Mindtickle Appoints Sales Enablement Leader to Drive Excellence and Innovation

SAN FRANCISCO, March 15, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mindtickle, a company revolutionizing how businesses prepare and train their sales teams, today announced the hiring of Patrick Lynch for the role of Vice President of Enablement Excellence and Innovation. Fitting perfectly into Mindtickle’s vision, Lynch’s role is to advocate for the entire practice of sales enablement and to spearhead Mindtickle’s effort to drive better outcomes for its customers through innovation and world-class enablement.

“This is an exciting time for sales and enablement leaders where technologies like Mindtickle are making it possible to correlate the impact of readiness programs with sales performance. However, doing this successfully requires a thoughtful and proven approach,” said Jules Ehrlich, President at Mindtickle. “With Pat joining, we are able to bring our customers a perfect combination of field-tested best practices and technology. His deep background of more than 23 years in sales and experience as an industry analyst makes him the perfect fit to help our customers create and deliver effective data-driven enablement.”

Previously, Lynch served as a Director/Chief Customer Officer at CSO Insights, where he collaborated with some of the most forward-thinking enablement professionals in the industry and helped companies apply best practices in sales enablement and benchmark their results. He also serves as a founding member of the Sales Enablement Society, Denver chapter. Prior to CSO Insights, Lynch was the managing partner for Salesbridge, LLC, a sales transformation consultancy working with Fortune 500 companies.

Lynch served in various executive-level roles over his career, including holding P&L responsibility for all sales and operations for regional and national managed services accounts at Xerox, supporting the national sales team at the Customer Solutions Group at FedEx, and expanding channel sales at Ricoh.

“I have seen first-hand how the very best sales organizations are run and what is unique about their enablement approach,” said Lynch. “Regardless of their technology, great enablement leaders are maniacal about achieving results and correlating enablement initiatives with sales performance. I am excited to join Mindtickle, which is leading global organizations towards this goal and understands how to turn this approach into reality.”

About Mindtickle

Mindtickle offers the industry’s most comprehensive readiness solution for closing the knowledge and skill gaps found in customer-facing teams. Sales teams across a wide range of industries use Mindtickle’s award-winning platform to train, coach, and align their sales teams to make reps and their managers more effective. Combining on-demand online training, bite-sized mobile updates, gamification, coaching and role-play with a data-driven approach, Mindtickle accelerates time-to-productivity, ensures consistent execution, and helps boost sales performance. Companies leveraging Mindtickle for sales enablement to assess and certify the readiness of each rep see bigger deal sizes, higher win rates and reduced sales cycles. Mindtickle is a global, privately-held company with headquarters in San Francisco, CA. Investors include NEA, Accel Partners, and Canaan Partners. For more information, please visit www.mindtickle.com.

Mindtickle Raises $27 Million in Series B Funding

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 12, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mindtickle, a company revolutionizing how businesses prepare and train their sales teams, raised $27 million in Series B funding to accelerate product innovation and global expansion. Canaan Partners led the round, with participation from existing investors Accel Partners, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), and Qualcomm Ventures, the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated. Mindtickle’s total amount raised is now $41.3 million.

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Mindtickle is the most comprehensive, data-driven sales readiness platform in the market. The company offers a modern, mobile and engaging experience for onboarding, micro-learning, skills development and coaching – a purpose built platform that companies stuck with legacy learning management systems (LMS) have been waiting for.

“In today’s dynamic and highly competitive environment, companies need to prepare their sales teams like never before. Mindtickle’s comprehensive readiness platform enables companies to be at the forefront of sales excellence through its unique combination of gamification, automation, and a strong analytics framework for correlating learning and performance,” said Krishna Depura, co-founder and CEO of Mindtickle. “This additional funding will allow us to accelerate the vision we share with our customers for data-driven sales enablement.”

Companies such as Symantec, Phillips, Micro Focus, DexCom, Ola, Cloudera, and Nutanix use the platform to go to market faster, boost win rates, increase average deal sizes, and engage their teams in a learning experience that is both enjoyable and impactful.

“Sales Readiness is the single most important metric that every public company CEO is paying attention to and the best predictor of future performance,” said Joydeep Bhattacharyya, partner at Canaan Partners, who has joined Mindtickle’s board of directors. “Mindtickle is the leader in this new massive area of applications for sales teams, with tremendous customer adoption.”

This funding underscores the momentum Mindtickle has achieved in 2017, a year that’s closing with stellar additions to the executive team, exciting product innovation, solid partnerships, and accelerated revenue growth.

About Mindtickle
Mindtickle offers the industry’s most comprehensive readiness solution for closing the knowledge and skill gaps found in customer-facing teams. Sales teams across a wide range of industries use Mindtickle’s award-winning platform to train, coach, and align their sales teams to make reps and their managers more effective. Combining on-demand online training, bite-sized mobile updates, gamification, coaching and role-play with a data-driven approach, Mindtickle accelerates time-to-productivity, ensures consistent execution, and helps boost sales performance. Companies leveraging Mindtickle for sales enablement to assess and certify the readiness of each rep see bigger deal sizes, higher win rates and reduced sales cycles. Mindtickle is a global, privately-held company with headquarters in San Francisco, CA. Investors include NEA, Accel Partners, and Canaan Partners. For more information, please visit www.mindtickle.com.

