this Sales Enablement blog had more visitors

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In August 2019 this Sales Enablement blog already had more visitors in 2019 than in all of 2018 or in all of 2017!

Sales Enablement seems very hot as a search term. (Most of the traffic for this blog comes from organic Google search.)

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LinkedIn users with Sales Enablement in their job title

I track the number of LinkedIn users with Sales Enablement in their current job title. That actually includes many employees of Sales Enablement SaaS software vendors.

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This blog turns 13 years old in 2022. See the archive going back all the way to 2009.

I’m always looking for new ways to show the entire market size and the percentage breakdown of all the market players.

I see the market at $10Bn USD in annual revenue in 2023, but only if counting some of the revenue of the really large players in software that bought out smaller Sales Enablement players or those big players who offer free/freemium tools that could be used for Sales Enablement.

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Very interesting to study are the vendors that are publicly listed such as Bigtincan Holdings Ltd (ASX: BTH) or Upland Software $UPLD. They have to publish their revenue numbers and organic versus inorganic (acquisition) growth.

[Edit] 19-Aug-2021, sales enablement & marketing orchestration platform Seismic acquired Lessonly, a provider of sales training, coaching, & enablement solutions. With this acquisition, the company will provide sellers the access to marketing & sales content as well as coaching plans, learning programs, & practice scenarios in one location. In addition to the acquisition, the company has also closed a $170M Series G funding bringing the company’s valuation to $3B.

[Edit] Trapit was acquired by ScribbleLive in May 2017. US/Canada based @scribblelive had acquired @trapit but has now (11-Dec-2019) been acquired itself by @rockcontent Rock Content: SaaS, Marketplace. Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Screen Shot 2022-05-15 at 10.37.33 am12-Dec-2018, Swiftpage acquisition of Kuvana, Inc who are the makers of InboxGuru (100% Native Marketing Automation for Infor CRM). Swiftpage swiftpage.com @Swiftpage now act.com @ActCRM has one purpose — to fuel small business growth. Denver, Colorado. Acquired Kuvana on 12-Dec-2018. Swiftpage has continued it’s growth strategy with it’s recent acquisition of Kuvana, Inc who are the makers of InboxGuru. $7.5M in estimated revenue annually; Swiftpage competes with HubSpot, Apto, & Keap. The Sage Group is a multinational enterprise software company. Sage owned and developed the Act! CRM product line from 2001-2013. In 2004, Sage rebranded the product to ACT! by Sage & 6 years later, to Sage ACT!. In 2013, Sage sold the Act! product line to Swiftpage & the name returned to just “Act!”. For the first time in Act!’s history, it was marketed as “Act!” (not “ACT!”). Swiftpage is now Act!. Follow us at @ActCRM ! Scottsdale, AZ, USA

[Edit] 28-May-2019 Upland Software acquired Kapost

[Edit] 25-Jul-2019, Bigtincan acquired the assets of Portland, Oregon, USA based Veelo, Inc. for US$1.8m.

[Edit] 5-Sep-2019 Bigtincan acquired Asdeq Labs asdeqworkforce.com.

[Edit] 5-Sep-2019, Mediafly acquired iPresent Ltd.

[Edit] October 2019, Fileboard @fileboard is now 20 Miles 20miles.us

[Edit] 7-Oct-2019 Upland Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: UPLD) acquired Altify @altifyinc

[Edit] In October 2019 @servicenow acquired @attivio

[Edit] 4-Nov-2019, SalesLoft acquired Costell0

[Edit] 5-Nov-2019, Percolate percolate.com @percolate Percolate Industries, Inc. acquired by Seismic

[Edit] December 2019, BrickStreetSoftware brickstreetsoftware.com seems to have gone out of business.

[Edit] 16-Dec-2019, Episerver, a digital experience company, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire B2B commerce company Insite Software™. Episerver Inc. (Insite Software acquired Storyworks Ondemand / Storyworks1. Optimizely acquired Insite optimizely.com/insite/ Sep-2020, Episerver [Acquired by Insight Partners] acquired Optimizely In Bid To Drive ‘Experimentation’)

[Edit] 23-Dec-2019, fision fisiononline.com @fisiononline Marketing Automation & Sales Enablement Cloud Platform seems close to going out of business. Fision Corp OTCMKTS: FSSN

I just added the following vendor, but probably only a small fraction of their revenue of $11M should be counted for the Sales Enablement SaaS market.

