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Performance Platforms

Sales and Marketing Management

Online retail is expected to grow 8 to 12 percent in 2017 — three times higher than the growth rate of retail overall. Software is eating the world,” stated Marc Andreessen in a 2011 Wall Street Journal article. If software was eating the world then, it is devouring it now without stopping to chew. Source: DDB Worldwide).

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Responding to the Digital Sales Shift

Sales and Marketing Management

In fact, Kavadellas, CEO of Georgia-based Orasi, a software developer, reseller and consulting firm, was scheduled to play a round with a client and a prospect the day after we spoke with him in November for this story. But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting.

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Getting Culture Right: Five Lessons for Merger Success in the Sales Department

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: David Sill In August 2017, the DiscoverOrg sales team was working at top speed, well aware that Q4 was right around the corner, when our CEO announced the acquisition of a formidable competitor, RainKing. A sort of panic set in: this meant merging two sales teams that had been accustomed to going head to head.

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Tracking Executive Changes at Your Most Important Accounts

Openview

In 2017, they noted, there were 1,160 CEO exits. For CIOs and CFOs, watch the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal and CFO Journal. We uncover even those executives who leave quietly by using software agents to track changes to the corporate executive pages for all the Fortune 500 companies. Well, consider this.

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Responding to the Dig?tal Sales Shift

Sales and Marketing Management

In fact, Kavadellas, CEO of Georgia-based Orasi, a software developer, reseller and consulting firm, was scheduled to play a round with a client and a prospect the day after we spoke with him in November for this story. But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting.

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Building rapport with buyers: How the questions you ask can create it – or destroy it

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

Edward, a consulting firm executive, is in his first meeting with Chelsea, who sells enterprise software. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2017, Vol. Let’s see how these kinds of questions might play out in a realistic sales scenario. 3, 430-452.

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Best Sales Blogs: The Ultimate List of 55+ (Recently Updated!)

LeadFuze

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 The killer app for 2017 is exceptional service. Most of the posts are email-driven —something near and dear to us here at LeadFuze. A Post Worth Your Time.