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How do you disseminate competitive positioning to your sales team?

Sarah Scharf
Vanta VP of Product and Corporate Marketing1y
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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Vikas Bhagat
Lovable Head of Product Marketing4y
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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Sam Melnick
Postscript Vice President Of Product Marketing1y
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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Andrew McCotter-Bicknell
Apollo.io Head of Competitive Intel3y
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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Ambika Aggarwal
Ironclad VP of Product Marketing4y
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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Jessica Scrimale
Oracle Senior Director of Product Management4y
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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Michele Nieberding
Treasure Data Director of Product Marketing2y
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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Daniel Kuperman
Jellyfish VP of Product Marketing2y
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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Kate Hodgins
Amperity Vice President Product & Customer Marketing, Competive Intelligence | Formerly Amazon, Qualtrics, SAP, DreamBox Learning, Carnegie Learning1y
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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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.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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Harsha Kalapala
AlertMedia Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly TrustRadius, Levelset, Walmart3y
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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Jennifer Kay Corridon
Midi Health Go To Market & Principal PMM | Formerly Homebase, Angi, The Knot2y
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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Jeffrey Vocell
Panorama Education Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Narvar, Iterable, HubSpot, IBM3y
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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Raymond Hwang
Replicant Head of Product Marketing1y
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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Jackie Palmer
ActiveCampaign VP Product Marketing | Formerly Pendo, Demandbase, Conga, SAP2y
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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Amanda Groves
Enable VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Crossbeam, 6sense, JazzHR, Imagine Learning, Appsembler2y
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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Elizabeth Grossenbacher
Fmr Product Marketing Leader, Cisco | Formerly Twilio, Cisco, Gartner1y
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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