How do I measure sales enablement success?
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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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Braze Vice President & GM, Global SMB • 5y
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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Adobe Head of Product Marketing, Real-Time CDP & Audience Manager • 5y
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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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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Honeycomb.io VP Product Marketing | Formerly Mparticle • 5y
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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Kajabi VP Product Marketing & Lifecycle • 4y
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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Pomerium Head of Marketing | Formerly Roofstock, Instacart, Uber, Algolia, Google • 5y
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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Anthropic Product Marketing Leader • 4y
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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Iterable Chief Marketing Officer • 4y
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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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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AlphaSense Senior Director, Solution Marketing | Formerly Procore, Motive • 3y
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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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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Box Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle • 4y
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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Freshworks Vice President - Global Product Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Qualtrics, Microsoft, MckInsey • 2y
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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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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Docker Principal PMM | Formerly AWS, Salesforce, startups • 5y
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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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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Actively AI VP of Marketing | Formerly Mezmo, Sauce Labs • 3y
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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HiredScore Head of Product Marketing • 3y
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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Coro S.Director of Corporate & Product Marketing | Formerly Lytx, Cisco, Snyk, Lightrun, Comeet,Coro • 3y
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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fmr VP of Marketing, Qualia | Formerly Worldpay, Coupa Software, EMC/VMware, McKinsey • 5y
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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