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Tag: sales (page 9)
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Sold! 5 Salesforce Apps to Transform Your Sales Team
As a testament to Salesforce’s popularity, more than 100,000 sales professionals traveled to San Francisco for Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s annual conference for customers and end users.
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iPipeline's New Platform Powered by Salesforce1
Digital marketing and sales provider iPipeline has announced an alliance with Salesforce.com that will provide sales agents across the enterprise with one-stop access to iPipeline’s integrated solutions. The alliance means iPipeline's new AgentOne Desktop Solution will be delivered with the Salesforce1 platform. The Exton, Pa.-based provider plans to arm insurance-selling
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Why Infor is Buying Saleslogix
Why would any company want to go into competition with Salesforce in the customer relationship management (CRM) field? Infor wants to do just that with its acquisition of Saleslogix. Infor, based in New York City, reportedly plans to transform the Software-as-a-Service-based CRM company into Infor CRM.
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Salesforce's Desk.com Embeds Video in Customer Support
The next generation of Salesforce's Desk.com platform is going visual -- as in video support. The customer relationship management (CRM) giant just introduced a new Salesforce Desk.com Support Center, which includes video customer support. The news comes a little more than a month after Salesforce updated its acquired platform with
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Salesforce Unveils Sales Reach with New Tools for Mobile
"Instant marketing and selling." That's the idea behind Salesforce's new Sales Reach offering, announced today. It combines the Salesforce1 Sales Cloud, marketing automation suite Pardot and Communities into on-the-spot marketing and selling tools. Salesforce1, announced last fall, is described by the company as its "next-generation social, mobile and cloud
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5 Things Marketers Can Learn on the Fourth of July
There's Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, held at the fast food restaurant's original location on New York City's Coney Island every year since about 1972. The world hot dog eating record is held by Joey Chestnut of San Jose, Calif.
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Sales and Marketing Strategies from the #WorldCup
World Cup soccer is a marketing goldmine. Just ask McDonald's. So what lessons can we apply from this major sporting event to B2B marketing and sales? Officials at marketing software provider CallidusCloud say record-breaking viewership confirms that quality performance can deliver high returns.
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Salesforce Promises 'Amazing' Customer Service with Desk.com
Using customer service platform Desk.com is like being adopted into a large family. The adopters happen to be Salesforce.com. Salesforce has updated its acquired platform with a new intelligent agent console and a mobile app and reporting engine among other enhancements for all-in-one automated customer service. "The No.
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Long Live the Marketing Funnel
The funnel is alive and well. And it should be leveraged extensively by marketers. It provides a consistent and universally understood (and somewhat accepted) framework. The funnel does come in a variety of shapes and sizes and colors -- with different twists and turns.
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Yes, the Marketing Funnel is Dead #PulseConf2014
The marketing funnel, that venerable icon of converting prospects to customers, may not be a funnel at all. It may be more like an hourglass. With some help from best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell, Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta called for a reinvention of the customer success movement at the Pulse2014
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Inside IBM's New CX Platform #SmarterCommerce
Marketers aren’t the only ones involved in marketing. That’s IBM’s thinking. And that’s why Big Blue debuted this week its new IBM ExperienceOne at its SmarterCommerce Global Summit 2014 in Tampa, Fla. It replaces the Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) Suite brand.
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Shutter the Sales Funnel
As form publishers find they are able to ask for less and less personal information (and get away with it), some panic, thinking they're losing the best, cheapest lead stream they know. And, without a doubt, they are. This article continues that discussion started in Free Me From Your Website Forms, but from the perspective
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Oracle Launches Enhanced Mobile Cloud Access
Sales force automation (SFA) and user experience management have pitted Oracle and Salesforce against each other with Marketo snapping at their heels. All three have been piling the pressure on with new releases and announcements as they battle to dominate the market. Yesterday, at its Collaborate annual conference for the
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LiveHive 2.0 Tracks How Prospects Engage with Content
It must be hard being a digitally-inclined sales professional these days. In addition to, you know, actually making sales, you have to track everything you're sending out. To help assess prospects' engagement with content, LiveHive recently launched version 2.0 of its cloud-based sales acceleration platform.
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