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Want to be an “A” student?

Sales 2.0

Back in 2006 I coined the term “Sales 2.0” (see the logo on this website). My concept of Sales 2.0 was, and is, “taking the sales profession to the next level”. In my opinion we’ve come a long way since 2006 but we still have a long way to go. There’s still plenty to do. Let’s call it 3 million unhappy people.

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3 New Sales Article Series, A Holiday Tradition and Future Blog #1000

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan As we prepare for the holiday and year-end, I'm also preparing for this blog's 1,000th article. That's right; since 2006, I've posted nearly 1,000 articles. And, if you haven't noticed them before, there are also article series on: Data and Research (all based on science).

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Texting While Walking—Not Worth the Risk

No More Cold Calling

While there’s little current data about the exact number of people injured while texting, more than 1,000 pedestrians were treated in emergency rooms in 2008 for injuries sustained while using a cell phone to talk or text. That number has doubled each year since 2006, according to a study by Ohio State University.

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HubSpot is too expensive: Saving money on software without losing features

Nutshell

” HubSpot has been around since 2006 and is a frontrunner in the marketing space. If you’ve ever Googled any sales or marketing tips, you’ve more than likely seen its content. Then we pay an additional $800/month for marketing hub and $400 for sales hub … We have 5 users.”. Sales Manager, Saas Startup.

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You Should Go Native With Salesforce – Here’s Why

LevelEleven

AppExchange was officially launched in 2006 and has exploded into the #1 business app store in the world! If an app is native, it is built within the force.com platform and therefore, that data and processing of data never leaves the customer’s instance of Salesforce. Native or not – where is my data held?

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Becoming a SalesTech Entrepreneur: One Man’s Journey with Ankesh Kumar

SBI

Some of you might recognize that name “John Morgridge” Just two year’s later in 1988, John joined a 4-yr old company with 34 employees at the time and ran it as CEO until 1995 and Chairman until 2006. When John left in 2006, the company had 50,000 employees in 77 countries. Ankesh reminds me of John.

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What “Salesforce Native” Means (and why it’s important)

LevelEleven

Salesforce’s AppExchange officially launched in 2006 and has since evolved into the #1 business app store in the world. This means that data and data processing occurs within the customer’s instance of Salesforce instead of on 3rd party servers. Native or not – where is my data held? Non-Native Apps.