Welcome to the secret kingdom of Sales Engineering. We give you an unbiased view on the world of Sales Engineering on a beautiful Lord of the Rings styled map. Do you find your application, community or service for Sales Engineers missing? Then read through the FAQ or directly hit our form. The map will be updated monthly. Current map version: 1.0 (March 2021)
Community Island Inhabitants
About itAppeal:
Supporting women in Tech Support network for women in IT.
A place to learn and grow; sharing experiences, resources, and materials. Covering Presales, Sales, Product, Consulting, and Services – all roles which come with a unique set of workplace challenges for women!
We’re natural empaths with in-built communication skills and high emotional intelligence, the perfect mix for building relationships and succeeding in sales. So feel free to post job openings, training sessions, or mentoring support in the group, and let’s attract more female talent to this industry. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12518806/
About SENY:
Grow. Network. Prosper.
SENY is the premier community for sales engineers, solutions engineers, solution consultants and any aspiring pre-sales engineers in New York City area. SENY was formed in 2018 as a Meetup group to connect individuals with similar professional backgrounds and provide them with a platform to learn from each other, network with their current and future colleagues and form a close-knit community that thrives on collaboration and mentorship.
salesengineersny.com
About PreSales Collective:
The largest global community of PreSales professionals
Our mission is to elevate the role of PreSales in organizations worldwide. We aim to provide PreSales professionals with the resources, knowledge, network, and mentorship to develop long, impactful careers.
presalescollective.com
About NAASE:
North American Association of Sales Engineers (NAASE)
The first official trade association for Sales Engineers/Technical Sales Consultants to connect with industry like-minded SE’s across North America. NAASE is a group of professional and dedicated sales engineers/ technical sales representatives/ solution consultants from a wide range of industries. We help run the technical engine of the broader economy.
https://sales-engineering.org/
Valley of productivity Inhabitants
About Prelio:
Prelio turns presales practitioners and leaders into strategic business partners.
Prelio is a Presales Management and Productivity System designed specifically for Sales Engineers and their teams to be organized, understand their impact, and identify critical needs of their product. Presales practitioners use Prelio to be more efficient and Managers use Prelio to understand what their team is working on and the challenges they face.
https://preliotech.com
Pearl Market of Social Media Inhabitants
About Sales Excellence Podcast:
The Sales Excellence Podcast is all about successful software B2B sales and presales.
Our career paths have taken us through various companies and roles in (pre)sales over the last 10 years. We believe in a strategic, value-added, and customer-centric approach to sales. With our knowledge and experience, we want to help you to new inspiration and more success in your daily (pre)sales life.
https://sales-excellence-podcast.de/
About We the Sales Engineers:
The first consistent website and podcast dedicated to Sales Engineers
We The Sales Engineers is the first consistent website and podcast dedicated to Sales Engineers and Presales Professional. It was founded by Ramzi Marjaba who could not find any resources for SEs, so this resource for Sales Engineers by Sales Engineers was started in 2018.
https://wethesalesengineers.com
About Two Presales in a Pod:
The PreSales podcast hosted by Don Carmichael and Adam Freeman
Two PreSales in a Pod – PreSales podcast hosted by Don Carmichael and Adam Freeman to discuss the burning issues facing the PreSales world in a relaxed and conversational style. The world can get pretty serious, so join us for a casual chat on all things PreSales. Listen to the podcast on your preferred platform with episodes posted regularly.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/2-presales-in-a-pod/
High Peaks of RfP Inhabitants
About Avnio:
Avnio is the only Salesforce native solution for both RFP Automation & PreSales Operations.
Avnio AI-fuelled solutions empower your Sales and PreSales Teams to ‘Accelerate to Closed Won’.
Wide Fields of Demo Inhabitants
About EMMa3D:
EMMa3D: re-imagining complexity in 3D maps.
