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How Salesforce Invested in Customer Success to Soar to $1B in the Last Recession

SBI Growth

It was only 20 years ago that Salesforce introduced the revolutionary idea to help companies use cloud-based applications for customer relations management. Remember when a cloud was only a fluffy thing in the sky? The applications would be run over.

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

Sales Hacker

Previously, Amit led marketing efforts at startups like Tact AI (1st AI Assistant for Sales backed by AWS, Microsoft, and Salesforce), HP Inc (next-gen computing) and Spire AI (Human Capital SaaS). In a prior life, Amit also led product and UX teams at Yahoo and Oracle. 22:15) Competitive strategies against industry giants. (23:09)

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4 Keys to Exceeding the Expectations of the Evolving Customer

Sales and Marketing Management

With more opportunity than ever to market and sell to a global audience, SMBs are also exposed to a customer base whose expectations are continually shifting. Customer Success is one of our four core values at Salesforce, alongside Trust, Innovation, and Equality. 4 Keys to Consistent High-Quality Engagement for SMBs.

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PODCAST 154: Guided Selling with Neil Ringers

Sales Hacker

Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. Neil Ringers: Our product evolved out of integration to email and calendar, pulls data from those sources of truth, and puts it into Salesforce. Show Introduction [00:00].

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Marketo’s Chief Growth Officer Tells Us What She’s Learned In Over 50 Quarters in Software Sales

Drift

Jill Rowley has an impressive track record: 20 years in Silicon Valley and 52 quarters in software sales at companies like Oracle, Salesforce, and Eloqua. Over the last ten years she’s served as an advisor to over a dozen or so of tech’s most noteworthy companies, and been a keen observer of trends in both sales and marketing.

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Moving to Enterprise Sales {Part 2}: 5 Go-to-Market Prerequisites You Need to Succeed

Sales Hacker Training

Transitioning from mid-market selling to enterprise selling isn’t easy. In our first post we focused on how to be product- and market-ready, but that’s still only part of the solution. 1) Marketing: Does your marketing appeal to enterprise orgs? Promoting high performing mid-market reps. Sales strategy.

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Seismic Surpasses 70 Technology Integrations Available to Customers

SBI

Seismic, the recognized leader in sales and marketing enablement, today announced that the company now boasts more than 70 integrations across the technology ecosystem found among sales and marketing teams. For enterprises to truly align their sales and marketing teams today, their technologies need to be aligned as well.

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