Katie Gerard

AMA: Klaviyo Director of Product Marketing, Katie Gerard on Sales Enablement

May 12 @ 10:00AM PT
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How do you enable sales reps to sell higher priced packages vs your lower priced offerings?
Our lower priced offerings seem to be the biggest competitors of our enterprise packages.
Katie Gerard
Workhuman Head of Product Marketing4y
It sounds like you may be cannibalizing yourself with overlapping product offerings. If customers are happy to use your cheaper product, it means the value of your enter...
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Katie Gerard
Workhuman Head of Product Marketing4y
I actually have a Competitive Intel PMM on my team who works on some of these materials. It can be helpful to use a CI tool if you have budget for this. At Klaviyo, we ...
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Katie Gerard
Workhuman Head of Product Marketing4y
Demo scrips and pitch decks can be very difficult to land, especially if you're dealing with a generally successful sales org which may be less open to change. It's supe...
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Katie Gerard
Workhuman Head of Product Marketing4y
The best way to get a handle on the success rate of your enablement program is to evaluate it both quantitatively and qualitatively. On the quant side, it's helpful to d...
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Katie Gerard
Workhuman Head of Product Marketing4y
It depends on how radically different your Enterprise solution actually is and how unfamiliar it will feel to Sales. Something else to consider, is this a new tier or a t...
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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.
Katie Gerard
Workhuman Head of Product Marketing4y
It depends on where these requests are coming from! I'm always cautious with competitor specific one pagers because it's so easy for these to get back to the competitor....
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If your messaging isn't landing, how do you know if it's because it needs to be reworked or because sales has poor delivery?
If it's because your sales reps have poor delivery, should you rework your messaging anyways, or rework training and enablement?
Katie Gerard
Workhuman Head of Product Marketing4y
I'd watch some recorded sales rep calls to form my own opinion on what's going on. I'd also follow up with the rep to get their perspective on challenges. Once you've d...
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