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BEYOND IT: The Breadth of DiscoverOrg’s Sales & Marketing Intelligence

DiscoverOrg Sales

Back when DiscoverOrg was founded in 2007, our goal was to provide sales and marketing professionals with accurate intelligence on IT decision-makers. However, another one is that in 2007 IT spending was hotter than it’s ever been. However, another one is that in 2007 IT spending was hotter than it’s ever been.

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How Oracle Thrived in the 2008 Recession, Even with Missed Revenue Opportunities

SBI Growth

The year is 2007. The real estate market is flush. Stocks are booming. Getting a loan has never been easier. Companies are investing in themselves, growing their businesses, and increasing shareholder value. Now fast forward to 2008. The real estate bubble.

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Sales Talk for CEOs: Mistakes and Lessons in Building a Sales Organization with Zvi Guterman (S2:E18)

Alice Heiman

And we’re going to dive into that more in this episode with Zvi Guterman, CEO of CloudShare , an online platform that helps software vendors deliver virtual sales experiences. In this interview, Zvi is upfront about the mistakes he’s made as he’s built the sales organization at CloudShare since 2007. About Our Guest.

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GTM 71: Writer CEO Tells All: Securing Enterprise Customers with a PLG Motion | May Habib

Sales Hacker

May Habib started her career in banking at Lehman Brothers in 2007, a very interesting time to be in the frontlines of that world. She then worked at a sovereign wealth fund and started her entrepreneurial journey in software localization. May started Writer in 2020.

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500 Hams on Christmas: A Profile on HubSpot's Employee #6, Dan Tyre

Hubspot Sales

But wild as this might sound, Dan actually didn't start his career in sales at HubSpot in 2007 — and I was lucky enough to have the chance to talk with him about the last 45-or-so years that he spent as a sales professional and what he has learned over that stretch. Now, it offered businesses an alternative to paying Google for leads.

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The First-Mover Advantage, Explained

Hubspot Sales

When I started selling HubSpot software in 2007, no one had ever heard of inbound sales and marketing. Because HubSpot provided a solution that was completely unique in the market, we had no competition from other companies selling the idea of inbound. But by that time, we had a sizable lead in the market.

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Do you want to be a miner?

Sales 2.0

When I first started writing about sales in 2007 my main angle was that we should “bring science to selling”. These organizational transformations have gone hand-in-hand with the adoption of many new software tools to help these SDRs be more efficient and effective. technologies. Great stuff! But what about you?

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