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How to Align Marketing and Sales for Successful Sales Enablement

Allego

This article originally appeared in Marketing Toolbox. Sales enablement, the ongoing process of providing reps with the training, content, and tools they need to sell effectively, is often thought to be a function exclusively owned and operated by sales teams. But this isn’t true. Here are three ways they can do this: 1.

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6 Steps for Creating an Effective Sales Enablement Plan

Highspot

This makes for a cognitive dissonance that can cause sales bottlenecks and lead to subpar performance overall. Sales enablement can help bridge this coaching/performance divide. Yet despite its many benefits, sales enablement often exists outside traditional sales operations. What’s a Sales Enablement Plan?

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Sales Training vs Sales Enablement: Sales Training 101

LeadFuze

Sales training accounts for less than one-third of what you should be doing to enable sales. If your sales enablement initiative is not having a big enough impact, it could be because of the common mistake made by companies to confuse training with enablement. Sales Training vs Sales Enablement.

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Can Your Marketing Team Increase Sales Productivity?

Zoominfo

It’s no secret, sales and marketing teams don’t always work well together. In fact, research shows that 53% of sales professionals are unhappy with the support they get from marketing ( source ). Consider these statistics ( source ): Only 8% of companies have strong alignment between sales and marketing.

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Sales Training is Only One-Third of What You Need to Be Doing for Sales Enablement

Sales Hacker

If the impact of your sales enablement initiative seems disappointing or misunderstood, it could be because of your organization’s (all too common) mistake of confusing sales training with sales enablement. What sales enablement isn’t. What sales enablement is. In one word – data.

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Ideation, Creation, Iteration: How to Align Sales and Marketing Content Output

Sales Hacker

Whether you’re sales or marketing, putting out content is a never-ending task, a mountain with no peak. It teaches you exactly how to thread a story through your brand and how both sales and marketing can be part of that process. You need to target your niche, answer questions; you need to tell a story. Content ideation.

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The “It Factor” in Selling Is a Myth: How to Build a Team of Top Performers

Sales Hacker

But believe it or not, the “it factor” in sellers is a myth and one that’s been embraced for far too long by sales leaders. A recent survey from Mindtickle and Heinz Marketing of 280 sales and revenue leaders found that only 14.7% of sales teams hit their goals. Has extensive product, market, and competitive knowledge.