How does sales enablement change when your company is b2d (business to developer) vs traditional enterprise?
What should I do differently? Developers do not want to be sold to.
Twilio Vice President Marketing • 5y
I love this question, <3 Developers! The fundamentals of sales enablement dont change, it's more the way you communicate the needs of your audience to your sales team ...
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Box Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle • 6y
Selling to developers can be difficult, often because they have a ton of say over the decision but not explicitly the budget, but marketing to developers is simpler than ...
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GitHub Senior Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Cloudflare, Google Cloud, Google Developers, Observable, Orb • 5y
I love this question. First, I would say to save your company's BDR/SDRs time and avoid trying to set up calls with developers. You'll avoid a lot of frustration on both...
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Jellyfish VP of Product Marketing • 5y
When selling to developers your enablement activities are likely to take on a different focus so that the team understands how to engage in a discussion and build a commu...
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Material Security Senior Director of Product Marketing • 5y
Great question, something I think about a lot. I’m a huge proponent of specialization with technical products. I wouldn’t expect every member of our enterprise field orga...
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OpenAI Product Marketing | Formerly Twilio • 3y
Your sales team needs a higher level of technical proficiency when you're a B2D company. It's important to hire sales reps that can form their own mental model of how you...
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Splunk Director, Product Marketing | Formerly Morgan Stanley • 1y
Here are some tips on what you could do differently:Highlight technical value propositions more in your sales enablement collateralInvest time in technical training for y...
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Orkes Head of Marketing • 5y
B2d follows a whole different motion. A developer is not eager to talk to Sales (and they don't want to be sold to). Developers want to try out the product themselves, ti...
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Klaviyo Director of Product Marketing | Formerly LaunchDarkly, mParticle, Okta • 3y
For companies targeting developers, it's a good habit to build up a culture of developer empathy. Practical exmaples include: Provide them 101 sessions, enough for them ...
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I'd say the mindset shift in B2D is that it's no longer "sales enablement", but just "enablement". And that should be a shared goal across your organization, whether it's...
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Inngest Head of Marketing • 4y
It depends a bit on how your sales team is organized today. But in any event, your product value pillars should always translate to both individual and company-wide gain,...
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Enable VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Crossbeam, 6sense, JazzHR, Imagine Learning, Appsembler • 2y
Great question. The main differences between these two audiences are their motivations - which impacts deliverability and construction of enablement materials.B2D (Busine...
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Greg Meyer Product and Marketing Guy • 8y
Sales enablement changes when your company is "business to developer" to point at a different stage in the funnel: the charismatic, knowledgeable developer who probably a...
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Salesforce Head of Product Marketing for Heroku • 5y
This is a classical problem for many developer-first companies. Without mentioning names, many have successfully figured out the working model with both strong developer ...
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Amazon Product Marketing at Fire TV (Smart TVs) • 2y
I think at the core of it the goal of the PMM team still remains the same: enabling sales by understanding the target audience deeply, speaking their language, and meetin...
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