Sat.Jan 07, 2023 - Fri.Jan 13, 2023

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How to Make Time for Sales Coaching

Iannarino

When asked about whether they provide sales coaching, sales managers will often explain they don't have the time to do so. This is true, even when salespeople want more coaching to increase their sales effectiveness. The sales manager would also benefit from having a sales force that wins more deals.

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When Should You Add Automation to Your Sales Process?

Membrain

Sales automation is often touted as a route to greater sales efficiency. Companies like Salesforce and hundreds of smaller point solutions promise to save your salespeople time, if you only spend more money and increase the complexity of your sales stack with their automation tools.

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5 Keys and 3 Suggestions for Your Company's Unique Sales Approach

Anthony Cole Training

Today I will cover one of the ways we at Anthony Cole Training Group, LLC coach sales managers to help them coach their salespeople to have more and better initial sales calls: Your USA! USA is the terminology we use at Anthony Cole Training Group as part of our Effective Selling System (ESS). It stands for unique sales approach.

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Making Selling Easier

Partners in Excellence

It’s human nature to search for easier ways to get our work done. Selling will never be easy, but there’s a lot that we can do to simplify the work, enabling us to achieve more than we currently do. Somehow, however, we tend to do the things that don’t make selling easier. We avoid the things that improve our effectiveness. We aren’t as efficient as we could be.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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How To Implement A Customer-Centric Strategy

Predictable Revenue

Learn the definition of customer-centric selling and how to implement it in your business to improve win rates, customer retention. and brand loyalty. The post How To Implement A Customer-Centric Strategy appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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How to Ask for Referrals in Sales

Iannarino

B2B sales reps spend a lot of their time creating new opportunities. Some are fortunate enough to have a steady stream of inbound leads, while others must rely on their cold outreach strategy and their grit to keep their pipelines full. One valuable yet underutilized technique for creating sales opportunities is referrals. Referrals are a great way to generate new business, although most salespeople don’t use them.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Docebo at $145,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

So there’s a quiet SaaS success story you probably don’t know much about, but can learn a lot from. It’s Docebo. It’s a leader in a pretty crowded space (Learning Management Systems) with dozens of top vendors. And yet … It’s worth $1.1 Billion today, doing $145,000,000 in ARR. It’s growing 40%+ on a constant currency basis.

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5 strategies B2B marketing and sales teams can bank on as markets tighten

Martech

“Efficiency,” “precision,” “agility, “more with less” — these words echo through Zoom calls, board rooms and budget pow-wows as economic uncertainty builds like black ice on a mountain road. Amid tightening markets and increasing KPIs, these words have quickly become imperatives for go-to-market (GTM) teams charged with identifying, engaging, generating and expanding revenue and relationships. .

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Elements of Sales Territory Mapping

Iannarino

Territory mapping is an important component of sales performance management. The optimal sales territory mapping for your company and your goals may be terrible for another company.

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Buyers Using ChatGPT……

Partners in Excellence

There’s a lot of excitement from sellers about the power of AI tools like ChatGPT, we can inflict infinite amounts of content on unsuspecting prospects. We can meet and exceed Gartner’s projection of 66 touches per meeting with all sorts of sequences that can be generated in a few minutes. Sellers of all types are foaming at the mouth about how we leverage this tool to expand our outreach.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Fractional CROs and CMOs: The Only Times I’ve Ever Seen Them Work

SaaStr

Bad. — Cynthia Hollen / Omnitail … OnMyWay Commerce (@cynthiahollen) January 9, 2023. So the market is flooded with folks that are now “Fractional CROs” and “Fractional CMOs”. We’ve had Fractional CFOs for a very long time, and perhaps they inspired the trend. But Fractional CFOs are often different. They usually come in and handle compliance and oversight for an existing finance team that perhaps lacks the seasoned experience to handle models, venture capital and debt, prepare for

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What is marketing automation and how can it help B2B marketers?

Martech

What factors are driving marketing automation platform use, and what capabilities do MAPs provide for B2B marketers? MAPs help businesses identify potential customers and automate the process of nurturing the leads to sales readiness using channels like email, social media, webpages and display ads to bring customers and prospects to customized landing pages and through other experiences designed to move them down the purchase funnel.

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How and Why to Use an Open-Ended Question

Iannarino

To achieve different outcomes inside the sales conversation, you need to ask different questions. Because it is helpful to be One-Up , I ask questions designed to help the client see something that was previously invisible to them. We call these power questions because they accomplish something that isn't easy to achieve with other types of questions.

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What Value Are You Creating?

Partners in Excellence

Sometimes, I think we think about value too restrictively. . Historically, we tended to focus value as something we did exclusively “for” customers. As sellers we know that value creation and realization are critical in engaging our customers. In recent years, we’ve started looking at value creation more broadly. We’ve started looking at it as a collaborative process, working with our customers.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Google December 2022 link spam update done rolling out

Search Engine Land

Google has confirmed that the December 2022 link spam update is now finished rolling out. The update took 29 days to roll out, starting on December 14, 2022 and ending on January 12, 2023. Google has posted it was completed today, January 12. What is a link spam update. A link spam update looks to neutralize, or no longer count, links that Google finds to be spammy and against Google’s guidelines.

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3 Google Analytics 4 features to make up for lost data

Martech

With the legacy version of Google Analytics retiring soon , we’ve entered the era of Google Analytics 4 (GA4). Aside from getting a major facelift and data model change, one of the platform’s most powerful upgrades was the addition and refinement of machine-learning capabilities. . Google Analytics now has the ability to combine observed data and unobserved data.

