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How to Sell in a Recession: 3 Tips Based on Experience

Zoominfo

I spoke with Lou Wolf, VP of sales at ZoomInfo, to learn how he survived the recession that followed the dot-com crash of 2001 and the financial crisis of 2008. He shared some concrete tips for how sales professionals can prepare for what may be in store over the coming months.

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2 Entrepreneurship Principles That Make The Difference Between 10% Better And 10x Better

Gong.io

But even more so, for conventional business-to-business software, for example, the revenue per customer is a product of the Average Price per Seat and the Number of Seats; or: Revenue = # Leads * Close Rate * Price per Seat * Number of Seats. By the end of 2001, eBay’s market cap was $18.54 Look at eBay vs. Amazon. trillion.

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The Rule of 24 with Bob Riefstahl and Dan Conway, 2Win! Global

Igniting Sales Transformation

Conway show you how to not only survive, but thrive and dominate selling software in the new digital landscape. In this interview, you’ll learn how the rules have changed —customers are more educated, resourceful and directive than at any other time in history. What was the motivation for authoring the book?

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Choosing the Right Sales Metrics for Management

SalesLoft

Salesforce was founded in 1999 and has been selling software for less than 20 years since. Concur, one of the oldest SaaS companies , only moved from selling CD-ROMs and traditional on-premise software licenses to a SaaS model in 2001. They can be difficult to determine how to impact directly.

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4 Steps to Ensure AI/ML has the Right Data to Learn

Xactly

In order for AI to work, it has to be exposed to data in order to learn how to make correct decisions now and to continue to make them in the future. General AI” would be a system like the HAL 9000 from 2001: a Space Odyssey , possessing an ability to build decisions based on an all-encompassing data set, much as a human might.

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4 Pieces of Advice From Modern Sales Leaders

LevelEleven

Steve Molen is the Senior Vice President of Sales at Viewpoint Construction Software. He has been with Viewpoint since 2017 and has worked in the world of sales since 2001 where he started his career as a Director of Business Development. What do you most attribute your success to?

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SMS sales: How B2B sellers can close more deals with text messages

Nutshell

If you’ve decided that text messaging is a viable strategy for your business, you’ll want to know how to do it properly. Just like with email marketing, there are software tools available to make your SMS sales efforts more effective and efficient. 7 SMS Sales Best Practices. Let’s dive in… 1.

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