Sales Engagement

Veteran product executive joins Ambition to lead product vision, roadmap, and innovation Ambition, the leader in sales coaching and gamification platforms, announced it has hired veteran product executive Butler Raines to join the company as VP and Head of Product. Raines joins Ambition from Salesloft, where he was Head of Product and part of the executive team that recently reached a 1.1 billion-dollar valuation as one of the world’s leading sales engagement platforms. Marketing Technology News: SugarCRM Takes 1st Place…

Sales engagement platform shares North American Customers’ Choice distinction with HubSpot, Oracle, and Salesforce Groove, the leading sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce, announced that it is one of the highest-rated North America Customers’ Choice providers in the December 2020 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Sales Force Automation report. Groove received a 4.7 out of 5 rating from peer-sourced reviews included in the 2020 Gartner Peer Insights report for the Sales Force Automation…

Groove, the leading sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce, announced that its platform ranked #1 for momentum in the Enterprise segment across four sales tech categories: Email Tracking Software, Outbound Call Tracking Software, Account Data Management, and Sales Intelligence. Groove also received the highest overall and enterprise product satisfaction rankings in G2’s Grid Report for Sales Engagement, Winter 2021. Groove has topped G2’s highest-rated Sales Engagement Software list for nine consecutive…

LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, HubSpot, Outreach, PFL, SalesLoft, Sendoso and Reachdesk integrations now available in the Demandbase ABM Ecosystem Demandbase, the leader in Account-Based Marketing (ABM), announced today an expansion of their partner ecosystem, adding seven new strategic integrations including LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, HubSpot, Outreach, PFL, SalesLoft, Sendoso and Reachdesk. These new capabilities add to an already robust ecosystem, enabling broader tech stack integrations for Demandbase customers in…

Allego, the leader in sales learning and enablement solutions, announced its acquisition of Refract, a UK-based leader in sales engagement and multilingual conversation analytics. Refract brings to the merger deep capabilities in revenue intelligence—delivering AI-enhanced content and coaching recommendations from sales calls, demos and meetings—to improve sales outcomes and grow revenue. The combination of Allego and Refract not only strengthens Allego’s current market-leading position as an all-in-one provider of sales…

Outreach, the number one sales engagement platform, announced a brand new product, Outreach Insights, featuring Buyer Sentiment Analysis —  introducing a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence capability that captures buyer emotions and signals to more accurately measure sales engagement versus activity metrics like reply, click, and open rates. "For too long, the sales industry has been stuck relying solely on insufficient activity-based metrics, like reply rates, to measure engagement because it's all we had. As most…

GetAccept, the all-in-one sales platform, has raised $20 million in Series B funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, as the company expands its platform to help SMBs close more deals. In remote working times, more than ever, businesses are refining their digital sales process. GetAccept has put sales engagement on autopilot, creating the future of sales. In 2019 the company raised a $7 million Series A funding round led by DN Capital, with participation from BootstrapLabs, Y Combinator, and a number of Spotify's early…

Vendors are selected for Innovation Awards based on the core innovation of their product or service Seismic, the industry-leading and award-winning sales enablement and marketing orchestration platform provider, has been named a winner of the 2020 Aragon Research Innovation Award for Sales Engagement. Seismic provides the most comprehensive solution on the market and delivers value to its customers through product innovation and strategic acquisitions. Most recently, Seismic announced new content analytics capabilities…

Vengreso, the digital sales training and consulting service provider, announces the launch of FlyMSG, the text expander tool that helps sales and marketing professionals type less and sell more. Developed by a team of sales experts who know the pain points of the modern seller, the tool gives users quick access to presaved, customized messaging templates and is available for free as a Chrome extension. Marketing Technology News: Captiv8 & Nielsen Study Reveals the Positive Impact of Influencer Marketing Today, sales…

Enables Companies to Build Data-Compliant Go-To-Market Strategies for the Long-Term ZoomInfo, a global leader in go-to-market intelligence solutions, announced that it has launched Privacy Clusters as a part of its premium Streaming Intent offering. Privacy Clusters enable the cookieless production of business intent signals and preserve the anonymity of individuals while offering the company-specific behavioral signals needed to identify early-stage opportunities. With the future of third-party cookies uncertain,…

