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Case Study: How Readymode Increased Revenue 40% by Combining AI SDRs with Value-Based Selling

Sales and Marketing Management

Now is the time to rethink how AI fits into your revenue strategy and how sales methodology, not just tools, drives results. The post Case Study: How Readymode Increased Revenue 40% by Combining AI SDRs with Value-Based Selling appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Complacency and Quota Misses: A Deep Dive into Sales Performance Challenges

Understanding the Sales Force

Yesterday, the CEO I spoke with said more than half of his salespeople were not hitting quota, and he also thought they were complacent. Its not unusual to hear about quota fails or complacency in these conversations, but on this particular call, I heard about both. The percentage of salespeople who fail to hit quota varies by source, but the most widely quoted, attributed to Salesforce.com and Forbes, is 57 percent.

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Why Manager Playbooks Miss the Mark and What Enablement Needs to Be Doing Differently

SBI Growth

Sales managers are at the center of sales execution, yet too often, they are expected to lead without being led. Recent research from SBI and the Revenue Enablement Society shows how high the stakes are. Companies that invest in training their frontline sales managers report a 7-point increase in quota attainment compared to those that dont. Thats not a marginal lift its the kind of improvement that moves the revenue needle and sets high-performing teams apart.

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Rethinking AI For Innovation, Not Automation

Partners in Excellence

I’ve been on a tear this week, talking about AI. I’m so excited about it’s potential, yet I get so frustrated about too many of the current use cases. We are obsessed with how many tasks can be automated by AI, freeing up our time. Without a doubt, AI can have a huge impact on how we spend our time, offloading meaningless tasks. (As a sidenote, so much of the early results of these efforts, don’t seem to show improvements in results, at least in our GTM strategies.).

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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.

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Why Your Sales Conversations are Missing the Mark (and How to Fix Them with One Simple Shift)

SalesProInsider

Lets face it. Todays prospective clients are more time strapped, distracted, skeptical, and overwhelmed than ever. During prospect conversations you, as a financial advisor, may find yourself feeling hurried to rush and quickly share all the value you bring, hoping it will click for your prospect. But heres the truth: The key to better conversions isnt moving fasterits slowing down.

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AI Adoption is More Than Just Tech, It’s A Mindset Shift for Marketing Teams

Sales and Marketing Management

AI in marketing is not a shortcut; It's a partner that is available 24/7. And like any partnership, it requires collaboration, transparency and trust. Real change will happen not when new tools are introduced, but when team members' mindsets shift. The post AI Adoption is More Than Just Tech, Its A Mindset Shift for Marketing Teams appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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On Insularity

Partners in Excellence

We live in overlapping circles on “Insularity.” Our families, friends, communities. Our teammates, functions, organizations, industries. These insular communities provide us different levels of security and comfort. From a professional point of view, they are made up of people doing similar things, facing similar issues/challenges. While we may compete with each other in the markets, we learn from each other, see differing approaches, sometimes seeing new opportunities.

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Why Top Sales Performers Use AI as Their Secret Weapon

Sales Gravy

AI isn't here to replace you; it's here to boost your game. Used wisely, AI can be your secret weapon. AI is everywhere: in social selling, content creation, automation, to say the least. Here's the double-edged sword: If you're trying to outsource everything to AI, you won't last. If you're stuck in the old ways, refusing to adapt, you'll get left behind.

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Inside Sales Success Summit 2025: AI, ROI, and Strategy

Allego

After nearly a decade of planning events, Ive learned what makes a great one: meaningful content, genuine connection, and a chance to walk away with ideas you can use right away. Allegos Sales Success Summit (colloquially known as S3) 2025 checks every boxand then some. Taking place June 1011 at the Renaissance Boston Seaport Hotel, this years S3 is designed specifically for sales enablement and sales leaders, marketers, and sales professionals who are focused on one thing: driving real business

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Streamlining Complex Sales Processes: The Ultimate Guide for Industrial Companies

Are you struggling with slow quoting cycles, complex product configurations, and disconnected data in your manufacturing/distribution business? This article will help. Learn how industrial companies are revolutionizing sales processes with an integrated platform that includes quoting, inventory, and service, providing real-time data and offline access for field teams.

