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How can you make sure that your sales team understands how to use selling tools they're given and can sell the product?

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Sarah Din
Sarah Din
Quickbase VP of Product MarketingDecember 1

As a PMM your job is not just to create the content, but you also want to make sure you are training them and providing the right context.

  • You can do self-serve training using LMS tools or video tools like Loom - and share that as you launch new content
  • You can run live (virtual or in-person) training workshops and sessions (if you have an enablement team, partner with them)
  • Host office hours so people who have questions can come to you for answers
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Rachel Cheyfitz
Rachel Cheyfitz
Coro Head of Product Marketing and DocumentationNovember 26
  • Have regular meetings in which you invite all relevant parties and review the newest updates, how to find them, etc. 
  • Make sure to use the tools already available in the company if/when they're available 
  • Have regular meetings with Sales leaders to ensure they're "fluent" in the items you want their teams to understand and ask of them their support on an ongoing basis 
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Linda Sonne-Harrison

Medium- to large-sized companies typically have a sales enablement team that focuses on this exact problem. In a smaller company, sales enablement often falls on product marketing. In that case, how can you make sales enablement work? 

  1. Collaborate closely with sales leadership. Make sure that the sales tools you're producing will actually help sellers.
  2. Make sure that your sales tools are self-explanatory (in spite of recommendation #4). Include clear and concise messaging, answers to any questions or objections they may encounter, and frequently asked questions. Include detailed speaker notes on presentations. (I can't believe I have to say this, but I see slides delivered with no notes all the time!)
  3. For anything that you expect a seller to read out loud, read it out loud yourself. Multiple times. Get rid of tech jargon and wordy descriptions that don't roll off the tongue. 
  4. Test sales tools with a few key sellers before rolling them out.
  5. Do a live training. Recruit a seller to co-present with you and encourage questions. Record the session for those who can't make it. 
  6. Answer your email and Slack messages when people ask for help! Better yet, create Slack groups dedicated to specific types of sales tools (e.g. competitive-plays, sales-play-1).
  7. Encourage feedback and release new versions on a regular basis (but not so frequently that people lose track of what the latest version is).
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