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How to Train Your Sales Leaders: Key Learnings from HubSpot and BILL with Michelle Benfer

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Rep retention and ramp time metrics Manager participation in call reviews and coaching Team performance benchmarks across ACV, product mix, and sales cycles Forecast accuracy “I’ll take a manager who consistently gets more reps above 100% over one crushing their number with just two top performers,” Michelle noted.

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Top 10 Unexpected Learnings from Scaling Wiz From $0 to The First $100M ARR with founding CRO Colin Jones and Sam Blond

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Radical Transparency in Growth Planning While most revenue leaders deliberately “sandbag” forecasts to ensure they can over-deliver, Colin Jones did the exact opposite at Wiz. This practical, observable metric drove more decision-making than sophisticated dashboards or forecasting models.

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How to Find Unlimited Content Ideas for Social Media in 2024

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Most networks are coming up with new and engaging ways to help you communicate with your audience via your social media accounts. For example, skincare creator Aishwarya Nagpal regularly engages with her followers on her social media posts’ comments and uses those audience connections to find content ideas. on Instagram Stories.

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The 40% Problem: Do Your Sales Reps Really Cover All Their Accounts? And Is AI The Answer? With Yamini Rangan, CEO HubSpot

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When your sales team can only meaningfully engage with 40% of their assigned accounts, you’re essentially running your go-to-market motion at 40% capacity. The question isn’t whether AI will transform sales coverage and customer engagement. This isn’t just inefficiencyit’s strategic failure. The result?

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GTM in The Age of AI: The Top 10 Learnings from ICONIQ’s 2025 B2B SaaS Report

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Companies need to adjust their pipeline management, forecasting, and cash flow planning accordingly. High adopters are likely using AI for lead scoring, call analysis, proposal generation, forecasting, and deal coaching in integrated ways that compound into massive advantages.

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AI in GTM Efficiency: The Playbooks from Databricks, Monday.com and Benchling

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He’s leading Monday.com’s implementation of AI-powered deal desk assistance and automated engagement mapping. His team has been pioneering automated CSM engagement tracking and customer intelligence aggregation at scale. The real value comes from synthesizing insights across multiple platforms.

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Social Media Automation Strategy: 10 Tasks You Can Automate

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⚡ Pro-tip : Many social networks also help you do this for their specific channel like Pinterest’s trend forecast and Instagram’s  “Reel Trends” feature. What’s the engagement rate? ” or “At what time should I post to get the most social media engagement?”