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Global Payments gives every rep a monthly AI budget. Here's why.

Sep 10, 2026

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4 min read

Global Payments gives every rep a monthly AI budget. Here's why.

Global Payments' Head of Sales on the slow sell, AI lawyers and rep AI budgets

Leadership

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The exact six-touch sequence your sales team should be running (there's no email in it)

Sep 3, 2026

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5 min read

The exact six-touch sequence your sales team should be running (there's no email in it)

Hugo Wendel runs a connect rate close to 40% across the Nordics, Italy and Spain. Here's the cadence behind it.

Leadership

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Inside Nooks: why average sellers get left behind in the next 12 months

Aug 27, 2026

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3 min read

Inside Nooks: why average sellers get left behind in the next 12 months

Nooks' Director of Sales on earning every sentence and mapping the buying committee

Data

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A quarter of a million cold emails in 60 days. Here's what worked

Aug 20, 2026

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5 min read

A quarter of a million cold emails in 60 days. Here's what worked

Matt Putnam sits in 60 sales meetings a month. Here's what the transcripts taught him about what buyers actually say.

Leadership

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Top sellers have exactly one thing in common

Aug 13, 2026

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5 min read

Top sellers have exactly one thing in common

ZoomInfo's Charles Kirkman on champions vs coaches, timing beating targeting, and the one trait that separates the top

Enterprise

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HubSpot tested AI-written emails at scale. The phones won.

Aug 6, 2026

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4 min read

HubSpot tested AI-written emails at scale. The phones won.

HubSpot's Director of Global Sales Acceleration on signals, shared agents and the human in the loop

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