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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. Awesomesauce!

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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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Alice Heiman Appointed to New Advisory Board to Complement World-Class Women in Sales Leadership Programs

Alice Heiman

Women from companies including Oracle, Salesforce, Intel, Red Hat, Datasite, SAP NS2 and Amazon Web Services, along with many others have participated in the live Forum cohorts in the DC Metro and the virtual cohorts from all over the globe. Tamara Greenspan, Oracle. The WIS Advisory Board includes: Livia Alfano, SAP NS2.

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MEDDIC Academy Announces Registration Of MEDDPICC Trademark

MEDDIC

MEDDIC Academy, a Leading Global Sales Training Provider, today announced the registration of MEDDPICC as a trademark. We are determined to make this amazing methodology even more accessible to all, in an organized and structured manner, to the benefit of the sales teams who use it. To learn more: [link].

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The Sales Leader's Guide to Performance Management

Hubspot Sales

High-performing sales teams are twice as likely to provide ongoing training to reps than low performing teams. A sales performance management plan adds structure and accountability to your training process. Direct feedback on employee’s successes - How have your employee’s strengths benefited their performance?

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We Are Hiring: Inside Sales, B2B.

MEDDIC

In just 2 years of existence, MEDDIC Academy has trained thousands of Sales Executives, and is expanding now with a 3 digits growth rate. We sell SALES TRAINING; online courses and in-person sessions. We have trained prestigious tech sales forces: Google Cloud, Oracle, Salesforce, Microsoft, AWS, as well as fast growing startups.

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Will ?Demo Automation? Work for Your B2B Sales Organization?

SBI

As a Senior Director of Sales Consulting at Oracle, Tod and his team of Sales Engineers and Solution Consultants support the sales team in their division and are responsible for onsite and remote demos. At the time I led an e-learning company and we constantly heard the following arguments: “Training is inherently a people activity.