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

Close.io

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

Close.io

In the last few years, there has been a radical shift in the way people use and buy software. When a software company chooses product-led growth as its go-to-market strategy it means that: It relies on product usage and customer experience to acquire new users, retain its existing ones and expand its user base. Final thoughts.

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The Crunchbase 2023 Influential Women in Sales List

Crunchbase

Bahar Gunes Scigaj Head of Revenue and Co-Founder, TalentGrid As co-founder of TalentGrid, Bahar Gunes Scigaj led the successful global expansion of her company, opening up new opportunities for software developers in Turkey and Eastern Europe. Prior to joining Verkada, Deutschman was an enterprise key account executive at Oracle.

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To Chatbot or Not to Chatbot for B2B Lead Generation?

Cience

Applied in business (both B2C and B2B): 1. On the other hand, the automation of business processes that comes with the introduction of certain software enables us to free our human mind for more creative tasks that no AI can yet solve. Great chatbot software options abound on 3rd party review sites like G2 , TrustRadius , and Gartner.

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Why ZoomInfo Acquired EverString

Zoominfo

At ZoomInfo, we see a future where our software and intelligence power a closed-loop go-to-market cycle from data, to decision, to action. And both of those types of companies are very different from Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts who develop video game software.

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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. Companies were going to the SAPs and the Oracles of the world and saying, “Rip out what I’ve got. What You’ll Learn.

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Why ZoomInfo Acquired EverString

Zoominfo

At ZoomInfo, we see a future where our software and intelligence power a closed-loop go-to-market cycle from data, to decision, to action. And both of those types of companies are very different from Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts who develop video game software.

Lead Rank 130