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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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What makes a stellar B2B sales person?

Artesian Solutions

But as Winston Churchill once famously said “success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm”, so not letting this stumble get in the way of his dream, Andrew maintained his momentum and drive to succeed and just one month later was awarded a place on the Oracle Graduate Scheme , as a graduate developer.

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Growing Value: The Value Selling and Realization Summit

The ROI Guy

There is a decided Value Gap between the approach buyers want you to have, and what most B2B vendors are delivering. Featured value experts include: John Foster (salesforce.com), David Breaugh (SAP), Cheik Daddah and Scott Sendel (Oracle), Michael Mitterer (IBM), Doug May (Splunk), and Jack Keen (Author / ROI Institute).

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How to Use the Tech Stack to Displace Competitors

DiscoverOrg Sales

For example, you wouldn’t want to target a company using Oracle products if you’re in SAP consulting. If the incumbent vendor – your competitor – lacks any feature that you have, Battey says, you can ask your prospect how they’re going about gaining the value your feature gives.

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Marketing Automation Switch Made Easy: How to Handle Data in the Migration Process

SugarCRM

It’s best to discuss your current situation with your next MA platform vendor and see if they have valuable input. Data Conversions In some cases, database migration occurs between different engines (think from SQL to Oracle databases). Marketing Automation platform data migration is a complex task.

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Why ZoomInfo Acquired EverString

Zoominfo

So, you see enterprises buying data from a multitude of vendors with different specializations and attempting to stitch it all together through a complicated system relying on data analysts, engineers, and product managers. And their delivery methods are as ancient and varied as can be imagined.

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Trust & Brand: How Chris Morgan Helped Build MOAT from $0 to $100M in ARR with less than $20M & 4 years

Crunchbase

Interview with Chris Morgan, CRO at MOAT (acquired by Oracle) hosted by Rajeev Batra, Enterprise Investor at Mayfield. Chris Morgan is the CRO of Moat , which was acquired by Oracle in 2017. He joined MOAT, a Mayfield investment that was later acquired by Oracle for more than $800M, as their first VP of Sales. Chris’ Background.

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