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2019 Sales Enablement Statistics

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

2019 is shaping up to be another fine year for those working in and around sales enablement. We’re seeing larger numbers of people work in the industry, more companies investing in sales enablement teams and numerous tools being developed to solve sales enablement challenges. In my mind, there’s never been a better time to work in sales enablement and for the foreseeable future, I think things are only going to get better.

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Sales Enablement Statistics for 2018

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

To me, there’s never been a better time to be a sales enablement professional. It’s a rapidly growing area and while there’s a lack of publicly available sales enablement statistics or indeed, widely adopted best practices and standards, this is due, largely to the fact, that many of us are figuring out exactly what sales enablement is, means and does. Below are 10 statistics about the state of sales enablement and are accompanied by light commentary: 1.

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Top 10 Sales Enablement Tools (To Use In 2022)

Predictable Revenue

Sales enablement tools are an essential part of the sales development process. Here are our top ten picks for the best sales enablement tools to use in 2022. The post Top 10 Sales Enablement Tools (To Use In 2022) appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Creating a Sales Enablement Strategy

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

One of the questions I get asked most frequently is around building a sales enablement strategy and what that might look like. While each company, context and industry is different, I believe that there are some fundamentals that should form the blueprint of any sales enablement strategy. As there’s such a dearth of sales enablement materials we shouldn’t be afraid to borrow, adapt and reuse successful tools from other fields. Sales

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Pressure Points: How to Ensure Your B2B Pipeline Passes Inspection

This eBook highlights best practices for developing a pipeline management process that helps sales leaders and their team C.L.O.S.E (you’ll see what we mean in this eBook) more revenue through data-driven prospecting, stage analysis, and subsequent sales enablement.

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Building Your Sales Enablement Technology Stack

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

The chart below shows the sales technology landscape - there are over 800 vendors listed and 38 different categories. 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. Sales

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Sales Enablement as a Communications Center

Sales Hacker

Sales enablement is an exciting place to be. It’s the glue that holds together many lines of business as your company treks forward on the path to sales success. The Sales Enablement “Holy Trinity”. I call these the Sales Enablement Holy Trinity: Communication.

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An Agile Approach to Sales Enablement Content

Sales Hacker

Content is the cornerstone of sales enablement, but creating it is a massive headache. Those are resources that most sales teams do not have, and resources that most marketing teams need to protect. What is Agile sales enablement? Create sales content that serves.

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7 Critical Metrics to Measure the Effectiveness of Your Sales Enablement Strategy

Predictable Revenue

The better, more refined your sales process is, the more regularly you will sell. This is why supporting and training your sales team is so important. The post 7 Critical Metrics to Measure the Effectiveness of Your Sales Enablement Strategy appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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How to Build a Powerful Sales Enablement Deck in 5 Simple Steps

CloseSaaS

Learn how to create a sales enablement deck your reps will use. Sales ManagementFind out the steps required to create your deck and some examples to inspire you.

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B2B Pocket Playbook: End-to-End Guide to Sales Enablement

Sales enablement is the strategic process of providing sales teams with the content, guidance, and mentorship needed to engage targeted buyers. It’s all about equipping sales professionals with the tools they need to put their best-selling foot forward. And if sales teams want to continuously sell better -- and faster -- their sales enablement process must have a game-winning strategy. It's time for you to start selling smarter - and hitting your sales number - with the best B2B database in the market. Get started today.

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The Five Phases of Sales Enablement Maturity

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

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 fuels ambiguity about what sales enablement is and the value it creates for a business. Put simply, as a sales organisation grows, the sales enablement team must evolve alongside it.

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Selling Sales Enablement as a Service

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

I lead sales enablement for HubSpot out of Dublin, Ireland and my role encompasses sales content, sales training, deal support and sales productivity. While my attention is laser focussed on helping our sales organisation hit quota, lately I’ve been thinking about how HubSpot’s partner marketing and sales agencies, of which there are more than 3,400 can sell sales enablement as a monthly recurring service.

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New Sales Enablement Report: 74% of Orgs to Increase Spend in 2023

Sales Hacker

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. And Why You Need it for Real Sales Success).

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Weak-Link or Strong-Link Sales Enablement?

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

The sales enablement industry has taken tremendous strides in recent years, but by most measures, it's still a relatively immature function. While there’s a talented and growing body of practitioners that are doing sterling work to advance the industry and sales performance, for the most part, there’s a distinct lack of standardised sales enablement best practices, planning models and frameworks. Does the sales rep (or reps) have it within them to get better?

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Why Sales Enablement is in the Business of Influence

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

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. While it may not be immediately apparent, communicating well with and managing stakeholders is a prerequisite for successful sales enablement. Sales

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The State of Sales Enablement in 2020

Sales Hacker

The post The State of Sales Enablement in 2020 appeared first on Sales Hacker. Choice Highspot Partner Sales Enablement Webinars

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3 Keys to Successful Sales Enablement

Sales Hacker

With 2021 just a handful of weeks away, join us for a fireside chat to learn impactful Sales Enablement strategies and best practices to help you gear up for the year ahead. The post 3 Keys to Successful Sales Enablement appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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The Sales Enablement Bot I Built at HubSpot

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Today, everyone working in and around sales and marketing knows that bots are hot, in vogue and quite simply, of the moment. While innovators and early adopters are embracing the opportunities afforded by bots, the fact remains that too much work within sales and marketing is still manual - too few teams are thinking of ways to automate, eliminate or optimise. With this in mind I built and launched a sales enablement bot for HubSpot sales reps. Sales

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5 Best Practices for Using Competitive Intelligence in Sales Enablement

Sales Hacker

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.

