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How do you manage and overcome the unique challenges and obstacles that can arise in enterprise sales?

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  1. Helen D'Abreo
    Helen D'Abreo

    SurveyMonkey Director, Expansion Sales • 6mo

    I strongly believe that a mindset of preparation and curiosity is essential. We must always be prepared for the unexpected and look forward to the challenges that arise, as overcoming them is how we broaden our experience and sharpen our consultative skills. In an enterprise context, the strategy is to first manage expectations up-front with all stakeholders. For every new challenge, we must breakdown the problem into manageable pieces, mapping out not just the tasks but also identifying the rig ...Read More

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  2. Greg Baumann
    Greg Baumann

    Outreach Sr Director of Strategic and Enterprise Sales • May 13

    Enterprise sales is challenging because you're not just selling a product, but a complex process with 3x as many stakeholders as you think. As such, you need to stay anchored to the business problem being solved- that's the unifying factor across internal and external stakeholders. Identify the biggest problem you can solve and distill it to the most portable framing that meet the goals of the executive sponsors. We then multi-thread around those to prove out the business case across the relevan ...Read More

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