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How to Measure Sales Manager Performance

Iannarino

Sales leaders and sales managers spend time looking at their sales team's performance. What they learn by managing performance helps illuminate what they need to change and what their salespeople need to improve sales performance. But how does one measure a sales manager’s performance? Different companies use different metrics, but the eight that follow provide a balanced approach to measuring sales manager performance.

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A Lot of You Are Doing a “Strategic Retreat” in Sales & Marketing. That’s Flawed.

SaaStr

The Strategic Retreat actually usually works really well in the short term. I see SaaS companies quickly get to cash-flow positive by really only servicing in-bound customers with high intent. It’s just your growth rapidly decays, usually in just one quarter. — Jason Be Kind Lemkin  (@jasonlk) January 6, 2023. So for at least 60%-80% of us, times are at least tougher than a year ago.

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1st, 2nd, and 3rd Party Intent Data: Which Is Right for You?

How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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Webinar: Keep customers engaged post-holidays and all year long by Cynthia Ramsaran

Search Engine Land

Your holiday campaigns were a success but keeping customers engaged throughout the rest of the year can be hard – particularly if you operate in a highly competitive market. Join our live, interactive webinar with Kate Richardson, Director of Customer Retention Marketing at Artifact Uprising and Toby Yuen, Customer Success Manager at Blueshift and discover proven ways to keep customers engaged and purchasing more.

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5 steps to reducing martech bloat through API integration

Martech

Martech bloat occurs when companies accumulate too many marketing technologies without adequately assessing their needs. This results in increased complexity , cost overruns, data silos and inefficient usage patterns. Ultimately, it becomes hard to realize expected returns on investment. Companies often fail to realize the full potential of their martech investments due to a lack of understanding and utilization.

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The 10 Sales Training Courses You Need Now

Iannarino

The first book I published was titled The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need. I wrote it because I recognized that B2B sales had evolved in ways that few people were talking about. It is not uncommon for sales organizations to miss the inflection points, especially when a team has done something in a certain way for a long time. When something is a decades-old habit, it’s easy to miss that it is losing its effectiveness.

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Yes, There’s Lots of “Dry Powder” in Venture Today. But There is Zero Pressure to Deploy It.

SaaStr

So 2023 is a whole near world in venture. 2022 was sort of a tale of 2 worlds. At the start of 2022, things were still part of the Boom Times of 2021. Unicorns were minted daily and weekly, and valuations were sky high. By late Q1, it was over. And things just got tougher and tougher as the year went on. Growth rounds essentially stopped : Cooley: Series D Deals Dropped 78% in Just Q3 Alone.

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5 Inspiring B2B Marketing Campaigns to Take Yours to the Next Level

Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con

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This day in search marketing history: January 14

Search Engine Land

R.I.P. AMP. In 2022, we revealed what happened when Search Engine Land shut off AMP. TL;DR: “We have seen very little disruption to our traffic and have reaped the benefit of having a clearer picture of our audience analytics.” We didn’t see any year-over-year declines in traffic that we could tie to AMP aside from the loss of pageviews to a handful of pieces that routinely spike for organic traffic.

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How Coca-Cola activated their enterprise CDP

Martech

This data overhaul required a reconfiguration of marketing and technology teams, as the company’s intelligence got more centralized. As a result, Coca-Cola is better positioned to match customers with over 250 products in the company’s portfolio. Another goal was to use the data to have more engaging conversations with customers. “It all started with our objective as an organization to become a total beverages company,” said Keith Bartig, director, precision marketing technologies at the Coca-Co

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5 Advanced Sales Training Programs for Next-Level Sales Pros

Iannarino

44% of salespeople give up after one “no.”.

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Dear SaaStr: What Are The Biggest Challenges For a Non-Technical Founder?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What Are The Biggest Challenges For a Non-Technical Founder? Adding enough value the first year. If you can’t build it, can you: Sell it? That’s worth it. If you can bring in all the first customers, that’s a magical skill. Design it? Head of Product is just as important as Head of Writing Software. Sometimes, one person can do both. But often, not so much.

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.

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3 PPC marketing trends to keep a pulse on in 2023

Search Engine Land

As we begin 2023, it’s a good time to reflect on the macro-level trends we’ve observed last year. Here are a few trends that I believe have some staying power and should be considered as you build out your 2023 search marketing strategies. 1. A slow economy and heightened focus on efficiency. In case you haven’t heard, the economy has been struggling (that’s a joke).

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2023 predictions: How marketers will approach web3, virtual experiences and gaming this year

Martech

How organizations will transform their martech stacks and digital experiences. Experience, Ecommerce and Transformation. Digital media and advertising. Retail media networks. How data will change marketing in the new year. The metaverse talk over the last year unlocked the creativity of marketers to imagine how they will engage customers in the digital, virtual future.

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Here’s How Automation Drives Growth for Media and Entertainment Companies

Salesforce

John Kucera, senior vice president for product management at Salesforce, co-authored this article with Christopher Dean. To watch a video version of this content, click here. Automation is a huge buzzword in the media and entertainment industry these days, for good reason: media and entertainment companies use it to fuel growth while keeping customers happy.

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A Major Boost for SaaStr APAC in Singapore on Feb 22-23

SaaStr

Our very first SaaStr APAC event taking place in Singapore just got a major upgrade! With demand over the past two weeks doubling our initial set of attendees- we’re now tracking to 750-1,000 attendees for SaaStr APAC 2023. (Final numbers may be even higher as we get closer!). WOW. An incredible response from our global community for the very first SaaStr event of its kind in Asia-Pacific.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.