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How to Design a High-Performing Sales Enablement Program

Sales Hacker

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.

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14 Sales Enablement Tools to Close More Deals in 2023

CloseSaaS

The payoff for investing in sales enablement tools is huge. Sales OperationsBut which tool is right for you? Here's a deep look at 14 tools to help you close more deals.

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Defining and Refining Your 2021 Sales Enablement Charter

Sales Hacker

Is it just us, or is the job of sales enablement different at every company? In this live event, you will learn how to identify your current state, how to efficiently plan the next steps, and the best way to get support for your sales enablement efforts.

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Launch to sell — leverage sales enablement to maximize product launches

Intercom, Inc.

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. Here at Intercom, Sales Enablement is responsible for ensuring sales reps have the skills and resources they need to capitalize on product launches. The work of Sales Enablement begins as soon as the product roadmap is set.

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Sales Enablement: Your Secret Weapon to Building a World-Class Sales Team

Sales Hacker

For many years (and well-intentioned efforts) sales teams have struggled to recruit, retain and grow talent. While there are many hurdles to overcome when building sales teams, organizations too often underutilize the power of their sales enablement team.

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Sales Enablement Best Practices

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

One of the exciting aspects of working in an emerging area like sales enablement is that, today, nobody knows or indeed, has all the right answers. There’s no defined sales enablement best practices. As a result there’s a refreshingly high level of collaboration, modesty and openness among industry colleagues - in my experience fellow sales enablement professionals are generous with their time, humble and willing to help each other out. Sales

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

Sales Hacker

If you could spend a day with sales teams from some of the most successful companies in the world, what would you see? They’re all on board – marketing, sales, product, customer success, and executive leaders. What is sales enablement? Sales enablement has evolved quickly.

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What Good Looks Like: How Hybrid Work Has Changed Sales Enablement Forever

Sales Hacker

The world of sales enablement is evolving before our eyes. Hybrid work has increased the speed of change, and now—more than ever—sales leaders and enablement pros need the tools and guidance to keep their teams trained, connected, and effective.

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The State of Sales Enablement: Everything you need to know for 2022

Sales Hacker

Join Jonathan Carlson and Whitney Sieck as they guide you through the most important trends shaping Sales Enablement heading into 2022. The post The State of Sales Enablement: Everything you need to know for 2022 appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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How One Sales Enablement Programme Increased Sales Rep Attainment at HubSpot by 31%

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

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. The goal I’m measured by and keep the closest eye on is whether our sales organisation hits quota each month. Sales

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Launch to sell – leverage sales enablement to maximize product launches

Intercom, Inc.

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. Here at Intercom, Sales Enablement is responsible for ensuring sales reps have the skills and resources they need to capitalize on product launches. The work of Sales Enablement begins as soon as the product roadmap is set.

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How to Build a Successful Sales Enablement Initiative in 5 Steps

Sales Hacker

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. Sales Enablement Article

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Sales Enablement: The Underrated Cog of Enterprise Commercial Engines

Andreessen Horowitz

The post Sales Enablement: The Underrated Cog of Enterprise Commercial Engines appeared first on Future.

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Sales enablement: Part 3 of Predictable Revenue’s outbound sales learnings from 2018

Predictable Revenue

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. The post Sales enablement: Part 3 of Predictable Revenue’s outbound sales learnings from 2018 appeared first on Predictable Revenue. B2B Blog Book Lead Generation Sales Management Sales Process

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Sales Enablement Manager Job Description [Free Template]

CloseSaaS

A great sales enablement strategy can be the difference between a deal won and a deal lost. Having a sales enablement manager on your team can make it 10x easier for your sales team to be successful. Sales Management

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The Sales Enablement Methods You Need in a Remote Sales Reality

Sales Hacker

Join Sales Enablement leaders from Sprout Social, SHI, and Highspot for their expert take on effective onboarding, how to support a remote sales team and what sales enablement looks like going into 2021.

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Let’s Talk Talk Tracks: 15 Sales Enablement Leaders Share What Works (and What Doesn’t)

Sales Hacker

Are talk tracks just a fancy new tech take on sales scripts? Not according to these sales and sales enablement experts. A sales talk track is an outline for sales reps to follow during meetings with prospective customers. Sales Enablement Articles

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Strategic Sales Enablement: Advanced Tips to Uplevel Your Program & Drive Real Results

Sales Hacker

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.

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A Sales Enablement Framework for Real Growth (Even in Times of Crisis)

Sales Hacker

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. Sales Enablement Article

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5 traits of powerful sales enablement content and how to create it

CloseSaaS

Sales enablement content empowers your sales team with information. Here are 5 key traits of good sales enablement content and tips on content creation and distribution. Sales Management