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What Salesforce’s Acquisition of Tableau Means for the Sales Industry

Miller Heiman Group

billion acquisition of data visualization company Tableau , bringing the future of sales analytics further into the spotlight. Sales analytics fall into three distinct categories: Descriptive Analytics (“What has happened?”); Predictive Analytics (“What could happen?”) This week, Salesforce announced its $15.3

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5 Strategies to Reverse Your Sales Productivity Problem

Hubspot Sales

, I’ve been directly involved in selling, managing, and leading salespeople, and providing advisory services to sales organizations. There are two trends that have persisted: The increased prominence and investment in sales technology and sales force automation. Map the customer acquisition process.

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4 Trends Putting the “Value” Back in Value-Added Resellers

Hubspot Sales

If you follow Chief Martec ’s Scott Brinker, you already know the marketing technology landscape has seen explosive growth over the past ten years, growing from just 150 software businesses in 2011 to over 5,000 in 2017. But did you know this happening in sales technology now too? Software is getting immensely simpler to use.

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2018 SalesTech Landscape

SBI

I don’t see a major consolidation happening any time soon despite recent acquisitions like Seismic’s acquisition of SAVO (and before that, SAVO’s acquisition of KnowledgeTree) or SAP’s acquisition of CallidusCloud , and the acquisitions of ClearSlide , LearnCore , and more.

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The 'What,' 'How,' & 'Why' of Revenue Performance Management

Hubspot Sales

Whether you use a sales funnel or flywheel to shape your approach to customer acquisition and retention, make sure your sales and marketing departments know both how your model works and their place within it. You need to back your efforts with solid marketing and sales technology.

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Key Account Management (KAM) – Research companies, use KAM technology and maintain momentum

Red Star Kim

Includes IPOs, acquisitions, grants, accelerators and news. Fame for accountants and professional services firms “tool for general financial research, benchmarking analysis, screening acquisition targets for your clients, client onboarding, company secretarial services and business development”.

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Revolutionize the Selling Process with Partnership Technology

CoSell

Driving Insights with Big Data Much like SFA, we can hardly imagine a world of efficient sales without big data. The more you know about your clients and prospects, the more effective you and your sales teams can be. In each of these four strategic areas, sales teams rely on big data. They read opinions on social media.

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