Combined offering to provide sellers the ability to discover, curate and deliver personalized, compliant content with buyers engaging on social media, thereby deepening relationships and driving revenue Seismic, the industry-leading and award-winning sales enablement and marketing orchestration platform provider, announced the acquisition of Grapevine6, a patented social and digital sales engagement platform. With this acquisition, Seismic strengthens its ability to provide sales professionals with relevant content sourced…

In its second appearance on the prestigious Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Outreach continued to grow in 2020; adding new leaders, expanding globally, and increasing its customer base Outreach, the number one sales engagement platform, announced it ranked 58th on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and energy tech companies in North America. Outreach ranked second of all companies in the Pacific Northwest. 2020 was another year of…

ringDNA Attributes Rapid Growth to Customer Adoption of AI-Powered Solutions to Grow Revenue Faster ringDNA, the AI-powered revenue acceleration platform, announced it ranked No. 455 on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America now in its 26th year. Marketing Technology News: Vurbl Disrupts Audio Industry with Creator-First Audio Streaming Platform ringDNA's founder and CEO, Howard Brown,…

Today’s Daily MarTech Roundup covers the latest in Cloud, Marketing Analytics, Automation, Customer experience, AI, and ML announcements from Tethr (Customer Experience), Miva (E-commerce), XANT (Sales Engagement), Cohley (Content), Revcontent (Content Marketing). The Northridge Group and Tethr Announce Strategic Partnership The Northridge Group, Inc., an industry leader in contact center and customer experience consulting, and Tethr, the market’s most advanced conversation intelligence platform, announced the formation of…

XANT, the enterprise sales engagement leader, announces an integration enhancement for their platform, Playbooks. With this integration, Playbooks and Highspot customers can now insert Highspot pitches directly into Playbooks emails, pull content from Highspot, and create custom experiences for each prospect. In July, XANT and Highspot released the first version of the integration to solve a serious sales problem: the struggle of centralizing email sales collateral. Now, customers using Highspot's revenue enablement…

Leading sales engagement platform hires cloud software veteran to accelerate revenue and customer acquisition Outreach, the number one sales engagement platform, announced it has hired Harish Mohan to the new role of senior vice president of revenue excellence and operations. Harish is a cloud enterprise software industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in revenue operations and business expansion. "We are so excited to welcome Harish, particularly right now," said Anna Baird, chief revenue officer ‌of‌…

Named a Top 50 Keynote Speaker of 2020; Sales Experts Channel ‘Trailblazer’ VanillaSoft, a leading sales engagement technology company, is pleased to announce that CRO Darryl Praill has recently received some high profile industry recognition. Marketing Technology News: Avaya Appoints Rob Theis to Its Board of Directors For the second consecutive year, Praill has been named to the list of ‘Top 50 Keynote Speakers’ by Top Sales World. As they noted, “opportunities for delivering live keynotes have been severely…

SalesLoft, the leading provider of the most complete Sales Engagement platform, announced a partnership with 6sense, a leader in account-based sales and marketing platforms. 6sense helps customers understand prospective buyer behavior, orchestrate multi-channel experiences across the buyer's journey, and gain insights on the challenges these buyers are trying to solve. By integrating with SalesLoft, sellers can use these insights to prioritize which accounts to engage and personalize communications based on buyer…

New, first-of-its-kind integration aligns corporate and employer brand strategy across social media and employee review site VanillaSoft, a leading sales engagement technology company, is pleased to announce that they have acquired email automation and sales intelligence platform vendor Autoklose. Autoklose is an all-in-one outbound email automation and integrated B2B contact database platform used by sales teams to nurture and develop sales opportunities. The email capabilities feature lead generation, drip campaigns,…

Alchemer transforms customer feedback into actionable gold SurveyGizmo – a global leader in customer experience (CX) and voice-of-the-customer (VOC) technology – announced that it has changed its company name to Alchemer. The new name change better reflects the company’s mission in helping businesses transform into customer-centric organizations. "SurveyGizmo served us well. It was fun and whimsical. It communicated clearly that we provide survey software and that our software is approachable and easy to use," said David…