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

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One early adopter of inside sales was Marc Benioff, CEO and founder at Salesforce.com. By Benioff ‘s own admission, Salesforce.com “grew their company for the first five or six years with a telesales [or inside sales] model.”

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Pega Customer Decision Hub Offers High-End Customer Journey Orchestration

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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. It competes with the usual enterprise suspects: Adobe , Oracle , Salesforce.com , IBM , and SAS.

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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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More important, the value of platforms has been widely recognized through the tech industry for decades: classic examples include Salesforce.com ’s own AppExchange, Apple ’s iPhone AppStore, Microsoft ’s operating system software, and, going way back, the original IBM System 360.

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9 Things Marketers Need from Marketing Automation Vendors and Consultants – Part 1

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The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show. The main attraction was five customers on stage who in their words were there to share “the good, the bad and the ugly of working with Salesforce.com”. Ultimately they came back, but they made Salesforce.com work for it. 2. More transparency.

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9 Things Marketers Need from Marketing Automation Vendors and Consultants – Part 1

ANNUITAS

The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show. The main attraction was five customers on stage who in their words were there to share “the good, the bad and the ugly of working with Salesforce.com”. Ultimately they came back, but they made Salesforce.com work for it. 2. More transparency.