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How do I measure sales enablement success?

Sharing how I think about this as an industry marketer. My first step would be to huddle with my sales and product leaders and align common goals (where possible). If yo...
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Sunny Manivannan
Braze Vice President & GM, Global SMB5y
My top 3 metrics to measure sales enablement success are :1. Reduction in ramp time for new AEs coming into the company - defined as 'how many days does an AE spend at my...
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Ryan Fleisch
Adobe Head of Product Marketing, Real-Time CDP & Audience Manager5y
I’m going to answer this question the same way I answered, “How do you measure ROI of sales enablement?” because ultimately success should be ROI in some form. Here’s my ...
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ShiQi Wu
TikTok Head of Product Marketing, APAC5y
I think there's a similar question above on measuring KPIs. Please refer to it. But essentially I'll look at 2 parts 1. Whether sales has received the information Atten...
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Shabih Syed
Honeycomb.io VP Product Marketing | Formerly Mparticle5y
In my opinion the effectiveness of sales enablement should be measured by reducing the customer acquisition costs over time and reducing the time it takes to close a deal...
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Tamara Grominsky
Kajabi VP Product Marketing & Lifecycle4y
I've seen this done successfully a number of different ways. Here are a few common ones: Usage - What is the % of your sales team that is using the content and collatera...
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Nikhil Balaraman
Pomerium Head of Marketing | Formerly Roofstock, Instacart, Uber, Algolia, Google5y
At a high-level the goal is likely to make sellers more productive in some sense. Probably by making them more effective or more efficient. Let’s just call this “go-to-m...
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Kevin Garcia
Anthropic Product Marketing Leader4y
There are a lot of ways to measure sales enablement: lead-to-conversion rates, win-rates, sales rep NPS, etc. HubSpot does a great overview of popular options in this pos...
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Priya Gill
Iterable Chief Marketing Officer4y
It really depends on the type of enablement that you’re doing and the problems you’re looking to solve. But at the end of the day, there are two key metrics I’m always lo...
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Grant Shirk
Cisco Head of Product Marketing, Cisco Campus Network Experiences | Formerly Tellme Networks, Microsoft, Box, Vera, Scout RFP, and Sisu Data, to name a few.3y
A shorter answer here, but I think there's a pretty straightforward way to measure sales enablement overall. Ideally, this is driven by the sales enablement team, and you...
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Sina Falaki
AlphaSense Senior Director, Solution Marketing | Formerly Procore, Motive3y
As an industry marketer I am mostly concerned around the sales cycle, ASP, win rate, content performance, and rep productivity. Good enablement, marketing, and content, s...
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Mandy Schafer
Mastercard Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Miro, Dropbox, Demandbase, Autodesk, Oracle,4y
Create a quiz or set up role playing for your sales team on their understanding of the product features, capabilities and messaging. When you set aside time to observe ho...
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Jon Rooney
Box Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle4y
It's a bit of a white whale in a lot of organizations, but ideally you want to measure not just consumption or certification rates, but the percentage of closed/won oppor...
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Sahil Sethi
Freshworks Vice President - Global Product Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Qualtrics, Microsoft, MckInsey2y
The ultimate metric for measuring the enablement success is a revenue metric, or its proxy - which is shared by sales and product marketing. The actual metric depends on ...
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Jeff Hardison
Sanity.io VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Calendly, InVision, Clearbit, Amazon (consultant)2y
Each quarter, we survey our salespeople and ask them how we did. You can ask questions like:- How would you rate our help from 1-10?- What's something that was very helpf...
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Srini Sekaran
Docker Principal PMM | Formerly AWS, Salesforce, startups5y
Measuring sales success is unique to your organization but you can gauge general effectiveness by understanding the volume of opportunities, conversion rates, and product...
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Lisa Dziuba
Lemon.io Head of Growth Product Marketing | Formerly LottieFiles, WeLoveNoCode (made $3.6M ARR), Abstract, Flawless App (sold)3y
Measuring the success of sales enablement comes to having clearly defined metrics that PMM can influence. There are a few key metrics you can use to measure the success o...
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Alissa Lydon
Actively AI VP of Marketing | Formerly Mezmo, Sauce Labs3y
There are a couple of different ways to approach measuring sales enablement effectiveness. The main question I ask myself is, "Is the sales team confidently delivering th...
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Tracy Montour
HiredScore Head of Product Marketing3y
My favorite way to measure sales enablement success is through a Sales Confidence Score. Start with a baseline survey to the sales team on their confidence across your pr...
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Rachel Cheyfitz
Coro S.Director of Corporate & Product Marketing | Formerly Lytx, Cisco, Snyk, Lightrun, Comeet,Coro3y
One way to measure the success of sales enablement efforts by product marketers is to track key metrics such as the number of sales-related resources that have been creat...
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Charlene Wang
fmr VP of Marketing, Qualia | Formerly Worldpay, Coupa Software, EMC/VMware, McKinsey5y
Sales enablement success should ultimately drive sales success, including the size & number of deals closed won and win rates. Leading sales enablement indicators of ...
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