. This could help you adjust your inventory and product descriptions based on what shoppers are searching for or viral trends. AI-powered insights. Two new generative AI features in Merchant Center Next provide quick summaries of product performance and custom reports based on specific data queri

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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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Iannarino

AUGUST 26, 2024

I started writing and publishing daily, including weekends, holidays, and any day that ends in the letter "y." Since making the decision in 2008 to write and publish daily, I have published every day, minus 13 days I was in Tibet. Over 14 years, I have published something like 5,400 articles. I will continue to write every day, as this is my practice, one I will keep until I can no longer push the keys on my computer.

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Engage Selling

AUGUST 28, 2024

What’s your most valuable sales tool? Truth is – it depends… Here’s why you need to customize your sales tools to cater to every stakeholder. For more strategies like this, … The post The Best Sales Tool first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 29, 2024

Google Ads added a new Categories tab under the Products section. It appears to pull from the google_product_category attribute. Why we care: These ecommerce insights may give you a clearer view of performance metrics, demand trends and actionable recommendations to drive more clicks and sales. How it works: Performance insights: Understand what’s driving success in your campaigns and where improvements can be made.

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Martech

AUGUST 28, 2024

Adobe announced the general availability of Adobe Workfront Planning, a solution that delivers a flexible, unified view of campaign planning and activity leading to fast execution. The aim is to replace manual gathering of disparate information with customizable visualizations in a generative AI-powered interface (think natural language prompts and conversations).

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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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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 30, 2024

In 2005, I read Dave Kurlan’s book Baseline Selling. Dave took the fundamentals of effective selling and used the baseball diamond and baseball terminology to explain his sales process. Baseball today is essentially the same game that was formalized in New York around 1840, but we know that selling has changed considerably. The baseball analogy is a strong one for developing a milestone-centric sales process with your team.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 30, 2024

Are you struggling to get your sales team to hit their quotas? Understanding win rates might be the key to unlocking better performance.

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 29, 2024

AI is transforming how businesses approach their digital marketing budgeting and forecasting processes. Companies can develop robust forecasting and budgeting models that focus on data-driven decisions. This approach enables customized strategies that align with specific business goals and can be adjusted based on organizational needs and channels. AI is a key driver for transformation.

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Martech

AUGUST 29, 2024

Conference season is in full swing. If you’re spending that much cash, be sure you’re getting results, whether it’s acquiring new leads, closing deals, or starting new partnerships. Conferences can drain your budget, but with the right strategy, you can turn every event into a profitable trip — be it The MarTech Conference or INBOUND. Here’s how to maximize your conference ROI, from planning to follow-up. 1.

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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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Force Management

AUGUST 29, 2024

The sales kickoff is a galvanizing moment for a sales organization, rallying the team around their purpose, strategy and goals for the year. As a sales leader, you've likely been a part of many of these kickoff events, and you may be familiar with the quick fizzle that sometimes happens once everyone gets back to their daily responsibilities. Driving behavior change with a SKO is no small feat, but consider the stakes - increasing competition, aggressive sales objectives, and highly guarded budg

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Iannarino

AUGUST 29, 2024

Are you missing out on sales deals that should be yours? Here’s why, and how to turn the tide in your favor.

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 28, 2024

Google and Bing get a lot of attention, which you’d expect given both hold approximately 95% of the global search market share. However, users searching for “Google alternatives” has increased by 7% year-on-year (mainly driven by a big spike at the end of May), with the U.S. seeing a 4% increase, according to data from Glimpse. While this isn’t substantial, the spike at the end of May correlates with the period immediately after Google I/O and the less-than-desirable AI Overview results.

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Martech

AUGUST 29, 2024

Salesforce expects the 2024 holiday season to be shorter and more competitive with brands facing the challenge of attracting consumers with less purchasing power. Based on global statistics, around 66% of shoppers plan to buy based on price this year, an increase of 20% since 2020. Also, 43% of shoppers are carrying more debt this year than they did in 2023.

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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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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 29, 2024

Communicating, engaging other people in conversations to achieve a goal, underlies every business decision, every complex B2B opportunity. Without, somehow coming to agreement, nothing happens. Yet, we are overwhelmed with all sorts of data and research that customers don’t want to talk to sellers, that our people are disengaged in their conversations with their managers.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 28, 2024

To achieve extraordinary sales results, commit to the work others are unwilling to do.

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 28, 2024

Google is rolling out two new features to help you navigate the evolving digital privacy landscape and strengthen first-party data strategies. Why we care. Despite Google deciding to roll back on its plans to remove third-party cookies , with privacy regulations still in place, first-party data has become crucial. These tools is intended to help you simplify data collection and management while respecting user privacy.

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Martech

AUGUST 29, 2024

The U.K.’s government is giving teachers AI chatbots to help them “mark and plan lessons.” The AI will be trained on government documents including curriculum guidance, lesson plans and anonymized pupil assessments “so they generate accurate, high-quality content,” according to a statement. There’s a first time for everything, I suppose.

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