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Sales Battlecards: 8 Tips to Help You Win More Deals

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The sales battlecard is an extraordinarily impactful tool for any business in a competitive B2B market. As we'll discuss in the 2021 State of Competitive Intelligence Report (coming soon!), 71% of businesses that leverage sales battlecards say these tools have helped them increase their win rate.

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How to Win More Competitive Deals (and Lose With Dignity)

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Competitive deals are emotional. You’re in sales because you like to win and make money. How could they not be? Competitors get in the way of both. I don’t care how senior you are— when a competitor gets in your way , it’s frustrating.

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12 Actionable Outcomes of Competitive Intelligence

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Competitive Intelligence (CI) is a function that fits into every business strategy. No matter what your product or service is, you’ve got competitors fighting to win the same business as you and crafting strategies to stand out from the rest of your market. Let’s dig into some key actionable outcomes of competitive intelligence.

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Win/Loss Analysis: Everything You Need to Know

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Win/loss analysis is an essential practice for anyone who wants to better understand their competitive landscape and continuously optimize processes across sales, marketing, product management, and beyond. Why do we win some deals and lose others? How often do we win against Competitor XYZ? Let’s jump in!

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

Longer sales cycles. Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. By building a modern GTM motion that uses data, automation, and proven best practices to unlock insights, engage customers, and win faster. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews.

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Introducing Seller Engagement: A New Way to Analyze Battlecard Usage and Win Rates

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Creating competitive enablement assets like battlecards can feel like a futile effort if they aren’t being used by your sales team. Are we seeing results where it matters most — win rates?! Is anyone reading this intel? Are these battlecards making an impact on how my reps compete?

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Sales Enablement Metrics: 7 Ways to Measure Success

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Whether you’re a marketer or a sales manager, there are innumerable ways you can empower sellers to do their jobs more effectively. You can provide intel that helps them win competitive deals. Competitive win rate. Sales cycle length. You can provide content that helps them personalize emails.

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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.