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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. Let’s not beat up Oracle. Layered content.

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PODCAST 154: Guided Selling with Neil Ringers

Sales Hacker

That source of truth is a great tool for achieving transparency in Salesforce. It provides the information that helps me succeed, translating down into my sales team as I’m coaching and mentoring them. Additionally, we have this guided selling platform, allowing us to keep our sales reps within the guardrails of a sales cycle.

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Infinite Sales Leadership

MEDDIC

A New Course Helping Sales Leaders Building Teams The Why of the Inifinite Sales Leadership training You may wonder why the Infinite Sales Leadership course. This concerning trend, combined with a new wave of leadership criteria emphasizing empathy, trust, and diversity, often overshadows the fundamental aspect of performance.

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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 Jorge, I know you are a fan of Sales 2.0 Jorge: It’s interesting because I never considered it Social Selling when I started to use social media tools to sell.

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The Sales Leader's Guide to Performance Management

Hubspot Sales

Having a sales performance management process in place is crucial for your team’s overall success. There is often a disconnect between the level of effort sales reps put into their work and the tangible outcome seen by sales management and the company at large. Helps predict future sales trends.

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32 Omnichannel Technology Tools to Sell Anywhere, All the Time

Sales Hacker

Consequently, if you don’t have omnichannel technology tools in your sales stack , you’re already behind competition. Fortunately, there are some great tools on the market to help businesses conquer omnichannel sales. A good omnichannel tool makes it as easy as possible for customers to get the information they need.

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

Pointclear

Finding leads isn’t the hard part, but unqualified leads are just “ash and trash”, according to my latest PowerViews guest, James Obermayer, sales manager extraordinaire. Jim is also the President of Sales Leakage Consulting, Inc. Jim is also the President of Sales Leakage Consulting, Inc. Stay Tuned. By Dan McDade.'

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