Sales 2.0

APRIL 23, 2020

Buyers are wondering what the future holds for their companies–and themselves–and are having a tough time committing to purchases. Adapting your sales collateral/marketing pieces to the specialized needs of large accounts. It’s a really tough time for most companies to sell their products and services. A time to plan.

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Enterprise Enterprise Penetration Gatekeeper 432

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. Equipping sellers with the content, tools, knowledge, skills and coaching required to optimize buyer interactions—known as sales enablement —is essential. 2 Seller Training.

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Face-to-face Hiring 171

Showpad

JUNE 15, 2020

And today’s sophisticated buyers expect salespeople to understand their businesses and needs before interacting with them. Sales training programs offer your reps the opportunity to develop their sales skills and connect with customers more meaningfully — when set up and executed properly. Benefits of sales training.

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Training How To Sales Enablement Distribution 83

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Sales enablement is the systematic approach of providing your sales team with content, tools, strategies, and training to help them succeed. 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. Motivations.

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Sales Meeting Meeting Collateral Ideal Customer Profile 89

Allego

JANUARY 28, 2020

2020 is here and the new decade promises opportunity, growth, and innovation in the training technology ecosystem. Successful companies are integrating training—once a siloed function—into all aspects of their business. Training technology will be the enabler of this new approach.

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Training Video Collateral Face-to-face 99

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2021

Essential collateral: buyer personas, deal milestone timelines. To ensure the right people are involved in the conversation at the correct times, you need to provide your employees with the right materials, training, and guidance. Essential collateral: plays or scripts with qualifying questions that round out the buying team.

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Decision Maker Buyer Persona Collateral Case Study 119

Allego

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

You can activate sales collateral with messaging, talk tracks, and win stories in an engaging video format to highlight the best use of the content, and recommend deal-specific content based on sales stage, competitors, and other factors. Activate Content. You can curate, repurpose, and share this content. Harvest In-Field Intel. Go Virtual.

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Revenue Scale Collateral Harvest 128

criteria for success

MAY 4, 2022

Many senior executives in sales and marketing don’t know who their buyers are, and don’t know how to position a selling conversation. Sell More by Understanding Who Your Buyers Are. To better understand your buyers, start by considering their “buyer persona” A buyer persona is a way to categorize and organize your buyers.

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Buyer Persona Buyer Collateral Case Study 96

Allego

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Virtual selling requires flexibility and more extensive groundwork since sellers have less in-person interaction and fewer opportunities to understand buyers. Challenge 4: Engaging Distracted Buyers. Tracking activity on this collateral allows you to understand engagement and buying intent for every prospect. Learn More.

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Collateral How To Video Face-to-face 147

Mereo

JUNE 30, 2022

At a B2B selling organization, your value messaging is your flavor — while your buyer-facing professionals take the role of melting ice cubes. A buyer may expect one “flavor” of your company they “tasted” on one platform, to be shocked by the “flavor” they find elsewhere. 28% said they lost more than $10 million.

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Buyer Face-to-face Buyer Persona Lead Rank 36

Pipeliner

MARCH 17, 2023

It includes training, coaching, content creation, and technology solutions that are tailored to the needs of the sales team. By providing the sales team with marketing collateral and content that is relevant and useful, the sales team can effectively communicate the value of the company’s products or services to potential customers.

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Sales Enablement Buyer Persona Collateral Resources 97

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

He mentioned the obstacles he faces in creating compelling sales training for new products. One of his biggest hurdles was the lack of alignment between training and marketing. The message confused the buyer and the unique value proposition was unclear. The message confused the buyer and the unique value proposition was unclear.

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Sales Enablement Marketing Collateral Face-to-face 200

Allego

JULY 26, 2022

Internet access, email, and online training were limited to desktop computers. For that time, learning management system (LMS) software was ideal for enterprise learning and development, including sales training. Now, B2B buyers are on the go, using smartphones, tablets, and laptops to research and evaluate vendors.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 11, 2020

As a sales manager, it’s important to recognize that you have a better chance of slowly but steadily building a talented sales team with the help of a strong sales training platform than you do of hitting home runs on every hire and creating an elite group out of sheer luck. It must support your sales training program.

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Training Hiring Exercises Collateral 59

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The flowering of virtual sales channels and tools flies in the face of four myths, as documented by Bain & Company’s recent survey, conducted with Dynata, of more than 300 B2B buyers and sellers in the US, UK and Canada. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person.

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Lead Rank Quota Face-to-face Hiring 339

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. Deliver Just-in-Time Sales Learning and Training The skill level of your sales reps also plays a key role in increasing their productivity.

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Webinar Metrics Strategy Collateral Coaching 117

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Get our research report: 30 Ways to Get Inside the Mind of Your Target Buyer. Additionally, sales spends too much time on non-selling activities, which may include searching for relevant content, or even creating sales collateral themselves. Training, training, training. Streamlining the sales process.

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Sales Enablement Collateral Decision Maker Study 295

BrainShark

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Common, deep understandings of target buyers: A company’s alignment to the market opportunity is only possible if both the “marketing funnel” and the “sales cycle/pipeline” are tightly aligned to the buyer purchasing journey, which requires a deep understanding of buyers’ needs and their preferred purchasing journey.

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Top of Funnel Sales Enablement Revenue Marketing 62

Highspot

JANUARY 29, 2024

7 Sales Negotiation Strategies to Close More Deals Sales Negotiating Training Example Sales Negotiating Training Program Work With Sales Enablement to Provide Negotiation Materials and Training What is Sales Negotiation? The aim is to find common ground that satisfies the needs and expectations of both the seller and the buyer.

