Sat.Jul 07, 2018 - Fri.Jul 13, 2018

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Making things people want

Intercom, Inc.

The problems people encounter in their lives rarely change from generation to generation. The products they hire to solve these problems change all the time. If you’re building a new product, it’s because you believe you can create a better solution that people will want to use because it delivers a better outcome. A strong understanding of the outcome customers want , and how they currently get it, is essential for you to succeed in product development.

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Does Winner Take Most in SaaS?

Tom Tunguz

There’s a theory to the idea that winner takes most in Startupland. The startup that grows a bit faster at the beginning demonstrates more momentum. The startup raises capital sooner, hires people, builds the product, markets and sells the product, grows more, and raises capital. Repeat the process for each round of capital. Is it borne out in reality?

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5 Secrets to Running More Productive Weekly Sales Meetings

Sales Hacker

Sales meetings are an integral part of every business, regardless of maturity, industry, or goal. They’re key to keeping team members on the same page and working towards the same goal as a singular unit. For these reasons, it’s imperative that sales managers know exactly how to conduct a sales meeting. However, I’ve seen countless businesses who have no strategy for their meetings.

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Forget Everything You Know About Color Psychology and Read This Guide

GetUplift

There are thousands of infographics, images and guides explaining how different colors affect our emotions. Usually, these infographics look something like this: Red = anger. Blue = trust. Green = health. A never-ending list explaining exactly what color creates what emotion. Countless businesses use these guides to determine the color of their brand, the background and hero image on their landing pages or the color of their call to action buttons.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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5 customer acquisition strategies for winning new customers

Intercom, Inc.

You can spend months working on a great idea, pour tons of time and energy into crafting the perfect marketing, but without customers your business will cease to exist. All future growth hinges on one thing – customer acquisition. While this may sound simple, it can be incredibly challenging to find new opportunities for growth and customer acquisition in an increasingly crowded marketplace.

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36 Best Lead Generation Tools to Increase Leads by 300%

Sales Hacker

We’ve gathered a list of the best lead generation tools on the market today. These providers use the most advanced methods to boost your response rates. We’ve also included pricing in our rundown to make sure you find a solution that works within your own budget. Building a successful business starts with great leads. The right contact information can be key to closing deals.

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Google Marketing Live: An Advertiser’s Take on the Highlights

Unbounce

For advertisers, the Google Marketing keynote is a hotly anticipated annual event where we get to hear about all of the new features coming up in Google’s suite of marketing tools. It’s also a great indicator of what’s top of mind for Google, and what betas you can expect to roll out (or bug your Google rep to let you into early). Yesterday’s presentation kicked off with consumer trends, then covered improvements and launches across a range of Google ad platforms.

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Launch to sell — leverage sales enablement to maximize product launches

Intercom, Inc.

Shipping product fast and often means more opportunities for Sales to delight customers and engage with prospects. But your sales team needs a lot more than an email on launch day to maximize the opportunities that product launches present. Here at Intercom, Sales Enablement is responsible for ensuring sales reps have the skills and resources they need to capitalize on product launches.

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3 Strategies for Success in the GLobal Ecommerce Market

FastSpring

Whether you’re selling enterprise software, virtual goods or subscription services, your growth strategy is most likely always on your mind. And with Forrester estimating that cross-border shopping will make up 20 percent of ecommerce in 2022, with sales reaching $627 billion—part of that growth plan should include expanding your global footprint.

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5 Ways to Improve Revenue from Integrated Payments

Speaker: Pete Uselman, Director of Partner Experience at Wind River Payments

Most integrated payments providers share a percent of the payment revenue with their software partners. But, oftentimes, that revenue share is only a fraction of the true income potential software providers can realize. If you want to maximize income opportunities from your payments program, check out Wind River Payments’ webinar-on-demand.

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How To Properly Identify Your Prospect’s Pains To Skyrocket Your Win Rate

Sales Hacker

The post How To Properly Identify Your Prospect’s Pains To Skyrocket Your Win Rate appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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5 ways to optimize your SaaS sales process

CloseSaaS

If you want to beat the competition, you don’t necessarily have to be bigger or stronger. But you do have to be faster. Optimization is every SaaS company’s secret weapon. But where do you start?

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Elad Gil on catapulting into hyper growth

Intercom, Inc.

As VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter, Elad Gil was a key player as company headcount skyrocketed from 90 to 1,500 employees. This wasn’t Elad’s first experience with hyper growth – Google grew headcount 10x during his time as a product manager there – nor the last. He’s also co-founded Color Genomics and invested in and been an adviser to companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Square, Stripe and more.

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?? SaaS Roundup #127

Chart Mogul

This week: Avoiding the summertime lull, how Alex Theuma built Europe's biggest SaaS conference and the missing magic metric for customer success In SaaS Roundup, we comb through the noise to find you only the best SaaS-flavored reads of the week — just our top three. You can also receive SaaS Roundup in your email inbox every Friday — just drop your email here and you’ll receive the next issue.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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The 5 Key Barriers to Setting High-Value Appointments & How to Overcome Them

Sales Hacker

The post The 5 Key Barriers to Setting High-Value Appointments & How to Overcome Them appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Efficient Merchandising Using Machine Learning Algorithms

Backlinkfy

Machine Learning and AI are set to assume incredibly prominent roles in the retail sector in the not so distant future. Even now, these technologies are being used to effectively improve various aspects of the industry, including merchandising. Machine Learning in Retail The retail space is undergoing a paradigm shift with innovative applications being tested out for machine learning and AI.

