Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JULY 30, 2017

Leading sales enablement programmes for over 100 sales professionals is challenging, rewarding and lots of fun. The way I see it, my role primarily is to partner with the sales organisation, so sales reps are successful, which enables sales reps and by extension, HubSpot to grow.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 10, 2019

Effective sales enablement in the Digital Age blends the traditional practice of aligning business needs to training with the (far trickier) task of finding new and innovative ways to make training as targeted as possible to the needs of the learner.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 20, 2018

It’s a question that’s plagued business leaders for decades, a question sales enablement is one step closer to answering. In short, sales enablement ensures your sales team has access to the information, content, and tools they need to sell more effectively. Use AI for sales enablement. References.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 30, 2018

To see what selling on steroids looks like, check out companies with the best sales enablement strategies. You’ll discover a lively place, with a lot of things — like revenue, productivity, and win rate s — going up, and a lot of things — like speed to revenue, sale cycle period, customer churn, and staff attrition rate — going down.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Alright—raise your hand if you think there’s value in developing a sales enablement strategy at your start-up? Okay, and raise your hand if you think it’s vital to have a customer service enablement strategy, too? The fact of the matter is, customer service enablement isn’t a field of its own. Thanks for reading!

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SaaStr

JULY 13, 2022

Founders often hire sales teams with urgency, even in a volatile market, resulting in hires who may not be successful salespeople for your organization. When hiring, do the reference checks yourself. You could even try a mock role-play over a call to test their sales skills. Mistake 5: Assuming your sales rep is Ironman.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2023

Which means, sales enablement leaders , you have to alter your approach to support your sellers in providing a positive buying experience and close deals with this new cohort of buyers. Related: New Sales Enablement Research and Stats for 2023 What are millennial buyers’ values and priorities? So how to start?

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

APRIL 10, 2018

For the most part, sales enablement is poorly defined and often misunderstood. Across the world conversations take place, day in, day out between business leaders as they decide the part that sales enablement can, should and will play within their organisation. Why does sales enablement provide deal support?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Knowing which metrics matter and how to analyze them to increase your revenue and hit organizational sales goals is essential. . Waze sales executives Fernando Belfort , Head of SMB Sales, and Kendra Wrightson , Head of Sales Enablement, discuss optimizing sales processes for four essential data points: value, variety, volume, and velocity.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

AUGUST 22, 2017

In my sales enablement role at HubSpot I'm truly privileged to partner with over 100 sales professionals that are at the top of their game and only want to get better. Working with sales reps that want to succeed and push each other to do better is a joy. Let’s talk about how HubSpot equips it sales reps for success.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2024

Schultz explained: “So I always say, ‘Think about how many hours this search is going to take by the time you do the research, talk to candidates, do your outreach, interview candidates many times, do your back channel reference checks — all of that adds up. Everyone had to be focused on pipeline or bust.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 19, 2018

I consider myself fortunate to work at HubSpot, where day in, day out, I partner with over 100 B2B sales reps that are at the top of the game, and only want to get better. Unlike other parts of the business, it’s relatively uncommon for sales enablement to share learnings, best practices and successes outside of HubSpot's walls.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 27, 2021

Playbooks provide the ultimate reference for consistent execution across your sales org and are critical to scaling sales enablement. What is a Sales Playbook? You can reference strategic things in your playbooks, but don’t zoom out too much. All too often, it comes back to how the playbook was designed.

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InsightSquared

MARCH 12, 2020

data management or communication glut), it does little to nothing to better organize and streamline the working loop of a sales ops team. Watch Ramp presentation “The Reference Framework for Sales Ops” here. Here are some best practices for sales ops leaders navigate the strategic-tactical loop with ease.

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Kellblog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When a company is transitioning from founder-led sales (FLS) to sales-led sales (SLS), you hear the word “playbook” a lot. How to tell the story of your existing references. If you have a few big insurance companies using your product for use-case X, then you need a play for replicating that. Who to call.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This objection is a catch-all for whenever a prospect refers us to one of their colleagues. Say, a VP of Sales sends my SDR to their sales manager. Or a sales enablement manager forwards a cold email to their director. If a persona refers us down the chain , our messaging is off.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account refers to a record of primary and background information about an individual or corporate customer, including contact data, preferred services, and transactions with your company. . Accounts Receivable refers to the amount of money yet to be collected from your customers who purchased a product or subscribed to a service.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2021

Start by making sure that your team has access to robust buyer personas built out by sales enablement and marketing, using data from historical deals. Again, collaborate with sales ops and enablement to check historical deals and build a map of likely roles that need to be involved which reps can refer to.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 27, 2019

