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Avoid these 3 Missteps to Improve Sales Pipeline Forecasts

SBI Growth

Accurate sales forecasting is essential for business success. But it can be difficult to get it right due to certain missteps. Here are three of the most common errors that lead to incorrect forecasting and how to avoid them.

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How AI Changed Photography: For Better or Worse

Sales and Marketing Management

AI has been instrumental in changing the way companies manage images. As with all technological transformations, the full implications of AI on commercial photography are still being understood. The post How AI Changed Photography: For Better or Worse appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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How I Learned I Was a Sales Consulting Imposter

Understanding the Sales Force

The title of today’s article might be confusing, but it’s true. Phil told me so. But before I share what he said, I have some anecdotal evidence that supports the claim that I’m an imposter. Here are ten reasons why I could be an imposter: I stand tall but I’m actually just 5′ 6″ I’m a white collar professional yet I never wear a jacket or tie I have helped B2B sales teams for nearly 40 years but prior to that I sold only B2C I invented and perfected

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Leading a Sales Team: 10 Keys to Success (Part 2)

Anthony Cole Training

Sales leaders must be both effective managers and great coaches by arming their salespeople with the skills to be successful and managing their strengths. This week, we identify the final 5 keys to success in leading a sales team.

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Buyer’s Guide: 5 Tough Questions To Ask a Salesforce Managed Services Provider

This guide is for leaders who recognize the importance of Salesforce but would rather trust a team of external experts to do the heavy lifting. Choosing the right managed services provider is a significant decision that impacts your business's efficiency and success. In this 10-minute read, you'll find 5 essential questions to ask any potential provider.

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Zoominfo

this is a test Marketers often employ brand storytelling in campaigns containing creative narratives, showcasing a brand or its product in more relatable, human contexts. This helps the audience see the company as more than just a faceless corporate entity building complex products–instead, a collection of real people solving real-world problems.

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Challenges Empower the Mind and Can Enhance Business Growth

Smooth Sale

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Challenges Empower the Mind and Can Enhance Business Growth Most people frequently face upsets and challenges, but only a tiny percentage analyze the cause and effect of these unexpected situations. Taking a proactive stance to figure out how to get on a better track will get one to their goal, rather than allowing the issue to fester and not doing anything about it.

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3 Ways to Drive Go-to-Market (GTM) Efficiency Through Increased Productivity

SBI Growth

Driving GTM efficiency was the focus of this year’s annual planning webinar series. Optimizing your GTM strategy for efficiency is essential for success, as is recognizing the impact of productivity. Productivity is boosted when teams better anticipate buyer behaviors, streamline processes, and respond effectively to market changes. As a sales leader, it’s crucial to develop a strategy that prioritizes increasing productivity for overall success.

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While the Market Turns Against GenAI, AI Agents are Disrupting the Workforce

Sales and Marketing Management

The rise of AI agents represents a once-in-a-generation moment of opportunity. The ongoing emergence of AI agents has placed us all on a level playing field, and those who can master and apply these tools the fastest will race ahead of the pack. The post While the Market Turns Against GenAI, AI Agents are Disrupting the Workforce appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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What Makes a Sales Intelligence Platform Powerful?

Zoominfo

Even the best sales teams can’t close a deal if they don’t have a clear picture of their markets, their top accounts, and their most influential buyers. That’s why B2B data companies have invested huge efforts into building sales intelligence tools that can help sellers unlock growth and supercharge success. So what are the best sales intelligence tools out there?

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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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GoFundMe Makes It Easy For Gen Z To Donate

Grant Cardone

GoFundMe is introducing new ways for Gen Z to donate, ushering in a new generation of philanthropists. Thanks to new partnerships, the for-profit company makes donations accessible to untapped audiences… Here’s what’s getting an update. New Features Make It Easier To Donate To GoFundMe GoFundMe is the largest platform for online donating and fundraising.

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Getting Your New Business Up and Running Properly and Effectively

Smooth Sale

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Getting Your New Business Up and Running Properly and Effectively When you become an entrepreneur and launch your own company, it’s a lifetime-rewarding effort. When you first start, you likely have a lot on your mind. You may feel pulled in many directions and have questions about where to focus your time and energy.

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Lead Gen Success: The ROI Metrics You Can’t Ignore

MarketJoy

In 2024, B2B companies are grappling with a tough reality: 79% of marketing leads never convert to sales. This disconnect between lead generation efforts and actual revenue underscores the urgent need for better measurement, optimization, and strategies that convert leads into real results. The Metrics That Matter Revenue Impact Metrics Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) is foundational for B2B success.

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Reflecting On “Founder Mode”

Partners in Excellence

Since Paul Graham’s fascinating article on Founder Mode, I’ve been reading/rereading his article and listening to Brian Chesky talk about his re-wiring of AirBnB. I’ve also been wary of way too many pundits jumping on the bandwagon with their thoughts about Founder Mode as the miracle cure to our business woes. (Let me be clear, neither Paul, nor Brian talk about it in that way.

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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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ZoomInfo and Clari Groove: Streamline Lead Management for Accelerated Sales

Zoominfo

Go-to-market teams are constantly looking for integrated solutions that can help them work faster, smarter, and more effectively. Today, we’re happy to say that more ZoomInfo customers will be able to reach those goals. ZoomInfo’s new integration with Clari Groove helps sales teams automatically sync contacts between ZoomInfo, Salesforce, and Groove Flows — seamlessly bridging the gap between lead identification and engagement.