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Podcast - Building Foundations in a Shifting Sales Landscape with Dave Brock

Membrain

In this episode of The Art and Science of Complex Sales, we're welcoming Dave Brock , founder of Partners in EXCELLENCE back on the podcast for a second time. Dave unpacks the challenges and contradictions facing modern sales teams, from cultural drift to leadership dysfunction, and explore what it really takes to build resilient, high-performing organizations in todays environment.

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Will You Prepare for the Leadership Challenge?

Smooth Sale

Photo by Mohamed_hassan Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Will You Prepare for the Leadership Challenge? One common thread on social media is the many charts of varying styles depicting faulty leadership and the better methods to embrace, both individually and for corporate business. On a related thought, many people view salespeople as highly pushy to get their thoughts across, however, those who professionally sell well, know that monopolizing conversations kill the deal.

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What If We Started Thinking About Durable Revenue and Revenue Quality?

Partners in Excellence

We’ve been trained to worship the recurring revenue model. It’s the star metric in every SaaS pitch deck, with ARR growth as the bedrock of business models. It dominates our feeds, the press and much of our thinking in business. Unicorns have been built on this recurring revenue model. But lately, that model has been shaky. And, I have to confess, I’ve always been a little confused.

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Accelerate Your Workflow With Nutshell’s Built-In AI Agents

Nutshell

Are admin-heavy tasks and pipeline challenges stealing time from your teams critical sales and marketing activities? Nutshells AI Agents are here to speed up tasks and keep deals moving forward. We built Nutshells AI Agents to help you save time and increase your team’s effectiveness. These AI agents are built right into Nutshell and are here to help you accelerate a broad range of time-consuming tasks.

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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.

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3 Reasons Most Value Propositions Fail and What to Do About It

Sales Gravy

Most value propositions stink. Theyre boring, generic, feature-heavy garbage that make buyers eyes glaze over. And the worst part? Most salespeople dont even realize their value proposition messaging is hurting them. On this weeks Sales Gravy Podcast, Lisa Dennis breaks down her process for building value propositions that actually workthe kind that grab buyers by the heart and dont let go.

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The State Of Nordic Revops In 2025

Vainu

As businesses face increasing pressure to align teams, optimize processes, and leverage technology, capabilities in Revenue Operations has become a key enabler for scalable growth.

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Mastering Sales Negotiations: Easy Tips

Pipeliner

In a new episode host John Golden talks with Saad Saad. Saad is a negotiation coach who helps salespeople close deals faster and protect their profits. He lives in Detroit, Michigan, and teaches at top schools like Columbia University. He also wrote a book called In the Lead about how to get better at sales negotiations. Here are the top lessons from their talkmade simple and easy to use. 1.

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There Is NEVER “Just One Way!”

Partners in Excellence

I see so much talk about GTM, selling, marketing, customer service strategies. Too many claiming, “We have found the way… ” Others saying “Here is the playbook for your GTM strategy… ” In some sectors, like SaaS, we’ve seen many organizations struggle and fail by implementing the “SaaS GTM model.” The SaaS PLG motion differs from the SaaS individual/team focus which differs from SaaS technologies that can only be implemented on an enterprise

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The Trends You Need to Succeed This Holiday Season

October Prime Day is usually an early sign of how consumer spending trends ahead of the holidays. This one was no exception. Our October Prime Day Report breaks down what’s working: the products flying off the shelves, the categories winning big, big brands, and the search terms defining demand. All brought to you via Similarweb’s Shopper Intelligence platform.

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How to Identify the Sales Star on Your Team

SalesFuel

As we approach the middle of the year, its time to step back and assess the progress of your sales team. The January kickoff meeting is far behind you. Your sale reps have had some successes and some setbacks. At this point, you should put changes in place that will lead to optimal year-end outcomes. To achieve your goals, you also need a sales star on your team.

