Financial Services

Explore the trends that are making recruiting a much more challenging proposition in the wealth management industry and how sales enablement technology can give advisors an edge.

At Morgan Stanley, things are starting to look decidedly different. Visit any of the multinational investment bank’s offices worldwide, and you’ll find a business-casual-clad workforce toiling away in vast, open plan workspaces that would have been inconceivable a generation ago. As wood-paneled walls get ripped out and replaced with glass partitions, the results are dramatic.…

In December 2016, Forrester published The Forrester Wave™: Sales Enablement Automation Systems, Q4 2016. At the time, our company had around 200 enterprise customers and about as many employees. If a prospective customer of ours even had anyone with the words “sales enablement” in their title, more often than not it was one person trying…

With Seismic’s new, truly personalized platform, the Era of the Smarter Seller is here. Our product is chock full of capabilities focused on making the platform as individualized as possible, such as predictive search, personalized content recommendations, and increased data to best engage buyers. Industry leaders such as Nancy Nardin of Smarter Selling Tools, Steven…

Closing a deal is often as difficult as slaying the Minotaur—you know, the monster of Greek myth who’s half-man, half-bull and lives in a giant maze.  Never met him personally but I’ve heard stories.  People love to gossip. As a seller, you find yourself trapped inside a labyrinth of a sales cycle and at the…

If it feels like we’ve been talking about account based marketing (ABM) forever at this point, well, it’s because WE HAVE. You have vague memories of your 4th grade teacher going over the concept in class. You and your fellow classmates had confused looks on your faces as you turned to each other and whispered…

Beginning on May 25, companies that collect or process data on European Union citizens will be required to comply with new privacy regulations and protections around that data. The new set of rules, called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is designed to strengthen protections around personal data and unify the EU under a consolidated…

Today we announced a definitive agreement to acquire SAVO Group, bringing together two of the major global sales enablement brands. It is a significant chapter in our company’s history and the overall sales enablement market. By bringing SAVO Group and their customer base into the Seismic family, Seismic will have more than 450 employees and…

Alright listen up. It’s time to get real. We’re getting down to business here. This is a no-nonsense blog. We’re talking marketing enablement and strictly marketing enablement. If you start talking about anything else you’re outta here! Let’s keep it clean and marketing enablement-focused. No horsing around, no roughhousing, and absolutely no monkey business whatsoever.…

Matt Cohen is Seismic’s Sales Enablement Manager. He is responsible for ensuring that we follow sales enablement best practices and both our Sales and Marketing teams operate efficiently. We spoke with Matt for our Marketing Enablement blog series. What does marketing enablement mean to you? It’s difficult to define marketing enablement without connecting it to…