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Affinity Group Spotlight: Military & Veterans

Grant Cardone

Each month throughout the year, we’ll be spotlighting a SWE Affinity Group. We are excited to highlight SWE’s Military & Veterans Affinity Group! The post Affinity Group Spotlight: Military & Veterans appeared first on Grant Cardone - 10X Your Business and Life.

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How to Make Your Business Exciting Again 

Smooth Sale

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: How to Make Your Business Exciting Again Launching a business is often an exciting venture. Once it is established and you start earning a regular income, you may also feel rewarded. But after several years of running a business, some of the thrills can wear off, and the daily business administration can overtake the challenging and exciting elements to become monotonous.

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Latest Podcasts: 2025 Sales Best Practices

Force Management

In the past month, the Revenue Builders Podcast has hosted some insightful conversations with experienced sales leaders. They discussed their sales journeys, critical career moves, management advice and emerging technologies. We also heard some great perspectives from our hosts, John Kaplan and John McMahon. Tune in below to hear 2025 sales best practices from a variety of established minds in the sales world.

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Secrets of a Successful Sale: Optimizing Your Checkout Process

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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What is a Facebook pixel and how do you create it?

Act!

In a recent survey by Statista, 86 percent of respondents reported using Facebook for marketing. That makes it the most popular social media platform for marketing—ahead of even Instagram and TikTok. With more than 2 billion monthly active users , Facebook continues to be the most used social media platform worldwide. And if you add up all the Facebook-owned platforms, your audience size surges dramatically.

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The State of Sales Training and Continuous Learning: Key Findings From New Research

RAIN Group

Effective sales training is widely acknowledged as a critical success factor for sales organizations. But how many companies are truly excelling in this area? And what distinguishes those with highly effective sales training and development from the rest? The answers may surprise you.

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Is Food Shrinkflation Coming To An End?

Grant Cardone

Food Shrinkflation has been a hot topic this year as more and more shoppers feel squeezed by growing grocery bills. Now, shoppers have had enough… And it looks like food companies are finally listening. Outrage At Food Shrinkflation As if the growing prices due to grocery inflation weren’t bad enough… Thisy ear companies have employed […] The post Is Food Shrinkflation Coming To An End?

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Starting A New Business Can Feel Like Dating

Smooth Sale

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Starting A New Business Can Feel Like Dating Starting a new business is challenging and can raise issues we never saw coming. To ensure a stable bottom line with room for pending business growth, consider setting up an LLC or S-Corp, renting office space, building your website, and completing other external tasks that may be seen as financially and mentally challenging.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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Why New Hires Fail: Improve Your Sales Talent Management

Force Management

Sales talent is a cornerstone to a best-in-class sales organization. As a sales leader you need the right people on board if you want to hit your revenue goals every quarter. Without a process to attract, hire and retain top sales talent you will waste money on mis-hires, lose talent to the competition and have no way to build a bench strength for growth.

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Perception vs. Reality in Sales and Hiring (video)

Pipeliner

In a recent episode host John Golden sat down with Joel Quintela , the founder and CEO of Quintela, a minority-owned business specializing in HR technology solutions. With over 25 years of experience working with Fortune 500 clients and advanced degrees in business psychology, Joel offers a wealth of knowledge on the critical distinction between perception and reality in sales and hiring processes.

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Chickens In The Cockpit: How We Use Elevate to Coach Our Employees

Membrain

Membrain Elevate , our newest offering, launched recently. I want to give you an insider view into how our teams test everything we build before we offer it to the public, so I spoke with our Head of People Growth and Operations, Nina Werner. Nina has been piloting Elevate to support routine coaching across all our teams and leaders.

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When Deals Stall……

Partners in Excellence

When deals stall it’s a sign that something has to change! All of us have experienced stalled deals. It’s frustrating, we’re anxious for the customer to move forward in their buying process. We’re anxious to close the deal! Deals can stall for all sorts of reasons. Customers may lose their sense of urgency. Their attention may have been diverted to other priorities.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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Preparing For Business or Career Change and Growth 

Smooth Sale

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Preparing For Business Or Career Change and Growth As we approach year-end, many people reflect on their good and bad experiences over the current year. Often, the question becomes, ‘Is it time to quit my job?’ or ‘Which actions do I need to take to significantly improve my business efforts, or will it be easier to quit?

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The Weight of Responsibility: The Obligation of a First-Generation College Graduate to Uplift Others

Grant Cardone

Each month throughout the year, we spotlight a different SWE Affinity Group. In this post from the First-Generation Students and Professionals AG, Mariel Cisneros reflects on her experience as a first-generation graduate and engineer. The post The Weight of Responsibility: The Obligation of a First-Generation College Graduate to Uplift Others appeared first on Grant Cardone - 10X Your Business and Life.

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How to Start the Year Right With a Dynamic Sales Kickoff Event

Janek Performance Group

With the arrival of the new year comes a fresh wave of energy for organizations across the board, and for many, this includes an annual Sales Kickoff. This highly anticipated event provides an opportunity to rally the team, create a sense of renewed purpose, and introduce new strategies, insights, and training as the company gears up for another year.

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