How does sales enablement change when you go from selling a product to selling a platform?
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Thrive Capital Executive in Residence, Marketing • 6y
While you can have really compelling per-product pitches, the real challenge of selling a platform is getting prospects and customers to buy into a vision that unifying t...
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Guidewire Software Vice President Product Marketing • 6y
It depends on where you are in the growth journey. If this is a strategy change - in terms of no longer selling a product to selling a platform, it's more about messaging...
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This is a tough question to answer because it is so multifaceted. So let's start with the basics when you are moving from product to platform, you're moving from selling ...
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Orkes Head of Marketing • 5y
Let's start with the difference between a platform and a product: Almost every SaaS product has APIs that let it integrate with other applications. A platform, however,...
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Box Head of Product Marketing, AI & Platform | Formerly Google Gemini • 4y
When selling a platform, you're selling what a customer can accomplish, less what a customer is buying. Obviously in the SaaS world, a lot of our marketing is based on th...
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Close Head of Product Marketing • 4y
In my experience the shift from Product selling to Platform selling has meant that we've had to update the buyer personas we sell too, or at least expand them. It has mea...
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Two things need to happen when you make that shift from a sales enablement perspective. You need to change your narrative from a product to platform narrativeYou may need...
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Sales enablement programs have to be designed with a hierarchy in mind, just like how there's a messaging hierarchy. You lead with the hero and follow with the supporting...
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