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Sales and Marketing Alignment Engagement Platforms: Sales Enablement Defined

Showpad

Sales engagement platforms are no longer “nice to have;” they are a requirement for mature sales organizations that provide personal experiences for their buyers. When it comes to sales engagement platforms, it’s important to consider how well different offerings promote collaboration between sales and marketing teams.

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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

Sales run through the phone, website or customer portal focused on the smallest opportunities and the long tail of lower-value accounts. And this dynamic has merely accelerated a long-term trend of B2B companies shifting their sales capacity from field-based to virtual models.

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8 Essential Elements of Virtual Sales Training

Allego

And to make matters more complicated, many companies are either slowing their buying cycles or freezing them completely. Sales enablement professionals are on the front lines. Traditional training and sales enablement approaches won’t solve this challenge. Modernize Your Sales Enablement Approach.

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Sales Enablement, Part 3: Metrics that Matter, Courtesy of Your CPQ System

Cincom Smart Selling

Who is promoting sales enablement? The fact is, sales enablement is not located exclusively within one group or managed under one silo. We looked at several metrics related to sales enablement and margin in our piece last week. Collateral Usage – What pieces are hot and what pieces are ignored?

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Simplifying Sales Content Management

Mindtickle

As a sales enablement leader, sales content is a big part of your job. Whether it’s creating it, training reps on it, monitoring its performance, or updating it, simplifying sales content management lets sales enablement leaders focus on other programs that help sellers actually sell.

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Sales Enablement Effectiveness?

The ROI Guy

IDC research shows that because of frugal buyer sentiment, 62% of B2B vendors need more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, and 72% indicate an increase in sales cycle time over the past 6 months. Sales Enablement Ineffectiveness? So why are the sales enablement investments not paying off?

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Simplifying Sales Content Management

Mindtickle

Plus, according to CSO Insights 2016 Sales Enablement Optimization Study, only 49% of study participants had Sales Enablement Content Management solutions with adoption rates of 76% or better. Managing sales content. of these top improvements in sales performance experienced by these companies.