Why isn’t more sales enablement happening? I see groups on LinkedIn with 10,000+ members devoted to talking about it. Every client, technology vendor and consultant agrees that sales enablement is a great idea. Over 1800 people attended Forrester’s Sales Enablement Forum and sat through Scott Santucci’s “State of the Union” style address on sales enablement. But literally not […]
This is not an April Fools’ joke: B2B marketing executed entirely in-house almost always goes wrong. Even if your in-house marketing team already has the proper mix of marketing specialists (artists) vs marketing generalists (managers), it’s still risky to execute marketing initiatives solely in-house. Here’s why: Your clients don’t pay you to get emotional An agency’s clients explicitly […]
A new trend is emerging in the service industry. Attorneys, event producers, real estate firms, language translation companies, architects, cleaning services and even electrical contractors are beginning to differentiate themselves with technology. We’re calling it the tech-service hybrid. Each industry uses technology differently, but they’re united by a competitive advantage that relies primarily on software […]
In a recent conversation I had with Mark Wayland, he mentioned that in his 30 years of sales coaching, the best meetings are always the ones where the client is sitting next to you and you’re both sketching on a piece of paper together. That is what the iPad and other tablets can do, but […]
Why Didn’t B2B Start Marketing Sooner? I doubt I need to make much of a case for the fact that most B2B marketing is less than stellar. You probably work at a company. When was the last time someone tried to sell you something and you said, “Wow, their marketing was incredible!” I’ll guess basically […]
I had a conversation with Craig Nelson of the Sales Enablement Group because I wanted to get a clearer picture about what type of organizations were practicing sales enablement. I opened up the conversation to the LinkedIn community a few weeks back and got some very interesting perspectives. Here’s the link to the conversation on LinkedIn. Here are […]
I recently had the opportunity to interview Craig Nelson of Sales Enablement Group. I asked him why the trend of sales enablement has really taken off in the past few years. Why sales enablement? Why now? I also opened the conversation up to the wider LinkedIn community and there are some really great opinions came […]
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