What are your biggest frustrations with creating insightful sales playbooks that get used?
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PandaDoc VP of Product Marketing & Brand • 7y
There's a lot of reasons sales playbooks might not get used. When that happens, you need to figure out that reason. Some common reasons are: It's too detailed or prescri...
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Atlassian Head of Product Marketing, Developer Solutions + Portfolio Growth • 2y
Here are some of the problems I often see with sales playbooks:1. Too much information/time demand up front – If you're asking reps for 5 hours of study time upfront, you...
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Enable VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Crossbeam, 6sense, JazzHR, Imagine Learning, Appsembler • 2y
Some common frustrations with sales playbooks I've seen over the years...Lack of relevance.Complexity and length.Outdated information.Disconnection from sales process.Ins...
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Sanity.io Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Twilio, SendGrid • 4y
If the playbooks are insightful and get used... I'm not frustrated! ;) Creating sales playbooks is frustrating when we're in a loop of perfection over progress. Oftenti...
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Freshworks Vice President - Global Product Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Qualtrics, Microsoft, MckInsey • 2y
Some tips for creating useful sales playsBe clear on what success looks like - Have you made it clear why we want them to use a certain playbook ? Is it to drive more pip...
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Cisco Director of Product Management, Speech and Video AI • 7y
Great answers from Gregg. From enterprise B2B marketing experience, I would say types of content you create example sales playbooks - also depends on where you are in t...
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