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Panel: To Discovery and Beyond
By popular demand, our intrepid presales gurus are back for round two! In this session, they’ll tackle DISCOVERY, with an emphasis on remote strategies and best practices.
We are also super excited to welcome Julie Hansen to the panel! You can read more about Julie below.
This session will include another extended Q&A, so have those questions ready!
Panel: Remote Presales Strategies
In this webinar, join our panel of presales gurus and thought leaders as we discuss remote presales strategies. Presales professionals also pose questions to our experts in an open Q&A session.
Scaling Presales Webinar: 8 Proven Strategies
Scale Presales: Explore 8 strategies to boost coverage and customer experience with existing head count. Sales engineers are extremely high-value sales assets with difficult training requirements. Learn to scale your efforts and maximize live interactions with these proven strategies.
Case Studies
Trintech
SaaS (Presales)
Reduced unqualified demos from 50% to <5%
Demo lag time decreased from 14 days to <1 day
Enterprise Customer
SaaS (Presales)
Doubled annual demo capacity from 28,000 to 56,000
Increased digital engagement by 40%.
The Access Group
Sales Team Onboarding
Onboarded more than 250 Sales reps in less than seven days
Discovered 371 new stakeholders
Oracle Solution Consultants
SaaS (Presales)
Over $738,462 saved on one team in 1 year.
Closed deals as large as $75K without a live demo.
Enterprise Customer
SaaS (Sales)
68% reduction to sales cycle.
27% increase in close rate in first 90 days.
IBM Solution Consultants
Server Hardware
67% of target orgs watched a demo
Discovered 59 decision makers
Torch LMS
SaaS (Sales & Mktg)
Converted leads at 11%
Better qualified live demos
CleanTelligent
SaaS (Sales & Mktg)
Increase qualified leads from the website
Discover, educate, and engage the buying group
Customers
Infographics
Guides
Scaling Presales: 8 Strategies to Boost Coverage
Eight strategies to boost coverage and customer experience with existing sales engineering headcount
Essential Guide to Giving the Perfect Sales Demo
More than fundamentals, learn how to personalize your approach to each stakeholder.
Research
2020 Sales Engineer Compensation and Workload Report
We surveyed over 460 participants, including both leaders and practitioners of sales engineering, primarily from software companies, about their salaries and workload. Most responses came from North America and Europe.
This report includes visualizations of and brief commentary about the results. The areas explored in this report include:
- Base salary for sales engineers and presales leaders
- OTE (On Target Earnings) for sales engineers and presales leaders
- AE:SE Ratios
- Demo Lag Time
- Sale Engineer Training Time
- Hours Per Demo
- Demos Per Week Per SE
- Unqualified Demos
- Demos Per Deal
- Delegating Demos to Sales
- Using Demo Automation
- Presales KPIs
Ebooks
Buyer Enablement: A Modern Approach to B2B Selling
Equip your champion(s) and they’ll do the selling for you.
Essential Guide to Shortening Sales Cycles
Why sales cycles have increased 22% over the last 5 years and what to do about it.
The Agile Sales Tech Stack
A guide to growth through leveraging key core and emerging technologies
Webinars
The Scaling Presales Webinar Series
The Buyer Enablement Webinar Series
Buyer Enablement
Webinar: Buyer Enablement Is the Only Strategy That Matters
Watch Now Description Get the definitive crash course in Buyer Enablement.Ever feel like you struggle to discover or engage all the relevant stakeholders - like you're selling in the dark?Does misalignment in stakeholder priorities ever bomb your deals?Or how about...
Webinar: How To Craft Razor-Sharp Sales Questions
Learn the anatomy of a great sales question as well as how to craft and deliver your own.
Webinar: Building Buying Consensus: Lessons From 20 Years of Research
Hear the founder of B2P Partners, a leading B2B marketing and sales strategy group, discuss insights from their 20 years of research on the buying process in 20 minutes.
