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

Close.io

We were a tiny team—just myself as the founder and one engineer. I want to have engineers around the world teach each other.”. 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.

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The Monday Morning Breakfast For Champions Podcast – Episode 44 – Christian Maurer

The Pipeline

Holding an Engineer’s Diploma from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (equal to an MS in Engineering), he started out with a corporate career with telecom equipment manufacturers where he held positions such as: Product Manager, Business Manager, Director of Corporate Strategic Planning and COO of a joint venture start-up company.

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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 same time, he was seeing a jump in requests for demos as his qualified prospect pool was increasing. What did he do?

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Social Selling Success Stories

Score More Sales

It’s not about you, its about them, your customers and prospects. Jill, who was most recently with Oracle represented how to gain visibility for a company – first for Eloqua and then Oracle. She helped spearhead social selling at Oracle. Influence is based on trust and information.

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Applying Sales 2.0 in Real Life

Sales 2.0

My prospecting approach at that time was going through lead lists and sending blind emails. Nowadays, I can’t even imagine a world without social media, especially for prospecting. First of all, prospects, business partners and most stakeholders will look at your Linkedin profile at least once when doing business with you.

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PODCAST 154: Guided Selling with Neil Ringers

Sales Hacker

Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable. I transitioned over to Siebel and that got acquired by Oracle. Check out Outreach.io

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Why Are 75% of Salespeople Ineffective?

No More Cold Calling

Engineers, scientists, accountants, lawyers—these folks all study their crafts. They’ll think you’re the Oracle of Delphi. If you invite a prospect to connect on LinkedIn, you can check off your list that you’ve developed a relationship, right? Because no one ever taught them how to sell. How many of us studied sales in college?