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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.”. But this opportunity was too sweet, too tempting to resist. Oracle broke our heart. She had little interest in promoting our platform as an internal tool within Google. We had our doubts.

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Social Selling Success Stories

Score More Sales

I am very humbled, and quite honored, since it seems that quite a process was put into place and many different tools to measure reach was used to take a list of 500 influencers down to the top 30. LinkedIn is certainly a social selling tool and Koka the perfect representative of how adding insight to help potential buyers builds your brand.

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PODCAST 154: Guided Selling with Neil Ringers

Sales Hacker

That source of truth is a great tool for achieving transparency in Salesforce. We build pipeline and velocity through our sequences and sales engagement tool, as well as signals for our team, to make sure that we’re on track. I transitioned over to Siebel and that got acquired by Oracle.

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How to Use the Tech Stack to Displace Competitors

DiscoverOrg Sales

But actually that ‘noise’ is a powerful tool to target the right accounts – that is, if you know the tech stack of your target accounts ,” says DiscoverOrg’s Senior Manager of Sales Development. Many companies don’t have an opportunity to sell into an account at all unless a specific technology is present. Here’s why.

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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. How to build both SMB and Enterprise-grade CS teams and what tools to use to empower them. Steps for managing your career within the context of global enterprise orgs like Oracle.

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PODCAST 76: Bottom-up Approach for Sales Rep Productivity Model w/ Kevin Egan

Sales Hacker

Kevin’s sales career has taken him from Oracle, to Dropbox, to Salesforce, and now, to Slack. How experience as a sales engineer can play into your role as a sales leader. Sam Jacobs: Let’s give you the opportunity to tell us what you think Slack does. I ultimately moved into field sales engineering and supporting.