Partners in Excellence

MARCH 1, 2023

In 2002, I cofounded a company that offered an AI tool focused on a couple of problem areas–manufacturing process control and prescriptive maintenance. The company was sold to a major software company, and has the tool has been updated and expanded since then, but still focusing on those two specific domains.

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Analysis Fashion Microsoft Face-to-face 126

Zoominfo

JUNE 24, 2019

As with many software offerings that fail to thrive, they changed their name (to Customer Relationship Management [CRM]) and introduced expanded functionalities. At the time, many felt it was quite a stretch to imply software could manage relationships, but nonetheless, CRM took off.

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Forecasting CRM Quota B2B 100

PandaDoc

MAY 25, 2021

Software is becoming one of the world’s biggest industries, and there’s no demographic that generates more business than enterprises. The following seven enterprise software companies are some of the best in the world for producing high-quality enterprise application software. Salesforce. Location: San Francisco, CA.

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Enterprise Enterprise Software Software 52

PandaDoc

MAY 25, 2021

Software is becoming one of the world’s biggest industries, and there’s no demographic that generates more business than enterprises. The following seven enterprise software companies are some of the best in the world for producing high-quality enterprise application software. Salesforce.

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Enterprise Enterprise Software Software 52

SBI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

During the whole of the ‘90s and between 2002-2007 most sales organizations benefited from high demand for their products and services. As President of Smart Selling Tools , she consults with many of the top sales productivity software vendors as well as end-user organizations looking to select the right tools. mike_weinberg.

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Revenue Handbook Face-to-face Penetration 101

Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Part of the decision to launch CCS® in 2002 was the recognition that a larger percentage of transactions were continuous improvement rather than disruptive offering sales. A new approach was needed to sell the 4th generation of ERP software than was used to sell a company''s initial MRP system 30 years prior.

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Training Vendor Government Construction 63

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 27, 2020

This encourages your sales team to find opportunities to make additional sales with current customers, such as additional software or a larger subscription plan. In 2002, a waitress who won a sales contest for a new Toyota was understandably furious when she was presented with a toy Yoda instead. Retention Contest.

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Marketing Qualified Lead Motivation Retention Lead Rank 131

LeadIQ

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Since Jobs had left, Apple had lost a ton of market share to hardware rival IBM, and was battling for software market share with Microsoft. Apple’s big campaign from 1997-2002 appealed to our internal tendency to support counter culture. The year was 1997, and Steve Jobs had just returned to Apple as Interim CEO.

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How To Conference Campaigns Microsoft 77

Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2018

In 2002 the “bubble” burst to wipe out most of the Silicon Valley. This is in comparison to Perpetual Software who uses the Enterprise market as their jumping board. Think of the differences of calling on a pro-user vs. an enterprise. CASE IN POINT: In the late 90s, SkyStream followed Cisco’s footsteps in infrastructure sales.

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Lead Rank Strategy Segment Marketing 96

InsideSales.com

MAY 6, 2020

In 2002 he became the President of Omniture and built revenue from $3.5m XANT is offering Playbook software for free during the pandemic crisis to help people while they figure out how to work better remotely; head to XANT Cares. In this article: Meet the Speakers The Current Situation Tips Key Points Be a Community. Meet the Speakers.

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Omniture Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing Qualified Lead 63

Showpad

MARCH 14, 2019

Several types of Forrester Wave reports are published regularly and use various methodologies to evaluate software and hardware vendors, as well as service providers, in order to assist in the technology buying process.

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Sales Enablement Lead Scoring Lead Rank Vendor 40

Showpad

MARCH 14, 2019

Several types of Forrester Wave reports are published regularly and use various methodologies to evaluate software and hardware vendors, as well as service providers, in order to assist in the technology buying process.

Sales Enablement 40

Sales Enablement Lead Scoring Lead Rank Vendor 40

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 28, 2023

Software companies saw huge uplift because organizations were helping them solve the problem of work from anywhere. I should be, I co-founded a successful AI company in 2002. We know the answer to that, the world has changed. Two years ago, we were in the height of dealing with Covid. I’m a huge fan of ChatGPT and similar tools.

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Face-to-face Hiring Energy Retail 62

Lessonly

DECEMBER 23, 2020

But, there’s still some stigma around the negative aspects of online education (like boring modules, videos from 2002, etc.) If you’re in the market for an online learning software, you’re in the right place to learn. that we all need to consider when we’re looking for the right solution. Learner speed to consume learning.

