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

Close.io

We were a tiny team—just myself as the founder and one engineer. I want to have engineers around the world teach each other.”. 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.

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GTM 79: Surviving and Thriving with Frugal, Gorilla GTM Against Giant Incumbents | Amit Pande

Sales Hacker

In a prior life, Amit also led product and UX teams at Yahoo and Oracle. Amit is a Stanford GSB alumnus and has served on its alumni board, and has also studied human-computer interaction and engineering at the University of Minnesota. Using events as a way to engage with customers and drive conversations.

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Social Selling Success Stories

Score More Sales

Jill, who was most recently with Oracle represented how to gain visibility for a company – first for Eloqua and then Oracle. She helped spearhead social selling at Oracle. 3) Listen to the conversations already happening (where you want to be an influencer). 1) Create your Personal Brand.

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Harnessing the Complexity of Technology

Pipeliner

One factor differentiating Pipeliner CRM from our competitors—especially high-end systems such as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, and Oracle NetSuite—is that we have taken the incredible complexity involved with a CRM application and made it simple for the user. A CRM solution is quite complex. What is the most important factor for doing so?

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PODCAST 154: Guided Selling with Neil Ringers

Sales Hacker

Outreach revolutionizes customer engagement by moving away from solid conversations to a streamlined and customer-centric journey. We have relationships with the biggest CRM companies: Oracle CX, SAP CRM, Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce (95% of our marketplace). I transitioned over to Siebel and that got acquired by Oracle.

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PODCAST 77: Navigating the Pace and Pressure of Startup w/ Vikas Bhambri

Sales Hacker

Vikas is a well-respected sales leader in NYC and comes from a sales engineering and product background, with more than 20 years experience. We hear what makes a great entry point for sales and sales engineering and why having deep authentic technical product knowledge actually works in sales. What You’ll Learn. We’re on iTunes.

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PODCAST 49: KPIs to build World-class Customer SuccessOrganisation w/ Roger Scott

Sales Hacker

Roger is a world class technology executive who has spent the last 25 years in customer facing roles, first at Oracle and now at New Relic. Steps for managing your career within the context of global enterprise orgs like Oracle. I spent a total of 17 years with Oracle. Why net revenue expansion is the most important CS KPI.

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