Some days you work on strategy. Other days it’s all about tactics and execution. And some days, it’s just about supporting your Sales team.
Category Archive: Sales
Oct 24
Enterprise Sales is Dead. Long Live Enterprise Sales.
The demise of the traditional enterprise software sales model is widely reported. And widely, and joyously, celebrated. And for good reason. The model has bugs. Lots of them. It’s expensive (personnel, travel). It’s time consuming. Picking good reps is hard; many fail. Finding good sales engineers is incredibly hard — often even good reps …
Dec 18
A Marketing Guy’s Thoughts on What I’ve Learned About Working With Sales
Note: This is an update of a post I wrote in 2008 for the Technology Marketing Alliance blog. Why do software companies have marketing departments? When I meet prospective employees, I like to ask some variant of this question. The answer is usually pretty telling about the candidate. While I’ve heard some, er, interesting responses, …
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