Sat.Sep 07, 2024 - Fri.Sep 13, 2024

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Mastering Motivation and Self-Discipline: How to Stay Productive and Achieve Your Goals Every Day

Iannarino

Are you struggling to stay productive and achieve your goals? Discover the two powerful ways to stay on track and crush your tasks, even when motivation is low.

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How to Build A Truly Global Business From Day One with Flexport’s CEO Ryan Petersen

SaaStr

So just as supply chain logistics juggernaut Flexport was beginning to scale, founder CEO Ryan Petersen came to SaaStr Annual to share his top lessons — and mistakes. And we’ll have 200+ sessions like this at 2024 SaaStr Annual, Sep 10-12 in SF Bay!! If you are not familiar with Flexport, they are a licensed customs brokerage and freight forwarder built around a modern web application that helps brands move products around the world.

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Expectations, Revisions, and Excuses on the Sales Team

Understanding the Sales Force

Sunday, when the Priest was giving his sermon he said they (the Priests) compare mass attendance at the end of each weekend. He said since everyone has returned from their summer vacations, Saturday night mass was full, the two earlier Sunday masses were full and this mass was full. My wife and I looked around and it seemed to us that the church was a bit more than half full.

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The DESCRIBE framework for effective YouTube descriptions

Search Engine Land

Brands today live in a multi-platform world. In this article, you will learn: Why brands need to get ready for a multi-platform environment. How YouTube plays into this. How YouTube descriptions can be used to carry meaning and relevance. How to use the DESCRIBE framework to improve your description generation. Welcome to a multi-platform environment When Facebook launched, many expected the social media platform would compete with Google in search.

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How To Speak The Language Of Financial Success In Product Management

Speaker: Jamie Bernard

Success in product management goes beyond delivering great features - it’s about achieving measurable financial outcomes that resonate across the organization. By connecting your product’s journey with the company’s financial success, you’ll ensure that every feature, release, and innovation contributes to the bottom line, driving both customer satisfaction and business growth.

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Podcast: Rethinking Revenue with Beth Yehaskel

Membrain

Welcome to another episode of The Art and Science of Complex Sales. Today, we’re joined by Beth Yehaskel , Owner and Interim GTM Executive of Elevate GTM Executives LLC.

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The #1 Biggest Issue for SaaS Startups In The End

SaaStr

When I look across my investment portfolio for past 11 years , the #1 issue I think isn’t pricing, or TAM, or making a terrible mishire, or competition. Those all matter, but the best founders fight through them. No the #1 issue ends up being waiting too long to truly go multi-product. No matter what you do, if you are too slow here, growth stalls. I’m seeing all across my investments that are 5, 8, 10, 12+ years out.

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How to boost audience engagement: Top strategies and techniques

Search Engine Land

Too many brands and content creators focus on driving audience growth and lose sight of maintaining engagement. Capturing attention is one thing, but retaining attention and building engagement are greater challenges. Ultimately, it costs more to acquire a customer than to keep one. Let’s examine proven strategies and techniques for boosting audience engagement and exploring methods for building a community around your brand.

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How LinkedIn Profiles Can Make or Break Complex Sales

David Meerman Scott

When a customer begins the buying journey for a complex sale, they usually want to learn about their sales representative. This is true for both big-ticket consumer purchases as well as B2B products and services.

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Dear SaaStr: How Can I Get The Attention of Software VCs?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Can I Get The Attention of Software VCs? # 1: Get Out There: Get in TechCrunch. Get on Hackernews. Get on stage at any B tier or A tier event. Get warm intros from any successful founders or seed investors you know. Rent a cheap booth at an event lots of VCs attend. Don’t blow the bank, but this does work. Go to industry parties where VCs are and introduce yourself without being a stalker.

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What marketing can teach the enterprise about AI

Martech

This article was co-authored by Nicole Greene. Generative AI has opened the door for chief marketing officers (CMOs) to elevate their role in executive leadership. Marketing is at the forefront of businesses’ genAI adoption. Nearly 70% of enterprise marketers experimenting with the technology have already implemented it or plan to do so in the next six months, compared with less than 54% of business executives across other non-IT functions.

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Beyond the Basics: How to Develop and Retain a Top-Performing Sales Team

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales at Allego

Maximizing sales rep performance is no easy task. 📈 Traditional sales training methods focus heavily on the first few weeks in the sales role. Companies dedicate time, resources, and budget to onboarding new hires, only for them to forget what was learned in those first few weeks, lose motivation, and struggle to come to grips with their role.

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41 Website Statistics About Traffic and User Preferences

G2

More than one billion websites exist today. They deliver content to us across multiple devices using content management systems (CMSs). WordPress accounts for nearly half of websites, making it the most popular CMS on the market.

