RevOps Co-op Weekly #88 - The Shift to Real-Time Enablement
Accelerating deals is the bread and butter of sales. But, what do we do when there’s too many tools to make sense of? Real-time enablement is one answer.
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The Shift to Real-Time Enablement
Sales is a tough nut to crack. Add in tens of sales, marketing, and revenue tools to your tech stack, and your sales teams are drowning in information. Learn how real-time enablement can make selling a breeze from our very first published Creator Guild member Patrick Monnot.
The Complexity of Enterprise Sales
Enterprise sales has been around for as long as products and services have been sold. It has evolved significantly over the last 20 years but remains misunderstood—many still assume that salesmanship is alone driven by great “people skills.”
Sales teams now play a more critical role than ever within high-growth organizations. Account executives often sit at the intersection of many functions – marketing, product, implementation, finance, etc. – to ensure a company is bringing to market the best possible product to its customers and that customers' problems are solved.
As buyers’ expectations grow, sellers also have to adapt. After all, a great product doesn’t “sell itself.” A thoughtful, personalized, and consultative selling approach alone can differentiate industry leaders from the rest of the pack. It’s also important to note that the complexity of an account executive’s job is rooted in the fact that every deal is unique. Each prospect has different timing, needs, stakeholders, decision criteria, and more. There isn’t just one known playbook to close a large enterprise deal.
An account executive's role is to understand their prospects' situation, navigate it tactfully, guide them in their purchasing journey, and leverage available company resources to present a solution that can solve their needs.
Navigating the AE time crunch
So, how do they do it in the most efficient way? What tools are they using to get the work done? The answer isn’t very clear and honestly, it’s quite confusing. With the growing prevalence of sales technology tools over the past 10 years, account executives have to work with a fragmented sales stack, juggling between 10+ different tools in their day-to-day. RevOps has a responsibility to make this a smooth process.
Information is spread across their CRM, OneNote, Google Drive, emails, Gong, Salesforce, and much more. Navigating through this creates significant cognitive overhead – or what I like to call it, the “tab apocalypse.” Sellers are stuck with the burden of maintaining these tools, but also trying to find the latest, most relevant information across the intricate web of tools.
“As a result, account executives will, on average, only spend a fraction of their day on selling and talking to customers, the rest being spent on low-value admin work.”
This problem has only been exacerbated in the past two years, as most sales teams are transitioning toward a remote-first model; no more elbow-tapping, collaboration is more complex and account executives are naturally isolated. Their digital tools are now the only medium to stay organized, interact with colleagues, and get enabled. We have to be more intentional now than ever in how we support our sellers. They are the heart and soul of our revenue organization.
…There’s more! Read full Blog here 👉 The Shift to Real-Time Enablement
🗣 From the Community
#04_revops-questions - Defining - and Tracking - MQLs
06/07/22 - What makes an MQL? Where is it logged (campaign member, lead/contact, or other?) When is it logged (what activity is the precursor)? Do you account for multiple responses on a single account? Are they all MQLs or is just the first response while the account is being actively worked? Read 17 replies
#04_revops-questions - Custom Object/Page in SFDC
06/06/22 - Has anyone ever created a custom object/page for an implementation team on Salesforce? Read 16 replies
#08_tools-and-software - Outreach CSMs
06/09/22 - Does anyone know what size of Outreach account you need to get access to a CSM? Read 12 replies
#08_tools-and-software - Domain Name Tools
06/10/22 - Does anyone have a free tool (or a tool with a free trial) to help me get domain names from a list of company names? Read 11 replies
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The Mistake Marketing Leaders Make and the Impact It Has - Micro Campaigns vs GTM Strategy | Demand Gen Made Simple
Most marketing leaders need to rethink their marketing plan. The unintentional decision to only execute micro campaigns without developing a larger go-to-market strategy results in making their marketing team irrelevant. Stop making this mistake. Start justifying marketing's importance.
Efficiency through Aligned Go-To-Market Teams | Revenue Talks
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