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

Alice Heiman

She emphasizes that most companies have positioning, but it’s not deliberate, leading to misalignment and missed opportunities. 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.

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

Vendor Neutral

Give prospects the education, insight, and value they crave, and watch as your competition ends up in the rearview mirror! 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.

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We Drink Our Own Champagne: Cheers to Happy Selling!

Velocify

In my sales career, I have used Goldmine, ACT, Microsoft Access, Siebel CRM, Right Now Technologies, Netsuite and also Salesforce at three previous companies. I remember the struggles I faced daily and was not happy selling with using a traditional CRM (customer relationship management) system to manage my prospects and leads.

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

DialSource

These field sales teams tend to travel often, attending trade shows and conferences in order to schmooze prospects over a meal or round of golf. . As stated by Tom Siebel, CEO of C3.ai, If a potential lead doesn’t pan out, there’s no recovering the cost of the plane ticket and the hotel.

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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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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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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

SaaStr - Sales Strategy

As for Erica, under her CRO role, she leads all go-to-market functions including Marketing, Sales, Operations, Customer Success, Services, and Support. From Erica’s experience, how do the very best sales reps build relationships with their prospects? Where do many go wrong? What is the right way to think about payback period today?

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