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Crayon Competitive Intelligence Blog

9 Sales Enablement Tools Your Team Needs to Win a Competitive Battle

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Emily Dumas on Thu, Sep 10, 2020

A sales rep has entered a competitive situation: are they ready to go to battle and win? A lot can go into preparing that sales rep to handle questions, objections, and deliver just the right positioning to tee up a competitive win. From trainings, to on-demand resources, to timely competitive updates, there are a variety of ways to successfully arm your sales team to win over that soon-to-be customer in a competitive situation. Here are nine key sales enablement tools to choose from.

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Product Marketing Spotlight Series: Blake Grubbs

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Emily Dumas on Tue, Sep 8, 2020

Crayon's Product Marketing Spotlight is an interview series where we chat with product marketers to get a glimpse into their careers and gain unique insight into product marketing strategy. In this...

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How to Leverage Product Reviews In Your Competitor Analysis

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Ben Cope on Tue, Sep 1, 2020

Review sites are jam-packed with competitive intelligence (CI). On review sites, you’ll find both happy and unhappy customers giving insight into your competitors’ products and outlining strengths...

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How Well Does Your Sales Team Pivot?

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John Judge on Fri, Aug 28, 2020

Remember not long ago when we’d never heard of Dr. Anthony Fauci, had no idea what Zoombombing was, only occasionally worried about getting the flu? We came into 2020 like we do most years, with...

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Battlecards 101: Measuring and Optimizing Your Battlecards

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Emily Dumas on Wed, Aug 26, 2020

Now that we’ve covered the basics of creating battlecards and walked through driving battlecard adoption in our Battlecards 101 series, it’s time to take the next step. By now, you’ve created and...

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Product Marketing Spotlight Series: Melanie Grefsheim

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Emily Dumas on Thu, Aug 20, 2020

Crayon's Product Marketing Spotlight is an interview series where we chat with product marketers to get a glimpse into their careers and gain unique insight into product marketing strategy. In this...

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8 Stats to Reference When Starting a Competitive Intelligence Program

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Ellie Mirman on Tue, Aug 18, 2020

Just took a new role in competitive intelligence? Congrats! Forming a new competitive intelligence (CI) initiative for your organization? Fantastic! It’s great to see the business investing in this...

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Using Competitive Data Points to Predict the Future

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Ben Cope on Fri, Aug 14, 2020

For anyone with an internet connection and a glut of time available for research, competitive data points are nearly inexhaustible. New job postings, minor website copy changes, new marketing content...

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5 Key Areas to Analyze when Conducting a Competitor Marketing Analysis

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Lauren Kersanske on Wed, Aug 12, 2020

A competitor analysis encompasses many different facets of your competitor’s business—revenue, product, marketing, sales, engineering, organizational structures, and more. But there’s something to be...

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Battlecards 101: 5 Ways to Drive Sales Adoption of Battlecards

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Lauren Kersanske on Fri, Aug 7, 2020

This post is part two in our Battlecards 101 Series. Click here to read part one. 

Imagine that you spent hours upon hours building an informative and detailed battlecard for your sales team. Now...

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