Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 15, 2022

A reader wrote me, “Dave do you think sales enablement professionals need selling experience?” ” It’s a follow on to many of the discussions about “Do sales managers need sales experience?” Those who read, study, and learn obsessively. The Secret Sauce To Sales Enablement."

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Mindtickle

JUNE 5, 2023

Episode summary ChowNow was looking to elevate and grow its sales training program using Mindtickle. Cole Lindbergh, Sales Enablement Manager, Revenue Operations at ChowNow , talks about his experience with Mindtickle. For me, how can I make my training better, right? This person is not, is there a correlation there.

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Allego

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We observed the evolving role of sales learning from formal, instructor-led training to becoming part of the essential enablement experiences that reps count on day-to-day to help themselves. Here the four top sales enablement trends for 2022: B2B buyer journeys require smarter, virtual selling.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In a study conducted by RAIN Group , sellers revealed just how challenging virtual selling can be. Sales teams must be equipped with tools to successfully close deals regardless of location. That’s where sales enablement comes in. The Role Sales Enablement Plays in Virtual Selling.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 23, 2024

In business, it’s often assumed that a person who excels as a sales rep will also be successful as a sales manager. As such, top sales reps are often promoted to sales managers and left to find their way into their new roles. What is sales management training? This approach simply doesn’t work.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 5, 2021

Among many takeaways — about sales enablement , forecasting , hiring , and more — one thing was certain: Sales has changed a lot since the pandemic began. That’s why putting plenty of focus on sales enablement will be crucial for 2021. It’s about helping your sales organization do what they do best.

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Sell Integrity

MAY 12, 2020

With leaner sales organizations, your sales enablement strategy has to step up and be a valuable contributor to the organization. In many organizations, revenue has “fallen off a cliff,” as one sales leader put it, and companies are looking at where they can make cuts and recapture lost momentum.

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Showpad

JUNE 9, 2020

Should you centralize sales enablement? Driving sales enablement impact requires the right set-up: strategic, formal and charter-based. Driving sales enablement impact requires the right set-up: strategic, formal and charter-based. No matter your definition of sales enablement, the data is straight forward.

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Mindtickle

MAY 2, 2023

Odds are, if you’re a sales enablement leader right now, you’re operating your team much differently than you did less than a year ago. According to our 2022-2023 Sales Enablement Outlook Report , almost 40% of sellers achieve below 75% of their quotas. Less (or no) budget. More pressure. Heightened competition.

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Allego

AUGUST 31, 2021

It’s now time to prepare for the future of sales enablement rather than assume you can go back to methods or strategies that worked before. To ensure your sales enablement strategy is ready for future growth, you need to do three things: consolidate your tech stack, incorporate AI into your coaching strategy and look at your data.

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Showpad

APRIL 30, 2020

All professionals are under the gun to maximize return on investment, but arguably no one is more committed to boosting the ROI of sales enablement than the people responsible for implementing it. Quantifiable sales enablement ROI for the sales enablement director. improvement in win rates.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 24, 2023

You’re probably here because you want to build a successful sales enablement strategy for your business. Read on to discover how to create effective sales strategies through the power of enablement and turn your team into an all-star performance machine. What is a sales enablement strategy?

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LeadBoxer

JUNE 9, 2020

There’s a new buzzword on the minds of sales managers across the country: sales enablement. The idea is to provide your sales teams with the resources they need to excel. They just need a little help to develop their skills, and that’s where sales enablement comes into play.

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Highspot

JANUARY 2, 2023

You already know a solid sales strategy can lay the groundwork for a successful, cohesive sales organization. But we’re here to show you how implementing a plan for sales enablement sets the stage for your sales strategy to align seamlessly with your sales goals. What Is Sales Enablement?

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SBI

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Sales enablement is a hot topic at the moment, and a key priority for many sales organizations. According to the CSO Insights 2016 Sales Enablement Optimization Study , 32.7% of surveyed organizations had a sales enablement function in 2016 (up from 25.5% in 2015), but only 5.2%

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Showpad

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Technology’s role in sales enablement increases every year. The better technologies become, the more they support the success and scalability of sales enablement. What sales enablement technologies are organizations investing in? The majority of Sales Enablement teams invest in sales enablement technologies.

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Showpad

JULY 21, 2020

In this edition, I’ll be discussing why you as an executive in a sales, marketing or CX leadership role play a mission-critical part when it comes to making sales enablement successful in your organization. . One aspect of making enablement successful is how it is designed and set up. The company did really well.

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Allego

JUNE 2, 2022

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. Marketing and sales teams need to align for sales enablement to be successful and mobilize better-prepared sellers.

