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

Vendor Neutral

If you go into a meeting and immediately talk about your product or service—its features, benefits, and advantages—you’re setting yourself up for failure. 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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What is Inside Sales (And Why Do You Need It?)

DialSource

In comparison, outside sales reps go out into the field to meet with clients. 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. As stated by Tom Siebel, CEO of C3.ai,

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PODCAST 154: Guided Selling with Neil Ringers

Sales Hacker

I transitioned over to Siebel and that got acquired by Oracle. The more meetings I have, the more revenue I have so it’s been helpful for sure. It was my foundation for success in selling and going to market. After ADP, I got into the CRM space through companies like Vantive (bought by PeopleSoft).

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TSE 1281: Salespeople Love / Hate Relationship With CRM and How To Get Value From It

Sales Evangelist

He started his software sales career with Siebel System, the first enterprise CRM and from there, Kevin spent 11 years at SAP and due to an acquisition, also spent time with Oracle. What is a CRM? Starting with Siebel Systems, Kevin hasn’t seen much change in CRMs. For example, sales reps now can make meetings via Zoom.

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

SaaStr - Sales Strategy

Erica Schultz: Well I actually started in the world of SaaS back in 2005 so about 14 years ago when I was still at Oracle Corporation and it was right after we’d acquired Siebel Systems and I took on a leadership role for what at the time was known as the CRM on demand team. And we do that with our own services.

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Holiday Wish 1: On-demand CRM Solutions

The ROI Guy

The hottest news in CRM, are for on-demand solutions from companies such as salesforce.com, Right Now and Up Shot (Siebel on-demand). Doing it right can help to improve the management of customer contacts and relationships, sales process and pipeline, management, forecasts and more. But are these on-demand solutions this hype-worthy?

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