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Enterprise sales lessons: How I almost closed Google, Intuit & Oracle

Close.io

Here’s the story of how it made my first startup go belly-up. As a tiny startup, we were excited and terrified at the same time, thinking: “Wow, we’ve been struggling for so long to get traction in the end consumer space… maybe the way to grow this business is to go and sell it to the enterprise. Oracle broke our heart.

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100 Most Prospected-to Companies of 2018

DiscoverOrg Sales

The next two, Manufacturing – Durables and Consumer Products, likely climbed up the list as consumers responded to low interest rates and more liquidity. If you sell software that measures marketing metrics, this is exactly the kind of insider knowledge you’re looking for. UnitedHealth Group. Wells Fargo.

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Five Ways Live Chat Can Increase Sales

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tony Medrano Discovering how to efficiently locate, convert, up-sell and retain top customers are critical success metrics for any growing company. Most leaders of online retailers know this, but rapidly changing consumer behavior and technological innovation make perfect execution difficult. Increased Conversion Rates.

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Applying Sales 2.0 in Real Life

Sales 2.0

Every now and then I like to go check my own view of the world by talking to smart people who are out there actually selling. and Social Selling. Jorge: It’s interesting because I never considered it Social Selling when I started to use social media tools to sell. This week is one of those weeks. How did this come about?

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Moving to Enterprise Sales {Part 2}: 5 Go-to-Market Prerequisites You Need to Succeed

Sales Hacker Training

Transitioning from mid-market selling to enterprise selling isn’t easy. When you are selling to SMB and MM, you can get away with fairly lean marketing. As you move into selling to the enterprise market that’s going to change. Sales strategy. 1) Marketing: Does your marketing appeal to enterprise orgs?

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Social Selling: What the Sales Pros Do Differently

No More Cold Calling

Any sales professional who says it’s easy to keep up communication on social networks is either lying or doing it incorrectly. Done right, social selling is a time-consuming task that requires thought and focused effort. My Social Selling Strategy: A Good Start, but Not Enough. And that doesn’t happen overnight.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: TCA Champ - Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server?

The ROI Guy

Wednesday, November 08, 2006 TCA Champ - Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server? Two of the leading choices are Microsoft SQL 2005 and Oracle Database 10g. As expected, the Oracle databases supported more users per database (2 to 1) and larger volume size (3.6 per user for Oracle. per user for Oracle.

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