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The Monday Morning Breakfast For Champions Podcast – Episode 44 – Christian Maurer

The Pipeline

Holding an Engineer’s Diploma from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (equal to an MS in Engineering), he started out with a corporate career with telecom equipment manufacturers where he held positions such as: Product Manager, Business Manager, Director of Corporate Strategic Planning and COO of a joint venture start-up company.

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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. To offset this, your company needs to be in more deals. You reduce the number of sales reps to cut costs. Let’s not beat up Oracle.

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PODCAST 154: Guided Selling with Neil Ringers

Sales Hacker

We’re focusing on how to win in the new sales era: new go-to-market strategies, deeper funnel insights and actionable takeaways for your entire organization from revenue leaders at high-growth startups and fortune 500 companies. Today’s sponsor is Outreach , the number one sales engagement platform.

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Infinite Sales Leadership

MEDDIC

The course is infused with real-life examples from my career, such as tripling Oracle’s country revenue in a quarter, expanding a team from 8 to 150 at PTC, and growing my revenue from $4M to $27M in 3 years and within the most competitive region, and skyrocketing profits by 300% at Think3. Learn more about the course curriculum here.

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

Pointclear

Finding leads isn’t the hard part, but unqualified leads are just “ash and trash”, according to my latest PowerViews guest, James Obermayer, sales manager extraordinaire. Jim is also the President of Sales Leakage Consulting, Inc. Jim is also the President of Sales Leakage Consulting, Inc.

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Why Are 75% of Salespeople Ineffective?

No More Cold Calling

But most sales reps enter the field without any formal training. Some of us get lucky and thrive under a brilliant sales manager. In fact, three out of four salespeople aren’t performing up to par, according to research from sales training consulting firm, Kurlan & Associates. The same is true in sales management.

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The Sales Leader's Guide to Performance Management

Hubspot Sales

Having a sales performance management process in place is crucial for your team’s overall success. There is often a disconnect between the level of effort sales reps put into their work and the tangible outcome seen by sales management and the company at large. Helps predict future sales trends.

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