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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

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

Micro Focus
SaaS (Marketing)
$3M pure pipeline generated
77% conversion rate over 10 months

Impartner
SaaS (Marketing)
PRM solution sees 10x increase in leads
Tailored persona messaging

CleanTelligent
SaaS (Sales & Mktg)
Increase qualified leads from the website
Discover, educate, and engage the buying group

Torch LMS
SaaS (Sales & Mktg)
Converted leads at 11%
Better qualified live demos

Carowinds
B2B Sales (Events)
3X Conversion Rates
21 hrs 14m engagement

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

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.