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Showpad

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Measuring the ROI of sales enablement is truly the master discipline. You learned about the three critical success factors of enablement , how to l everage sales enablement for digital transformation and how your leadership is required to lead through change. The result is expressed as a percentage or a ratio.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Effective sales management is the core of any successful business. Read on as we break down why strong sales management matters, along with proven strategies to achieve it. It involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the sales activities within an organization to achieve its revenue targets and close deals.

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Pipeline

MAY 30, 2023

Turns out that sales enablement plays a key role in results. Sales enablement gives your sales reps the leadership, support, technology, content, and processes they need to close more deals consistently. It’s also how you turn 50% of your average performers into elite sales reps.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

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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SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

That means sales reps must make the most of every chance they get to interact with a prospect. Sales enablement, and sales enablement tools, help them do just that. It’s no wonder that Gartner expects sales enablement budgets to increase 50% by 2027. Shayne Jackson, Sr.

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Sales Hacker Training

MAY 20, 2020

The key to this internal success is sales enablement and quality, competitive intelligence. In this article, I’m going to show you the best practices for sales enablement and how to get the most out of your competitive intelligence so you can increase alignment and stay ahead of your competitors.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Ideally, such a holistic and integrated approach is able to provide specific value messages in all three dimensions in a way that sales enablement content management solutions can help to dynamically tailor and furnish with specific content. As such, seller engagement was underestimated over the past couple of years.

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Showpad

MAY 31, 2019

Develop Sales Managers Who Drive Performance. Only 38% of sales reps feel their managers help them develop skills needed in their role. In order for your reps to advance, you need managers to advance as well. Gartner offers its insights into producing effective sales managers. offers her advice.

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Mindtickle

JULY 31, 2023

36% Percentage of time spent actively selling 8% Increase in win rates with coaching investments Companies that don’t prioritize sales enablement see their reps spend just 3 6% of their time actively selling or even less. Let’s consider some stats. Consider the quality and delivery of training and support.

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Miller Heiman Group

MARCH 13, 2019

While many organizations reported increased adoption of a sales enablement function in recent years, several still struggle to use it effectively to achieve their goals. According to CSO Insights’ 4th Annual Sales Enablement Study , 61 percent of organizations have a sales enablement function.

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Showpad

JULY 1, 2019

Sales enablement is the driving force that gives reps the content, tools, and training they need to gain more traction with buyers. Various reports from industry-leading organizations over the past few years provide evidence for the value of sales enablement programs. That study went on to show that 22.6%

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SalesFuel

APRIL 11, 2024

Researchers at Cornell University recently studied the impact of asking for help over various communication channels. Specifically, they studied responses to a request asked by way of video, phone, email, text or face-to-face (FtF). Significantly, the study asked participants to predict which channel would be most effective.

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Highspot

JANUARY 2, 2023

You already know a solid sales strategy can lay the groundwork for a successful, cohesive sales organization. But we’re here to show you how implementing a plan for sales enablement sets the stage for your sales strategy to align seamlessly with your sales goals. What Is Sales Enablement?

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Showpad

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Sales enablement is about ensuring Sales reps have the resources and tools necessary to connect with leads, prospects, and customers in a way that prompts further engagement. While a Sales enablement strategy is key to supporting your process, it can only get you so far without customer relationship management (CRM).

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Miller Heiman Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Sales organizations must reinforce using perspective with sellers by implementing the three key pillars of sales enablement: content, coaching and training. Take The Sales Conversation Metric. Sales enablement content is essential to helping sellers share perspective with buyers. higher win rates and 11.8%

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Mindtickle

AUGUST 24, 2022

To measure the success of your sales enablement program, you need to study more than just revenue and the number of units sold. Measuring sales enablement is about correlating sales activities with tangible business outcomes to discover what works and what doesn’t. How to measure sales process adherence.

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Showpad

MAY 17, 2019

How to Close the Gap Between Sales Forecasting and Reality. A recent MarTech study found that only 28 percent of closed deals were accurately forecasted by sales teams. Beware of these telltale signs that your sales support needs improvement. Sales Enablement. Sound like a team you’d want to join?

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 9, 2019

Although factors like your product line, buyer personas, and brand awareness are important, sales managers are also critical to the success of any business as they have the potential to unlock huge returns that impact the business's bottom line. Onboarding and training new hires is another sales management responsibilities.

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SBI

OCTOBER 30, 2018

I recently had the pleasure of being the guest on the Sales Enablement Radio podcast hosted by the Brevet Group. I sat down with Brian Williams, a partner with the Brevet Group, and we discussed what Sales Enablement is (people define it in many ways) and how to navigate the complexity of the technology in the Sales Enablement space.

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