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Is This an Example of Succeeding or Failing at Inside Sales?

Understanding the Sales Force

The salesperson was from Oracle and wanted to know if I was aware of and had seen their CRM software demonstrated. He said he was making a notation in the file (in Oracle''s CRM application?) Of course, if he was not an inside salesperson, he could have asked any of the following questions: Do you recommend Oracle?

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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Why Don’t Sales Reps Follow Up On Leads? The Real Issue

Pointclear

We’re nearing the last quarter of 2013, and another year of sales will soon be behind us. There are also so many automated software programs out there that marketing, especially, has become confusing for the average marketer. The next PowerViews will be with Jill Rowley of Oracle. Email: jobermayer at salesleadmgmtassn dot com.

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If Hunter-Farmer Fails: What Next?

SBI Growth

Here is their success story and an invitation to learn more best practices from SBI's “ Make the Number 2013 Tour.”. a provider of software to simplify and improve business operations and customer communications. For Cincom to compete with 800-pound gorillas like Oracle and SAP, they needed a high-touch, high-tech approach.

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Meet the Spiff Team: Chapter Three

The Spiff Blog

Marcello Albuquerque, Software Engineer. Mohammed was born in Iraq and moved to the United States in 2013. Benjamin Naugle, Software Engineer. In his time professionally Ben has learned quite a bit about the software development life cycle, deployment and maintenance of software, and a lot of specific java syntax and patterns.

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Activate Acquires Green Leads

Green Lead's B2B

Someone nudged me and said, “That’s Mike Farrell, he was on our board and he’s now a co-op student and has a great job in the software industry. 2013 Moved 100% of the company to a virtual, cloud based company. What the hell, a tie? They’re gonna hire him as a full-time sales guy when he graduates in a couple months.”.

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The 25 Sales Leaders You Should Get to Know in 2020

Crunchbase

Abel’s wealth of knowledge in the software as a service space is demonstrated by not only his success at G2, but his previous work; he founded and led BigMachines, a leading SaaS CPQ company, to its acquisition by Oracle in 2013 for over $400 million.

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The 54 Sales Leaders You Should Get to Know in 2020

Crunchbase

Prior to joining Mixpanel he helped build and scale Stripe’s sales organization and served as an adviser to B2B software companies at Bain & Company for over two years. currently heads up the sales team at Teamworks, a provider of collaboration software for athletic organizations based in Durham, North Carolina.