Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

To me, there’s never been a better time to be a sales enablement professional. While the sales enablement profession looks set to continue on an impressive trajectory, one aspect that has alarmed and disappointed me is the lack of credible and fresh data on sales enablement, its importance and value.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 3, 2023

Sales Enablement → Revenue Enablement. 3 Tech Trends: AI, Tool Consolidation, All-in-One Enablement, DSRs – Digital Solution Rooms Who/where should enablement roll up to? The post The State of Sales Enablement in 2023 appeared first on Sales Hacker. WE ARE NOT A COST CENTER!

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Many revenue leaders have gone in search of the right tools and strategies to help sellers thrive. And many have turned to sales enablement. Related: What Is Sales Enablement? Sales enablement reports to RevOps less than 50% of the time. Sales enablement is no exception.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

This week we have Robby Allen, Chief Revenue Officer at AgentSync! #1. Salesforce Gong Outreach Catalyst LinkedIn Sales Navigator Zoominfo Docusign Linksquares Scratchpad Cabal #2. During Robby’s tenure as CRO, AgentSync has grown revenue 27x, raised over $150M, and was most recently valued at $1.2B.

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Predictable Revenue

JUNE 3, 2019

Sales Enablement allows Sales professionals to do their job more efficiently (and more successfully!). Without the wide-ranging support of the sales enablement function, the day-to-day of an SDR would be significantly more difficult.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The same can be said for sales enablement. Earlier in my career, I helped build a global sales enablement team at Oracle Marketing Cloud that designed, deployed, and measured a sales onboarding program integral to a business unit responsible for $675M in annual recurring revenue. Sales Onboarding.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JULY 12, 2022

Sales enablement —the strategic use of people, processes, and technology to improve sales productivity and increase revenue — is the (usually) missing key for sales organizations that want to evolve beyond a handful of overachievers and into a well-oiled, agile, and high-performing commercial machine.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MAY 22, 2017

I lead sales enablement for HubSpot out of Dublin, Ireland and my role encompasses sales content, sales training, deal support and sales productivity. That’s where sales enablement comes in. But how can sales enablement be packaged?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2018

Shipping product fast and often means more opportunities for Sales to delight customers and engage with prospects. But your sales team needs a lot more than an email on launch day to maximize the opportunities that product launches present. The work of Sales Enablement begins as soon as the product roadmap is set.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2020

As such, much of sales and marketing’s focus is external to attract customers, and rightly so. The key to this internal success is sales enablement and quality, competitive intelligence. Improved communication between sales, marketing, and product. Building the Sales Enablement Function.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 28, 2021

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. powered by Sounder. To succeed, it takes cultural change.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The more I think about it, the clearer it becomes - strategic communication is an integral part of successful sales enablement. And the success (or failure) of a sales enablement function is intertwined with its ability to influence a sales organisation and change behaviour. Communication matters in business.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2020

Looking at the sales space, we are facing a few very specific challenges. Only sales approaches that clearly connect your solution to the buyers’ specific business challenges — challenges that have been properly diagnosed beforehand — have a chance to succeed. The same is true for sales enablement. What’s missing?

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

APRIL 10, 2017

Sales enablement is a rapidly emerging, but immature function. Many companies are investing in the creation of sales enablement teams, but as they’re so new, there’s a distinct lack of thought leadership, standardised measurement and best practices available. This can, must and will change.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JUNE 26, 2018

Today, everyone working in and around sales and marketing knows that bots are hot, in vogue and quite simply, of the moment. In my role leading sales enablement at HubSpot in EMEA, we deliberately carve out time to think about ways to leverage tools, technology and software that will make sales reps more effective.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2018

Shipping product fast and often means more opportunities for Sales to delight customers and engage with prospects. But your sales team needs a lot more than an email on launch day to maximize the opportunities that product launches present. The work of Sales Enablement begins as soon as the product roadmap is set.