EMMa3D is a unique 3D visualization tool that changes the way people think about and manages complexity. EMMa is a self-serve, 3-dimensional meta map that creates a real-time model of every element, both physical and virtual and making sense of 3D space including things that are abstract.
https://emma3d.com
About DemoMonkey:
Demo Monkey – Custom Demo Every Demo.
DemoMonkey allows you to turn your software demo into a fully tailored demo for your prospect in minutes: You simply provide text & visual replacements for your application’s UI and DemoMonkey turns your generic demo into a personalized experience for your audience.
https://www.demomonkey.net/
About Demodesk:
The #1 customer meeting platform with real-time sales enablement.
We empower every rep to become a top performer – by guiding sellers in real-time, automating non-selling tasks, engaging customers in the meeting, and analyzing insights at scale.
Demodesk automatically loads the perfect playbook into every customer meeting – guiding reps with the right slides or web apps to present, talk tracks, and battle cards on the spot. Sales teams can automate non-selling tasks from scheduling, meeting preparation, CRM documentation to follow-up. Our breakthrough screen-sharing technology makes meetings truly engaging and lets customers interact with the software during the meeting.
Leading SaaS companies are using Demodesk to cut down ramp time, increase quota attainment, lift sales productivity, and accelerate growth.
Plugin Plane Inhabitants
About Snackwyze:
The easiest, fastest and most affordable way to create interactive walkthroughs and guided demos.
The easiest, fastest, and most affordable way to create interactive walkthroughs and guided demos
+ The Snackwyze chrome extension records your screen and automatically creates interactive product experiences in seconds. Snackwyze is most effective during pre and post demo customer communication.
+ Get started for FREE at https://snackwyze.com
Innovation Summit Inhabitants
About Navattic:
We’re on a mission to turn the product demo into a growth engine.
Navattic helps SaaS sales engineering and marketing teams create shareable product demos. With our no-code platform, teams can build, send and track product demos. The Team: As former sales engineers at Oracle, we saw the importance of sharing great product demos when selling B2B software. Prospects are increasingly demanding to get hands-on with products before buying, yet sales and marketing teams lack adequate engineering resources to share the product on their own. Neil, Chris & Randy co-founded Navattic to solve this challenge.
PoC Forrest Inhabitants
About Homerun:
Run Your Best POCs Unlock hidden insights from your POCs to boost sales, improve product, and optimize presales activities.
POC Management: From start to finish, run more effective and efficient POCs that win deals
POC Visibility: Know the status of every POC and the workload of every team member
POC Best Practices: Follow built-in best practices and standardize POCs so that every POC is your best POC
POC Insights: Learn what is working and what is not and continuously improve your POCs to boost sales
Mighty Mountains of Sales Enablement Inhabitants
About Seismic:
Stories compel action.
Is your story getting to the right buyer? Seismic helps align go-to-market teams while empowering them to deliver engaging buyer experiences that drive growth.
So drive employee experience EX to get customer experience CX!!
Seismic’s platform coordinates your people and technology to efficiently deliver personalized, relevant content, helping your sellers move faster and win bigger.
⚡️ The world’s most powerful Storytelling Platform™ The most comprehensive solution on the market, Seismic delivers industry-leading tools to orchestrate engaging buying experiences, at scale.
?️ Customer experience optimized for success From user-centric product design to deep support resources, Seismic’s platform solution is designed from the ground up to help clients get results fast.
?️ Market leadership recognized industry-wide Seismic’s sales enablement solution leads the category across major analyst reports like Aragon, Gartner, and Forrester, with over 85 awards and inclusion in the Forbes Cloud 100.
Seismic’s sales enablement solutions are centered around providing your salespeople with the right resources, processes, and technology needed to sell effectively and increase revenue.
90% of marketers don’t know how to measure the ROI of content or the influence on deals from sales.
Imagine the potential your sellers will have with a centralized hub for everything they need to engage their buyers – from content to competitive intel, product news, and more!
