Sat.Sep 30, 2023 - Fri.Oct 06, 2023

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How to Define a High-Impact Priority for Your Sales Kickoff

Force Management

As we approach 2024, sales leaders face a critical task: setting the right priorities for your Sales Kickoff event. The past year, marked by economic downturns and shifting market dynamics, may have presented new challenges for your sales team. Those challenges can be opportunities for your team to learn and strengthen your approach in the coming year.

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Effective Coaching with Sales Performance Metrics

Anthony Cole Training

Sales organizations typically have plenty of sales data due to the growth and usage of CRM systems, critical to capturing the activities that are occurring with the sales team. But effective coaching with sales performance data often becomes the greater challenge with sales managers and leaders. In our coaching platform, we offer several tools to help in this area and one of the most effective, easy to understand and utilize is sales data insight that comes from regular Sales Huddles.

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Versatile Leadership - Mastering Styles for Every Sales Challenge

Iannarino

Every sales leader or sales manager has a dominant style, the way they lead most of the time. Leaders are comfortable with their leadership style , even though it isn’t always right for certain scenarios. As a sales leader, you must recognize that your dominant style may not be what some of your sales force needs to succeed.

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A Comprehensive Guide to LinkedIn InMail in 2023

Veloxy

In the ever-evolving digital landscape, LinkedIn InMail has emerged as a powerful tool for professionals to connect and engage with their target audience. For example, an InMail is 3 times more likely to be accepted than a cold call, and 6 times more likely to be opened than a cold email. But how can you harness the full potential of this feature to boost your networking and business efforts?

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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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4 Tips to Coach Your Coaches to Higher Team Performance

Membrain

“As goes the manager, so goes the team.” This common sales industry expression is actually more true than we realize, according to Carole Mahoney, author of Buyer First and founder of Unbound Growth.

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X (Twitter) partners with Google Display Network

Search Engine Land

X (formerly known as Twitter) has joined forces with the Google Display Network. Following a steep decline in advertising revenue earlier this year, the social platform has decided to start outsourcing the sale of some of its ad space. Moving forward, advertisers will be able to tap into the X home feed inventory through Google Ads Display campaigns – however, exact details of the deal terms remain undisclosed.

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Meta launches genAI features for ads

Martech

This week, Meta announced it is beginning the rollout of generative AI capabilities in Ads Manager. These should be globally available by next year. These capabilities are: Background generation. The creation of multiple ad backgrounds allowing advertisers to choose relevant creative for their targeted audiences. Image expansion. Automates the adjustment of image assets to aspect ratios suitable for specific channels like Feed or Reels.

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The Art and Science of Complex Sales Podcast

Membrain

Join us in this episode with Casey Jaycox, a star sales leader, executive leadership coach, and author of 'Win the Relationship, Not the Deal'. Drawing from his experiences in athletics, sales, and leadership, Casey unpacks how his self-belief paved the way for his success and helped him soar to his potential.

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Google releases October 2023 broad core update

Search Engine Land

Google’s October 2023 core update is now rolling out and may take up to two weeks to complete. This is the third broad core algorithm update of 2023. the first core update of 2023 was the March 2023 core update , which started rolling out on March 15 and was completed on March 28. The second core update of 2023 was the August 2023 core update, which started rolling out on August 22 and was completed on September 7.

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Unpacking Risk: How Overgeneralizing Will Sabotage Your Sales

Iannarino

To make sense of B2B sales, we use concepts designed to make sense of selling and buying. These concepts are supposed to help salespeople succeed, using things like a buyer’s journey, a linear sales process, and an ideal client profile (ICP). These conceptual tools may be helpful in understanding sales in general, but they also oversimplify things. Overreliance on these concepts can lead salespeople to use an approach that isn’t client-centric when that is critical to your success.

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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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Best of the Bot: Identifying the latest trends in digital marketing

Martech

Best of the Bot showcases MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. The language model is based on content from MarTech layered on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am the first generative AI chatbot for search marketers. I am trained with MarTech content.

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Selling Possibility

Partners in Excellence

My friend, Hank Barnes, is rethinking the buying process with a fascinating concept he calls The Advantage Factor. One of the things he discusses in the concept of “Selling Possibility.” It’s related to much of what I’ve written about Inciting Customers To Change. Too often, sellers catch customers who are very late in their buying cycle.

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Impact of the Google September 2023 helpful content was big for the SEO industry

Search Engine Land

Last Thursday, Google finished rolling out the September 2023 helpful content update after a 14-day rollout. The update took 14 days to roll out, starting on September 14, 2023, and ending on September 28, 2022. It has been a few days since the rollout was completed, and we wanted to dig in a bit on the impact felt by this latest Google algorithm update.

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The Art of Client-Centric Sales Questions- Transforming Self-Serving Inquiries into Value-Driven Conversations

Iannarino

Bad questions are bad selling. You need a client-centric sales approach, one with effective strategies and a value-driven sales methodology.

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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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3 ways MOps can bridge the gap in marketing analytics

Martech

Marketing has always been challenged to demonstrate impact on pipeline and revenue — and it hasn’t gotten easier. Success metrics have evolved beyond impressions, opens, and click rates, with privacy changes like Apple iOS 15’s open-blocking feature pushing marketers to rethink impact measurement. New martech tools focus on measuring marketing impact, tracking customer journeys and analyzing sales funnels.

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Crafting the “Just Right” Conversation…Like Goldilocks?

