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

Close.io

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. We didn’t provide her with any training materials. But the most painful experience was Oracle. They all agreed to do a pilot.

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The 4 Ingredients of a Successful Sales Training Curriculum

Sales and Marketing Management

Instead of kicking sales personnel when they’re down, we need to effectively strategize how to train and guide them during those occasional, inevitable failures. Training Your Sellers to Win Through Failure. Oracle, for example, created a streamlined sales training system that can take years to complete.

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[Podcast] How Oracle Built its Sales Enablement Function from the Ground Up with Roderick Jefferson (Episode 8)

Mindtickle

” As Head of Global Enablement at Oracle Marketing Cloud, that makes Roderick Jefferson chief translator. “You only think about sales training when something is broken. Listen now to hear how Jefferson has built sales enablement functions from the ground up at blue-chip companies including salesforce.com, eBay, and Oracle.

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[Podcast] How Oracle Built its Sales Enablement Function from the Ground Up with Roderick Jefferson (Episode 8)

Mindtickle

” As Head of Global Enablement at Oracle Marketing Cloud, that makes Roderick Jefferson chief translator. “You only think about sales training when something is broken. Listen now to hear how Jefferson has built sales enablement functions from the ground up at blue-chip companies including salesforce.com, eBay, and Oracle.

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10 Sales Training Topics to Help Your Team Get (and Stay) Sales Ready

Mindtickle

Sales training and coaching are often reserved for new hires and low performers, with the rest of your team getting a brief refresher during your annual sales kickoff. But according to the Sales Management Association, only 30% of sales managers rate their sales training as “effective” for improving low performers. Qualifying leads.

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Key Sales Lessons from Oracle’s 4th Quarter Miss

SBI Growth

Oracle just missed its 4 th quarter number for the first time in a decade. In contrast, forward-looking, courageous companies, like Oracle, hire into the soft economy. Why is it taking Oracle too long to ramp the new reps? Oracle’s onboarding program is based on the waterfall method. Let’s not beat up Oracle.

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ACTivation Nation – The New Era of Virtual Digital Sales Motion [PODCAST]

Sandler Training

Anneke Seley was trained by Oracle’s Larry Ellison, welcomed SalesForce’s Mark Benioff to the business world, and consulted for Steve Jobs. She’s been on the cutting edge of “modern selling’ for her entire career – one that started when she graduated from Stanford and joined Oracle as employee #12.

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