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Old School Sales vs New: The Rise of the Modern Sales Model

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Tom doesn’t know whether you need his product and neither does Kate — but she at least knows there’s a chance. Inside sales became prevalent in the 1980s when companies wanted to sell large volumes of their products without having to travel. One early adopter of inside sales was Marc Benioff, CEO and founder at Salesforce.com.

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Pega Customer Decision Hub Offers High-End Customer Journey Orchestration

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My previous posts about Journey Orchestration Engines (JOEs) have all pointed to new products. Indeed, some features the product had a decade ago are still cutting edge today – my favorite is simulation of proposed decision rules to assess their impact before deployment. But some older systems qualify as well.

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Chicken Soup for the Quota: 6 Sales Books To Help You Close More Deals

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Behind the Cloud’ by Marc Benioff Recommended by Kristen Handler, senior account manager at Red Argyle What it’s about: This book tells “the untold story of how Salesforce.com went from idea to billion-dollar company.” Using Benioff’s advice, Handler said that she closed deals she never would have proposed in the first place.

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CallidusCloud Buys LeadFormix Marketing Automation for $9 Million Cash

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Callidus isn’t a sales automation system like Salesforce.com , but it does provide a range of other systems that help sales departments. These include products for hiring, training, collaboration, content distribution, proposals, incentives, quota management, and analysis. This is why Callidus is a good buyer.

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Marketo Conference: Small Changes, Big Picture

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Still, the real focus was on Marketo’s own announcements, which included several product changes and a new positioning. (I Real Time Personalization already exists, obviously, and will remain a separate product that can work with any marketing automation system. I wasn’t at the conference but Marketo briefed me on their plans.)

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MindMatrix Adds Sales Support to Marketing Automation

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The reason may be that B2B marketing automation products have a narrower scope than B2C systems, meaning there’s less advantage in creating vertical editions. But while I see just a few general systems trying to become vertical specialists, I do keep finding specialist products trying to serve additional markets. Integrations with ACT!

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Forbes Insights: Value First

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As a result, the report indicates a distinct Value Gap between a typical sellers’ standard product pitch, and buyer expectations to have consultative guidance in uncovering challenges, getting competitive advice and understanding the unique value of proposed solutions. “A If you are heavily competing, you want to be aggressive.