Notion notion.so @NotionHQ all-in-one workspace – for notes, tasks, wikis, & databases. Note-taking & collaboration application for your notes, tasks, wikis, & databases. $11M in estimated revenue annually. Competes with Quip, Airtable, & Simplenote. San Francisco, CA, USA. Notion said 8-Sep-2021 it acquired Automate.io, an Indian startup that builds connectivity & integrations with 200+ services, as the workplace productivity startup looks to accelerate its product expansion to become more compelling for tens of millions of individuals & businesses that are increasingly moving to digital collaborative tools. The San Francisco-headquartered startup, last valued at $2Bn in private markets, said the acquisition of the Hyderabad-headquartered Automate will help Notion understand the know-how of — & leverage — the 200 integrations the Indian startup has developed to give users and enterprises alike the ability to bring their workflows into Notion.

Sales Enablement SaaS software for b2b startups

Below is my list of Sales Enablement software/tools perfect for B2B startups. My complete list (which is mostly B2B) is here.

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ActiveCampaign activecampaign.com @ActiveCampaign customer experience automation platform helping businesses grow through meaningful engagement with their customers. Notify your team when leads take action: Tell your salespeople when their leads take action. If a lead browses specific pages or puts in a pricing request, send an automatic notification so that your salesperson can follow up directly. ActiveCampaign enables Sales teams in volume: 125 email templates available on the customer experience platform. Each template has been designed using HML & includes images & layout suitable for a wide range of B2B & B2C engagements. The templates also include the codes to draw in data from the Active Campaign platform to enable the easy creation of targeted email campaigns. Email marketing is still the king of B2B marketing! The responsive templates slot into one of 500+ automation recipes that ActiveCampaign has on its platform. These enable the automation of the complete sales lifecycle for a customer. Templates are usable for any product & any brand within a portfolio. It is possible to switch colours, fonts, & images & update text. The responsive design ensures that every email sent is easily read, no matter what the device used. More than half of all emails are opened on a mobile device! 3-May-2022, ActiveCampaign acquired Postmark as it builds on rapid growth: Postmark and DMARC Digests, two products owned by Philly web dev mainstay Wildbit, were sold to Chicago-based ActiveCampaign, LLC. Chicago, IL, USA


airtable.com @airtable Creation guide for 5 essential pieces of content to help you drive deals, from start to close: offers.hubspot.com/sales-enablement-guide ebook. Sales Collateral Management. Made Flexible & Effortless‎. Manage case studies, call decks, & more with the ease of using a spreadsheet. 350+ App Integrations. Spreadsheet Interface. Used by 30,000+ companies. Realtime Collaboration. Drag & Drop File Uploads. Gallery & Card Views. Easy As A Spreadsheet. $5M in revenue annually. Competes with Basecamp, hopTo, & Trello. San Francisco, CA


Asana asana.com @asana a work management platform for teams. The work management software vendor launched its first offering aimed at a specific job role in 2019 with Asana for Marketing. The list of options for individual business units grew in 2020 with the addition of Asana Operations & Asana Sales. Asana for Operations lets users access Asana’s gallery of workflow templates or create their own custom versions to standardize processes such as vendor & employee onboarding & management. Asana for Operations & Asana for Sales and Account Management are two new end-to-end solutions for teams to manage their entire operations & sales workflows. The suite of capabilities is available on Asana’s Business & Enterprise offerings. Asana targets sales & ops teams with new integrations: Salesforce, Jira Cloud & Tableau integrations are designed to help the work management app appeal to specific business functions. San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US


Atlassian Corporation Plc (Confluence Cloud, Trello, etc) atlassian.com/software/confluence @confluence Confluence is a team workspace where collaboration & knowledge meet. Create, collaborate, & organize all your work in one place. Many organizations use Confluence as their intranet & some even as the Sales Enablement portal. Confluence Cloud: Get your files together: With the new Microsoft OneDrive for Business integration, embed Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint files in your Confluence pages so it can always be your single source of truth! By typing “/trello” on a Confluence page, you can embed a complete Trello board for easy access. Work together from anywhere with Confluence Mobile: Stay on top of the latest with your team & move work forward – straight from your device. Sydney, NSW, Australia Atlassian acquires video-messaging startup Loom Loom.com @Loom for $975M. Sydney, NSW, Australia


Screen Shot 2022-05-18 at 4.32.29 pmOrtto ortto.com @OrttoHQ former Autopilot autopilothq.com autopilotapp.com @autopilotapp visual marketing software for automating customer journeys. Make more money with marketing automation designed for the entire customer journey. Automate your marketing visually & create remarkable customer journeys. Integrate with @burstsms using the new webhook shape to instantly send an alert to your customers when a payment is overdue. Autopilot (formerly Bislr) was founded in 2012 by three brothers from Australia. AutopilotHQ Inc., Sydney, NSW, Australia. 30-Mar-2022, Autopilot rebrands as Ortto. The Australian SaaS success story, Autopilot, has unveiled a new name & logo as part of a major rebrand: ortto.com


