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On this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount Jr. and special guest Victor Antonio, renowned sales expert and author, dive deep into the world of sales, AI, and mindset. Victor offers valuable insights on how to leverage cutting-edge technology to boost your sales productivity, overcome common challenges, and achieve peak performance in 2024 and beyond.
As marketers pour more budget into digital channels, a surprising disconnect remains. While the majority of retail sales, for example, still happen in physical stores, most marketing efforts focus solely on tracking online metrics. The challenge? Traditional attribution models fail to connect digital spend with real-world outcomes. To bridge this gap, marketers must embrace AI and machine learning to gain a full picture of how their campaigns drive both clicks and in-store purchases, unlocking a
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Speaker: Matt Sunshine, CEO at The Center for Sales Strategy
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As I wrote in September, I’m reading the Bible from beginning to end for the first time. I created an analogy for my first article when I wrote about scaling, hiring and firing salespeople , based on what I read in Genesis. Today’s article is about on boarding and coaching salespeople, an analogy I created from what I read so far in Exodus.
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As businesses and competition grows, more companies are turning to deal desk software to organize their processes and close more deals. If this sounds like something you need, we’re here to help. What is Deal Desk Software? Deal desk software organizes a sales team’s quote-to-cash workflow. These are primarily used in B2B and SaaS companies to help manage complex sales processes, papers, and status updates.
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Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Global Sales and David Phelan, Account Executive
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Meet ADMaP. That’s the Attribution Data Matching Protocol just released by IAB Tech Lab for public comment. The protocol is aimed at enabling advertisers and publishers to share and measure conversion data without exposing user-specific information. The protocol adopts Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) like Private Set Intersection (PSI) and Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs).
Investment in new technology is the future in the media and entertainment industry, especially considering the swirl of always-escalating customer expectations. That was made abundantly clear in Saleforce’s recent Media & Entertainment Industry Data and AI Trends report. Industry leaders are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven strategies – also taking into account an uneven path to profitability and having to do more with less – to take on these challenges at scale.
Speaker: Jady West, VP of Hospitality & Chris Bennett, Head of Sales & Engineering
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Scaling is “in fashion.” Our feeds are filled with discussions about scaling, growing regardless of cost. The strategies on scaling have been reduced to mathematical equations that “perfectly” predict how to achieve our goals. Want to grow by 100%, easy—double your outreach and activities, double your pipeline, “poof” you’ve scaled.
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A few bits of advice you hear a lot in SaaS that I think often don’t really work in practice: Move to annual contracts to generate more cash. Sure, if customers want to pay annually for a discount — do it. Do it. But if your product is cheap, many will prefer to pay monthly. Force them to go annual, and you are just adding friction to the sales process.
Let’s get started! Nimble Updates Watch for a new user interface on your Nimble messages inbox. I have seen and tested this and it’s very nice! Nimble is also working on separating email open and link tracking. Sequences continued … I’d like to think that I have been pretty up-front about the fact that my experience with email sequence messaging has, up until this point, been non-existent.
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