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Sales Talk for CEOs: Is Your Product Obviously Awesome? with Expert April Dunford (S5Ep13)

Alice Heiman

Most of those startups were acquired (DataMirror to IBM, Janna Systems to Siebel Systems, then SAP, Watcom to Sybase via Powersoft, to name a few), and I ran big teams at IBM, Siebel, Sybase, and others. 39:07] Cross functional team approach to positioning. [42:45] I led teams at seven successful B2B technology startups.

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CRM Is Dead! Long Live CX!

SugarCRM

I was listening today to one of my favorite industry podcasts called CRM Playaz , hosted by two intelligent dudes, Paul Greenberg and Brent Leary. Many in the (legacy) CRM industry have recast the sector as the CX industry. Suppose you’ve been around the CRM industry. Here’s the gist of the debate. I don’t any longer.

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How a Customer-Centric Framework Can Drive Massive Growth for Your B2B Sales Org

Vendor Neutral

Jim spent over 30 years in enterprise software sales and sales management, leading high-performance teams at ADR, CA, Siebel Systems, and HP Software with a focus on value selling. Karen Bolt Jones, Conquer Experienced Vice President of Sales with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry.

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Seismic Surpasses 70 Technology Integrations Available to Customers

SBI

.” More than 90 percent of customers take advantage of Seismic’s integration capabilities, which include: Customer relationship management: Salesforce CRM, Microsoft Dynamics, Sugar CRM, Siebel, CRM. Resources All Blog Article Industry News Interview Video Video Reviews. Industry News. Industry News.

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Hello, Sales Development World with Chris Pham

SalesLoft

We’ve seen this movie before, most notably Salesforce’s domination of Siebel and Workday’s rise against PeopleSoft. In less than 3 years, we increased the pipeline by 10x, creating $350M+ of pipe which predictably turned into revenue at an industry-leading rate.

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What is Inside Sales (And Why Do You Need It?)

DialSource

As stated by Tom Siebel, CEO of C3.ai, Back in 2017, Sales Benchmark Index conducted more than 12,500 buyer surveys, across 19 industries. If you want to continue to close enterprise accounts, the type of accounts that used to require boardroom meetings and fancy dinners, then you will need to find a new way to sell.

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Differentiation, Dissimilarity, Disruption

Partners in Excellence

Disruption threatens whole industries and categories, not just individual vendors. What Salesforce.com was selling in competition to Oracle/Siebel, wasn’t really a competitive CRM system, it was selling a different way of viewing the implementation/installation/support problem. What happens when there is disruption?