Screen Shot 2023-11-21 at 2.31.22 pmAWST awst.io currently building WorkRamen workramen.com Make Work Simple. Achieve More with WorkRamen. Experience a new level of convenience with WorkRamen. Revolutionize your operations with enhanced security, streamlined processes, & simplified workflows for everyone in your organisation. WorkRamen: WORKPLACE PRODUCTIVITY. All-in-one business suite that boosts productivity & saves time. The platform empowers businesses & its employees to achieve more by simplifying day-to-day tasks. WorkRamen is a productivity platform for sales teams. A platform that helps founders & growth teams focus on selling & not spend time updating chunky CRMs & juggling multiple tools. Features incl. streamlining tasks like scheduling meetings, automated updates on collateral sent to clients, digital signing tools & conversational search on your sales documents with GenAI (Generative AI). ArtWallStreet Pte Ltd of UEN 202032492K, 7 Temasek Boulevard, #12-07 Suntec Tower One, Singapore 038987


box box.com @box Online file sharing & cloud content management service offering unlimited storage, custom branding, & administrative controls. Simplify how you work. One platform for secure content management, workflow, & collaboration. The all-new Box Relay is now available. A way to automate processes in Box. For the first time ever, enterprises have a single content management platform to drive team collaboration & streamline processes across the extended enterprise. Productivity & workflow tools usually fall on the extreme ends of the “how work gets done” spectrum: they’re either designed for ad-hoc collaboration or for rigid processes. Yet in today’s agile business, teams need both — a way to collaborate in real time, while also automating the manual work that’s done every day. Competes with Accellion, Dropbox, & ShareFile. San Francisco Bay Area, USA


Brandcast brandcast.com now timesites.com @brandcastapp No Code: code-free web content system. Create branded websites & content in a connected, design-driven system. Customizable. Engaging. Trackable. Discover the power of interactive sales collateral. Your prospects will love it & you can track their interactions from cold call to closing. Pitch decks, Sales proposals, Case studies, & Web brochures. Replacing static, slow-loading PDFs with interactive content is a new idea. Adding videos, demos, or showrooms to presentations livens up the pitch like nothing else. Going forward, you may have fewer live meetings where you can develop personal bonds with customers. That makes lively, engaging presentations more important than ever. Brandcast Salesforce Studio is an integration that allows a Salesforce user to automatically create a personalized website directly from a Salesforce Account or Opportunity record. The personalized website will pull content & data from Salesforce to create a personalized experience. All websites created from Salesforce can be updated in real-time & are automatically equipped with tracking metrics that allow a Salesforce user to see engagement activity directly from Salesforce. San Francisco, CA, USA.Screen Shot 2023-01-22 at 2.07.20 pm 30-Aug-2022: BRANDCAST IS NOW TIME SITES timesites.com We’ve joined iconic media brand TIME to deliver a more expansive platform for storytelling. The global media company TIME announced the acquisition of Brandcast, the leading no-code platform for creating and managing enterprise-grade websites.


Screen Shot 2023-11-17 at 1.32.44 pmKnown Pty Ltd (ABN 40116431700) t/a ‘Kudosity Co.’ kudosity.co former Burst SMS burstsms.com @burstSMS global online messaging platform. Easy-to-use online SMS platform with a focus on marketing, operations, & advanced SMS API solutions. Salesforce integration to send SMS from within Salesforce. Also Eloqua, Marketo, Oracle Responsys, Zoho CRM, ActiveCampaign, Zapier.com, etc…


Screen Shot 2022-12-08 at 9.05.10 pmCacheflow getcacheflow.com @getcacheflow Sell more, Sell faster. With Flexible Payments. Simple, yet flexible deal close platform. Add a B2C-like checkout quality to your B2B deal close. Proposal to Cash: Automate & speed up every step of the proposal, close & payment process. Cacheflow’s modular platform can integrate with any part of your existing process to close deals faster & Screen Shot 2022-12-08 at 9.07.16 pmdeliver a superior buyer experience. Create interactive winning proposals in minutes. Traditional configure, price, quote tools are complicated & confusing. Cacheflow makes the complex simple. An easy quote-building editor & templates speed up sales. Behind the scenes, our powerful configuration tools support complex product catalogs, pricing flexibility, & approved legal docs. Don’t wait to send the invoice to collect payment. Customers often delay payment until they receive their invoice, & even then it’s a challenge to collect payment on time. Cacheflow prompts your customers to pay directly in the checkout experience. Offer your customers one-time or recurring credit card or ACH payment, with flexible billing & payment plans & support of usage-based billing models. Once the payment has been captured, billing details are synced with your ERP and/or your subscription management solutions. Los Altos, CA, USA


