Where would you start if Sales Enablement was new for a company?
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Ah, this sounds like a fun prioritization exercise! If sales enablement was just kicking off, I'm assuming that generally marketing and PMM functions are relatively new a...
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Adobe Head of GTM Strategy, APAC & Japan • 2y
Full disclosure, I've never 'started' sales enablement in a company so I'm just going to tackle this from my point of view but it's not based on real world experience! I ...
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BILL Head of Product Marketing - Accounts Payable and Developers / Partners • 5y
A lot I could go into here, but I'd oversimplify the steps into a few areas: Sales strategy and sales model: Start with understanding how this works at your company. H...
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Zendesk Senior Director Product Marketing • 2y
I will assume this question is meant for a growing startup who has just started hiring a more formal enablement team. Sales enablement at its core is meant to ensure the ...
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Medallia Vice President Product Marketing • 4y
There are three key elements you need to consider: Your story and the constituent “story-lets” Your internal audience - sales being the most important, but you need to a...
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SurveyMonkey Senior Director, Head of Corporate Marketing | Formerly SurveyMonkey, Nielsen • 2y
To be hiring sales enablement at all, the sales team is likely a size where scaled processes & training is needed. There are likely marketing resources in charge of t...
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Eventbrite Global Head of Marketplace Marketing • 2y
I would map out the customer journey and identify stages where either there are leakage in leads, or the conversion process is not as efficient as it can be. To do this, ...
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Actively AI VP of Marketing | Formerly Mezmo, Sauce Labs • 2y
The first thing I would do is take the time to deeply understand what the biggest gaps are for the sales team, and what their immediate needs are. Enablement is such a br...
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Percona Director, Product and Solutions Marketing | Formerly CloudLinux, AlmaLinux, Japan Tobacco International • 2y
I'd start with an initial Sales Confidence survey to see how confident your current team is with selling whatever you are selling. The survey will provide you with the ne...
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KPI Sense Chief Executive Officer • 6y
In my mind, there are two aspects of Sales Enablement: training and arming. So, the first question is which of these is more needed: Do you have naturally great salespeop...
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