sales strategy
Behind the Scenes with Tamara Schenk, Sales Enablement Book Co-Author
Perhaps more than anyone else in the world, Tamara Schenk knows sales enablement. She has been conducting research and publishing studies and research-based blog posts on the topic with CSO Insights for many years and is the top expert to consult when you want hard data and deep insights.
On Differentiation
Differentiation is critical in helping customers select our solution over the alternatives. As important as it is, most sales people do a terrible job at differentiation.
Here's how to compete with the 800 pound gorilla in your industry
More than seventy percent of buyers wait until after they have fully defined their needs before contacting a salesperson to discuss a product or service. That finding, from CSO Insight’s new white paper, The Growing Buyer-Seller Gap, underscores the growing trend we all know and most of us hate:
What exactly is a value proposition?
Everybody knows you need a good value proposition in order to sell effectively. But does anyone know exactly what a value proposition is? If you ask 100 sales professionals, you’ll likely get 100 different definitions, some more useful than others.
We Need To Stop Our Fixation On Buyer Journeys
Recently, I participated in a discussion on “the buyers journey.” In some ways, I suppose I should have been happy that we were at least focused on the buyer, normally we obsess about our products/solutions and how we inflict them on our customers.
Is the current SDR model destroying your effectiveness?
A lot of companies think that in order to be effective in sales, they need a large team of young, inexpensive "Sales Development Reps" (SDRs) lining up emails, inmails and sales calls and talking customers into exploring their products & services. This model of sales started in Silicon Valley, and has been successful in expanding the reach of many SaaS and other technology companies.