Discover how Seismic’s leading sales enablement solution empowers your sales and marketing organization to exceed buyer expectations across their journey.
https://seismic.com/
Island of Guides Inhabitants
About Sales Hero GmbH:
Your journey from the demo-dolly to the rockstar of the sales team.
We from Sales Hero GmbH are convinced that Sales Engineers are the execution engine for differentiation. They are the ones leading with a vision, sticking in the client’s mind like chewing gum.
We teach and coach Sales Engineers how to differentiate in the Sales Cycle not by a killer demo but by being themselves.
Creativity, boldness, and the unexpected are far better client experiences than an entirely filled RfP or lengthy demo.
The lead trainer and founder of Sales Hero GmbH Patrick Pissang has a sharp focus on creative methodologies for approaching opportunities, discovery, qualification, and mindset. Basically, our methodologies show Sales Engineering teams how to lead with the unexpected, so that they stick in the client’s mind.
Sales Engineering Managers and VP Sales bring „Sales Hero“ in when their Sales Engineering team …
? needs a motivational push or inspiration on how to approach opportunities
? mastered every demo training but is still not seeing the expected results
? wants to focus on improving discovery skills
? is facing massive competition and needs to effectively differentiate themselves
?♂️ decides to transform into a team of well rounded trusted advisors
? needs a Sales Enablement practice with Sales Engineering content
We provide training to B2B Sales Engineering teams and on-demand content for Sales Engineering Enablement. Topics cover Qualification, Discovery, Preparation, Value Proof, and Mindset – transforming SE’s from demo dollies to rockstars of the Sales team.
About Winning Skills:
When Complex Technology Solutions Meet Complex Buying Environments, We’re Here to Help.
We’re Winning Skills, the experts in Technology PreSales, Sales Consulting and Sales Engineering. Don Carmichael, the Founder and Chief PreSales Guru has 30 years of Technology PreSales and PreSales Enablement experience built at companies like SAP and Oracle. Winning Skills are trusted by Deloitte, Sage, Adobe, Freshworks, Conga, Snow, and many, many more.
Don is a prolific publisher of top tips, posts, webinars, and podcasts on a vast range of PreSales topics and is a recognized thought leader defining the future of the PreSales role. We run PreSales courses, workshops, seminars, kick-offs, coaching, organizational consulting, onboarding, and offer online content. Talk to us about how you can maximize your customer moments, increase your win rates, reduce your cost of sale and increase your revenue per demo.
Visit Winning Skills.
About Presales Mastery:
Presales Mastery helps B2B software companies deliver better demos to win more business.
Our personalized demo delivery and execution coaching improves deal progression and win rates, increases average deal size, frees up sales leadership time to focus on opportunity management and other priorities, provides better insight into rep performance both individually and across the team, and improves cross-team learning.
Visit Presales Mastery.
About Pathfinder Consulting:
We love PreSales.
Depending on the lifecycle stage of your company, your Solutions Engineering organization has different objectives:
• Start-ups need to build it.
• Scale-ups needs to professionalize it.
• Enterprises need to innovate (sometimes even reinvent) it.
Only if taken care of the right way, your SE organization will drive the evolution of your company as a whole:
1. form it to a serious player in the market,
2. professionalize it to scale sustainably,
3. innovate to stay sharp and relevant long-term.
SE organizations are accompanied by us throughout all of their lifecycle stages. Across all dimensions:
1. Strategic: we advise your SE XVP. GTM, Operating Model, Engagement Model, Governance. Hit your targets.
2. Tactical: we consult your SE Center of Enablement. Process Framework, Methodologies, Learning Journeys, SE Tool Automation. Keep your SEs happy.
3. Operational: we train your SEs craft: Discovery, Demo, Sales. Art: Creativity, Storytelling, Strategy.
Stay on top of your game.
We work in the SE field.
We are strategists.
We know how to implement ideas.
We love presales.
www.pathcon.tech
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Enjoy new continents, more apps and new organizations.
