Tag: sales

  • Link: Amazon move off Oracle caused Prime Day outage in warehouse

    The outage, which lasted for hours on Prime Day, resulted in over 15,000 delayed packages and roughly $90,000 in wasted labor costs, according to the report. Those costs don’t include all the lost hours spent by engineers troubleshooting and fixing the errors or any potential lost sales. I assume Amazon has, and will save much…

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  • Link: eBooks vs. Whitepapers

    Tirone expanded further by saying that whitepapers are often used by marketers to highlight the brand’s value proposition — which could be a product, service, or solution — in a polished deliverable with strong visuals and writing. “The structure of a whitepaper can vary, but the common components remain pretty consistent; [it starts with identifying]…

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  • Link: ‘Amazon-proof’ Home Depot builds on its DIY digital foundations

    “Versus prior year, our online sales grew 21% in the fourth quarter and 21.5% in fiscal 2017, now representing 6.7% of our total sales. While we are seeing significant growth in our online sales, these online shoppers see the relevance of our stores as approximately 46% of our online U.S. orders are picked up in…

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  • Omni-channel at Target: 14% of 2016 sales were “digital,” with 68% fulfilled in-store

    In 2014, more than 93% of our transactions took place in stores, less than 7% digital. That season we had just started shipping from a small number of stores. In 2015, that same timeframe, digital sales reached almost 10% of our total sales. We more than doubled our ship-from store-capability to nearly 500 stores. We…

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  • Link: Wanted: 1,400 sales jockeys to flog Oracle Cloud

    Ramping up cloud: “Oracle talks a great cloud game – it says it has in the last six months added nearly 1,500 new software as a service (SaaS) customers and more than 2,100 platform as a service (PaaS) customers.” Source: Wanted: 1,400 sales jockeys to flog Oracle Cloud

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  • Dell’s business sales are 1/3 through partners

    The channel business at Dell is about $20 billion per year. Dell said he can see that growing to $40 to $50 billion. Suggesting $60bn in “commercial” sales total for Dell? Dell’s business sales are 1/3 through partners

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  • Relative momentum around Chef (née Opscode)

    Chef’s Sales grew 250 percent year-over-year for the third quarter. The number of new Chef Software customers grew by 350 percent for the nine-month period ending September 30, 2013, with Fortune 1000 companies accounting for nearly 60 percent of Chef’s sales. Relative momentum around Chef (née Opscode)

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  • How’s Microsoft doing with Yammer?

    If we look at it from Yammer’s perspective, it’s been a good year. Being part of the Microsoft family has helped it grow its total user base by 60% in the last 12 months to almost 8 million users, and its number of paid networks has grown by 200%. Plus, Yammer’s 2012 full year sales…

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  • Enterprise Gold at SXSW

    (Cross posted from my work blog.) It’s panel promotion time for SXSW 2010. This year, I’m going for a panel on selling to the enterprise, targeted at the SXSW crowd, of course. I thought this would be a fun contrast to the consumer-heavy, “free” stuff that the SXSW sessions and panels are usually full of.…

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