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Two different approaches to getting in-the-door

Sales 2.0

I graduated from Wharton’s MBA program in 1993 and had no sales training at all. Since then I’ve sold millions of dollars of technology and services, run my own sales outsourcing and training company, grown a digital agency and pioneered a new approach to selling now known as “social selling”. Baylor University.

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Two different approaches to getting in-the-door

Sales 2.0

I graduated from Wharton’s MBA program in 1993 and had no sales training at all. Since then I’ve sold millions of dollars of technology and services, run my own sales outsourcing and training company, grown a digital agency and pioneered a new approach to selling now known as “social selling”. Baylor University.

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6 key lessons on how B2B SaaS startups can succeed in hyper-competitive markets

Close.io

In 2011, there were 150 companies on their list. In other words, the tool that was supposedly made for sales reps was made by engineers who didn’t understand, nor care for their needs, and sold to management who had vastly different requirements than them. That number has ballooned to 7,500 companies competing for those same customers!