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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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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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Applying Sales 2.0 in Real Life

Sales 2.0

I know that you train startups on sales as well as doing your “day job” What do you see as the main sales challenges for startups? The thing is that startup sales is very different from getting a sales job at an established, well known brand such as Google, Oracle, Marriott Hotels etc. Are Sales 2.0

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Social Selling Success Stories

Score More Sales

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. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

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More Information ? Better Informed

The Pipeline

Second, that there is a whole lot more information available to buyers than ever before; according to these oracles of sales, a customer can access some “20 times more data about you and your competitors than they could 5 years ago”. I am sure order takers need training too, may I recommend George Clinton.

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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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Why Are 75% of Salespeople Ineffective?

No More Cold Calling

But most sales reps enter the field without any formal training. In fact, three out of four salespeople aren’t performing up to par, according to research from sales training consulting firm, Kurlan & Associates. Most of the people in the 74% bracket can improve if they get training. Then there are 74% who are failing.