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

Close.io

Here’s the story of how it made my first startup go belly-up. As a tiny startup, we were excited and terrified at the same time, thinking: “Wow, we’ve been struggling for so long to get traction in the end consumer space… maybe the way to grow this business is to go and sell it to the enterprise. Oracle broke our heart.

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Is This an Example of Succeeding or Failing at Inside Sales?

Understanding the Sales Force

The salesperson was from Oracle and wanted to know if I was aware of and had seen their CRM software demonstrated. He said he was making a notation in the file (in Oracle''s CRM application?) Of course, if he was not an inside salesperson, he could have asked any of the following questions: Do you recommend Oracle?

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Top 6 SMB Tech Verticals to Watch Out for: A Review of the Prospering Market

BuzzBoard

People, Protection, and Performance take the center stage—IT-enabled better collaboration to support remote working models, greater need for safer storage as more transactions move online, and the requirement for scaling up customer experiences, now further fuelled by Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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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. 1) Marketing: Does your marketing appeal to enterprise orgs? Promoting high performing mid-market reps.

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100 Most Prospected-to Companies of 2018

DiscoverOrg Sales

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Louise C– serves as Senior Director, Hospitality Marketing. Check out the top 100 companies at the end of this post.

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PowerViews with Jill Rowley: Social Employees Should Connect and Amplify

Pointclear

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. Google Search: Jill Rowley Social Selling. Stay Tuned. By Dan McDade.'

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Remote Selling Viewpoints: Sales Intelligence & Buyer Intent Data

SBI

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? If they fit your ICP and they are in-market, bingo!