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Listen, I can tell you about sales enablement and sales & marketing alignment until I’m blue in the face, but that doesn’t mean you’re going to believe me or listen closely. That’s fine, I am but a mere blogger just trying to spread my truths into the Universe, and whoever happens to listen and walk…

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…

While you can trace the roots to the dawn of the digital age in the 1970’s, the term sales enablement was born in 2008. Forrester researched the topic and defined it as a “strategic, ongoing process that equips all client-facing employees with the ability to consistently and systematically have a valuable conversation with the right…

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…

The decision to purchase and implement a sales enablement platform is not one that should be made lightly. It’s not like you’re buying gum here, you can’t just waltz in and select whatever catches your fancy at that particular moment. Unless you’re the kind of person with very exacting gum standards, then that analogy kind…

This article was originally published on Smart Selling Tools Blog.  If you’re a reader of Smart Selling Tools, chances are you understand the inherent value in equipping sellers with the materials they need to engage buyers.  But what is that value, exactly? We at Seismic recently partnered with research firm Demand Metric to find out…

Content, content, everywhere, nor any to send to prospects. So goes the Rime of the Ancient Seller, or something like that. It’s not hard to see the parallels between the ill-fated mariner in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s epic poem and today’s sellers. The mariner, surrounded on all sides by ocean, laments his inability to drink any…

There’s an uncomfortable truth that we need to talk about as marketers. But before we “go there,” we need to talk a bit about all of the time, effort, and spend that goes into a critical business function: the collateral that sales uses in order to sell. We recently collaborated with Demand Metric on research…