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Manage Your Stakeholders

Peter Simoons

Tip 22: Manage Your Stakeholders. Unfortunately, the world is not always ideal, and there will be stakeholders in your alliance who don’t actually like that the alliance exists. You need to work on these stakeholders to transform them into real supporters for your partnership. As you can see, the matrix is a two-by-two.

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All Stakeholders on Board at Alliance Launch

Peter Simoons

Tip 23: Make Sure All Stakeholders Are on Board at Alliance Launch. A celebration is a good way to help ensure that all stakeholders are on board the moment the alliance kicks off. It will offer the stakeholders the opportunity to start a relationship with their counterparts from the alliance partner.

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Insight-led selling: The key to eliminating the buyer-seller mismatch

The SAMA Podcast

This week only, buy the ebook directly from Amazon for just $1.99. By training sellers to understand what's top of mind for their customers' myriad stakeholders and giving them the tools and knowledge to tailor their messages to each stakeholder. Learn more about Finlistics here. Learn more about the book here.

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Get more sales references without a traditional program

Upland

Typically, these programs are powered by a robust software solution designed to meet all stakeholders’ reference needs—from Marketing and Customer Success to frontline sellers and everyone in between—and require at least one dedicated Advocacy Manager to keep everything running smoothly.

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Enablement is Hard. Do It Anyway.

Mike Kunkle

Start with the Bricks in the Wall, as I call them, or the other stakeholders and cross-functional collaborators with whom you’ll work and build your sales enablement charter, as normal. For the remaining steps, see the blog post already referenced above , as well as the webinar and the eBook , to optimize your efforts.

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The Enablement Profession at a Crossroads

Mike Kunkle

This conundrum can breed skepticism, both within the enablement team (as mentioned above) and from the stakeholders in their organization. The ability to convey this vision can rally senior leaders and front-line stakeholders alike behind our initiatives. Build Alliances: Alignment doesn’t occur in a vacuum.

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3 Key Strategies to Cultivate A Customer-Focused Mindset

Force Management

Decisions may require the approval of additional stakeholders, each with their own criteria. Truly great discovery should uncover all of these stakeholders and address all of their voices. The key is to identify additional stakeholders early in the sales process to reduce possible stalling and conflict later in the deal.