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

Close.io

Here’s the story of how it made my first startup go belly-up. As a tiny startup, we were excited and terrified at the same time, thinking: “Wow, we’ve been struggling for so long to get traction in the end consumer space… maybe the way to grow this business is to go and sell it to the enterprise. Oracle broke our heart.

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Is This an Example of Succeeding or Failing at Inside Sales?

Understanding the Sales Force

The salesperson was from Oracle and wanted to know if I was aware of and had seen their CRM software demonstrated. He said he was making a notation in the file (in Oracle''s CRM application?) Of course, if he was not an inside salesperson, he could have asked any of the following questions: Do you recommend Oracle?

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Remote Selling Viewpoints: Sales Intelligence & Buyer Intent Data

SBI

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? Damien : Make sure your CRM data is clean and up-to-date.

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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. She spent six years in management consulting and 52 quarters in software sales. At Oracle she heads up social selling evangelism and enablement.

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100 Most Prospected-to Companies of 2018

DiscoverOrg Sales

The next two, Manufacturing – Durables and Consumer Products, likely climbed up the list as consumers responded to low interest rates and more liquidity. If you sell software that measures marketing metrics, this is exactly the kind of insider knowledge you’re looking for. UnitedHealth Group. Wells Fargo. JPMorgan Chase.

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The Sales Leader's Guide to Performance Management

Hubspot Sales

Looking to set your sales team up for this kind of success? Whether you have sales reps on your team who are new to the field of sales or seasoned sales people ready to learn more advanced selling techniques, employee development is a major perk of having a sales performance management process in place. Here are some recommendations.

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Rahim Fazal: From Rap Artist to Silicon Valley CEO

Gong.io

And the developer platform opened up. And ultimately, we built a pretty significant enterprise software platform that helped brands, celebrities, and other influencers build Facebook pages in the same way I had helped businesses do that in my first business on Web 1.0. And ultimately that is what got the attention of Oracle.