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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 contrast, forward-looking, courageous companies, like Oracle, hire into the soft economy. Why is it taking Oracle too long to ramp the new reps? Oracle’s onboarding program is based on the waterfall method. 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

One way to prevent this from happening in 2014 is for sales and marketing to really start talking about definitions. The next PowerViews will be with Jill Rowley of Oracle. So many potential qualified leads are being buried beneath the bluster. What, exactly, is a qualified lead? How do you measure that? Stay Tuned. By Dan McDade.'

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Tech Trends to Take Your Sales Tech Stack to the Next Level: The Startup Sales Stack Report 2020

Sales Hacker

That’s why, every year, since 2014, we at Bowery Capital have published a Startup Sales Stack Report as a guiding framework for founders and sales leaders evaluating their sales stack. Within CPQ, Oracle’s implementation is significantly dependent on the Oracle service team and third-party consultants. NPS and Support.

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

SalesforLife

One of the big challenges that has hit the sales community since 2014 has been the “New Privacy Era,” we are entering into with Canada, Europe leading the way, and likely soon the US will be implementing various privacy policies that affect sales reps, and how they communicate with buyers. 2006-2014: The Portable Sales Era.

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The Not-So-Fab Four

Sales and Marketing Management

Facebook bought Oculus for $2B in 2014 but have since closed over 200 of its 500 Oculus pop-ups at Best Buy due to poor performance, some days going without a single demonstration. The most successful B2B companies, whether its Microsoft or Oracle, have made big investments in the way they connect with consumers and vice versa.

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

Sales Hacker

Oracle already introduced its Voice virtual assistant in 2014 but it was more of an outlier during that time. Kate Leggett, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester , predicts that chatbots and virtual voice assistants will find widespread adoption.

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5 Tips for Mastering the Art of Sales Knowledge Management

Openview

According to Oracle , “The function of [Enterprise Content Management] ECM is central management of content – the ability to create, share, and control content through structured business processes. Since 2014, Loopio has empowered hundreds of world-leading organizations, including Thomson Reuters, IBM, Netskope, Sprinklr, and Citrix.

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