Tag: Positioning & Sales Enablement
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Develop a Content Strategy for Product Marketing in 5 Steps
Developing a content strategy for product marketing requires an approach similar to product positioning. It’s about meeting your target customers in their comfort zone with insightful content that strikes an emotional chord. The end game is to open more doors for sales at the decision-maker/influencer level and give them higher quality leads that are warmer […]
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Qualifying Your Account Executives Before a Demo
If you’re a solution consultant (SC), sales engineer (SE), or any other role that does sales demos, there’s nothing more uncomfortable than going into a demo and not knowing what you’re aiming for. Qualifying your account executives prior to the demo is a practice that’s beneficial to everyone, including the buyer. The cold hard reality is […]
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Free eBook: Top-Down Customer Discovery – Uncovering THE BIG WHY
I published this eBook to highlight the number one goal of customer discovery! It’s to make sure the products and services you’re building, marketing, selling and delivering are consistently tied to something that has measurable strategic value to your customers. That’s why the top-down aspect of customer discovery is so critical to success and why […]
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Creating a Value Based Resume – Stop TELLING and Start SELLING
Creating a value based resume means it’s time to treat yourself as a product that has strategic (employer) value. The hard part is avoiding the trap of TELLING employers what the product (you) does versus SELLING its value. Here we are in the early part of 2023 and so many of my talented friends, former […]
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Product Demos: Avoiding the Trap of Telling vs. Selling
If you’re a pre-sales solution consultant or sales engineer, falling into the trap of telling vs selling can happen before you know it, even though your intentions are always on the mark to start the demo. Here’s how to avoid the trap. The Difference Between Telling and Selling Demos Telling Demos The telling demo is […]
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Creating a Sales Playbook: 5 Must-Haves
The whole point of creating a sales playbook is to give your sales team “situational sales tools” that make them highly effective in every part of the sales process. The end game is shorter sales cycles where your products and services are the clear choice. What is a Sales Playbook? A sales playbook is a […]
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Product Management University Launches The Customer Outcome Framework for Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales and Customer Success
One View of the Customer. No Silos. Measurable Customer Value. Today, Product Management University announced the availability of its Customer Outcome Framework for B2B. It’s a simpler approach for bringing quantifiable strategic value to the customer versus the typical approach of focusing solely on customer problems. The Customer Outcome Framework The Customer Outcome Framework employs […]
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Solution Selling vs. Aspirational Selling
Solution selling is like vanilla ice cream. Everyone knows what it is. It’s simple and it meets the most basic criteria for a dessert. Here’s the thing. If you and all of your competitors are serving vanilla ice cream to buyers, you’re missing an enormous opportunity to differentiate and improve your win rates. Aspirational selling […]
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Product Marketing Roadmaps – Your Revenue Destination With Turn-by-Turn Directions
Product marketing roadmaps aren’t a staple in most B2B organizations, but there are a host of reasons they should be. The biggest reason metaphorically speaking, is they willingly “fence the salesforce” into your most lucrative markets and give them a shorter path to meeting sales quotas and revenue goals. What is a Product Marketing Roadmap? […]
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Webinar Archive: Using a Customer Outcome Model to Meet the Flat Economy Head On
The flattening economy or threat of a recession can force your target customers into do-nothing mode, and that’s bad news for everyone. Learn what a customer outcome model is, why it’s easier than anything you’re doing now, and how product management, product marketing and sales can use it to meet the down economy head on, uncover new value opportunities and still […]