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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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Social Selling Success Stories

Score More Sales

Many who work for companies – especially mid-sized ones selling to other businesses – get stuck in doing the same old things year after year to build sales. Last week, a list on Forbes contained my name as one of the top 30 social selling influencers in the world. Ken truly is a leader in inside selling strategies.

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100 Most Prospected-to Companies of 2018

DiscoverOrg Sales

The next two, Manufacturing – Durables and Consumer Products, likely climbed up the list as consumers responded to low interest rates and more liquidity. If you sell software that measures marketing metrics, this is exactly the kind of insider knowledge you’re looking for. Check out the top 100 companies at the end of this post.

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PODCAST 154: Guided Selling with Neil Ringers

Sales Hacker

They’ve built a new process of guided selling, which Neil discusses during the show. How Revenue Grid enables smarter selling. Guided selling and engagement. Scaling Up During The Pandemic [11:40]. That source of truth is a great tool for achieving transparency in Salesforce. powered by Sounder.

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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? So those are the metrics we advise customers to measure.

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Applying Sales 2.0 in Real Life

Sales 2.0

Every now and then I like to go check my own view of the world by talking to smart people who are out there actually selling. and Social Selling. Jorge: It’s interesting because I never considered it Social Selling when I started to use social media tools to sell. tools and techniques in this role?

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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. You likely already know what customers will see when they launch a search for the products or services you sell.

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