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

Close.io

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. This s**t is easy!”.

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Oracle Taught Me Customer Service Can Help Align Sales and Marketing

Jeff Davis

It was such a pleasure being invited to attend Oracle's Modern CX conference this past week as a marketing influencer. What content should I use to support this conversation? Thank you Oracle for such an outstanding conference and opportunity to connect with passionate CX professionals. create togetherness.

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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. Using events as a way to engage with customers and drive conversations. 23:09) Strategies for hacking events to drive conversations. (27:49) 23:09) Strategies for hacking events to drive conversations. (27:49)

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Why Customer Conversations Matter More Than Ever for European Companies

Highspot

In my 25 years of experience leading enterprise technology sales teams at IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and, most recently, Pegasystems, I’ve come to know first-hand that sales is hard — and in periods of economic uncertainty, it’s even harder. This means shifting focus from the deal to the person behind the deal.

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PowerViews with Jill Rowley: Social Employees Should Connect and Amplify

Pointclear

Rowley, who oversees social selling enablement for 23,000 sales professionals at Oracle, earned her marketing handle during her previous decade at Eloqua. At Oracle she heads up social selling evangelism and enablement. Here are some salient points to our conversation. She’s Down with OPC.

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How to Grow Your Referral Network

No More Cold Calling

It doesn’t have meaningful conversations. A young Chris Fralic is selling software for Oracle. There’s a lot of great sales technology out there, and it would be dumb for sales reps not to use it. But sales technology doesn’t close business. It doesn’t demonstrate integrity, thoughtfulness, humility, or honesty. Fall 1996.

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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.