JOIN us for Episode 17 where, in anticipation of finally meeting each other face to face at The Sales Rebellion / Dale Dupree's inaugural Totality the following week, ISE Season 3 host Erich Starrett gets WAY into the W.E.E.D.S. with THE Irrepressibly Optimistic Stu Heinecke. Dive into the world of competitive advantages and growth strategies with THE "father of contact marketing." From the importance of adaptability to leveraging internal and external collaboration, this episode is a must-listen for those looking to enable business success.

• The concept of "unfair" advantages and how to create them.
• The role of CWOs - Chief Weed (Growth!) Officers - in focusing on growth and revenue.
• Using weed strategies for business resilience and opportunistic growth.
• Real-life examples of innovative disruption techniques with contact marketing.
• Marketing success stories and upcoming insights from Stu Heinecke's upcoming (early 2025) re-release of "How To Get A Meeting With Anyone."

Don't miss out on these invaluable insights that can transform your business approach! Duck your head into the Orchestrate Sales Studios and take a listen.

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Competitive Advantages:

• Discover how to create those "unfair" advantages that your competitors just can't match (legally, of course! 😉).

Surviving and Thriving Amidst Chaos:

• Learn how to not only survive disruptions but turn them into your biggest growth opportunities, following lessons learned from weeds.

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work:

• Understand why collaboration, both internal and external, is the secret sauce behind thriving businesses.

Self-Disruption Tactics:

• Get inspired by Amazon's disruptive mindset and see how self-cannibalization can lead to innovation.

Weeds Strategy for Business:

• Explore Stu's unique analogy comparing business strategy to the relentless growth of weeds – resilience, collaboration, and adaptability. And that is JUST the beginning!

Did you know Leonardo da Vinci was one of the O.G.s of contact marketing? That he was commissioned to craft a horse head lute to be used as a gift to secure an essential royal meeting? Talk about using art (and your (horse's) head) to get ahead in business!

ABOUT STU:

Stu is a bestselling business author, marketer, and Wall Street Journal cartoonist.

His first book, How to Get a Meeting with Anyone, introduced the concept of Contact Marketing and was named one of the top 64 sales books of all time.

His latest release, How to Grow Your Business Like a Weed, lays out a complete model for explosive business growth, based on the strategies, attributes, and tools weeds use to grow, expand, dominate and defend their turf.

He is a twice-nominated hall of fame marketer,

Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center author-in-residence,

and was named the “Father of Contact Marketing” by the American Marketing Association.

He lives on the beautiful Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound, Washington. (A favorite destination from Erich's childhood!)

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Join Erich Starrett in the Orchestrate Sales Studios as he interviews Jonathan "Coach K" Kvarfordt on the transformative power of AI in Enablement. Delve into Jonathan's insights on evolving the role of enablement professionals and the strategic impact of AI.

• Jonathan's journey from survival-focused to strategic thought leadership in sales enablement
• Active involvement in opportunities to improve Enablement
• The formation and goals of the RISE initiative for research-based enablement insights
• The role of AI in feedback, coaching, and automating administrivia
• Future of enablement with AI and the necessity for adaptation and innovation

We can't wait for you to listen to this episode and harness the power of AI to elevate your enablement game. Jonathan's insights are not just enlightening but will truly redefine how we look at sales enablement’s role in the future.

Don’t miss this in-depth discussion on the future of Enablement!

1. Jonathan’s Journey: Discover how Jonathan transitioned from a survival mode to becoming a pioneering figure in sales enablement, learning from industry leaders and engaging with professional organizations.
2. AI in Feedback & Coaching: Learn how AI tools like Momentum are transforming feedback processes, making coaching multilingual teams more efficient and strategic.
3. Philosophical Shifts in Enablement: Jonathan challenges the traditional reactive role of enablement, advocating for a shift towards being proactive strategic partners within organizations.
4. Strategic Use of AI: Get insights on how AI can automate routine tasks, freeing up time for more creative and impactful enablement activities.
5. Future Vision: Jonathan introduces the RISE Initiative, which aims to clarify enablement roles and responsibilities using data-driven insights. This initiative involves thorough research and academic collaboration to define what good enablement looks like.

Did you know Jonathan discovered AI’s immense potential even before ChatGPT became a household name? His early adoption of generative AI tools has paved the way for groundbreaking applications in enablement, from crafting precise feedback to creating competency models that require minimal tweaks!

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Welcome to OrchestrateSales.com‘s Inside Sales Enablement Season 3 Enablement History. Where we hop in the Enablement Time machine and explore the past, present, and future of the elevation of a profession.

On ISEs3 Ep15 host Erich Starrett is joined in the Orchestrate Sales studios by new friend Danny Wasserman, whom he finally met F2F at Corporate Visions Emblaze #DigitalNow24 in early April. Danny has done game-changing tours of Enablement duty at top logos including Databricks, Gong! and Tableau.

Q: So how *DOES* #RevenueEnablement gain a seat at the table in "the room where it happens?

And what does THAT have to do with peanut butter, sausage, and Shake Shack?

A: (in part) "whether it's in sales. Or whether it's in CS or it's in enablement, you cannot trivialize or overstate the importance of the intersection between hospitality and the world of business."

Dive in with me and Danny to talk Strategy, Technology, Human Connection, and...

PAST:

⌛️ Danny was onboarded at Tableau at about employee 2k. The IPO had just recently happened, and his first "real" taste of enablement was onboarding with "the truly incomparable" Sarah Bedwell

⌛️ Joining Enablement at after a sales spiff started a bit of a riff. "I was fortunate enough to be within the cocoon of Mother Goose (Nate) Vogel."

⌛️ "My dirty little secret is that I'm an enablement? Dude. You couldn't have captured the essence of how I felt about being a former seller who had sort of taken a bite of the forbidden fruit."

⌛️ Frank Slootman boldly came out and said, why am I going to put all of the customer success on one person?

⌛️ Nate recruited Danny to re-join Enablement forces at DataBricks.

PRESENT:

💼 "If I'm not fighting that hard for my cabinet seat with whatever executive I'm trying to maintain my position with, there's a dozen people behind me that will absolutely eat my lunch."

💼 Per Danny Meyer - American restaurateur and a guiding voice in Danny's career: In addition to IQ, do you have what he calls HQ: hospitality quotient?

💼 "Genuinely what enablement provides is service. And I think if you feel that passionately, if you feel that authentically and genuinely, the beneficiaries of what it is that you're providing will also sense that ...you will not allow or tolerate yourself to serve a mediocre product."

FUTURE:

🤖 Kyle Healy, who's the SVP of Enablement at a insurance company "When we think about AI's place in our profession, do you want to embrace that technology like Iron Man, or do you want to attempt to resist it like Terminator?"

🤖 Potential impacts of AI and technological advancements on the enablement profession

🤖 Necessity to adapt and integrate new technologies while preserving the human element

🤖 Ongoing collaboration and learning opportunities in enablement practices

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