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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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100 Most Prospected-to Companies of 2018

DiscoverOrg Sales

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Before we dive in, let’s take a quick look at the most-prospected-to industries. FinancialServices. Insurance. ITServices.

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Applying Sales 2.0 in Real Life

Sales 2.0

My prospecting approach at that time was going through lead lists and sending blind emails. Nowadays, I can’t even imagine a world without social media, especially for prospecting. First of all, prospects, business partners and most stakeholders will look at your Linkedin profile at least once when doing business with you.

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PowerViews with Jill Rowley: Social Employees Should Connect and Amplify

Pointclear

Rowley, who oversees social selling enablement for 23,000 sales professionals at Oracle, earned her marketing handle during her previous decade at Eloqua. At Oracle she heads up social selling evangelism and enablement. You can connect with Jill and learn more about Oracle via the following resources: Twitter: @jill_rowley.

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Social Selling Success Stories

Score More Sales

It’s not about you, its about them, your customers and prospects. Jill, who was most recently with Oracle represented how to gain visibility for a company – first for Eloqua and then Oracle. She helped spearhead social selling at Oracle. Influence is based on trust and information.

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The 4 Ingredients of a Successful Sales Training Curriculum

Sales and Marketing Management

Instead of kicking sales personnel when they’re down, we need to effectively strategize how to train and guide them during those occasional, inevitable failures. Training Your Sellers to Win Through Failure. Oracle, for example, created a streamlined sales training system that can take years to complete.

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Podcast 110: The Changing Role of SDRs in Sales With Amir Reiter

John Barrows

John and Amir talk training, customer success, AEs and why they should prospect, a challenge in outsourcing and more. In this podcast you’ll learn: Why AEs should be prospecting. A misconception with SDR and AE training and promotion. Why AEs should be prospecting. SDRs training and promotion to AE level.

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