Sheila Lahar
Sheila Lahar is our Senior Director of Content Marketing here at Crayon, responsible for making sure that everything we publish is unique, compelling, and valuable. Prior to joining Crayon, she built successful content marketing programs at a number of B2B SaaS companies, including Flatfile, Datto, and Eloqua.
Find Your Perfect Competitive Intelligence Partner:Crayon Launches CI Partner Directory
Competitive Intelligence professionals and product marketing leaders know the struggle of being resource-constrained. Product marketing in particular often owns competitive intelligence (and all that ...
It’s a Three-Peat: Crayon Is Once Again Named the PMA Pulse Leader for Competitive Intelligence
In the world of sports, a team that wins three or more championships in the span of only a few years is considered a dynasty. Today, Crayon is celebrating a dynasty of our own in the competitive ...
Crayon and Primary Intelligence Develop a Market First Integration: Sellers Now Automatically Have the Win-Loss Insights they Need to More Close Deals
When your win/loss data is disconnected from your competitive intelligence tool, trying to understand your differentiators is like trying to appreciate the Mona Lisa from a mere 6 inches away — you ...
Never Get Blindsided by a Competitor Again. Crayon Introduces CI Without Limits.
It’s a typical Monday morning as you go through emails and catch up. Suddenly an urgent email arrives from the CEO: “Did you see this?” Cue instant anxiety….palms sweaty, knees weak, arms are ...
How to Write a Better Battlecard: Follow the ABCs
If you’re working with a sales team actively involved in competitive deals, you’re probably familiar with battlecards. Battlecards are a fundamental resource to help your sales team win more deals ...
It’s True, Your Market is Getting More Competitive
If it seems like your industry is getting more competitive, it probably is. Why is that you ask? There are a few factors at play here. A big one is that it has never been easier to start a company. ...
What's in Your Competitive Intelligence Tech Stack?
9,932 As of 2022, there are 9,932 martech solutions according to Scott Brinker’s latest marketing technology landscape. From email marketing to social media monitoring to ABM and everything in ...
How to Effectively Analyze Competitive Intelligence: 5 Questions with Affinity’s Carolyn Klinger
In our first installment of the Crayon Customer Corner, we sat down with Carolyn Klinger, Director of Market and Competitive Intelligence at Affinity. Carolyn recently purchased Crayon for the second ...
Are You Measuring Your CI Efforts? New Data Reveals It’s Time to Start [Infographic]
It’s that time again: the monthly marketing staff meeting where the growth team, content team, web team—you get the idea—will showcase their latest metrics. How are our efforts in these respective ...
Because Winners Don’t Wing It: Introducing Competitive Advantage Academy
We recently published the 2022 State of Competitive Intelligence Report—the 5th installment in the CI industry’s largest and longest-running survey series. Here’s my favorite finding: Compared to ...