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Sales Talk for CEOs: The Importance of Understanding Sales with Steve Benson (S1:EP7)

Alice Heiman

Watch the podcast below or on our YouTube channel. After receiving his MBA from Stanford, Steve joined Google, where he became Google Enterprise’s Top Sales Executive globally in 2009. In 2012 Steve founded Badger Maps. Highlights of this Episode: [3:06] Being a business owner with a sales background. [6:59]

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Selling to the Enterprise: Why You Need Salespeople

Sales Readiness Group

Well, Dropbox , the file storage company, founded in 2007, grew its revenues to $116 million by 2012. Dropbox has historically relied on viral growth, together with a referral marketing model, with more than 90% of its revenue generated from self-serve channels. Imagine achieving phenomenal sales growth with no salespeople. Impossible?

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78 Customer Engagement Statistics

Zoominfo

77% of strong omni-channel companies store customer data across channels, compared to 48% for weak omni-channel companies ( source ). 77% of strong omni-channel companies store customer data across channels, compared to 48% for weak omni-channel companies ( source ). Successful Customer Engagement.

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What is the State of Marketing in 2013

Score More Sales

Evaluating and prioritizing channels. Coordinating and delivering across the enterprise. Do you have cross-channel web, social, and mobile integration? The study identified five areas marketers need to be thinking about: Understanding and engaging with customers. Creating a consistent customer experience. Top Marketers do.

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Sales Talk for CEOs: How to Become a Trailblazer in a New Market with Amy DuRoss (S2:E9)

Alice Heiman

Amy DuRoss is the co-founder and former CEO of Vineti , an enterprise software platform for personalized cell and gene therapies. Watch the podcast below or on our YouTube channel. Before joining GE Ventures, Amy was Chief Business Officer at Navigenics, a genomics company sold to Life Technologies in 2012. .

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How Sales Teams Can Recruit & Retain College Grads in the Tight Labor Market

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mike DeLeonardis, President, North America at beqom Generation Z graduates, or those born between 1997 and 2012, are flooding the workplace, and with a flowing economy and tight labor market, it can be difficult for companies to recruit and retain these entry-level employees.

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LinkedIn Celebrates 10 Years with Big Enhancements

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I invited LinkedIn co-Founder Konstantin Guericke to speak at a technology dinner put on by the MIT Enterprise Forum in Seattle in 2005. Take a look today at the new channels on LinkedIn Today - it is easier now to learn what your customers and prospective customers are thinking and reading about. Good luck, and Happy Anni, LinkedIn.

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