January 2016
Beginner
408 pages
8h 55m
English
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Chapter 9
Embracing Sales Enablement
In This Chapter
Learning where your company fits on the maturity scale
Considering the evolving role of sales reps
Accommodating the needs of salespeople
Improving the sales coaching process
Sales Enablement (SE) is a relatively new term (circa 2010) that focuses on the processes, tools, and techniques companies use to increase the effectiveness of their salesforce and includes marketing automation, digital asset management, CRM systems, and social media monitoring tools.
Of course, the idea of creating sales content to improve sales is not new. Companies have struggled with getting their products into the hands of their customers for centuries. In the early 1900s, the Jell-O Company had its salespeople distribute free Jell-O recipe cookbooks to customers to show how to use Jell-O with their favorite dishes. It is recorded that more than 15 million cookbooks were distributed in some years and the sales of Jell-O doubled over time.
What is new is the use of the web to assist salespeople in getting the right information to the customer at the right ...
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