The following are what I thought were the top 20 take home tweets from the Sales 2.0 conference. Ok, 22 of them, but they are all worthy. Thanks to all that contributed, there were hundreds of tweets each day of the conference and it became all the buzz. Even to the point on the second day where a whole panel discussion was dominated by twitter talk.
annekeseley: "sales 2.0 is not the answer. It is a question." #sales20
jepc: Gerhard Geschwandtner: "Trend 6: customers create companies instead of companies creating customers" #sales20
damphoux:@IDC "companies that reduce their investment in sales in 2009 will be gone in 2010" #sales20
greenleads: "Sales 2.0 combines customer focused processes with Web 2.0 productivity technologies" David Thompson, Genius.com #sales20
damphoux: Rich Blakeman, Miller Heiman "If the sales cycle is long and the funnel is narrow, the funnel will turn into a straw" #sales20
thedailyanchor: David Satterwhite of newScale quoting Larry Ellison: "If you're not a sales rep and you're not an engineer, then you're overhead." #sales20
insideview: Listening to Cliff Dorsey, VP Sales @ LivePerson Veritable lovefest for ConnectAndSell (I've seen a demo, it's pretty darn cool) #sales20
damphoux: Brett Wallace, @forrester - the key to a good engagement is starting with a solid introductory appointment #sales20
ForceBrain: #Sales20 - "When the tide goes out, you know whose been swimming naked!" -Warren Buffet
karlgoldfield: #sales20 is apparently being blocked by twitter we want to Tweet
jillkonrath: Video in newsletters increases clickthroughs by 40% - per Mark Wilson, VP, Corp. Mktg at Sybase. That's an eye opener! #sales20
damphoux: Gail Ennis, Omniture Just used the term, "Marketing 2.0" #sales20
damphoux: Mark WIlson, Sybase - HBR post on Provocation Based Selling #sales20 http://bit.ly/R7C7w
milesaustin: Mark WIlson, Sybase (from ad) "your risk esposure changes by the second. but your data is hours old. Analyze That." #sales20
damphoux: Brett Queener, salesforce.com - Sales 2.0 is ensuring nobody sells alone #sales20
tmccleary99: Major theme at Sales 2.0 - Marketing and Sales working TOGETHER in near realtime. Touching the customer from EVERY possible angle. #sales20
damphoux: Tom Barrieau, IDC demand generation / lead qualification largest segment of budgets right now #sales20
annekeseley: #sales20 Tom Barrieau of IDC just stressed the importance of inside sales in boosting sales productivity.
damphoux:Tom Barrieau of IDC admitted he has twitter envy. lol #sales20 benefits of social networking are internal to a company #sales20
damphoux: Tom from IDC: twitter seems more relevant to marketers, not sales. but @annekeseley "marketing & sales are merging in #sales20"
sbell22: #sales20 moderator to me: "enough with the Twitter, already!" :)
To those that might comment on the fact that many of the quotes are mine... You live-tweet it next year and earn the right to publish your posts. Besides, I think I captured a great deal of the goodness.
Lastly, my most memorable post because it reminds me of all the memorable people I met during happy hour:
