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Where would you start if Sales Enablement was new for a company?

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Dave Kong
Cleanlab Head of Marketing8y
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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Jeremy Wood
Adobe Head of GTM Strategy, APAC & Japan2y
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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Charles Tsang
BILL Head of Product Marketing - Accounts Payable and Developers / Partners5y
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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Mozhdeh Rastegar-Panah
Zendesk Senior Director Product Marketing2y
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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Rajendran Nair
Medallia Vice President Product Marketing4y
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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Morgan (Molnar) Lehmann
SurveyMonkey Senior Director, Head of Corporate Marketing | Formerly SurveyMonkey, Nielsen2y
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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Yify Zhang
Eventbrite Global Head of Marketplace Marketing2y
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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Alissa Lydon
Actively AI VP of Marketing | Formerly Mezmo, Sauce Labs2y
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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Aleksandra Mitroshkina
Percona Director, Product and Solutions Marketing | Formerly CloudLinux, AlmaLinux, Japan Tobacco International2y
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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Daniel Palay
KPI Sense Chief Executive Officer6y
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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