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It’s Not Sales Enablement, It’s Go-to-Market Enablement

Sales Hacker

Enablement as a function — not sales enablement, but go-to-market enablement — will continue to rise in prominence because it helps to orient the whole go-to-market team around how buyers want to buy. It drives customer experience, revenue, and forecasting. All things forecasting. powered by Sounder.

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Building Your Sales Enablement Technology Stack

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Source: Sales Hacker It’s fair to say that the sales enablement category has mirrored the impressive growth of the sales technology landscape as a whole (up and to the right). This front row seat gives me the opportunity to research, demo, trial, evaluate, purchase and ultimately, rollout sales enablement tools.

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5 Best Practices for Using Competitive Intelligence in Sales Enablement

Sales Hacker

The key to this internal success is sales enablement and quality, competitive intelligence. In this article, I’m going to show you the best practices for sales enablement and how to get the most out of your competitive intelligence so you can increase alignment and stay ahead of your competitors.

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Eyes on the future – How to predict your revenue with sales forecasting

Intercom, Inc.

We all know it’s impossible for a sales team (or anyone for that matter) to predict the future. But with rigorous sales forecasting, they can actually get pretty close. But forecasting isn’t as easy as asking your sales reps to give you a number. What is a sales forecast?

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Your 2021 Sales Enablement Platform Buyer’s Guide (+10 Tools to Consider)

Sales Hacker

Their sales tools are integrated effectively, coaching is readily available, and sales reps are happily using their CRM. They have a sales enablement plan and the right sales enablement platform in place. What is sales enablement? Sales enablement has evolved quickly. Not exactly.

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How to Build a Successful Sales Enablement Initiative in 5 Steps

Sales Hacker

The same is true for sales enablement. In critical times, only sales enablement that’s been proven to move the needle will survive. For sales enablement, that’s challenging. A sales enablement framework that’s been proven to work. How to Approach Sales Enablement. What’s missing?

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What is Sales Forecasting? Why it Matters + 11 Tools to Consider

Sales Hacker

After spending many quarters creating sales forecasts, you should have the process down and deliver precision accuracy. Unfortunately, sales forecasting is not that straightforward. In fact, 60% of forecasted deals don’t close, leading to uncomfortable conversations about budgets and with investors. Just kidding.