Canva canva.com @canva graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, & more: Brand Kit, Make an infographic in minutes, not months, with Canva’s easy-to-use infographic creator. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a Screen Shot 2021-04-01 at 7.36.26 pmstock library of photographs, illustrations, & imagery. Real-time collaboration: Design with your team or co-presenters via a link or email, then comment, edit, & collaborate in real-time. Pre-record to present confidently, every time: With Canva, you don’t need a live audience to deliver great presentations. Add audio, or pre-record yourself talking over a presentation, then share your video to be viewed anytime, anywhere. Download “Talking Presentations” as MP4 videos. It’s excellent for capturing audiences beyond a one-time event. Established in 2012. Competes with Loom.com, Pitch.com, PicMonkey, Piktochart, & Adobe Systems. Sydney, NSW, Australia. 24-Apr-2018: Canva made its first acquisition by buying Sydney-based software company Zeetings (presentation platform that enables its users to combine their PowerPoints & PDFs with video, web content, images, & polls).


Close close.com @close (also known as close.io or Elastic) inside sales CRM for startups & SMBs. Close more deals. Supercharge your sales with one of the best CRMs for startups & SMBs. Get pipeline view, calling, lead management, email automation, & more. Palo Alto, California, United States blog.close.com/sales-enablement & sales enablement toolkit


Screen Shot 2022-03-27 at 10.47.21 amCooby cooby.co @JoinCooby unlock the power of conversations. Making WhatsApp your sales weapon. Bring visibility into customer conversations from your teams’ regular WhatsApp numbers with analytics, customer tracking & intelligence. Modernize your WhatsApp inbox with tabs, notes, reminders, social profile, calendar integration, etc. Cooby, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA


Screen Shot 2022-02-20 at 2.14.24 pmDeckLinks DeckLinks.com @deck_links B2B SaaS created to make sales more conversational. Helps sales teams securely share sales decks & instantly access engagement analytics to close more deals faster. BriefBid briefbid.com @briefbid launched DeckLinks: Platform that helps sales teams share interactive sales decks & access instant analytics on buyer engagement; positioning DeckLinks as Google Analytics for sales decks. Offers analytics for deck sharing & is a new stand-alone product that was inspired by key-learnings from the BriefBid’s B2B Screen Shot 2022-02-20 at 2.16.07 pmmarketplace, which serves media buyers & sellers through RFP management & matchmaking. They saw sell-side users often sharing one-directional, static sales decks that failed to garner responses / feedback. Through an effort to understand how their buy-side users engage with sales material in the marketplace, the company developed tools to track interactions with their own sales decks to their users. “In our effort to solve a problem in the media RFP space, we discovered a problem in the sales space. When we thought we were solving a problem for our users, we ended up solving a problem for sales people in general. Sometimes great products come out of internal tools that can be applied externally […].” The DeckLinks platform is capable of showing sales reps how buyers specifically interact with sales materials, even when no direct response is provided. Allows sales teams to start more conversations with relevant follow-ups, access actionable insights to improve their efforts, & close more deals by personalizing client experiences. Goes beyond traditional document sharing platforms by creating a custom, fully-trackable microsite that houses each deck. Features include company profiles, industry-specific modules, & other widgets. TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA


Screen Shot 2022-04-01 at 10.39.34 amDecktopus decktopus.com @decktopus create presentations, sales sheets, portfolios & many more with the auto-adjusted layouts in an extremely short time. Don’t waste time formatting. Focus on your content. Out of the ordinary presentation tool: Create not only presentations but also proposals, bio links (decktop.us your bio: Create a link connecting your audience to all your content! Seems to be aiming to become the linktree of b2b), sales funnels, forms & microsites. Prepare to embed forms, videos, websites & links to your slides. A fast & engaging business proposal & presentation creation tool for “No Code” creators & busy professionals. Palo Alto, CA, USA


Dropbox dropbox.com @Dropbox (acquired HelloSign) Dropbox for Business helps companies seamlessly collaborate with secure file sharing, access from anywhere, & robust admin controls. San Francisco, CA, US. Acquired HelloSign hellosign.com @HelloSign Simplifying work for the businesses of tomorrow: We are HelloSign, HelloFax & HelloWorks. San Francisco, CA. 10-Mar-2021Dropbox announced it plans to acquire DocSend for $165 million. DocSend docsend.com @DocSend helps customers share & track documents by sending a secure link instead of an attachment.


