Sales Enablement Agility To Boost Product Growth 

BoldPM Insights | April 24, 2021 |Hector Del Castillo

We identify sales enablement insights, methods, and tools used by leading companies to significantly increase product growth and adoption.

  • Understand Buyer Needs – including industry trends, common business problems, and the competitive options available to buyers to solve their issues.
  • Sell New Products – get up to speed quickly on recently launched products.
  • Deal with Objections – learn how to respond to common objections with answers that have been proven to put the buyer at ease and change their thinking about a key issue.
  • Pitch with Confidence – having the knowledge and tools they need inspires rep confidence.
  • Produce Faster – new reps start producing in less time with a solid Sales Enablement program.
  • Equip Champions – with content that buyers can use to internally sell your solution for you.

Sales enablement are integrated activities to provide your sales team with content, tools, knowledge, and information they need to close more deals faster. The best way to do so is to use lean agile methods to foster greater collaboration between marketing, sales, customer experience and customer service. More than simply a single process or methodology, sales enablement agility is the ability to:

  • How to gain product growth and adoption: In the past five years, the sales enablement function has experienced a 343% increase in adoption.
  • What are key sales enablement components: Leading teams that focus on revenue and adoption outperform the competition.
  • What are leading virtual enablement platforms: In the face of COVID-19, practitioners that leverage a sales enablement platform for their sales teams report win rates that are 7 percentage points higher than those that do not.
  • How to manage the customer experience: Enablement teams that focus on enhancing the customer experience by enabling post-sales roles such as account management achieve win rate improvements of 4 percentage points.

Here are the advantages of adopting agile methods:

Here are the top challenges product managers and their teams face post pandemic. Many of these will last well beyond 2021.

These are the top attributes of implementing agile sales enablement to empower your product sales teams to become more effective and efficient.

Here are six steps to boost sales enablement agility for greater product growth and adoption.

Here are activities and deliverables for each of the six phases:

Phase 1: Approval

STEP 1: Assess Organizational Readiness

STEP 2: Build the Marketing Plan

STEP 3: Create a Strategy Scorecard  

STEP 4: Monitor Project Deliverables

Phase 2: Prepare

STEP 1: Conduct a Sales Support Survey  

STEP 2: Assess Sales & Marketing Alignment  

STEP 3: Audit Condition of Existing Assets  

STEP 4: Outline New Roles & Responsibilities

Phase 3: Implement

STEP 1: Implement a CRM System

STEP 2: Implement a Marketing Automation System  

STEP 3: Implement a Sales Intelligence System  

STEP 4: Implement a CPQ System (if necessary)  

STEP 5: Implement an Enablement KM System  

STEP 6: Implement a Sales Communication System  

STEP 7: Request Proposals for Your SE System

Phase 4: Build

STEP 1: Identify Key Buyer Personas & Needs  

STEP 2: Map Assets & Messages to Buying Process  

STEP 3: Build a Sales Playbook

STEP 4: Put Playbook in Sales Enablement System

Phase 5: Launch

STEP 1: Launch to Pilot Group of Sales Reps

STEP 2: Launch to Sales Team

STEP 3: Launch to Channel Partners

Phase 6: Measure

STEP 1: Set Up a Metrics Dashboard  

STEP 2: Conduct a Post-Project Review  

STEP 3: Update the Sales Playbook

Upon completing these six steps, be sure to review lessons learned and identify areas for improvement. 

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Hector Del Castillo
Chief Product Officer, BoldPM

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