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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Martin Mackay

Partners in Excellence

I joined PeopleSoft in 1996 as the head of Product Marketing and Strategy for Europe. Having been the VP International Marketing for a couple of years, my boss at the time told me “It is time you had a real job” and gave me my first sales management role. I remember my first $1m deal – at PeopleSoft in probably the year 2001.

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4 Keys to Exceeding the Expectations of the Evolving Customer

Sales and Marketing Management

With more opportunity than ever to market and sell to a global audience, SMBs are also exposed to a customer base whose expectations are continually shifting. What’s interesting about my experience as a consumer is that I was marketed to on Instagram based on my prior engagement with photos of jewelry on my feed.

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Mereo Celebrates 15 Years of Seek to Serve™

Mereo

He had already amassed more than a decade of experience in commercial leadership roles between Tatum LLC, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, WorldChain, i2 Technologies and more. “In In September 2007, President Jay Mitchell founded Mereo with a drive to spread more value. “Wow how time flies. ABOUT MEREO.

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Hello, Sales Development World with Chris Pham

SalesLoft

MuleSoft faced a familiar problem – they had a solid product and were looking to disrupt legacy vendors by moving up-market to the enterprise. We’ve seen this movie before, most notably Salesforce’s domination of Siebel and Workday’s rise against PeopleSoft.

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Meet the Spiff Team: Chapter Three

The Spiff Blog

Dave started his career in sales and marketing prior to falling in love with the balanced left/right brain usage of product management. Bobby grew up near London and spent nearly 10 years working in Banking and Financial Markets, before heading abroad and spending the next 10 years in New Zealand. Raphael Bres, Chief Product Officer.

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How one company’s disciplined, targeted approach to demand generation delivered big results

Mereo

Through what we labeled the “Revenue Delivery System,” JD Edwards sales and marketing leadership invested in a strategic approach to drive demand generation and equip the sales team to effectively sell to targeted markets. Market Segmentation and Past Sales Success Laid a Framework for Demand Generation.

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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales

Sales Hacker

She is the co-author of a business book, called Aligned to Achieve , about sales and marketing alignment. Andrea has led numerous sales initiatives and teams at enterprise software and solution providers, including Varolii, IBM, Symphony Technology Group, Vitria Technology, DigitalThink, and PeopleSoft.