Dave Kong

AMA: Castlight Former Director of Product Marketing, Dave Kong on Sales Enablement

January 16 @ 10:00AM PT
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Dave Kong
Cleanlab Head of Marketing8y
I'd break this question out into two separate ones: 1) How do you track internal adoption of sales enablement content? and 2) How do you track internal adoption of sales ...
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What do you take into consideration when getting requests to create "leave behinds" and/or "one pagers" for a variety of different aspects for your company?
I'm starting to build our competitive program here at Percolate and I am personally questioning the need for creating a unique sales asset for each competitor.
Dave Kong
Cleanlab Head of Marketing8y
For requests in general, the very first thing i recommend doing is evaluating if the request is within your defined set of PMM responsibilities. If not, I would turn down...
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Dave Kong
Cleanlab Head of Marketing8y
Tie to your Pitch — ...so that your combined pitch and demo tells one cohesive story. Tell-show-tell. Tell = pitch where you describe the value of your solution. Show ...
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Which specific questions do you ask your sales reps when they request content?
For instance: which pain points would it address, what is the context for this request, how many prospects or customers would you share it with, what is the potential opportunity
Dave Kong
Cleanlab Head of Marketing8y
For me, I generally start with questions to determine if new content is actually needed (versus piling on to an already long list of requests). In addition, to your exam...
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Dave Kong
Cleanlab Head of Marketing8y
Well, it’s difficult to “ensure” that anyone is going to use any set of materials. I would look at it from the point of view where PMM's job is to create messaging and ma...
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Dave Kong
Cleanlab Head of Marketing8y
Check out my reply here, in a previous question. Building on my previous response, I do think about this in those two phases: At launch and post-launch. At Launch At la...
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Dave Kong
Cleanlab Head of Marketing8y
Ah, this sounds like a fun prioritization exercise! If sales enablement was just kicking off, I'm assuming that generally marketing and PMM functions are relatively new a...
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Dave Kong
Cleanlab Head of Marketing8y
I know that this is sometimes an incredible challenge. I think the challenge specifically is around balance. A balance between: What are metrics indicative of your busin...
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