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SaaStr

JULY 13, 2022

First, you hire your sales team. Next, you enable them to sell your product. Finally, growth occurs when sales, product, and marketing can come together. Co-founder and CEO of Insider , Hande Cilingir, talks about what it takes to write a successful revenue growth story. Mistake 5: Assuming your sales rep is Ironman.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 30, 2021

In this webinar we’ll have a frank discussion with Chorus’s CRO and enablement lead about working together, what “good” looks like, mistakes they’ve made, and how they’re aligning now around revenue outcomes. The post How Can CROs Work Effectively with Sales Enablement? appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The sales enablement industry has taken tremendous strides in recent years, but by most measures, it's still a relatively immature function. To fill this "best practices void" and play my part in elevating the role of sales enablement I often take ideas from other fields and apply them to my work at HubSpot.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 27, 2020

Whether you run a one-person sales enablement program or are part of a team, the sheer scope of the job can be overwhelming. Which is why we’ve put together this guide on sales enablement, focusing on the three primary parts of the job: strategy, execution, and governance. Sales enablement strategy.

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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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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Theoretically, the relationship between sales and marketing should be easy –– after all, these teams are responsible for pulling in more business and increasing revenue. Reconciling the Past and Present Experience can be the best teacher, and Passi can draw on his past career as a sales leader at an early-stage company.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 3, 2021

The era of rep-centric sales enablement has arrived. Join us on June 8th at 2pm EST / 11am PST and learn the new sales enablement landscape. The post How to Use Rep-Centric Sales Enablement to Future-Proof Your Revenue Engine appeared first on Sales Hacker. Are you prepared?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

Your revenue organization works in the same way. Here’s the thing about driving a car — and about running a sales org: Bumps in the road are inevitable. One of the best ways to ensure every part of your engine is running smoothly is to build sales performance dashboards for everyone on your team. Activity metrics.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2020

Looking at the sales space, we are facing a few very specific challenges. Only sales approaches that clearly connect your solution to the buyers’ specific business challenges — challenges that have been properly diagnosed beforehand — have a chance to succeed. The same is true for sales enablement. What’s missing?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The Data-Driven Sales Manager. The average tenure of a sales VP these days is just 19 months, according to Xactly CEO Chris Cabrera, who expects that number to drop lower as businesses become increasingly data reliant. Here’s how he sees data changing sales management. Use data to show sales reps their commissions in real time.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 23, 2019

61% of organizations had a dedicated sales enablement person, program, or function in 2018, according to data from CSO Insights. This explosive growth comes as no surprise, as successful programs are proven to have a large, quantifiable impact on sales success, specifically: The percentage of reps achieving quota improving by 22.7%.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 12, 2018

If the impact of your sales enablement initiative seems disappointing or misunderstood, it could be because of your organization’s (all too common) mistake of confusing sales training with sales enablement. What sales enablement isn’t. Event-based sales training falls short for all constituents.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 24, 2019

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? Sales forecasting has many major benefits.

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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. Deal Strategy.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Scaling a sales organization isn’t easy. Knowing which metrics matter and how to analyze them to increase your revenue and hit organizational sales goals is essential. . What makes a sales organization grow? What’s the best way to grow a sales organization? Are you compensating your teams to sell recurring revenue?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This week is brought to you by Demandbase: Hit Your Revenue Goal. Bridging the Content Chasm Sales is increasingly using strategic content creation and distribution as part of the sales process – from outbound, to advancing pipeline along, to awareness and education on social platforms. Anyway, let’s get into it.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 18, 2022

Whether you haven’t even considered adding it to your sales enablement strategy or you’re simply looking for ways to make it more essential, there’s never been a better time to embrace video. The post 5 Ways Adding Video To Your Enablement Strategy Will Boost Revenue By 49% appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Predictable Revenue

MAY 13, 2021

Gabrielle is a sales dev leader who believes in empowerment, advocacy, and enlightenment with expertise in sales leadership, sales training, sales management, sales coaching, sales enablement, and cold calling. The post The Anatomy of a Cold Call appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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CloseSaaS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

What do you get when you take the top enablement tactics from today's best sales teams and bake them into a collection of FREE templates? Supercharged sales messaging that closes more deals.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 10, 2022

It’s not the first time you’ll hear this, and it’s not the last: training new sales reps is crucial. I’m the Director of Enablement at WorkRamp, with more than 12 years of experience in enablement, training, and sales operations. Related: How to Run Sales Trainings Your Reps Will Actually Enjoy.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2021

“We’re looking for a strategic rockstar sales rep who knows how to leverage and optimize our customers’ digital transformation to really move the needle!”. There are sales buzzwords that we love and some that we really hate. When you use sales buzzwords correctly, you’ll sound like you’re an industry insider. Optimize sales!

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