Tag: Positioning & Sales Enablement
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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 […]
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How to Create a B2B Sales Demo Script
Sales demos are the easiest way to verbalize your value story and showcase your unique differentiation. The product might be the centerpiece of a sales demo but the presenter’s delivery is the difference-maker, competitors or not. Don’t think of a demo script like an actor memorizing lines for a movie. The purpose of a demo […]
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Product Marketing vs. Portfolio Marketing: Which One is More Effective in B2B?
The easiest way to think of product marketing vs. portfolio marketing is the age-old motto, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Your portfolio has more market and customer value than the sum of the products. What is Product Marketing? In B2B, product marketing is focused on articulating the value of individual […]
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How to Make a Product Demo Video That Converts Leads to Customers
In today’s marketing environment, video content is king. In B2B, an effective product demo video can either make or break your sales pipeline. According to research by Wyzowl, “88% of people say that they’ve been convinced to buy a product or service by watching a brand’s video.” Even if your product is not one that […]
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3 Creative Ways to Learn New B2B Skills for Product Management, Product Marketing and Product Demos
If you want to learn new B2B skills, it doesn’t mean you have to sit in a classroom (physical or virtual) for hours with an instructor, or labor through hours of video in self-paced courses. Here are three creative ways to up-level the B2B value skills of your Product Management, Product Marketing and Product Demo […]
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Adopting a Customer Value Model & the Culture Change
From a day-to-day execution perspective, the customer value model primarily touches product management, engineering, product marketing, sales and customer success. The culture shift however, absolutely positively starts in the C-suite. Here are the three biggest reasons organizations use a customer value model. What is The Customer Value Model? The customer value model is a simple […]