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Sales Talk for CEOs: Navigating the Future of Partner Selling with Cassandra Gholston (S4:Ep15)

Alice Heiman

Hear how Cassandra Gholston, CEO of PartnerTap, built a data sharing application that allows companies to leverage the strengths of their partners and expand their reach into new markets. She also shares how she overcame startup challenges in implementation and marketing and built a thriving revenue team.

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Is Self Bias impeding how we acquire and retain our Customers?

Babette Ten Haken

Yet, as we chase quotas and attempt to fulfil KPIs, often the last professional attribute we think about is self bias. First, when many of us experience this professional epiphany, it takes our breath away. Self bias is a powerful force in how we acquire, serve and retain our customers.

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Sales Tips: Making Sense Of Vague Advice

Customer Centric Selling

After graduating from college, IBM spent a year teaching me about computers for the SMB market, business fundamentals and selling skills. I’ll never forget the advice he shared after assigning my quota and territory: Call high, stay high and don’t lead with product. Some scotch was involved and ultimately the epiphany came.

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Pro Tips on Scaling an Enterprise Sales Organization

Openview

As part of our recent Go-to-Market Forum, I had the opportunity to sit down with sales leader, Mike McGuinness , and pick his brain about his best advice for successfully scaling enterprise sales organizations. This is a companywide question that permeates your go-to-market messaging. It never ends. Have one funnel.

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Lessons in Sales Leadership with Alice Heiman

Mindtickle

Alice : I think that I had an epiphany. I’ve always really focused on the CEO, but I had positioned myself in the market more as a sales generalist because I think I didn’t understand, I was growing and learning, and that’s what I did. Marketing is from hello to I’m your loyal customer.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

A Vietnamese immigrant, dedicated mother, and seasoned technology executive, Hang Black has an extensive background in engineering, marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship. Melissa Murillo is an award-winning and highly skilled sales leader with over a decade of experience in marketing and business development specializing in the IT channel.

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Companies Must Care How Revenue is Earned

Pipeliner

If you search online for the phrases crush your quota or outstanding revenue growth , you’ll get about 4,500 and 8,000 results, respectively. Over many years as a sales rep, I endured countless hours in meetings given to “tips and tricks” for making quota, but I don’t recall a single time when ethics or honesty were even mentioned.

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