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Enterprise sales lessons: How I almost closed Google, Intuit & Oracle

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From B2C to B2B. We hustled hard, we pitched perfectly, the product concept was great, and high-level leadership loved it, not just at Google, but also at Intuit and Oracle. Oracle broke our heart. But the most painful experience was Oracle. He took all the people we built relationships with at Oracle with him.

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Enterprise Sales Lessons: How I Almost Closed Google, Intuit & Oracle

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Here’s the story of how it made my first startup go belly-up.From B2C to B2B It was mid 2007. Enterprise sales can be a treacherous territory if you’re an inexperienced startup founder. We were a tiny team—just myself as the founder and one engineer.

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The difference between a product-led, sales-led & marketing-led approach

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This contradicts, of course, with the fact that customer acquisition cost (CAC) is up 50% in the last five years across B2B and B2C. In fact, some of the biggest software companies like MindBody, Salesforce, Bottomline Technologies, Tableau and Oracle dedicate 20% of their revenue to marketing. Image source: ProfitWell.

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To Chatbot or Not to Chatbot for B2B Lead Generation?

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Applied in business (both B2C and B2B): 1. When I’m buying products or services online for my own needs (B2C), I seldom ask questions to salespeople unless I can’t find the necessary information. One could argue that B2B buyers are trained in a B2C world and bring those expectations forward everywhere they go. Types of chatbots.

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The Crunchbase 2023 Influential Women in Sales List

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Professionally, she is senior director of revenue at Position2, a complete digital marketing growth agency that works with B2B and B2C brands to accelerate their growth. Prior to joining Verkada, Deutschman was an enterprise key account executive at Oracle.

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PODCAST 09: Unraveling the Power of The Transparency Sale

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Companies were going to the SAPs and the Oracles of the world and saying, “Rip out what I’ve got. Todd Caponi: Definitely Scott Dorsey — he was the CEO of ExactTarget and Andy Kofoid —EVP & COO, B2C at Salesforce. I did Computer Associates, I did SAP. Put in a whole new infrastructure.” Quick-Fire Questions.

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Why ZoomInfo Acquired EverString

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Historical data matching to update outdated records: A big problem for go-to-market teams is that they know that the data in their CRM and Marketing Automation systems is bad (according to Oracle, often 50% bad), but they don’t know which 50% is bad, and which 50% is good.

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