John Kinmonth

AMA: Atlassian Head of Product Marketing, Agile + DevOps Growth, John Kinmonth on Sales Enablement

October 5 @ 10:00AM PT
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How do you navigate sales enablement at a startup that serves multiple sectors of the market and has limited resources?
We are moving upstream from working with executive search firms and recruitment agencies to working with in-house enterprise and MM companies. Each type of firm needs the software for recruitment purposes, but each has different pain points and feature interests within the platform
John Kinmonth
Atlassian Head of Product Marketing, Developer Solutions + Portfolio Growth2y
Great question. As someone who's worked in a number of startups, I can definitely relate to the pain of trying to do too much at once.In terms of prioritizing your enable...
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John Kinmonth
Atlassian Head of Product Marketing, Developer Solutions + Portfolio Growth2y
Tell Kevin to pay better attention!Seriously though, that's frustrating, but I'd make sure it's not just isolated to that one sales member (are there other reps that can'...
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John Kinmonth
Atlassian Head of Product Marketing, Developer Solutions + Portfolio Growth2y
Love this question. This will differ at every org, but for me the gold standard is win/loss ratio and booked revenue associated with a sales play, along with qualitative/...
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John Kinmonth
Atlassian Head of Product Marketing, Developer Solutions + Portfolio Growth2y
Here are some of the problems I often see with sales playbooks:1. Too much information/time demand up front – If you're asking reps for 5 hours of study time upfront, you...
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John Kinmonth
Atlassian Head of Product Marketing, Developer Solutions + Portfolio Growth2y
This depends on the makeup of your org. If you have dedicated sales enablement, they'll typically orchestrate the program with sales/customer success/PMM/PM leadership, a...
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John Kinmonth
Atlassian Head of Product Marketing, Developer Solutions + Portfolio Growth2y
For me, the gold standard is whether an associated sales play is helping improve win/loss ratio, deal cycle times, and booked revenue, along with qualitative/sentiment da...
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