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Negotiation Closing Case Study Buyer Persona 52

Allego

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

According to a Bain & Company survey , 92% of B2B buyers prefer virtual sales interactions, with 79% of sellers also realizing its effectiveness. There’s a misconception that virtual selling consists of taking what worked for in-person buyer interactions and applying it to digital spaces. That can be easier said than done.

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Sales Enablement Hiring Video Sales Cycle 71

Highspot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Works closely with product and marketing to develop buyer personas, product messaging and positioning, and driving the overall vision of the product. Content Marketing and Communications Specialist Responsibilities: Creates compelling content for marketing materials, sales collateral, and communication channels.

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Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Marketing 52

Mindtickle

APRIL 10, 2024

According to the Demand Gen Report , more than half of B2B buyers rely on sales content to guide their purchase decisions more now than in the past. These include sales presentations, sales collateral, whitepapers, case studies, videos, or any other type of content used throughout the sales cycle.

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Analytics Top of Funnel Revenue Closing 52

Mindtickle

MAY 2, 2023

Foundational What is a sales enablement program How to align your sales enablement with sales process development How to align enablement efforts with the buyer’s journey How to align sales and marketing teams together Programmatic Onboarding and training Role-playing Content Coaching Analytics What is a sales enablement program?

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Sales Enablement Hiring Buyer Persona Case Study 52

Mindtickle

JULY 10, 2020

Field requirements for collateral. Field reps need different content and collateral at each stage of the sales cycle. Common buyer objections. Sales enablement and marketing can empower customer-facing reps to do so by sharing content and collateral that aligns the entire team on messaging and processes.

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Collateral Face-to-face Sales Enablement Objections 71

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

It starts with the Marketing departments buyer centered marketing strategy. Doing so will assist your reps to spot where their prospects are in their buyers journey. They can then locate the right marketing collateral needed assist in the buying process. Ultimately the content will pull the buyer through their buying process.

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Outsourcing Services Buyer Persona Infusion Exercises 317

Janek Performance Group

JULY 19, 2023

They can also provide insights into the buyer’s journey. Marketing collateral is fine for generating interest and highlighting the benefits of the product or service. This leads to the content being forgotten in the content library with all the other disregarded marketing collateral.

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Quota Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Collateral 62

Allego

JANUARY 12, 2022

Look for a platform that allows them to access key information, personalize outreach to buyers, and share collateral – and do it while they are on the go. And remember to train your reps on how to use the tools. Cultivating sales heroes starts with effective onboarding and training. Reinforce Training.

How To 116

How To Selling Skills Collateral Microsoft 116

Allego

DECEMBER 11, 2020

You can activate sales collateral with messaging, talk tracks, and win stories to highlight the best use of the content, and recommend deal-specific content based on sales stage, competitors, and other factors. #2 Use a mobile platform so that formal sales collateral and informal learning is available from anywhere at any time.

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Collateral Marketing Harvest Scale 83

Mindtickle

APRIL 7, 2023

This includes activities such as providing sales training and coaching, developing sales collateral and tools, and ensuring that sales teams have access to the right information and resources to close deals. Revenue enablement, on the other hand, encompasses a broader range of activities that go beyond just supporting sales teams.

Revenue 52

Revenue Face-to-face Collateral Lead Rank 52

Allego

MARCH 7, 2023

They monitor go-to-market programs, develop product strategies , research competitors, keep analysts informed, document the buying process, craft sales collateral, train sales on how to sell products, and much more. You’ll be able to hear how product messaging is resonating (or not) and hear first-hand buyer objections and pains.

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Marketing Sales Enablement Collateral Microsoft 115

Allego

JANUARY 10, 2024

It may also lead to your sales reps creating their own content, running the risk of giving buyers something that is incorrect or off message. Traditional AI, on the other hand, excels at specific tasks it’s been trained for. Gen AI helps sellers personalize their approach, crafting content that resonates with individual buyers.

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Top of Funnel Social Media Revenue Buyer 71

Crunchbase

JANUARY 13, 2023

Before the birth of the hybrid buyer, sellers were in control. The modern B2B buyer doesn’t need to get on the phone or fill out a contact form to learn the ins and outs of a product — they have all the fact-finding capabilities right at their fingertips thanks to the infinite sprawl of the internet. Meet buyers where they are.

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Top of Funnel Social Media Face-to-face Engineering 98

Showpad

MARCH 31, 2020

The trend toward sales enablement has skyrocketed in the last few years as companies recognize how important it is to accelerating sales cycles and creating engaging buyer experiences. No more searching unorganized shared folders for sales content or giving buyers outdated materials. But what kind of bottom-line impact does it provide?

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Hiring Collateral Licensing Commission 72

Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Define Target Audience Create Buyer Personas: Develop detailed customer profiles. Sales Enablement: Provide sales teams with the necessary tools, resources, and training to effectively sell your product. This includes sales collateral, presentations, case studies, and other materials designed to resonate with target audiences.

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Strategy Marketing Distribution Sales Enablement 52

Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Define Target Audience Create Buyer Personas: Develop detailed customer profiles. Sales Enablement: Provide sales teams with the necessary tools, resources, and training to effectively sell your product. This includes sales collateral, presentations, case studies, and other materials designed to resonate with target audiences.

Strategy 52

Strategy Marketing Distribution Sales Enablement 52

Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To amplify its impact, many companies integrate the playbook into a collaborative sales training platform that allows SDRs to easily access the playbook’s resources, engage in interactive learning modules, and apply the acquired knowledge in practical scenarios. Detailed Buyer Personas Understand your ideal customer.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 52

A Sales Guy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Upcoming: Not enough training in the industry/space. Little respect for prospects and buyers time. There was no LinkedIn Navigator to connect with buyers (that’s what the phone book was for). There was no ZoomInfo to get buyer information. There was barely email and not every buyer had it.

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