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Blog:The Credibility Crisis Of Competitive And Market Intelligence

Leaders of competitive and market intelligence teams know that something is wrong. They tell Forrester this every day. They describe it as being similar to when your car doesn’t drive quite...

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Report:Forrester's Sales Battle Card Evaluation Results

Insights Into Building Battle Cards That Help Sales Reps Win Deals

Sales enablement professionals are increasingly stepping up to fix the massive inventories of battle cards at their companies that provide inconsistent value to sales reps. These battle cards...

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Report:Using Standards To Accelerate Your Sales Battle Card Transformation

Insights Into Building Battle Cards That Help Reps Win Deals

To justify your investment, sales battle cards must help sales outmaneuver competitors and ultimately increase their overall win rate in competitive deals. Given the siloed way competitive insight is...

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Blog:What's Happening With Forrester's Battle Card Standards?

For those of you following Forrester’s project to create industry standards for battle cards, I want to give you a glimpse into the group’s progress and remind you about Forrester’s...

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Blog:Customer & Market Intelligence For Sales Enablement Success

A few years ago, I took the helm of customer & market intelligence (CMI) for a large vendor. Executives wanted analysis that was more relevant — intelligence that was “deeper,”...

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Report:Align Sales Battle Cards With Customer Priorities

Effective sales reps display a strong competency �often unconsciously � of establishing mindshare with their customers. The best ones influence customers and beat competitors by focusing on the...

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Blog:Establishing Standards To Manage Battle Cards

During my daily conversations with technology vendors about battle cards, I am encountering leaders that are taking a different approach. Sales leaders are taking responsibility for the portfolio of...

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Blog:Tech Vendors Are Disconnected From Customers' New Reality

It's a shame to get old! My oldest child recently announced that he and his wife are having a child themselves. On one hand, I am thrilled at the prospects of having a smiling infant in the...

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Tool:Average Grades For Usability

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Report:Create Sales-Ready Market Intelligence Using Forrester's Customer Conversation Framework

Engineering Valuable Content For Sales Enablement Success

Market intelligence teams typically support sales enablement executive decisions around key sales strategies like coverage models, channel alignment, and prospect targets but rarely support sales...

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Blog:Redefining Sales-Ready Battle Cards

A theme that frequently shows up in survey data and during interviews with purchasing executives is that customers care more about how tech vendors sell than what they sell. Tech customers now put...

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Tool:The Distribution Of Evaluation Scores Is An Indicator Of Industry Maturity

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Blog:Overhauling Battle Cards (And Transforming Other Sales Tools)

As part of Forrester’s research into sales enablement, I recently took a journey to “plumb the depths” of sales battle cards. Why? Sales reps at technology companies tell Forrester...

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Blog:Tech Vendors Are Disconnected Across Three Silos

Technology vendors are disconnected from their customers. If the problem were simple, such as changing message themes, tech vendors could easily adapt. When looking at tech vendors, the...

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Blog:A Shared Vision Of Success - With Customer & Market Intelligence

Successful sales enablement reaches beyond just sales. Marketing functions such as customer and market intelligence (CMI) supply materials to your direct sales teams. This content can significantly...

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Report:Build Battle Cards That Focus On Buyer Priorities

Insights Into Building Battle Cards That Help Sales Reps Win Deals

Sales reps need battle cards to anticipate and counter competitors' claims in sales conversations, but today's battle cards are little more than side-by-side product comparisons. Sales enablement...

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Report:Enhance Sales Success With Better Battle Cards

Designing And Delivering Content For Sales Conversations

Competitive and market intelligence (CMI) teams produce battle cards that help sales reps anticipate and respond to competitors' claims. Sales reps, however, don't value today's battle cards, which...

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Tool:Average Grades For Validation

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Report:Use Competitive Selling Scenarios To Build Better Battle Cards

Designing And Delivering Competitive Content For Sales Conversations

CMI leaders we speak with are as painfully aware that today's battle cards fall short of expectations and don't line up with sales reps' needs as they are unclear about how to bridge the gap. Sales...

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Blog:Why Standards For Battle Cards Are A Good Idea

During the first week in August, Forrester launched the Battle Card Standards Group to address head on the challenges and opportunities that they face in creating competitive battle cards for sales...

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Tool:Evaluation Question Scores Relate To "Pass" Or "Fail" Grades

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Blog:Join Me On September 7th For A Discussion On Building Better Battle Cards

For months, I’ve blogged about the reasons why battle cards are important, ways to evaluate battle cards, and most recently, the need for standards to tighten their value and give battle card...

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Report:Make Business And Customer Intelligence Sales-Ready Using Forrester's Framework

Engineering Valuable Content For Sales Enablement Success

Today, business and customer intelligence (BCI) leaders and teams at tech vendors gather information about target companies and key decision-makers, and their deliverables consist of data —...

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Report:Forrester's Standards Guide For Sales-Ready Competitive Battle Cards

To accelerate the work of sales enablement professionals in overhauling sales battle cards, Forrester organized a group of experienced practitioners who helped create Forrester’s battle card...

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Blog:Questions From Forrester’s Sales Enablement Teleconference, May 17, 2011

Earlier this week, our Sales Enablement team hosted a teleconference about building battle cards that better line up with sales reps’ needs. If you missed the teleconference, you can download...