SalesProInsider

Do you remember the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears ? Goldliocks was a little girl who entered the bears’ home while they weren’t there. Then, seeking to fit in and feel like she was at home, she tried their porridge, their chairs, and even their beds. She ended up falling asleep because she was so comfortable and felt peaceful. That’s what we want with our prospective clients!

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Google unleashes October 2023 spam update

Search Engine Land

Google has unleashed a new search update today, the October 2023 spam update. This spam update improves Google’s “coverage in many languages and spam types,” Google wrote. Types of spam. Google said the October 2023 spam update “aims to clean up several types of spam that our community members reported in Turkish, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Hindi, Chinese, and other languages.” Google said that update should “reduce the visible spam in search results, particularl

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The Second Meeting: Syncing Value and Needs

Iannarino

There are several things making it more challenging to acquire a first meeting , like the overwhelming volume of emails, voicemails, and other messages your contacts receive. The upside of having data on your strategic clients is that you speed up your ability to contact them for a meeting. The downside is that your competitors have that same information.

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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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X (Twitter) partners with Google Ad Manager

Martech

X (formerly known as Twitter) has joined forces with the Google Display Network. Following a steep decline in advertising revenue earlier this year, the social platform has decided to start outsourcing the sale of some of its ad space. Moving forward, advertisers will be able to tap into the X home feed inventory through Google Ads Display campaigns – however, exact details of the deal terms remain undisclosed.

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Trust And Trustworthiness In An AI Dominated World

Partners in Excellence

We know trust and trustworthiness are critical in our ability to engage prospects and customers. It’s a foundation of our ability to develop and maintain relationships. We know what happens when, inadvertently or purposefully, we betray that trust. There are other concepts intermingled with trust and trustworthiness. Integrity, consistency, meeting commitments, knowledge, honesty, values and value, caring are all elements of establishing and maintaining trust.

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Google Keyword Planner drops keyword forecasting

Search Engine Land

Google Ads is no longer maintaining individual and ad group keyword forecasting in Keyword Planner. Few advertisers were using these features so the platform decided to retire them, according to Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ad Liaison, on X (formerly known as Twitter). However, campaign-level forecasts and historical keyword-level data are still available.

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Read the Room-A Sales Leader’s Guide to Proactive Communication

Iannarino

One mistake you can make as a sales leader or sales manager is believing that you don’t need to repeat yourself. Words came out of your mouth and entered the ears of each of your sales reps, so you believe your team knows what you want or need them to do. Having heard that only once, your sales force is likely to believe you offered them a suggestion, something they can choose to do or skip, depending on how they feel.

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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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New GA4 features improve security and report accuracy

Martech

Google Analytics 4 has rolled out two new features to help improve data security and reporting accuracy. The new capabilities, which are available in GA4 now, enable marketers to redact client-side text and exclude Google data signals from reports and explorations. Data redaction. This new feature is designed to help minimize the risk of unintentionally transmitting Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

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Opportunity Math……

Partners in Excellence

I’m constantly amazed as I look at performance of organizations. I think, “Why do we revel in achieving our quotas and scaling goals, when we could be doing so much more?” If we achieve our growth/revenue goals, we think we are doing well. Too often, however, we could/should be doing much better. We are underperforming the potential.

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How to survive and thrive in a Google helpful content world

Search Engine Land

Google’s September 2023 helpful content update started rolling out Sept. 14 and completed rolling out 14 days later , on Sept. 28. The impact of this update was significant – many websites were devastated. X (formerly Twitter), forums, and Facebook groups were inundated with thousands of publishers reporting traffic drops from 10% to 70%. The update was so dire that companies even publicly commented they would have to lay off dozens of employees.

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On The Post-Literate Society

Iannarino

My mother taught me to read when I was three years old. She told me she made me play school. This sparked my love of the written word, although, at that young age, I wouldn’t have known what the “written word” was. My mom was raising four children alone on a draw of $4.50 an hour against her commissions, leaving no money for books.

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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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Before you hire another marketer, do these 5 things first

Martech

Hang on a minute. Do you really need another marketer on your team? Or is there a different way to look at the situation? Hiring is costly, time-consuming and distracting for your team. Moreover, adding a new team member significantly increases complexity and the need to communicate. Eventually, you’ll need to hire another marketer as your team grows.

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Dear SaaStr: We Don’t Need It. Should We Still Go After Venture Capital, and When?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: We Don’t Need It. Should We Go After Venture Capital, and When? There are only two reasons to raise Venture Capital: You need it. If the only way you can get to the next level is to raise capital, then do it. I needed to for both my start-ups, up to a point, for different reasons. Whatever the dilution, cost, headaches — if you need VC to thrive, and you can raise it, then raise it.

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Google having issues indexing new content for the past few hours

Search Engine Land

Google may be having some issues indexing and/or serving new content in Google Search. There have been reports from various news publishers about these issues starting at about 2pm ET today. Google statement. Google’s Search Liaison Danny Sullivan said , “I’ve heard some sporadic reports, and we’re checking on these.” 40 minutes after publishing this article, Google confirmed the issue as an indexing issue with new content.

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“How Will You Be Making A Decision On This….”

Partners in Excellence

Recently, working with a client, we were talking about a major change initiative. I asked the question, “How will you be making a decision on how do implement this initiative?” There was an awkward silence, the CEO eventually said, “I don’t know…… What should I be doing? What should I be looking at? Who should I be involving in the decision?

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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.