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Say Hello to the Serviceblazer Community on Slack

Salesforce

Customer service and field service professionals are the backbone of any business. They put the customer first, solve problems, and you can find one working at any hour of the day. But service professionals need support, too. And with AI transforming customer service, it’s more important than ever for service and field service experts to have a community of like-minded peers.

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8 reasons to include elements of storytelling in your sales strategy

PandaDoc

Storytelling is one of our oldest forms of communication and is an excellent persuasive tool. Stories do the job better than facts – you only have to look to the tabloid news cycle to see that. It’s also clear that, however fictional, stories can profoundly impact actions in reality, as the “Jaws effect” proves — a phenomenon where real-world policy around hunting sharks stems from an irrational overreaction to a scary, and fictional, Hollywood movie.

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Measuring customer acquisition cost: Best of the MarTechBot

Martech

Best of the MarTechBot showcases the MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. See more about how marketers are using MarTechBot here. The language model is based on content from MarTech embedded on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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35+ Google Search Statistics to Adapt to The Latest Trends

G2

Explore these statistics to see how demand on Google Search is changing. Use these insights to make the SEO strategy, for your business, future-proof.

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8 Things You Should Never Say in a Negotiation, According to Experts

Hubspot

Conducting a successful negotiation where both parties arrive at a productive, mutually beneficial outcome is a delicate art — one that's every bit as screw-up-able as it is valuable. Thoughtful, effective negotiating skills are a “need to have” if you're going to hack it in sales, but developing them is rarely straightforward. And if you want to get there, you have to have a sense of the right points to cover and (maybe even more) the ones you need to avoid.

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Dear SaaStr: What is Your Best Advice for Maintaining Healthy Co-founder Relationships?

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Optimistic marketers increase expected ad spend

Martech

Buyers increased their 2024 ad spend projections to +11.8%, up from +9.5% projected at the end of last year, according to a new IAB report. The report, “The 2024 Outlook Study: August Update,” finds that the resilient economy, marked by a 2.3% rise in consumer spending in Q2 2024, has eased buyers’ concerns about economic instability. However, as media convergence gains traction, cross-channel measurement remains a top priority, especially for large advertisers with annual spends exceeding

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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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Unlock Financial Services Data and Scale Impact

Salesforce

Data is crucial for financial services institutions (FSIs) to succeed. Whether you’re looking to understand your clients on a more personal level or looking to gauge the market to capitalize on industry trends, the ability to use data effectively can give you a significant competitive advantage. But many FSIs are held back by data silos and integration challenges.

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The Ultimate Guide to Building a Lead List

Hubspot

During my time as a sales rep, building a lead list was one of my first activities when I took on a new sales role, territory, or industry vertical. These lists would evolve, grow, and ultimately work best when they were imported into CRM, and were invaluable for helping me to: Meet my productivity goals (and my quota in the long run) Segment companies in my territory or industry Keep track of my prospect interactions Capture important information like competitive install In this article, I’ll e

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Why Vertical SaaS is Booming, And How to Get 110% NRR from SMBs, with Jason Lemkin + Mangomint’s CEO Daniel Lang

SaaStr

So one of SaaStr Fund’s latest investments is Mangomint, a vertical SaaS platform for spas and salons. Now … that sounds niche, and it sounds crowded. And it is. There are multiple vendors in different segments, including Mindbody which IPO’d a SaaS generation ago and then taken private in a $2B Vista acquisition. And yet, today Mangomint is at eight figures in ARR, growing 100%+, with 110% NRR from SMBs.

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Future of AI in content marketing: Key trends and 7 predictions

Search Engine Land

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the game in many industries and content marketing is no different. As we dive deeper into the digital age, AI’s influence on how we create, share and optimize content is only growing. This article will examine some of the key trends shaping the future of AI in content marketing and expert predictions on how these technologies are set to transform the way brands connect with their audiences.

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The AI Superhero Approach to Product Management

Speaker: Conrado Morlan

In this engaging and witty talk, industry expert Conrado Morlan will explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, he’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in data management and reporting, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation.

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29 Questions to Ask While Researching Sales Incentive Software

Salesforce

So, you’ve sworn off commission spreadsheets and realized that sales incentive software will vastly improve efficiency, transparency, and your personal sanity. Problem solved, right? Not quite yet. If you’ve decided to invest in any new solution, your work is just getting started. There’s no shortage of sales commission software on the market, and trying to discern all their operational differences can result in a serious case of information overload.

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40% Margins: How This Entrepreneur Built A Profitable Smash Room Business

Hubspot

You know the beloved tradition of sports fans throwing TVs out of their window after a loss? Not demure. Definitely not mindful. But there are moments in life where we get mighty close to acting that way. And rage rooms were invented for those moments. Source: Google Trends, six-month rolling average Also known as “smash room” or “anger room,” these are places you can pay to de-stress by destroying objects, from plates and bottles to full-sized appliances.