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Best of PowerViews: Are You Tenacious About Sales Follow Up?

Pointclear

There are a few topics that come up regularly. For this ‘best of’ edition we revisit the hot topics—social media, mobile marketing, sales lead follow up. Look for some of these topics to be further explored by upcoming guests Jill Rowley of Oracle and Kyle Porter of SalesLoft. LinkedIn is more buttoned up.

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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Why Don’t Sales Reps Follow Up On Leads? The Real Issue

Pointclear

An important question all sales and marketing departments should be asking themselves is how they can better communicate in order to follow up on leads. Why Don’t Sales Reps Follow Up on Leads? When sales reps don’t follow up on leads, what questions should we be asking? What, exactly, is a qualified lead?

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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. We set up meetings with Google, and more and more high level executives got involved: they loved our product and vision! Since we were already at it, we set up meetings with several huge tech companies through our investors. 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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[Podcast] How Oracle Built its Sales Enablement Function from the Ground Up with Roderick Jefferson (Episode 8)

Mindtickle

” As Head of Global Enablement at Oracle Marketing Cloud, that makes Roderick Jefferson chief translator. So we sit down and ask those questions, like how do you define success beyond simply wrap up time? ” It’s this perspective that Jefferson has followed throughout his career in sales and sales enablement.

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[Podcast] How Oracle Built its Sales Enablement Function from the Ground Up with Roderick Jefferson (Episode 8)

Mindtickle

” As Head of Global Enablement at Oracle Marketing Cloud, that makes Roderick Jefferson chief translator. So we sit down and ask those questions, like how do you define success beyond simply wrap up time? ” It’s this perspective that Jefferson has followed throughout his career in sales and sales enablement.

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Is This an Example of Succeeding or Failing at Inside Sales?

Understanding the Sales Force

The salesperson was from Oracle and wanted to know if I was aware of and had seen their CRM software demonstrated. He said he was making a notation in the file (in Oracle''s CRM application?) Of course, if he was not an inside salesperson, he could have asked any of the following questions: Do you recommend Oracle?