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The Monday Morning Breakfast For Champions Podcast – Episode 44 – Christian Maurer

The Pipeline

Then followed a career as an employed trainer and consultant for sales effectiveness; first with the boutique consulting firm “Target Market System” which then became OnTarget before it was absorbed by Siebel Systems where he first held the positions of Business Consulting Director and then Solution Practice Director.

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Key Sales Lessons from Oracle’s 4th Quarter Miss

SBI Growth

Oracle just missed its 4 th quarter number for the first time in a decade. In B2B sales, activity leads to results. The correct time to add sales people is when business is soft. In contrast, forward-looking, courageous companies, like Oracle, hire into the soft economy. This results in market share gains.

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Moving to Enterprise Sales {Part 2}: 5 Go-to-Market Prerequisites You Need to Succeed

Sales Hacker Training

Transitioning from mid-market selling to enterprise selling isn’t easy. In our first post we focused on how to be product- and market-ready, but that’s still only part of the solution. Sales strategy. 1) Marketing: Does your marketing appeal to enterprise orgs? Promoting high performing mid-market reps.

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

Pointclear

We’re nearing the last quarter of 2013, and another year of sales will soon be behind us. 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. Jim is also the President of Sales Leakage Consulting, Inc.

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PODCAST 154: Guided Selling with Neil Ringers

Sales Hacker

We’re focusing on how to win in the new sales era: new go-to-market strategies, deeper funnel insights and actionable takeaways for your entire organization from revenue leaders at high-growth startups and fortune 500 companies. Neil Ringers: I’ve been in sales my whole life, starting with a company called ADP.

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How to Avoid the Trash Folder

No More Cold Calling

Most ask me to buy lists of Salesforce, Oracle, or Sage users. Companies send mass marketing messages without any idea who the recipients are or what they want. It’s not only stupid; it’s a waste of sales time. No one wants to be treated like a number or blasted with generalized marketing messages.

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Applying Sales 2.0 in Real Life

Sales 2.0

I interviewed sales manager, sales person, sales trainer and all around smart guy Jorge Soto. I asked Jorge about how he uses Sales 2.0 We are going to continue to use Linkedin and Twitter for outreach and experiment with some inbound marketing tactics. This week is one of those weeks.

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