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Benefit Face-to-face Consumer Policies 47

Customer Centric Selling

MAY 18, 2016

It prompted me to wonder if companies have modified their sales process milestones developed in the 90’s and imbedded them into their CRM software? Since launching CustomerCentric Selling® in 2002, we’ve said the most common reasons for “no decision” outcomes are: Failure to identify desired business outcomes.

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Sales Process CRM Vendor Enterprise 40

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2005

Competitors' performance information can be obtained from several sources, including annual reports, financial filings and information brokers, as well as specialized benchmarking service and software providers. Typical metrics include important elements and derived ratios from the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement.

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Analysis Government Comparison Competition 40

The ROI Guy

MAY 4, 2006

in 2006, with annual growth in software sales leading the way at 7.0%. Compared to 2002 where growth was a dismal -31% for system vendors and -18% for service providers, these are happy days. percent of their revenue on marketing, with software vendors spending the most, at 6.5 On average, IT firms invest 3.6

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Marketing Vendor Survey ROI 40

Lessonly

JANUARY 24, 2022

The year is 2002 and you just accepted a new position at a company that requires two weeks of training before you dive into the good stuff. Nowadays, online training software is so user-friendly, that existing training teams can easily create content without needing to hire training or subject-matter consultants.

Training 26

Training Face-to-face Hotels Retention 26

LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

Next, I’ll share my tactical approach on how startups and mature software companies can build a go-to-market strategy for their business. SkyStream had to diversify its business when the “bubble” burst in 2002. B2B segments: Enterprise-wide, we will use a contract to sell our CRM and ERP software.

Strategy 52

Strategy Lead Rank Outsourcing Services Marketing 52

Sales Hacker Training

MAY 8, 2020

And by delivering significantly greater capabilities — by changing the team, by doing some special things both at the software and with the services — it justified a much higher price, which is what my VP of Sales had eluded to at the very beginning of the process. They bought software from us, and they also bought services.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Call-back Oracle 80

Pointclear

JANUARY 15, 2013

Some examples (many client agreements restrict us from publishing that we work with them): CenterBeam —since 2002. One of the world’s largest software companies—since 2002. Global healthcare software and services company—since 2007. Large call center and security software company—since 2009. D&B —since 2003.

Lead Generation 200

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead 200

Insight Demand

APRIL 7, 2016

In an interview just after winning the Nobel Prize for economics in 2002, Kahneman said : “There is an asymmetry between gains and losses, and it really is very dramatic and very easy to see. Loss aversion” was discovered by two psychologists: Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky.

Government 20

Government Scale Lead Rank Lead Scoring 20

SBI Growth

AUGUST 28, 2012

If your next sales leader candidate has 15 years of software sales experience, does it really matter if he was able to sell an on premise enterprise system to a customer in 2002? Blockbuster declared bankruptcy. Netflix evolved faster and won.

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Hiring Buyer Persona Solutions Selling Buyer 267

Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

He also co-founded WGI Group, LLC, to provide growth capital to early and expansion stage startups in enterprise software, consumer internet and digital media industries. Why software innovation must start with intelligence, not workflow. Previously, Michael was co-founder and Chairman of Moat Inc. Quick bio for the listeners. [00:02:00]

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Google Top of Funnel 75

Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2020

He was Chief Revenue Officer for Marin Software and now he’s running his own consulting firm called Wooster Advisors. He was Chief Revenue Officer for Marin Software and now he’s running his own consulting firm called Wooster Advisors. He joined Salesforce in 1999 and really helped scale and build that organization.

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Research Hiring Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile 124

LeadFuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

The Gist: G2 Crowd is a massive name in the software space. Now he’s turned his attention to building the software platform that will power the next wave of Cold Calling 2.0 Insights, actionable advice & founder interviews aimed at helping you grow your expansion stage software. A Post Worth Your Time. G2 Crowd Sales Blog.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Lead Rank Retail 98

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Back in 2002, when Target hired statistician Andrew Pole, Target’s revenue was $44 billion. HubSpot's predictive lead scoring software is a good example of an accurate AI forecasting tool. One of the most incredible AI forecasting success stories I know is from Target, the Minneapolis-based retail giant.

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Lead Rank Forecasting Lead Scoring Churn 74