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What I learned About the Future of Sales Enablement at #Transform18 hosted by Showpad

Jeff Davis

The theme was “Reimagining Sales Enablement”. As a keynote speaker and business coach focused on strategically aligning Sales and Marketing, I attended because I wanted to see what the future of Sales Enablement looks like. I had the pleasure of attending Showpad’s first ever US conference - TRANSFORM18.

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Demand Gen vs. Lead Gen: Which is ‘Best’ for Startups?

Zoominfo

There are essentially two competing schools of thought among B2B marketers. Sales enablement Includes playbooks, ROI tools, and battle cards 4. When you’re starting out, you may need to spend fairly equally across demand creation and sales enablement. Because your needs will change as your company grows.

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How Does 2023 Go Down in Selling History? Mereo Principals Share These Reflections

Mereo

Although we are approaching a new year, many of 2023’s selling challenges will continue to impact your B2B organization’s 2024 performance. In 2023 we certainly saw some softness in B2B purchasing. This pattern is similar to what we saw in the 2008 / 2009 recession. When they did not have that clarity, they froze.

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Sales Enablement Effectiveness?

The ROI Guy

Because of Frugalnomics, an environment where buyers now demand bottom-line value from every investment, B2B sales teams are challenged more than ever to deliver expected results. Sales enablement seeks to address these challenges, providing the practices, resources, training and tools needed to help fight Frugalnomics.

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Frugalnomics Forces Changes in Sales Enablement

The ROI Guy

As defined by Forrester, "Sales enablement is a strategic, ongoing process that equips all client-facing employees with the ability to consistently and systematically have a valuable conversation with the right set of customer stakeholders at each stage of the customer's problem-solving life cycle to optimize the ROI of the selling system.”

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Accelerate Slow Sales Cycles with More Sales Enablement Investments?

The ROI Guy

According to Andrew Gaffney in his article Marketers Shifting Focus To Sales Enablement To Accelerate Slow Pipelines , “Deals expected to close in the current quarter are often getting clogged and pushed out later in the year. So how is the sales enablement role evolving within b2b vendors?

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Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer

The ROI Guy

As a result of Frugalnomics and other market drivers: 62% of B2B vendors indicated they needed more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, 72% indicated an increase in buying cycle time over the past 6 month, The buying cycle timeframe has increased over 10% in the past 12 months. April 2009.