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What Do We Do Next?

Partners in Excellence

The sales person talks about the deal, the competition, what the sales person or team has done. However, at some point in the review, the discussion shifts to, “What do we do next?” The next steps must always be purposeful and have a strong direction.

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Making Progress, What Do We Talk About Next?

Partners in Excellence

Usually, you start planning what you need to do, make some calls, find out what they want, prepare a proposal, present your solution, close the deal. In reality it seems things drag on and on and on and… We blame the customer, they aren’t moving forward. I ask, “What’s next?”

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Google is not about blue links, says ex-CEO Eric Schmidt

Search Engine Land

Why we care. While Schmidt is no longer in a leadership role at Google, he knows better than most what Google is likely to look like in the next few years. Schmidt believes Google will be able to monetize AI answers and AI will improve advertising: “What better tool than the arrival of AI to do that better?

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Google CEO on future of links, AI making Search quality worse

Search Engine Land

Here’s what you need to know from Pichai’s interview. We’ve had answers in Search now for many, many years. We are just now using generative AI to do that.” My son is celiac, so we did a quick question to see whether something is gluten-free. We just want to know. Future of links.

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Simplification…….

Partners in Excellence

It’s trite to say we live in worlds of growing complexity. Workloads seem to sky rocket as do demands on our time. But…… To often, I think much of the challenge we face is self inflicted. We tend to make things more complex or more difficult than they need be. Define and viciously focus on your ICP.

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The Spaces In Between….

Partners in Excellence

We were talking about organizational design, performance, and a number of issues. We were talking about this in the context of organizational performance. We were talking about this in the context of organizational performance. ” “What do you mean,” she asked.

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6 unpopular SEO opinions you need to consider

Search Engine Land

Whenever a new change happens, I first try to understand what the search engines are doing and why they’re trying to accomplish it. SEO is real marketing now With every algorithm and change, we move further away from the old days of tricking the search engines and closer to having to do real marketing. See terms.