Most sales teams depend on 5 key activities to succeed: Intelligence : Sales intelligence refers to technologies, applications, and practices for the collection, integration, analysis, and presentation of information to help salespeople find, monitor and understand data that provides insights into prospects’ and existing clients’ daily business.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

We refer to that as human insights. And if they’re your best sales person, but you think they’d be a good manager and they’ve talked through it and they think about it, then figure out how to make them your best sales manager. I totally love that sort of the sale. Harry Stebbings: Yep. No, I agree.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 27, 2022

Customer Success Enablement may be a term you’ve never heard of, but you’ve probably heard of sales enablement. The transition between marketing and sales is greatly facilitated by sales enablement. The transition from sales to CS will go more smoothly if your customer success team is involved.

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 31, 2020

Much of the sales ops mess can be attributed to your lack of structure and transparency. Start by formalizing your mission and delineating sales ops from sales enablement. Between broken processes, poor data, and misalignment among the revenue team, sales processes will only become more complex as organizations grow.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

What is Sales Operations? Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. Sales Ops: Table of Contents. Building Sales Ops. Performance.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Sales battlecards are one of the most common and most important sales enablement assets. They’re also the ammo you give your sales reps to go into battle against your competitors. Battlecards are meant to work like a quick reference sheet for your reps on a call. How to Build a Sales Battlecard.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2023

Discovery The discovery playbook and the qualification playbook will necessarily reference each other. There is now an extensive category of sales enablement tools that provide deep capability in the area of content management. This could be Google Drive or a specialist tool such as dock.us or recapped.io.

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Unbounce

MARCH 28, 2019

It was inspired by those who’ve been referring Unbounce unofficially for years—and who we wanted to give thanks to on top of the returns that were naturally occurring. Every client you refer to Unbounce gets 20% off their first three paid months on top of the 30-day free trial.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

By the end of the Planning stage, the idea is to have a master list of competencies, as agreed upon by sales enablement and sales managers, that will help a new rep become as productive as possible. Activities can include the first prospecting call, first demo call or first sales call. 14 Day Sprint: Training ?

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FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

In their case, the cash that Messente generated from these early sales enabled them to pay salaries quickly, which meant they could keep their doors open and the ideas flowing. Once we got a couple of European customers on board, those customers referred us to other companies they worked with.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Winning teams I’ve been part of How winning teams are constructed is timely, as in my role leading sales enablement at Automation Anywhere , shortly we’ll be growing the team, and I want to be thoughtful about the work we do, the candidates we hire and the culture we foster on what we hope and expect to be a winning team.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

Dooly, a customer information sales enablement platform, found that 51 percent of sales professionals said they’d quit if they found an opportunity with higher pay. Similar to new-hire ramp periods, your quota frequency should align to your sales cycle and average contract value. Embrace accelerators.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I write things down to help cement them in my brain and have something to reference quickly. If you’re at a bigger company, take time to get to know your solution engineers, sales enablement team , and account managers. If you’re still reluctant, use the “Check 3 before Me” strategy.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 19, 2022

But it’s only the first part of the sales enablement journey. For sales organizations, change is inevitable. Onboarding is an important way to get sellers oriented with the company, its goals, and their role. Products change, new competitors enter the marketplace, buyers’ expectations grow, and so forth.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Differentiation. Sales Engagement. Sales Engagement. Sales Enablement. The Sales Enablement Playbook. Enablement Mastery. Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions. Sales Manager Survival Guide. The Ultimate Sales Machine. Sales Enablement. SalesTruth.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2020

Because our sales team is composed of people who have worked in other departments within our company, team members have had more time to learn the ins and outs of our industry, our clients’ pain points, and our service offerings. Don’t let the learning stop once you have company veterans on your sales team.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

What kind of questions do your customers often ask before considering a sale? Start with an outline of the points you want to make and then use references and examples the buyer can resonate with. Usually, your sales engagement tools will give you insight into the most relevant trends to the different segments of your audience.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2022

The resources we reference are generally not from our own blog, but third parties that corroborate our approach. This acts as a reference and allows marketing to own branded content delivery. Notice how much time we’re allowing between messages — we don’t want to drive opt-outs or unsubscribes.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It refers to two golfers who are playing as partners – one playing well, the other playing poorly. So, as early-stage companies evolve and their sales org brings in team members with various backgrounds, it will be challenging for a new AE to land deals right away, much less “on their own” within the first six months.

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