Working closely with customers to drive improvements and enhancements has been an insightful process for our team. With more than 20,000 sales professionals depending on us, we’ve learned a lot about how you work. Every interaction we’ve had with you has informed the way we think about our product development, design philosophy, and our future…
Sales Enablement wades through an ocean of challenges and problems every day. Some are well known – sales and marketing alignment, an unclear mission, difficult metrics – and some are just becoming apparent – technology, data integrity, and messaging included. It’s easy to see these all as equal roadblocks to advancing the sales team and…
The player-manager may have died off with Pete Rose, but the legacy is still strong in baseball, soccer, and basketball. The theory goes that your best players, as they reach the end of their superstar prime, can have an impact both on the field and the bench. Players like Rose and Bill Russell continue to…
Product demonstrations are common to almost every sales cycle, a chance for reps to show off the platform or solution and push the conversation forward. Yet, they tend to be either heavily scripted previews, at best, or a waste of a prospect’s time, at worst. Why aren’t reps practicing this crucial phase of the buyer…
ATD’s 2016 Conference is taking place at home in Denver on May 22nd-25th. The Association for Talent Development’s annual conference covers all aspects of the learning and training space, with a particular focus on the strategies and technologies that enable sales. As usual, the event is packed with sessions to move enablement forward. As the…
2016’s SiriusDecisions Summit is right around the corner – May 24-27 in Nashville. This event always serves as one of the most progressive windows into the evolution of the Sales, Marketing, & Enablement ecosystem. Over the past couple of years, the things that we’ve taken away have provided much of our strategic roadmap at CommercialTribe.…
Part of working with enterprise sales teams is being able to witness the range of approaches to new hire training. With so many different potential avenues to engaging reps early and driving long-term learning, it can become challenging to identify what an organization does right, and what is stunting growth. Luckily, when you look at…
The narrative that team silos form in big organizations is true, but the impact of hidden knowledge reaches even the smallest of teams. No matter the size of the organization, the divides between Product, Marketing, Sales, and any other team can be well established and hard to break. Reinforced on all sides, it takes a…
Sales Kickoff remains one of the best ways to energize the team, check in on performance and progress, and introduce the new strategies on hand for the year. This is when products and messages for most companies meet the road and start to reach your prospects. Adding a simple element to the formula – pre-work…
Practice is an incredible tool for sales teams. What reps say is critically important to whether a deal closes or a prospect converts, and the better reps can share the right message, the more likely they are to see a positive outcome. Yet, practice does not automatically get at what SiriusDecisions calls the #1 reason…