Google Cloud Platform (G Suite / Drive / Docs / Sheets / Slides / Keep / Forms / Sites) Alphabet Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA


Hubspot hubspot.com @HubSpot inbound marketing & sales platform. hubspot.com/sales-enablement Sales enablement is the technology, processes, & content that empower sales teams to sell efficiently at a higher velocity. Sales Content Optimization: Contrary to common assumptions, marketers are not the only people producing content. In fact, in many companies, sales produces more content than marketing. Every minute a sale rep spends creating content is a minute they aren’t selling. The fact that salespeople take time to produce personalized content shows how important it is in the final stages of a buyer’s journey. Organize sales content: The first step in a sales enablement content strategy is a full content audit. NYSE: HUBS. Competes with Act-On Software, Marketo, & Pardot. Cambridge, MA, USA. Marketing software maker HubSpot Inc. hubspot.com @HubSpot announced 1-Nov-2023 it is acquiring the business data provider Clearbit clearbit.com @clearbit to enhance its data that will fuel the company’s AI capabilities.


Screen Shot 2021-04-07 at 5.45.31 pmLoom loom.com @loom work communication tool that helps get your message across through instantly shareable video. Say it with video! Get your message across, no matter where you work. Sending a Loom is more efficient than typing long emails or spending your day in meetings having conversations that don’t need to happen in real-time. You talk up to 6x faster than you type. Capture your screen, record their front-facing camera, & narrate video all at once with no switching apps or upload required. Whether it’s training new teammates or replying to a customer inquiry, Loom enhances the way people communicate at work by allowing them to send the next best thing to being there. Why Sales teams use Loom: Improve outreach. Accelerate sales cycles. Optimize performance. Streamline onboarding. San Francisco, CA, USA. Legal name Opentest, Inc. 13-Oct-2023: Atlassian acquires video-messaging startup Loom Loom.com @Loom for $975M. Sydney, NSW, Australia


Notion notion.so @NotionHQ & Notion AI. All-in-one workspace – for notes, tasks, wikis, & databases. Note-taking & collaboration application for your notes, tasks, wikis, & databases. $11M in estimated revenue annually. Competes with Quip, Airtable, & Simplenote. San Francisco, CA, USA. 8-Sep-2021 it acquired Automate.io, an Indian startup that builds connectivity & integrations with 200+ services, as the workplace productivity startup looks to accelerate its product expansion to become more compelling for tens of millions of individuals & businesses that are increasingly moving to digital collaborative tools. The San Francisco-headquartered startup, last valued at $2Bn in private markets, said the acquisition of the Hyderabad-headquartered Automate will help Notion understand the know-how of — & leverage — the 200 integrations the Indian startup has developed to give users and enterprises alike the ability to bring their workflows into Notion.

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Pipedrive pipedrive.com @pipedrive web-based Sales CRM. CRM platform developed from the salesperson’s point-of-view. 5-Mar-2020, Pipedrive announced it acquired Mailigen, provider of an email marketing automation solution. Their first acquisition will make it easier for Pipedrive customers to access software that generates leads & nurtures customers. Mailigen mailigen.com @mailigen email marketing automation platform & agency servicing small to medium size companies around the world. Email marketing for Pipedrive users: Get ready to engage your customers & make entirely new ones. Mailigen in Riga, Riga, Latvia (Pipedrive estimated annual revenue $46.5M, based in New York, New York, US) August 2020 saw the launch of Sales Docs (in beta): Send trackable quotes, proposals, & contracts from your CRM. See when files are opened & make updates in real-time. Follow up at the right moment and close deals faster. Auto-fill docs with Pipedrive data: Send quotes faster with less manual copy-pasting & fewer errors. Create document templates that automatically pull products from your catalog or information from any Pipedrive field. By sending trackable documents, you get notified whenever they’re opened. Follow up at the right time to lock in sales quickly. Find docs easily: Store quotes, proposals & contracts where you can quickly locate them. Track them against deals in Pipedrive or your chosen storage drive to evaluate their effectiveness & make improvements. 12-Nov-2020, Pipedrive acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $1.5Bn USD.