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How to Build a High-Converting B2B Sales Funnel

MarketJoy

Most B2B sales funnels dont fail because of poor tools. They fail because no one bothered to think like the buyer. Companies obsess over CRMs, automation, and email workflows but forget that real people, not personas or pipelines, are the ones deciding to move forward. And people dont follow funnels. They follow clarity. A sales funnel that actually converts doesnt chase.

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How sales, training, and revops leaders use learning analytics to boost results

Highspot

Key takeaways Learning analytics connects training investments directly to business results, helping teams prove impact and make faster, smarter decisions. Sales enablement, training, and RevOps teams can leverage analytics tools uniquely. 61% of high-performing organizations actively monitor performance metrics , while less than one-third of low performers do.

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The Emblazers Podcast, Ep. 15: The Data Behind Top Performers – Dr. Peter Kerr’s Sales Research

Corporate Visions

Amanda DeVlugt, Tim Riesterer, and special guest co-host Dr. Leff Bonney sit down with Dr. Peter Kerr, a sales performance researcher and university professor, to unpack the key findings from his landmark meta-analysis of 150 academic sales studies spanning the last decade.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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How I get fired up for my cold calls, insights from my 18 years in sales (+ tips for reps)

Hubspot Sales

When I was in 5th grade, I was voted Most Reserved in the yearbook at Dewey Elementary School in Cherry Hill, NJ. I had just moved back to Jersey after bouncing around SoCal. I was a shy kid, nervous about making new friends. No one would expect me to go into sales, a field thats all about forging new relationships. Yet, I started my career in sales at 19 years old.

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Are Your Marketing Campaigns Making the Right Customer Connections?

SalesFuel

With media space continuing to expand, your accounts may find it harder to make the right customer connections. Marketers are questioning whether they need to explore different formats. Theyre also questioning whether its time to invest more in their creative process. Social Media and the Issue of Customer Connections One key area of marketer concern has been social media advertising.

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Cold Outreach vs. Inbound Lead Generation: Which Works Best?

MarketJoy

As competitive as the B2B sales environment is, having quality leads is a must. It can make or break your sales strategy. There are two main ways that it’s commonly done: cold outreach and Inbound Lead Generation. Both of these have their pros, so getting a clear grip on what sets the two apart can enable any company to figure out which approach to lead generation is right for them.

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Cheap Thrills and High Rankings – Affordable SEO Denver Edition

SocialSellinator

Affordable SEO Denver made easy. Discover smart, budget-friendly strategies and packages to boost your local rankings and grow fast.

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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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Beyond the echo chamber: Reimagining go-to-market impact

Highspot

Reflecting on my 25+ years leading revenue organizations, one thing has remained constant: the pressure to deliver consistent, predictable growth. Yet for much of that time, the concept of enablement has occupied a curious place in the business lexicon, important, certainly, but often misunderstood. Enablement was a well-intentioned category, championed by many leaders, myself included.

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Voyager AI: Charting a Course for Sales Excellence with Pipeliner CRM

Pipeliner

Explore the Future of Sales: Your Journey to AI-Powered Excellence Begins with the Voyager AI Ebook. The sales landscape is vast and ever-changing, much like uncharted space. To navigate it successfully, you need more than just a map; you need a co-pilot. Introducing Voyager AI from Pipeliner CRM your intelligent “Wingman” designed to propel your sales team into new realms of insight and opportunity.

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What’s New in Act! Mobile: Smarter Features for On-the-Go CRM

Act!

Being mobile-ready isnt just convenientits a revenue driver. Sales reps who use mobile CRM are 3x more likely to meet their sales quotas, while 78% of buyers say they purchase from the company that responds first. Teams also report a 74% improvement in customer satisfaction, alongside better data accuracy and stronger CRM adoption across the board. These are just a few of the proven benefits of mobile CRM that have made it a must-have for modern businesses.

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