Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Having a well-defined go-to-market (GTM) strategy is crucial for the success of any product or service. A successful GTM strategy involves a series of coordinated steps aimed at bringing a new product to market effectively. One of the key components that play a pivotal role in executing a GTM strategy is sales enablement.

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Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Having a well-defined go-to-market (GTM) strategy is crucial for the success of any product or service. A successful GTM strategy involves a series of coordinated steps aimed at bringing a new product to market effectively. One of the key components that play a pivotal role in executing a GTM strategy is sales enablement.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Sales collaboration dramatically improves results, but bringing it to fruition can be more complex than it sounds.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. And win rates rise and sales cycles shorten with well-orchestrated virtual channels.

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Content marketing is an inbound lead engine. As a methodology, content marketing supports sales enablement efforts in numerous ways such as: Generating high-quality leads at a fraction of the cost of outbound marketing or sales. How to measure your content marketing. Sales collateral.

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Allego

AUGUST 24, 2021

It falls on marketers to support their teams while ensuring salespeople are armed with content that captures buyer attention and closes deals. Tapping into the Power of Sales Enablement. As a CMO or product marketer, the ball is in your court for how well your company handles market pressures. 2 Seller Training.

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BrainShark

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Product marketing professionals (sometimes called solutions marketing) have a broad set of responsibilities, ranging from product launches and persona research to product messaging, go-to-market strategies, and more. See also: 5 Projects to improve your sales and marketing alignment with sales enablement.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2020

For a successful campaign or product launch, you’ll want the right content and up-to-date information at the fingertips of your sales reps. 1 barrier to success for a new product launch is a lack of preparation in the go-to-market and sales launch. However, even with all this time and effort, 40% of new product launches fail.

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Allego

MARCH 21, 2023

In fact, recent research highlights two critical problems with traditional sales content management systems: Conventional technologies reinforce the divide between those who create and manage sales content (marketing and sales enablement) and those who use it (sales reps). Modern sales content management platforms.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The best way to tackle these challenges is to amplify and enhance the sales cycle with a one-two punch of technology and content. Virtual sales teams also need the ability to access key information while they’re on the go, share best practices, and learn as they go from subject matter experts. Mastering Virtual Selling.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 5, 2020

It also lets you set expectations and milestones for your sales cycle. It provides critical structure to your sales operations. Average sales cycle length. Average sales cycle length is exactly what it sounds like — the average time it takes for a rep to close a sale. Image Source.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 14, 2022

From an organizational point of view, sales enablement allows teams from different departments the ability to function as one. It provides sales teams with the latest product information, marketing collateral, and L&D, and is a one-stop shop for everything sales- and product-related. Collateral.

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Sales and Marketing go together like two peas in a pod … at least that’s the ideal companies dream of. The right sales enablement platform, however, could be used to unify Marketing and Sales in a single digital ecosystem, providing team members with a robust solution for collaboration, coordination, and communication.

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Crunchbase

APRIL 8, 2022

Sales enablement is where sales and marketing overlap. It can mean different things for different companies, but it often involves content including whitepapers, pitch decks, case studies and emails (aka anything that helps the sales team educate and nurture prospective clients). But good intentions aren’t enough.

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Mindtickle

JULY 10, 2020

Leaders in sales enablement and marketing have a big role to play here, aligning all remote team members on messaging, sales processes and requirements. As reps move through the sales cycle, it’s not uncommon to miss steps in the process. Field requirements for collateral.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 25, 2013

Companies that live in the second half of the sales cycle will increasingly find themselves in a competitive battleground. As the VP of Sales, it is your responsibility to ensure your organization has the collateral your customers demand. Building and reviewing sales collateral in conjunction with marketing.

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 1, 2023

I am examining where we are today with AI in sales and where we are going. Regie helps sales, marketing, and success teams write engaging content faster using AI. Interview Transcript Nigel: Where do you see AI impacting the sales profession in the next couple of years? It’s going to produce quicker sales cycles.

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Showpad

JUNE 3, 2019

While its first appearance was in mobile video games like Pokemon Go, B2B and B2C businesses alike are discovering the opportunities augmented reality creates for enhancing selling and marketing experiences. Benefits of augmented reality in sales & marketing. Augmented reality examples in sales & marketing.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

For example, if a fashion trend watch says that people are looking for things that are jewel-toned this year, consider using these types of colors in your marketing collateral or your products. When you run a seasonally-themed marketing campaign, try your best to keep track of where your sales leads are coming from.

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Allego

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You have a sales content library full of collateral, videos, reports, eBooks and more. Proving the impact of your sales content can be tricky. You might already monitor several common metrics to show how well sales and marketing content is doing. Creating Content That Sales Will Use.