Pitch pitch.com @Pitch Pitch Software GmbH. Open platform for presentations & content collaboration. Improve the way presentations are crafted & knowledge is shared. Presentation tool & platform for students, teachers, creatives, managers, startups & teams everywhere. With Slack & Front transforming business communication, Airtable & Coda disrupting Excel, & Sketch & Framer on a mission to break Photoshop’s monopoly, we saw innovation & thoughtful design resetting expectations & reimagining the user experience of complex business software. Yet, even with this shift, presentation tools have not kept pace with technology; we believe there needs to be something new, different & substantially better. Software startup founded Jan-2018. Now $22.7M funding: Index Ventures, BlueYard, Slack Fund, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, Framer CEO Koen Bok, Elastic Co-Founder Simon Willnauer, Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel, Wunderlist-backer Frank Thelen & Metalab Founder Andrew Wilkinson. Their founding team created Wunderlist. $1M in revenue annually & competes with Prezi, Powtoon, & Slidebean. Berlin, Germany


Screen Shot 2022-06-30 at 11.39.15 amPitchloop pitchloop.io Manage The Loop: The pitch flows from Sales Marketing headquarters to salesperson who tweaks & practices at will. Data flows back to headquarters informing management of progress & guiding interaction. Pitchloop analyzes your verbal delivery in real-time, pin-pointing opportunities for honing your accuracy, prosody & pacing. Express the ideas of the pitch in your own words & get AI generated feedback on your personal version. Listen to your recordings for further reflection. Analyze your data to improve. Practice feedback is summarized as actionable insights. Managers can facilitate effective coaching by listening to any recording. Team leaders can drill down to details or zoom out to see & compare the progress of the whole team. Menlo Park, CA, USA. Pitchloop is a subsidiary of Shanenli LTD


Screen Shot 2023-01-25 at 3.08.56 pmPod workwithpod.com @PodWorkspace Supercharge your enterprise sales team with Pod’s intelligent hub. Less time wasted on guessing, more on doing. The Smart Workspace for Sales Teams. Remove the noise. Close more deals. You shouldn’t waste time digging through all your sales tools. Focus on what matters & hit your quota every month with the only all-in-one productivity workspace, built for you. Pod is the all-in-one workspace for B2B sales teams. Work 10x faster every day. Seamlessly collaborate on deals, quickly update your CRM, and intuitively track your task, notes, & more. Pod Chrome Extension: You probably jump between 15 different tools daily, wasting time updating your Salesforce or looking for information your need. You shouldn’t have to work in Excel, OneNote, or Trello. It’s time for a productivity tool built for sellers. Pod is a smart productivity workspace for account executives. It’s your new command center. Pod Technologies, Inc. San Francisco, CA, USA


Screen Shot 2022-01-28 at 9.28.28 amPostBeyond postbeyond.com @postbeyond cloud-based employee engagement & advocacy platform that enables employees & partners to post approved brand content to their personal networks in an efficient, consistent, & measurable way. $9M in revenue? PostBeyond Inc. Toronto, ON, Canada. 8-Dec-2021 Influitive Inc influitive.com @influitive (also Toronto, ON, Canada) acquired PostBeyond for an undisclosed amount.


Screen Shot 2022-03-02 at 9.03.53 amFormer Practice Ignition practiceignition.com now ignitionapp.com @ignitionapp Eliminate debtors & fully automate client onboarding. “Proposal to paid in one place! Eliminate the friction by sending your clients a single smart proposal they can read, sign, & make a payment on in one sitting. That’s more closed deals for you and less back & forth for everyone”. Create intelligent proposals that trigger workflows, automate your back office & increase conversions. “No more word docs, email trails, or data duplication. Software that facilitates proposals, payments, insights, scope management, & integrations.” Competes with Jetpack Workflow, Capium Ltd, & Canopy. Sydney, NSW, Australia


Process Street process.st @processstreet document, track, automate & optimize customer-centric processes. Help sales & customer success teams drive revenue & reduce churn. “The home for your team’s recurring tasks. Create, track & optimize business process workflows.” SaaS platform that lets non-technical teams create powerful, API driven workflows. They don’t seem to compete with Zapier, but integrate with your Zapier account. San Francisco, USA, but many roots in Sydney, Australia


Screen Shot 2021-10-22 at 9.41.05 amQuestmate questmate.com @QuestmateApp No Code. Making work simple, rewarding & consistent. Define a specific reward/incentive to be paid out / accessed right at the end of the workflow / job / task. In that sense almost a NoCode Smart Contract. Engaging Workflows. For teams of any type, size & mission. Team onboarding, training, tasks, etc. The simplicity of to-do lists 9G7dlbJj_400x400with straightforward guidance & powerful integrations of external systems & applications. Enabling you to build empowering workflows that connect the what to the how. Also perfect for Customer Onboarding, Staff Onboarding & Surveys. Register for BETA access. Avalon Beach, Sydney, NSW, Australia. (Full disclosure: I’m an angel investor)

