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Sunday, January 29th, 2017
Antonio Garcia Martinez Billed as “an adrenaline-fuelled exposé of life inside the tech bubble”, Chaos Monkeys lays bare the secrets, power plays and lifestyle excesses of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists and money cowboys who are revolutionising our world. Author Antonio García Martínez left Wall Street to make his fortune in Silicon Valley, becoming CEO of his own startup, before…
Sunday, January 29th, 2017
Duncan Clark Alibaba is a Chinese e-commerce company that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services via web portals. It also provides electronic payment services, a shopping search engine and data-centric cloud computing services. Alibaba’s consumer-to-consumer portal Taobao, similar to eBay.com, features nearly a billion products and is one of the 20 most-visited websites globally. This book is billed as…
Saturday, January 28th, 2017
Artificial intelligence–powered predictive sales acceleration platform, InsideSales.com unveiled plans last month to expand into Ireland as part of an initiative to better serve customers across the EMEA region. The firm says the move could create some 120 jobs in the republic. “We’re not only looking to hire some of Ireland’s best and brightest technology graduates, but also to help build…
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
Jim Steele, President of Worldwide Sales and Chief Customer Officer of InsideSales.com talks about the use of cutting-edge science to accelerate sales for some of the world’s top companies. To have the chance of one “rocket ride” to success in a career is exciting enough. But Jim Steele, Chief Customer Officer of Provo, Utah headquartered InsideSales.com is now riding his…
Saturday, January 30th, 2016
Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff, Flatiron Books, 2015 The authors tell the story of how an engineer and a salesman came together to create a business communication device that conquered the world in the early 2000s, and how quickly it was toppled by the…
Saturday, January 30th, 2016
Big Data in Practice: How 45 successful companies used big data analytics to deliver extraordinary results, Bernard Marr, hardcover 11 April 2016 Big data is on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Everyone understands its power and importance, but many fail to grasp the actionable steps and resources required to utilise it effectively. This book fills the knowledge gap by showing…
Thursday, January 28th, 2016
Sony Mobile account director Sarah Edge recently received the “Best woman in technology sales” accolade at the 2015 Women in Sales Awards. Her career has spanned the breadth of marketing, procurement and, more recently, sales. Last December, at a London’s plush Savoy hotel, Sarah Edge was delighted to learn her hard work was being recognised when she was named winner…
Thursday, January 28th, 2016
Research organization Forrester forecasts that 12% of all B2B sales in the United States will take place online by 2020. Last year, the company caused a few ripples when it predicted that the number of B2B salespeople in the United States would contract by one million over the next five years. In a recent report in the series, The B2B…
Saturday, October 31st, 2015
Dr Beth Rogers ask whether the “Internet of Things” is set to transform the sales paradigm yet further. Imagine a future where customers’ needs are met even before the customer has identified them or a salesperson has prompted for them. It is a future where the role of the salesperson is focused on high-profile change projects, rooted in idea generation…
Monday, July 6th, 2015
Nick Christian, managing director of Turnstone Sales, says: “Behind The Cloud by Marc Benioff is a very interesting insight into the growth and strategy of one of the world’s most disruptive and successful businesses (salesforce.com). Really strong sales insight delivered in a practical and, at times humorous way. It’s not a heavy academic paper, but a really easy-to-read book with…
Monday, July 6th, 2015
Bob Apollo, Managing Partner at Inflexion-Point and Journal columnist says: “I’ve been inspired by Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore, which many regard as the bible for technology marketers, and very relevant to selling”. +
