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This may hit your Sweetspot

Sales 2.0

I first created this framework from stressing out about the lousy results my inside sales team was getting cold calling. About six months after I wrote on my napkin I found out a smart guy in Silicon Valley called Umberto Milletti had already started a software company that produced results using an approach similar to this.

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Is Automation the Key to Modern Selling?

SBI

The article that follows is a reprint from my column in the July Top Sales World magazine, the one online magazine I never miss. The sheer number of leads would require a large, high-cost sales force. This partly explains the fast growth in the number of inside sales organizations.

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The Next Big Prediction in B2B Sales

SBI Growth

More recently, he pegged the failure rate of marketing automation software at 50%. In 2011, Gerhard Gschwandtner, publisher of Selling Power Magazine, made the last great prediction in B2B sales. He famously predicted that 75% of sales jobs will be eliminated by 2020. To his credit, Gerhard, in his speech at the Sales 2.0

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The July Edition of Top Sales Magazine is Published

Jonathan Farrington

. We are delighted to announce that July’s edition of the Top Sales Magazine has been published – slightly later this month due to the July 4 th celebrations in the US. An encounter with an IBM 3270 mainframe propelled me into a sales career selling hardware and software solutions.

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Highspot Strengthens Executive Team Amidst Record Business Growth

Highspot

As the General Manager at Weibo, Zhang led a team of more than 300 software engineers, data scientists, product managers, operations managers and UX designers, where he was responsible for a technology portfolio that contributed 90 percent of Weibo’s total revenue, equaling $1.5 billion annual revenue.

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Is Automation the Key to Modern Selling?

SBI

The article that follows is a reprint from my column in the July Top Sales World magazine, the one online magazine I never miss. The sheer number of leads would require a large, high-cost sales force. This partly explains the fast growth in the number of inside sales organizations.

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Best Sales Blogs: The Ultimate List of 55+ (Recently Updated!)

LeadFuze

G2 Crowd Sales Blog. The Gist: G2 Crowd is a massive name in the software space. What some may not know is that they also have the best sales blogs to help those tech founders grow their business. Now he’s turned his attention to building the software platform that will power the next wave of Cold Calling 2.0