What are some ways you can build credibility with Sales, ensuring that they will leverage your messaging and materials?
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PandaDoc VP of Product Marketing & Brand • 7y
Man, I love this question! As PMMs so much of our work only has impact if it has engagement from others, and the only way to get that engagement is by having credibility ...
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Gem VP of Marketing & Partnerships | Formerly Mixpanel, Slack, BlueJeans, Cisco • 6y
The best sales reps I’ve seen rely on people and resources across the company to win deals, but these same reps are also very particular about the materials they use and ...
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Well, it’s difficult to “ensure” that anyone is going to use any set of materials. I would look at it from the point of view where PMM's job is to create messaging and ma...
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Oracle Senior Director of Product Management • 4y
This is all about relationships, credibility/expertise, and your ability to help sellers. Once you can demonstrate that you can help them by bringing your perspective to ...
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I am going to answer this question as a former sales person plus as someone who produces content and train sales on new messaging. Sales people will listen to you if (1) ...
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Enablix Founder • 7y
In addition to David's answer, I will also add the following points that should help build the credibility. Consistency You want to continue to deliver fresh content co...
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Crayon Senior Marketing Manager • 7y
These are all great answers. To add just a little bit to Gaurav's helpful points of consistency and ease... Consistency--keep content updated with market and competitor ...
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B2P Partners Chief Buyer Advocate • 7y
Great question - great answers. Dave Kong started us with a super framework. As you know, this is not a trivial issue so I would like to add a POV to these answers. (Full...
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KPI Sense Chief Executive Officer • 6y
Meet them where their difficulties are. What, in their minds, is preventing them from closing more, bigger, faster? Maybe you know that messaging is the issue, but until ...
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