Follow-up to my post What is the Sales Enablement market size and how hot is it? that has my constantly updated public table/sheet of all vendors I’m aware of & definitions of Sales Enablement I subscribe to:
Out of 4 vendors Scott Santucci talked about in CRM magazine’s article ‘Sales Enablement Tools’ in 2010, …
“[…] Santucci says each of the relevant vendors — including BizSphere, iCentera, Kadient, & Savo Group — cater to slightly different problems. […]”
…only one still operates under the same name in 2015.
Besides the ever increasing number of new market entrants, what Sales Enablement vendors are really competing with and will be for the foreseeable future is email!
A recent whitepaper with data from an August 2015 survey by Highspot and Heinz Marketing says
“More than 70% of respondents rely on email to distribute content to their sales organization.”
It might seem logical to expect the importance of email to decline as baby boomers are retiring and millennials advance in the workforce.
However, the October 2015 IBV Millennial Survey ‘How Millennials are reshaping B2B marketing‘ by the IBM Institute for Business Value suggests a distinct preference for email amongst millennials. [This was for engaging with b2b vendors after the sales cycle has started, but in terms of the type of activity and state of mind it could be compared to receiving content from your own marketing / sales enablement organization.]
Source: IBV Millennial survey. ©2015 IBM Corporation
For sales enablement teams that means that for their most important task – as per the whitepaper with data from an August 2015 survey by Highspot and Heinz Marketing – “Making sure sales team can find content” they have to focus on ways to make that happen via email or deeply integrated with email.
Source: whitepaper with data from an August 2015 survey by Highspot & Heinz Marketing
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