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Qwilr qwilr.com @Qwilr pitch with confidence & win more work. Quickly create beautiful & intuitive proposals, sales & marketing documents. Whether you’re creating internally or sharing externally, Qwilr allows you to build document processes that are fast & easy-to-adopt. Set up your brand once, and it’ll update everywhere. Ensure consistency across all of your documents by setting up your colours, fonts & templates so your team is always on brand. Streamline your sales process: Remove the hassle for clients, & start working & earning faster. Integrate with CRMs, accounting tools & more. Integrate with other tools you love: Integrate Qwilr with the CRM, accounting, live chat & analytics tools. Understand your clients better: Track & analyze how your sales & marketing material is browsed. Be notified when your document is first viewed, see how many times it was viewed & what sections your customer actually cared about. Analytics features. Competes with PandaDoc, Bidsketch, & Proposable. Sydney, NSW


Screen Shot 2022-03-19 at 5.56.13 pmSaleo saleo.io @getSaleo Sales Demo Personalization: Software sales is hard enough – don’t let generic demos or bad data interfere with winning deals. Create incredible, personalized demos at scale for your team. Build the perfect demo that tells the right story across any vertical, pain point, or user case. Replicate success across all go-to-market teams with ease (Sales, Solutions Consultants, & Product Marketing). Atlanta, GA, USA. Saleo, Inc.


Screen Shot 2023-02-09 at 8.44.28 amSmartCue getsmartcue.com @getSmartCue Personalized Product Demos. Create personalized demos for EVERY prospect. Deliver tailored demos to help you win more deals! SmartCue enables teams to create personalized, contextual product demo libraries for their prospect demos. Visual & textual cues show up in real-time from your library when you are demoing to your prospects. Launched a Chrome Extension. Only supports web apps as of now. Mobile & CRM integrations are coming soon. SmartCue Inc. Denver, CO, USA


SalesLoft salesloft.com @SalesLoft sales engagement platform. Transform the way sellers engage with their customers by delivering a better selling experience. Finally experience true marketing & sales alignment on a single platform. With improved visibility & easy collaboration on templates, sales plays, & lead routing, SalesLoft puts marketing & sales on the same page. Expanded Machine Learning capabilities enable sales professionals to take personalization to the next level. Eg: Seniority model automatically recognizes a person’s position in the organization & place them into the ideal persona-based cadence. Hot Leads injects Artificial Intelligence (AI) into workflows where it counts, prioritizing engaged contacts, so users can focus their efforts connecting with the right people at the right time. $23M in revenue annually & competes with Outreach, Velocify, Inc., & Insidesales.com. 2k+ customers, including Square, MuleSoft, WeWork, & Dell, use the company’s sales engagement platform to engage in more relevant, authentic & sincere ways. (Acquired Costello 4-Nov-2019.) Headquartered in Atlanta, they have additional locations in San Francisco, New York City & Guadalajara, Mexico. Atlanta, GA, USA. 22-Dec-2021, Salesloft acquired by Vista Equity Partners.


Screen Shot 2023-01-27 at 12.16.49 pmSalesmachine (Drucker) usesalesmachine.com @usesalesmachine Revolutionizing sales demos with AI technology! Salesmachine is a sales demo editor powered by OpenAI GPT. “Because Salespeople are Rockstars: Salesmachine empowers anybody to create within minutes the most exciting & informative product demos the market has ever seen. Share winning demos with your clients. Know more, show the product and miracles will happen.” app.usesalesmachine.com/login Drucker allows your sales team to share interactive demos with clients. chrisstrobl.com “My new startup Salesmachine. I’m the CTO & Co-Founder of Salesmachine. More soon.” Built with Webflow, Bubble & Figma. Started sometime just before 25-Nov-2022. Palo Alto, CA, USA. German founder.


Screen Shot 2023-02-10 at 12.33.32 pmSalesRiver salesriver.com all-in-one sales platform for distributed teams. Acquire, route, sell, manage. Capture in-market consumers wherever, whenever & however you need them – your own sources or ours. INTELLIGENT ROUTING: Eliminate manual processes. Deliver each prospect to the right person every time – with lightning-fast automations. SALES ENABLEMENT: Bring a powerful suite of tools to your salespeople. Efficiently sell every type of lead with built-in compliance. SALES MANAGEMENT: Transparency combined with layered controls provides you with a customizable, all-in-one platform that maximizes results. Leadrilla Inc (doing business as SalesRiver) Lexington, Kentucky, United States


Screenshot 2023-03-28 at 2.16.29 pmSalesTable.AI salestable.ai @salestable_ai All-in-one sales enablement platform for founder-led sales. Reduce Ramp Time. Close Deals Faster. Increase Revenue. Level up your sales team’s performance with our comprehensive onboarding, training & ongoing assessment. Track your team’s work with real-time data & analytics. Salestable.AI, Inc San Ramon, California, USA


