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6 Sales Technology Solutions to Help You Boost Close Rates

CloseSaaS

Want to leverage sales technology, but not sure where to start? These tools will help you automate your sales process, boost efficiency, and close more deals.

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5 Reasons to Actually Have Board Meetings (Updated)

SaaStr

I held off for many years on writing a post on Board Meetings. Why? Because every investor in the world writes lengthy posts on How to Have a Great Board Meeting. How to Have a Great Pre-Board Meeting. How to Have a Great Board Meeting Week. Etc. etc. etc. etc. VCs, once they have been doing it a while, basically become professional Board Members, and they write a lot about that.

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Q&A: How AI can help enterprise HR automate employee experiences

IT World

Sterlite Technologies. (STL), a global fiber optics provider, has been increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the company's employee recruitment and hiring, conduct staff pulse checks, and gamify worker rewards. The India-based company employs about 8,000 people across the US, China, Europe, India, and the Middle East. Since rolling out its first AI-based applications three or so years ago, Chief Human Resources Officer Anjali Byce has continued to experiment with new uses f

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G2: 49% of Buyers Are Increasing Spend, But 47% Are Going Less Than Annual

SaaStr

So G2 has its latest Buyer Behavior Report for 2023 out here , sourced from 1,700+ buyers. A few great takeaways: #1. 49% of G2’s Buyers are Increasing Spend in 2023. 42% are holding spend flat (or say they are), and only a tiny 9% are actually cutting spend. This is consistent with all my data and experience. Almost no one is cutting SaaS spend other than overfunded startups. #2. 47% of Deals Are Less Than 1 Year in Length.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Buffer vs. Tailwind: A Comprehensive Comparison for Social Media Marketers

Buffer Resources

When it comes to social media management tools, choosing the right one for your accounts can be a challenge. In this blog, we're comparing Buffer and Tailwind, two popular platforms, to help you make an informed decision based on their key differences. To kick off, here are seven key differences between the two products that all potential users should be aware of 👇 Seven key differences 1.

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Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI, Meta over copyright infringement in AI training

IT World

Comedian and writer Sarah Silverman has filed copyright infringement lawsuits against the makers of ChatGPT as well as Facebook parent company Meta, saying that their AI system's use of her copyright works for training violates her intellectual property rights. The suits, filed last week in federal district court in San Francisco, argued that Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Meta didn’t have permission to use copyright works by Silverman and two other authors, Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, w

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Top Sales Books to Skyrocket Your Success

Teamgate

This article delves into the world of sales literature, exploring the best sales books that can enhance your selling skills. From timeless classics to modern masterpieces and niche-specific guides, we cover a broad spectrum of sales knowledge.

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Apple's cutting-edge Vision Pro doesn't need iPhone sales to succeed

IT World

Let’s get something out of the way right at the beginning: We already know Apple’s Vision Pro device consists of a bundle of bleeding-edge technologies competitors can’t easily emulate. How do we know this? Because supply chain reports claim the lenses used in these devices are hard to source. Ergo, they are hard to manufacture. This particular production bottleneck is also a competitive advantage for Apple — it means its solution is hard to imitate.

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6 Leading Questions Examples to Build Better Surveys

User Pilot

Do you think that leading questions should always be avoided in customer surveys? Have you ever unwittingly used leading questions only for it to work out in your favor? Leading questions aren’t always bad. However, you should use them carefully only in certain contexts to get the most actionable insights from your customers. So let’s check out leading questions examples and when you should use/avoid them in a survey to accurately capture user sentiment.

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SaaS: How They’re Turning Payments Into Profit Centers

Discover how top SaaS companies are earning up to $700k + and zero upfront cost with Usio Integrated Payments.

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UK regulator refers cloud infrastructure market for investigation

IT World

UK communications regulator Ofcom has published an interim report that proposes the cloud infrastructure market be referred to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) due to concerns around a decline in competition. The report said that existing cloud customers in the UK are paying more than they should be for their cloud infrastructure or having to settle for low-quality services, and that the regulator had heard concerns from some customers about their ability to switch or use multipl

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ChatGPT+ Privacy Update

Crafty CTO

Recently, I wrote a short essay about an unpleasant discovery I made with ChatGPT’s dark pattern whereby, if you want to turn off “train your models using my chats,” you need to disable one of ChatGPT’s nicest features, chat history. Here’s the dialog in question: The update is that there may be a workaround. On the Data Controls FAQ , buried two screen-scrolls down, there’s a section that says: What if I want to keep my history on but disable model training?

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How to Build Your Own Fleet Management Software

SaaS Metrics

As a business owner, one of the most important things you’ll ever do is manage your team efficiently. And if you’re thinking about expanding and need to manage a fleet as well, fleet management software is a must. But all fleet management software systems are not the same. In fact, you might. Read more The post How to Build Your Own Fleet Management Software first appeared on SaaS Metrics.

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Christopher King’s Nimble Approach to Connecting with Intent in Consulting

Nimble - Sales

Company Name: King Connections Industry: Consulting Customer Name: Christopher King Title: Chief Value Creator Website: [link] About Christopher King Christopher King is a conscious leader who is principle-centered, value-driven, growth-minded, and servant leader who possesses a grateful spirit. King has over 30 years as an entrepreneur, business consultant, systems engineer, real estate developer, as well […] The post Christopher King’s Nimble Approach to Connecting with Intent in C

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Demystifying AI and ML: How These Technologies Are Transforming Industries

Valerian Tech

Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have emerged as transformative technologies, revolutionizing industries across the globe. With their ability to process vast amounts of data and learn from it, AI and ML are reshaping traditional practices, streamlining operations, and opening up new possibilities. In this blog post, we will demystify AI and ML, explore their fundamental concepts, and delve into how these technologies are influencing multiple industries.

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B2B SaaS Marketing Agency Kalungi Names Brian Graf As New CEO

Kalungi

Kalungi, the world’s premier outsourced marketing agency for early-stage B2B software companies, is pleased to announce the appointment of Brian Graf as its new CEO.

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The Fracking of Information

Tom Tunguz

Large language models enable fracking of documents. Historically, extracting value from unstructured text files has been difficult. But LLMs do this beautifully, pumping value from one of the hardest places to mine. We have a collection of thousands of notes researching startups. We are tinkering with deploying large language models on top of them. Here are some quick observations about our initial experiments : The Future is Constellations of Models.

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How Starting a Podcast Helped Me Pivot and Grow My Business to $85K per Year

Buffer Resources

When I first started my podcast back in 2019, I didn’t plan on it becoming a marketing channel. I had recently quit my job to start my own operations consulting business and was listening to entrepreneurial podcasts trying to learn more. Most of them, though, felt like the curated version of a business owner’s story years later, and I was craving someone to share their experience while they were in the thick of it.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Clickup vs. Notion: Which might be better suited for your organization?

SmartKarrot

The race to be the top productivity application is ever-growing, with new tools being introduced every single day. Every business has a certain set of unique responsibilities that productivity apps must address. Such a dynamic and competitive area already has a few distinctive solutions at the top of its game: Clickup & Notion. Here, we will compare both solutions and discuss their pros & cons to help you understand which one is the right productivity tool for you!

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