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100 Most Prospected-to Companies of 2018

DiscoverOrg Sales

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Check out the top 100 companies at the end of this post. For sellers, context is everything.

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

Close.io

Since we were already at it, we set up meetings with several huge tech companies through our investors. 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.

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[Podcast] How Oracle Built its Sales Enablement Function from the Ground Up with Roderick Jefferson (Episode 8)

Mindtickle

” As Head of Global Enablement at Oracle Marketing Cloud, that makes Roderick Jefferson chief translator. “You only think about sales training when something is broken. Think about enablement as a fabric that weaves across and through the entire understanding and culture of a company.”

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[Podcast] How Oracle Built its Sales Enablement Function from the Ground Up with Roderick Jefferson (Episode 8)

Mindtickle

” As Head of Global Enablement at Oracle Marketing Cloud, that makes Roderick Jefferson chief translator. “You only think about sales training when something is broken. Think about enablement as a fabric that weaves across and through the entire understanding and culture of a company.”

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The 4 Ingredients of a Successful Sales Training Curriculum

Sales and Marketing Management

Instead of kicking sales personnel when they’re down, we need to effectively strategize how to train and guide them during those occasional, inevitable failures. Training Your Sellers to Win Through Failure. Oracle, for example, created a streamlined sales training system that can take years to complete.

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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. To offset this, your company needs to be in more deals. In contrast, forward-looking, courageous companies, like Oracle, hire into the soft economy. In contrast, forward-looking, courageous companies, like Oracle, hire into the soft economy.

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10 Sales Training Topics to Help Your Team Get (and Stay) Sales Ready

Mindtickle

Sales training and coaching are often reserved for new hires and low performers, with the rest of your team getting a brief refresher during your annual sales kickoff. But according to the Sales Management Association, only 30% of sales managers rate their sales training as “effective” for improving low performers. Qualifying leads.