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# Go Beyond Sales Enablement To Engage The Modern Buyer, Matt Suggs

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## [Sales Enablement Tips](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/introduction-to-sales-enablement) you'll learn in [The Sales Podcast](https://www.thesaleswhisperer.com/podcast)...

- Army Engineer
- Employee #393 at Ariba before being acquired by SAP
- Employee #10 at MediaFly, now with 75
- Concentration of staff in Chicago with several on the West Coast
- Put in the effort to stay connected to your remote staff
- Traveling helps him stay connected with his sales team
- Mediafly is used in front of your customer to create a seamless presentation
- Track the experience and leverage machine learning and call tracking with sharing tracking
- Use Mediafly instead of PowerPoint!
- B2B buyers are frustrated with educating salespeople
- Reduce friction between buyers and sellers by giving appropriate levels of information to educate and create mystique
- Have a [sales conversation](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/chris-orlob-artificial-intelligence) vs giving a one-way presentation
- Understand your personas
- Send relevant insights specific to their industries to get the attention of your B2B prospects
- Cold calling and direct outreach can and does work
- Forrester published "Death of a Salesman," but a professional salesperson is still needed
- B2B buyers still have access to data, now more than ever 
    - So they are educated from online information, colleagues, analysts, and even social media sites and forums
    - But not all of the information is correct

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- Now we have to consider the problems of the customer as well as what they think they know.
- Email marketing 
    - Have a good hook in your email subject line
    - Open rates are declining
    - Insert good leads into nurturing campaigns
    - Leverage multi-media, multi-touch marketing to stay top-of-mind
- It's tough to get into a large enterprise with a door-to-door visit
- Expand into similar / related industries
- Get clear on knowing what the prospect doesn't know but thinks they know!
- Show up by adding value 
    - 74% would buy from the first salesperson that brought critical insights to them
- Automate more transactions so you can focus on value-added services 
    - Switching-costs are declining

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