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

Close.io

We hustled hard, we pitched perfectly, the product concept was great, and high-level leadership loved it, not just at Google, but also at Intuit and Oracle. Oracle broke our heart. She had little interest in promoting our platform as an internal tool within Google. We didn’t provide her with any training materials.

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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 contrast, forward-looking, courageous companies, like Oracle, hire into the soft economy. Why is it taking Oracle too long to ramp the new reps? Oracle’s onboarding program is based on the waterfall method. Let’s not beat up Oracle.

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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. Qualifying leads.

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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 course addresses a critical gap in current sales leadership training: the need for actionable, performance-oriented strategies that yield tangible results.

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The 19 Best Group Scheduling Tools in 2019

Hubspot Sales

Here, we're going to explore some of the best group scheduling tools you might use to create a more effective scheduling process. But first -- what should you look for in a good group scheduling tool? A group scheduling tool needs to meet a ton of requirements to be considered "good." Sales automation tools (ex.

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Social Selling Success Stories

Score More Sales

I am very humbled, and quite honored, since it seems that quite a process was put into place and many different tools to measure reach was used to take a list of 500 influencers down to the top 30. LinkedIn is certainly a social selling tool and Koka the perfect representative of how adding insight to help potential buyers builds your brand.

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100 Most Prospected-to Companies of 2018

DiscoverOrg Sales

SAMPLE SCOOP : Oracle employees have conducted significant online research into marketing return on investment (ROI) during the week of 03/09/2018, indicating an increased focus in this area. This Scoop focuses on online search behaviour, suggesting that Oracle is still in relatively early stages of gathering information. Amazon.com.

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