We’d been carefully watching the big board in our loft office. And the moment came and went on a quiet Sunday in November. But it didn’t go unnoticed. Mengyi Sun, of China Agricultural University in Beijing, China, became our 100,000th customer.It was a big milestone for us. So big that we wrote a blog post [...]
By Romy Ribitzky, Editor at YeswareMany of us might be sales professionals, but we’re really relationship experts. In our first #SalesInsiders Twitter Chat, hosted earlier today by SalesLoft, The BridgeGroup Inc, and Yesware, we couldn’t help but notice that the questions we got—even those about making goals and evaluating your pipeline—mostly kept a keen focus [...]
Innovation is what separates the A-Players from everybody else. Sales will always be sales. The combination of emotion, logic, and storytelling have been and always will be the driver behind sales. However, tools have changed. What used to be strictly face-to-face interaction turned to phone, then fax. Now a combination of emails, tweets, LinkedIn [...]
Now that most of the U.S. has weathered Hurricane Sandy, businesses are figuring out how quickly they can get back on the grid and fully operational. Losing a day or two out of the workweek has cost the nation in excess of $58 billion. More than 15,000 flights have been canceled, countless deals have been [...]
Brian Hamilton is worried. The cofounder and CEO of Sageworks, a financial information firm, says he’s concerned that private companies—the nation’s job creators, which drive 65 percent of new positions—are clamping down on hiring. And that’s only going to mean that eventually profits will go down, he said.Hamilton’s data paint a dire picture. Sales growth [...]
You hardly need a reason to throw a good party. I’ve thrown plenty of them. From wanting to toast a new apartment to feting a friend’s birthday, from wanting an excuse to dress up, to gathering the group for Friday night dinner, everyone loves a celebration. It’s also good for business.On Thursday night, Yesware, the [...]
In Marc Benioff’s view, the social revolution has become the trust revolution. And leading the way is the cloud. That was the cornerstone of the Salesforce.com CEO’s welcoming keynote today. Approximately 90,000 entrepreneurs, vendors and salespeople—including an additional 35,000+ online—raptly listened as the head of the largest global cloud CRM company laid out his [...]
The reason people go to Dreamforce isn’t the great sessions, big parties and great San Francisco location- it’s the people those things attract. As we prepare for Dreamforce we’ve read blogs on it’s history, Top Tips for First Timers and Networking tips but nothing about the people attending. So we have a list of 12 influencers [...]