A Tweetseye View of the Sales 2.0 Conference

I was going to do a blog on “My top 10 Tweets at the Sales 2.0 Conference” but there were just two little problems: 1. Andrew Lennon at The Daily Anchor beat me to the punch (thanks, Andrew) and; 2. There were nearly a gazillion tweets at the conference so winnowing it down to 10 was slightly problematic.

Instead I thought I would use a somewhat manipulated Twitter record to provide a brief recap of my conference experience. It went something like this:

funnelholic: #sales20 At the Sales 2.0 conference. Big crowd.

RonGoch: RT @jillkonrath – What should you be measuring in sales/marketing

giddyoh: OH: PRT @funnelholic: #sales20 Met @jillkonrath at Sales2.0. i follow her blog – I was giddy like a groupie (.. http://bit.ly/kb7Jw (expand)

insideview: PRT @funnelholic: #sales20 Met @jillkonrath at Sales2.0. i follow her blog – I was giddy like a groupie (Ditto for us… Jill rocks!)

(Tritto, here?)

jillkonrath: Why doesn’t sales use 80% of content generated by Marketing? Thoughts anyone? #sales20

trisler: @jillkonrath Many salespeople view marketing as the enemy. They feel they really don’t understand. #sales20

BtoBGuru: @jillkonrath sales doesn’t use mktg content b/c mktg forgets to ask sales what’s useful, & measures volume, not value, of content #sales20

greenleads: Now’s the time for a Twitter Question for Gerhard #sales20

insideview: David Satterwhite of NewScale speaking on importance of alignment of sales & marketing (“smarketing”?) #sales20

insideview:”marketing & sales are merging in #sales20

milesaustin: Mark WIlson, Sybase (from ad) “your risk esposure changes by the second. but your data is hours old. Analyze That.” #sales20 (via @damphoux)

damphoux: Tom from IDC: twitter seems more relevant to marketers, not sales. but @annekeseley “marketing & sales are merging in #sales20″

Jason_Rothbart: Lots of talk about twitter and what’s the business value #sales20

damphoux:Brett from Forrester – starting to see twitter used as a support tool, especially in b2c. b2b will follow #sales20

damphoux:Tom Barrieau of IDC admitted he has twitter envy. lol #sales20

damphoux:@milesaustin, @annekeseley – both using twitter, finding relationships. Miles found me & @greenleads through twitter #sales20

ForceBrain: Trivial fact, buy Xobni is Inbox backwards. Very cool product if you use inbox, and currently a free download I believe. #sales20

jillkonrath: #sales20 tweets are being blocked by twitter, can someone out there help? thanks

nedelsha: Here at the Sales 2.0 conference. It’s fairly clear we are all still refining our definition of Sales 2.0 #sales20

annekeseley: #sales20 @gerhard20 can’t we find a better word than sales enablement? What on earth does it mean?

damphoux: Tom Barrieau,IDC Sales Enablement: delivering right info to right rep at the right time & in the right place to move a deal forward #sales20

damphoux: Tom Barrieau, IDC 2/3 of deals lost because of unprepared reps #sales20

damphoux: Tom Barrieau, IDC prospects say 57% of reps show up for introductory appointment unprepared – be prepared #sales20

(FYI, Damphoux was busy.)

karlgoldfield: #sales20 good morning tweeples we are back in action

ForceBrain: #sales20 – Wondering if Sales 2.0 is making 20 year old Miller Heimann old school? What’s the new new Sales methodology??

RichBlakeman: Whole sales2.0 panel – coaching is the highest leverage point #sales20

jillkonrath: Brett Queener SVP Apps, salesforce.com: Sales 2.0 is using the cloud to increase sales. #sales20

(Geeze. A lot of thinly veiled self promotion in some of these remarks. But then what did I expect? It is the Sales 2.0 conference- after all. Yet, I think we need to be somewhat careful of creating noise versus generating content.)

damphoux: Brett Queener, salesforce.com – uses jigsaw, facebook, twitter, zoominfo, ribbit, genius.com #sales20

(And see what I just did? I revert back to my previous comment.)

greenleads: Brett Queener says social media is less for sales than it is for marketing, support #sales20

(Clearly not on this day.)

sbell22: #sales20 moderator to me: “enough with the Twitter, already!”