How do you disseminate competitive positioning to your sales team?
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Vanta VP of Product and Corporate Marketing • 1y
Short answer: however works!Longer answer: Work with your Sales Enablement team (if you have one) and Sales leadership to come up with a plan. There are a few nuances tha...
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Lovable Head of Product Marketing • 4y
It really depends on the current understanding of that competitive positioning within my sales team. I usually work with Sales Enablement or frontline Sales Managers to c...
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Postscript Vice President Of Product Marketing • 1y
Competitive positioning is worthless if you can't explain and train your sales and customer success teams. That's why partnering closely with your enablement team and fro...
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Apollo.io Head of Competitive Intel • 3y
There are two directions to answering this question: Frequency of delivery Content Frequency is important because Sales is constantly bombarded with info. You have to g...
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Ironclad VP of Product Marketing • 4y
You'll want to create materials that you can package up and disseminate via a central hub like Highspot, Seismic, Showpad, Confluence etc. When you roll this out make su...
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Oracle Senior Director of Product Management • 4y
I've seen this done a number of different ways. Typically we have dedicated time with the field to train them on the positioning. You can get buy-in from the head of sale...
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Treasure Data Director of Product Marketing • 2y
Disseminating competitive positioning to our sales team is a strategic and ongoing process--as you likely know, there are new things popping up every day with competitors...
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Jellyfish VP of Product Marketing • 2y
In the traditional B2B Tech world, my experience has been that you need several ways to disseminate your competitive positioning:Sales battle cards for your field sales t...
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Amperity Vice President Product & Customer Marketing, Competive Intelligence | Formerly Amazon, Qualtrics, SAP, DreamBox Learning, Carnegie Learning • 1y
When it comes to sharing competitive info with your sales team, it’s key to think about where they’re already active and how they get their updates. It’s also smart to ch...
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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. • 4y
This requires a few different tactics depending on the size of your sales team. YMMV based on culture, sales leadership, enablement structure, but it's a good place to st...
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AlertMedia Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly TrustRadius, Levelset, Walmart • 3y
Keep it simple and practical. We use a simple battle card format to pull together the most essential details you need at your fingertips to enable competitive conversatio...
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Midi Health Go To Market & Principal PMM | Formerly Homebase, Angi, The Knot • 2y
Develop a Competitive Playbook: Create a comprehensive competitive playbook that outlines key information about each competitor, their offerings, strengths, weaknesses, a...
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Panorama Education Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Narvar, Iterable, HubSpot, IBM • 3y
Put in a place that's easy for them to find, and be consistent. While that's oversimplified, it really comes down to that. Sales will look for competitive positioning as...
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Replicant Head of Product Marketing • 1y
Yeah that's a really important step. Nothing is more frustrating than putting together a great battlecard and competitor deep dive that then goes unused. Your sales enabl...
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ActiveCampaign VP Product Marketing | Formerly Pendo, Demandbase, Conga, SAP • 2y
It depends of course on your market position. But assuming you are in a competitive market, your sales team should be very aware of your competitive positioning. I would ...
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Enable VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Crossbeam, 6sense, JazzHR, Imagine Learning, Appsembler • 2y
I use a standard product marketing brief for launches that includes competitive positioning. I'll include a section for where we win along with key value props and differ...
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Fmr Product Marketing Leader, Cisco | Formerly Twilio, Cisco, Gartner • 1y
Here are my top 3 go-to's for this one... Recruit a top salesperson to record some sound bites leveraging your positioning. Take the recording and make it available on yo...
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