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Launch to sell – leverage sales enablement to maximize product launches

Intercom, Inc.

Shipping product fast and often means more opportunities for Sales to delight customers and engage with prospects. But your sales team needs a lot more than an email on launch day to maximize the opportunities that product launches present. Here at Intercom, Sales Enablement is responsible for ensuring sales reps have the skills and resources they need to capitalize on product launches.

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New feature: Custom charts

Chart Mogul

Segment, save, share. Our newest feature makes it easy to create and save custom charts that the entire team can access. ChartMogul is really great when it comes to letting you drill down into your data; however, up until now we’ve required you to rebuild your custom views each time you load the app, or bookmark a URL. This has added a bit of friction for users who love to build complex charts comprised of multiple segments.

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SaaS Essentials: Failed Payment Solution Guide

For SaaS businesses, improving retention is one of the easiest and most effective ways to drive revenue and profits. With a clear link between failed payments and customer churn, having a robust failed payment recovery solution isn’t optional—it’s essential. Achieving your retention goals starts with the right solution.

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Modern Lead Generation Strategies & Techniques To Supercharge Your Pipeline In 2018

Sales Hacker

The post Modern Lead Generation Strategies & Techniques To Supercharge Your Pipeline In 2018 appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Mobile Sale Ads That Show Up On Mobile Appliances And Mobile Arrangements

Backlinkfy

What Is Mobile Marketing? Mobile marketing and online marketing technique that is multi-channeled, primarily at reaching a specific audience on smart phones, tablets, or any other related devices through social media,mobile applications,websites, E mail, SMS and MMS. Example of a mobile marketing app; absolutclick It's not difficult to understand how mobile marketing is becoming more natural than ever as a form of marketing.

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How Intercom helped a bootstrapped SaaS business punch above its weight

Intercom, Inc.

In order to make bootstrapping work, you need to be scrappy, ruthlessly prioritizing your actions and avoiding non-essential expenses. Having one tool that helps you do all your most important work – sales, marketing and support – makes life so much easier. We’ve been pretty vocal about our love for Intercom as we’ve grown Ad Reform and Userfeed , our profitable, bootstrapped SaaS businesses over the last year.

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Microsoft 365 gains smart video conferencing with automatic speech-to-text transcription

ITPro

News. Redmond has also added in work-centric analytics into its cloud-based software suite.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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How to Turn Your Sales Managers into Effective Coaches

Sales Hacker

Over the last year, sales management coaching has become THE hot topic. There has been an avalanche of articles in sales publications on coaching and new sales tools focused on making it easier to coach. Every conference I have attended this year has sales coaching front and center on the main stage and in breakout sessions. It’s easy to spend much of our time focused on setting goals for sales reps while providing a level of blind trust to our managers (as long as their team gets to their numbe

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Contact With the World Beyond: The Ethics of Ghostwriting

Kraftblick

You have probably heard about the scandal with Barbara Feinman Todd and the book “It Takes a Village.”. In short, Hillary Clinton instructed Barbara Feinman to write a book, and the book came out on Clinton’s behalf. Clinton was also considered the main author of the book, although most of “It Takes a Village” was written by Feinman. In 2001, this situation got publicized, and American society became aware of the true authorship of the book.

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OPAQ enables total network security from the cloud

Network World

Today’s threat landscape has led organizations to defend their networks with numerous point solutions, most of which are complex and require significant attention to operations and ongoing maintenance. While large enterprises often have sufficient skilled resources to support the security infrastructure, small- to medium-sized businesses sometimes struggle in this area.

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Understanding Event Data

Rakam

Event Data, as most people think, is not a new concept. You may not know it by its name, but it doesn’t mean you are not familiar with it already. Let’s try to understand it in detail. For starters, it is the most powerful type of data there is and it is ubiquitous. Gathering Information A lot of events are happening around us, regardless of our active participation in them.

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An Omnichannel Payment Solution––Without the Complexity

Simplify omnichannel payments with a solution that unifies every channel through your platform. By integrating front-end systems like online, mobile, and in-store payments with robust back-end infrastructure, you can deliver a seamless payments experience without the need for heavy engineering. Omnitoken technology enhances security by tokenizing card transactions for reuse, enabling merchants to drive cross-selling opportunities.

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PODCAST 15: The Art and Science of Pipeline Generation

Sales Hacker

On episode 15 of the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Jeff Reekers , VP of Marketing at Aircall. Jeff walks us through how to think about pipeline development and lead generation marketing campaigns. If you missed episode 14, check it out here: A Quick Guide to Seed Fundraising for Salespeople. What You’ll Learn. How to use data to build pipeline effectively.

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A Quick Way To Create 6 Different Characters For Your Story or Ad.

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

Have you ever been in a situation where you need to create a character for an ad, book or tv commercial? All you’ve come up with so far is… Continue reading on Marketing And Growth Hacking ».

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OPAQ enables total network security from the cloud

Network World

Today’s threat landscape has led organizations to defend their networks with numerous point solutions, most of which are complex and require significant attention to operations and ongoing maintenance. While large enterprises often have sufficient skilled resources to support the security infrastructure, small- to medium-sized businesses sometimes struggle in this area.

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