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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 assumed they would know how to implement our solution into their organization. We didn’t provide her with any training materials.

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The 4 Ingredients of a Successful Sales Training Curriculum

Sales and Marketing Management

Instead of kicking sales personnel when they’re down, we need to effectively strategize how to train and guide them during those occasional, inevitable failures. Training Your Sellers to Win Through Failure. Leaders at organizations of many sizes understand how valuable this can be. Challenges Inherent in Sales Training.

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10 Sales Training Topics to Help Your Team Get (and Stay) Sales Ready

Mindtickle

Sales training and coaching are often reserved for new hires and low performers, with the rest of your team getting a brief refresher during your annual sales kickoff. But according to the Sales Management Association, only 30% of sales managers rate their sales training as “effective” for improving low performers. Qualifying leads.

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Infinite Sales Leadership

MEDDIC

A New Course Helping Sales Leaders Building Teams The Why of the Inifinite Sales Leadership training You may wonder why the Infinite Sales Leadership course. ” This course addresses a critical gap in current sales leadership training: the need for actionable, performance-oriented strategies that yield tangible results.

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PowerViews with Jill Rowley: Social Employees Should Connect and Amplify

Pointclear

A lot of people don’t know how to use LinkedIn. Rowley, who oversees social selling enablement for 23,000 sales professionals at Oracle, earned her marketing handle during her previous decade at Eloqua. At Oracle she heads up social selling evangelism and enablement. Here are some salient points to our conversation.

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How to Design a High-Performing Sales Enablement Program

Sales Hacker

Earlier in my career, I helped build a global sales enablement team at Oracle Marketing Cloud that designed, deployed, and measured a sales onboarding program integral to a business unit responsible for $675M in annual recurring revenue. Sales Acumen: Talk to employees about target prospects, how to find them, and the general sales cycle.

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How To Manage A Sales Team: 12 Expert Tips For Success

Sales Hacker

If you want to learn how to manage a sales team, you’ve come to the right place. David spent seven years at Oracle, building and leading sales teams that delivered record-setting results. Before you learn how to manage a sales team, you need to build one. “Training matters”- David Baga.

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