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Key Sales Lessons from Oracle’s 4th Quarter Miss

SBI Growth

Oracle just missed its 4 th quarter number for the first time in a decade. In B2B sales, activity leads to results. The correct time to add sales people is when business is soft. The correct time to add sales people is when business is soft. More sales people means more sales calls. Let’s not beat up 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. An important question all sales and marketing departments should be asking themselves is how they can better communicate in order to follow up on leads. Jim is also the President of Sales Leakage Consulting, Inc.

Follow-up 230
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Tech Trends to Take Your Sales Tech Stack to the Next Level: The Startup Sales Stack Report 2020

Sales Hacker

But with the rapid advancement of tech and so many options on the market, choosing the right technology for your sales team can seem like a tall mountain to climb. This benefits you, the sales leader trying to develop their sales stack in two large ways — reduced cost (in most cases) and reduced risk. Payback periods.

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How Will You Sell With A Restrictive US Privacy Policy Act?

SalesforLife

The stats are in and it’s clear that B2B buyers have changed the way they do business in this rapid change but have you or your sales team adapted to this constant change? In the early 2000s I worked at Dun & Bradstreet, selling sales and marketing databases. My evolution since 2000 looked like this.

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The Evolution of CRM (And Where it’s Going) in the Future

Sales Hacker

A sales CRM is a foundational tool for modern sales organizations. That is why keeping track of customers could spell the difference between a closed sale and a lost opportunity. Any sales-dependent company without a decent CRM platform to support its sales team is entering the battlefield unarmed.

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Nudge Leverages Artificial Intelligence to Identify Genuine Relationships

Nudge.ai

With more than a decade in the marketing sales automation sphere Paul Teshima and Steve Woods felt sales reps were letting their relationships with their networks run on autopilot. So they build Nudge.ai, a platform that uses artificial intelligence to identify and help sales people truly leverage their networks.

Eloqua 28
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PODCAST 09: Unraveling the Power of The Transparency Sale

Sales Hacker

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Todd Caponi , former CRO of PowerReviews about how to sell enterprise software solutions with increased transparency in the sales process. How to evolve your sales posture given the changes in sales conversations over the last 20 years. What You’ll Learn.

SAP 41