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Allego

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Digital Sales Rooms are personalized for each buyer, providing self-serve convenience and streamlining content sharing and collaboration to speed up deal cycles. Think of it this way: A company website is a broad communication channel for any prospective buyer, and the marketing team controls it.

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Mindtickle

JULY 10, 2020

Leaders in sales enablement and marketing have a big role to play here, aligning all remote team members on messaging, sales processes and requirements. As reps move through the sales cycle, it’s not uncommon to miss steps in the process. Field requirements for collateral.

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Sales Hacker Training

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Transitioning from mid-market selling to enterprise selling isn’t easy. In our first post we focused on how to be product- and market-ready, but that’s still only part of the solution. Sales strategy. 1) Marketing: Does your marketing appeal to enterprise orgs? Promoting high performing mid-market reps.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 18, 2019

Below you’ll find 6 trade show success tips for sales and marketing leaders to implement at your next event: 1. You have finagled and negotiated pricing with vendors and fought upper management for more budget; however, you and your marketing team have not defined what success actually looks like. The Holy Grail Metric.

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SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

More than 1400 sessions, more than 350 exhibitors, 18 keynotes, 20 parties, 2 rock concerts, and 5 opportunities to help charities on site, there is perhaps no bigger event for sales and marketers. Act-On’s streamlined user interface puts first-rate marketing tools at your fingertips, making campaigns and programs easier and faster.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But in addition to making contact, LinkedIn can cut the sales cycle and build trust. For more, see our blog Leveraging LinkedIn as Part of Your Sales Process. According to sociable.com , 92 percent of B2B buyers will engage with sales professionals they see as thought leaders. Next is the sales collateral you provide.

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Allbound

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Your CRM helps streamline lead flow for internal sales teams while also tracking revenue potential at various stages of the sales cycle. A marketing automation platform. Let’s face it – marketing is of utmost importance, but it can be a real time suck getting effective collateral to each and every partner.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 8, 2024

This article highlights how a deal desk functions and its ability to transform the way companies tackle their sales strategy. Key takeaways One of the primary functions of a deal desk is to bring together decision-makers from sales, legal, financial, and marketing departments to optimize the deal creation and execution process.

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Crunchbase

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Thankfully, technology exists today to ease the learning curve for these reps and help them hit the ground running to move leads through the sales cycle. Sales collateral has always played an important role in converting leads into new business. Modern presentation software.

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Allego

JANUARY 24, 2023

Two-thirds of your sellers’ time is spent doing manual tasks, including record keeping, data entry, lead management, searching for sales collateral and content, and tool management. How do you change that? How do you help your sellers get out into the field and sell more?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 29, 2018

For today’s blog post, we put together a comprehensive list of the best articles about corporate events and event marketing. We tried to tackle every aspect of event marketing. Keep reading for our favorite event marketing blog posts! Events are a great tool to have in your marketing arsenal. Check them out below!

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Maybe it’s more targeted prospecting, better use of collateral, or a late-game value offer, like an unexpected trick play, but coaching can motivate reps to push themselves. For many sales organizations, time speeds up in the fourth quarter. Realign Sales and Marketing Priorities. Shorten the Sales Cycle.

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SalesLoft

MARCH 31, 2022

Natalie Barrie , Head of Sales at Mention Me. Preparing sellers for a compressed sales cycle. That means sales cycles are shrinking. If I’m fortunate enough to get some time with a prospect during a sales cycle, I need to be sure I can add real value and that they will remember this interaction.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 26, 2020

Sales battle cards can be utilized as a comparison to one of your competitors, or as a comparison to multiple competitors. Additionally, some battle cards may be predominantly utilized internally for sales rep reference, while others are beneficial as prospect-facing collateral as comparison sheets. Sales Enablement.

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Emissary

JUNE 26, 2023

Make a last Sales push for new logos. New business has longer sales cycles, smaller ACV, and lower win rates than opportunities with existing clients. Identify opportunities that will run out of time (based on expected sales cycle) without additional focus. Make a last Marketing push for new logos.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

You’re completing 2013 and building your marketing strategy for 2014. Perhaps you’re beginning to roll out marketing automation or some form of company-wide communication program. Maybe you are supporting sales with a CRM implementation, linking your marketing collateral into each phase. Product Marketing.

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Highspot

JANUARY 4, 2024

Choose a Fitting Sales Methodology Select a sales methodology that aligns with your business model, market trends, and customer behavior. Market Research: Provide insights into the target market and customer personas for the new product. Ensure that collateral aligns with the established sales messaging.

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