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Enterprise sales lessons: How I almost closed Google, Intuit & Oracle

Close.io

Enterprise sales can be a treacherous territory if you’re an inexperienced startup founder. We didn’t know about enterprise sales. So we did it: we decided to go B2B and try the enterprise sales route. I still remember thinking “everybody says enterprise sales is so hard… this isn’t hard. Oracle broke our heart.

Oracle 53
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The 4 Ingredients of a Successful Sales Training Curriculum

Sales and Marketing Management

If only our sales teams had this kind of on-the-job parenting. Failure is a dirty word in sales, destroying the motivation to grab a Band-Aid and start anew. 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.

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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. The correct time to add sales people is when business is soft. More sales people means more sales calls. Let’s not beat up Oracle.

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

Mindtickle

In this 18 minute interview Jefferson outlines: His formula for creating an effective sales enablement function from scratch; How sales enablement can earn a seat at the executive table; and. How sales enablement can help businesses adapt to the challenges of managing successful multi-generational sales teams.

Oracle 52
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[Podcast] How Oracle Built its Sales Enablement Function from the Ground Up with Roderick Jefferson (Episode 8)

Mindtickle

In this 18 minute interview Jefferson outlines: His formula for creating an effective sales enablement function from scratch; How sales enablement can earn a seat at the executive table; and. How sales enablement can help businesses adapt to the challenges of managing successful multi-generational sales teams.

Oracle 52
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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.

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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.