Sales Effectiveness

The world of sales and marketing encompasses a lot of different positions. To simply say you are in marketing or sales doesn’t do nearly enough to accurately convey what you actually do in your day-to-day. And to outsiders who aren’t familiar, the nuances of different positions can be lost on them. One of the biggest…

Sales enablement has now reached a point in its development that some organizations are starting to build departments strictly geared towards sales enablement, as well as hire people with titles related to sales enablement.  However, many organizations are still in the beginning phases of sales enablement, and there’s one question that is hugely influential on…

We are now in an age where buyers expect more and more. And because the buyer is always right, we have to play by their rules. It’s no longer acceptable to just hand off the same old plain, generic content that might’ve worked 10-15 years ago. SiriusDecisions reports that 82% of decision makers believe sellers…

Tools that automate proposals save organizations countless hours and dollars. Without a tool to automate proposals your organization can miss out on deals. The platforms available today reduce the friction of fulfilling an RFP by providing users with the ability to automate the process, track results, reuse templates, quickly customize a proposal, and collaborate within…

What is sales excellence? Well, excellence is an amorphous and difficult thing to not only define but also achieve. We could spend years in therapy talking about how to know when you’ve achieved excellence in both your personal and professional life. When will all these feelings of inadequacy and inability to measure up to Bill…

Many of us grew up in a time when sales was considered a numbers game. Make more dials, get more sales, right? Fortunately – or unfortunately, depending on your viewpoint – that is just not true anymore. In the search for increased sales, profitability, and market differentiation, vendors are scrambling to become solution-oriented. This results…

The manufacturing industry is enormous and amorphous. It’s difficult to find a one-size fits all definition to encapsulate the industry. Manufacturing can consist of creating some of the largest machines in the world, or some of the tiniest. However, most manufacturing organizations will run into similar problems, and how those problems are solved can often…

Last week was the Sales Enablement Society conference in Denver, and it was incredible to see the number of attendees dedicated to sales enablement and invested in the growth of the industry. It was truly a community of learning in Denver. Here are the three biggest takeaways from the conference about the sales enablement community:…

Product marketers are often akin to chefs in the kitchen. They’re going from preparing the vegetables, to checking on the boiling water, to searing the meat, to finishing the side dishes, to finally plating the food. Then they start all over again. This is all to say that product marketers are responsible for a lot…

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…