Screen Shot 2022-02-24 at 5.48.26 pmSizle sizle.io @sizle_io all-in-one document collaboration & analysis toolkit used in 150+ countries. No matter what you’re sharing, ensure the right files are sent to the right people at the right time. Seeing how much time prospects spend on each slide of a presentation a helps us optimize all of our sales & marketing collateral.[…] find the concept of using a presentation together with a lead capture workflow genius, I use Sizle when I need to send a document to a new prospect. Sizle Pty Ltd., Melbourne, Australia


Slack slack.com/intl/en-au/solutions/sales @slackhq enterprise software platform that allows teams & businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively. Hub for your sales management process: From research to pitch decks to contracts, Slack is where sales happens. Sales teams use Slack for: COMMUNICATION, AUTOMATION, TEAM-BUILDING, HANDOFFS. SF, CA, USA. 30 Nov 2020: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack.


Screen Shot 2022-07-03 at 3.03.03 pmSnackwyze snackwyze.com @snackwyze Interactive click-through demo automation platform for product-led teams. Create interactive product experiences from screen recordings in seconds. Great for SaaS walkthroughs, product tours, software demos, how-to guides & more! SUPER SIMPLE SELF-SERVICE DEMO AUTOMATION: Scale Presales Simply. Snackwyze is for Presales teams who want to keep it simple. Record your screen & see interactive clickthrough demos come to life in seconds. Enable buyers with interactive, self-service experiences you can create simply with a drag&drop code free editor. Discover additional key stakeholders organically, understand their preferences better & close deals in record time. CONSISTENT BUYER ENABLEMENT: Are you reinforcing your prospect’s trust throughout their buying journey? Snackwyze for product & growth marketing: Show, don’t tell! Avoid Pre-mature demo meetings, guide your prospects to “Aha” moments instantly, connect prospects to the right sales experts when ready. California, USA


Screen Shot 2022-10-05 at 1.22.11 pmTigerLRM tigerlrm.com @TigerLRM all-in-one Solution for Successful Sales Teams: Next-Generation CRM & Sales Enablement Solution. Designed by Sales Leaders to Enable Winning Teams. Created by top closers to guarantee more closed deals. TigerLRM’s FREE, feature-rich platform helps multiply sales teams’ output & empower sales enablement professionals, producing immediate results that are unmatched by any other sales tool. Additionally: Businesses premium sales enablement services that maximize sales teams’ efforts, bringing measurable improvements throughout the pre-close sales cycle. Native mobile apps for iOS & Android, Microsoft Outlook plugin, merchant payment portal, Twilio softphone functionality, web form API, & other features designed for businesses & reps to exceed sales quotas. TigerLRM mobile app allows sales teams, executives & business owners to access TigerLRM’s CRM & Sales Enablement platform while on the go. TigerLRM, LLC, Sunrise, FL, USA


Uberflip uberflip.com @uberflip helps marketers create, manage, & optimize content experiences at every stage of the buyer journey – without relying on IT. Use Uberflip to power your: Company Blog, Resource Center, Content Library, Sales Enablement. Streamline content management, accelerate lead generation, & fuel marketing automation. Toronto, Canada


Screen Shot 2023-03-25 at 8.46.48 pmVisme visme.co @VismeApp your all-in-one platform for creating presentations, documents, data visualizations, videos & other branded content. Collaborative design platform, empowering anyone to create professional presentations, data visualizations, videos & more. Visme’s newest app integration – Salesforce: With Visme & Salesforce, users can manage & streamline the creation process of their sales content & deliverables by instantly populating dynamic fields in the materials with Salesforce data, & applying account personalizations – improving efficiency & accuracy across sales teams. The two platforms seamlessly work in tandem to create personalized, engaging, design-forward materials that look like they came out of a graphics department. Your team can gain insights into how audiences are viewing content after it’s sent, removing the guesswork on what’s compelling to your viewers, & optimizing your follow-up strategy. Sales Enablement Materials: Design product comparisons, case studies, printables, direct mail content & more to help sell your products & services to prospective clients. Washington D.C., USA


WebinarNinja webinarninja.com @WebinarNinja not just a webinar platform. A complete marketing, training and sales system. All in the cloud. Your attendees can join your webinar with any web browser, on desktop or any mobile device. There is no need for them to download or install any software. It couldn’t it be faster or easier for them to attend your webinars. Sydney


Wistia wistia.com @wistia video hosting built for business. Share internal or private videos: Selectively set permissions so you can securely share internal videos & collaborate with your team. Collect feedback on your videos: Share videos & analytics with the rest of your team (or clients), & collect their feedback with time-coded comments. Cambridge, MA