Mindtickle launches Sales Capability Index™ (SCI) to quantify and benchmark sales readiness

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mindtickle, the company with the most comprehensive enablement platform and trusted by global sales leaders to ensure always-ready sales teams, today launched the Sales Capability Index™ (SCI), a capabilities score that, for the first time in the industry, provides a holistic, quantified assessment of sales rep and team readiness while also producing a leading indicator of their expected performance.

Corporations currently use Mindtickle’s data-driven sales readiness solution to train, coach and align their sales teams and achieve reductions in ramp time, improvements in competitive win rates, increased average deal sizes and higher rates of training adoption.

Sales leaders will now be able to have a higher level of conviction as to how prepared their sales teams truly are, overall or across specific initiatives and proactively address capability gaps. The Index, and corresponding sales results, can be benchmarked across periods to the point of knowing how movements in the Index are likely to impact sales results and drive more predictable revenue.

“With the introduction of SCI, we are proud to have significantly advanced our objective of helping customers deliver highly measurable enablement for their sales teams,” says Krishna Depura, co-founder and CEO of Mindtickle, “and we will continue to advance the way sales leaders define and assess the readiness of their teams. We’ve collaborated with a select group of Mindtickle customers to fine tune and field test this groundbreaking capability. We’re delighted with the results and excited to launch it to our broader customer base.”

About Mindtickle
Mindtickle offers the industry’s most comprehensive readiness solution for closing the knowledge and skill gaps found in customer-facing teams. Sales teams across a wide range of industries use Mindtickle’s award-winning platform to train, coach, and align their sales teams to make reps and their managers more effective. Combining on-demand online training, bite-sized mobile updates, gamification, coaching and role-play with a data-driven approach, Mindtickle accelerates time-to-productivity, ensures consistent execution, and helps boost sales performance. Companies leveraging Mindtickle for sales enablement to assess and certify the readiness of each rep see bigger deal sizes, higher win rates and reduced sales cycles. Mindtickle is a global, privately-held company with headquarters in San Francisco, CA. Investors include NEA and Accel Partners. For more information, please visit www.mindtickle.com.

Mindtickle integrates with Highspot to empower reps with content and training

Highspot, Inc. and Mindtickle today announced the availability of a powerful, integrated sales enablement solution to help sales organizations prepare reps for successful customer conversations. In an increasingly competitive and buyer-driven environment, 82 percent of B2B decision makers think sales reps are unprepared, according to SiriusDecisions. The integration of Highspot and Mindtickle’s sales enablement solutions prepares reps with the knowledge, skills, content and execution support they need to engage prospects and close deals.

“High-performing sales organizations are increasingly supporting their reps with activity-based enablement processes that deliver both activation assets (external, buyer-facing content) and empowerment assets (internal, learning-oriented content for sellers) at the point of need: in the context of their current deals,” said Peter Ostrow, Research Director at SiriusDecisions. “The less time that quota-bearing reps spend searching for the tools they need to sell, and the more often assets “find the sellers,” gains in productivity and ultimately in performance accrue to high-performing organizations. For example, reps in high-performing organizations spend 11 percent less time searching for and managing sales content.”

Available today, the integration empowers Mindtickle and Highspot customers with a single-system approach to content, training and coaching needs. For example, a sales manager might assign training modules to be completed before sharing access to a sales asset. Or in the case of a new product feature, a rep could be alerted of a micro-learning session, so they can inform their prospects and put the new knowledge into action immediately. Throughout all engagement with content and learning, integrated analytics offer managers insight into who completed sessions and how they later performed.

“Sales organizations are seeing the power of sales enablement solutions to improve outcomes and engage reps in continual learning,” said Robert Wahbe, Highspot CEO. “The integration with Mindtickle offers businesses a one-two punch that incorporates essential components of success for reps: content and pitch support, as well as hands-on learning capabilities.”

“Sales reps are challenged at different stages of the sales process,” said Krishna Depura, CEO of Mindtickle. “With the integration with Highspot, we deliver critical support at the beginning, middle and end of the deal process through knowledge-building, just-in-time content discovery, pitch support and real-time coaching to positively influence customer outcomes.”

To learn more about the integration, please visit https://www.mindtickle.com or http://www.highspot.com.

About Highspot
Highspot helps sales teams increase conversion rates and generate more revenue faster. From sales content management to pitching and analytics, the Highspot platform delivers enterprise-ready features and platform integration in a modern design that sales reps love. Using Highspot, sales teams are able to stay connected to the best-performing content for each opportunity, customize and optimize their content, and more effectively engage with their customers and prospects. With nearly 90% average monthly recurring usage, Highspot is delivering on the promise of Sales Enablement. http://www.highspot.com

About Mindtickle
Mindtickle offers the industry’s most comprehensive readiness solution for closing the knowledge and skill gaps found in customer-facing teams. Sales teams across a wide range of industries use Mindtickle’s award-winning platform to train, coach, and align their sales teams to make reps and their managers more effective. Combining on-demand online training, bite-sized mobile updates, gamification, coaching and role-play with a data-driven approach, Mindtickle accelerates time-to-productivity, ensures consistent execution, and helps boost sales performance. Companies leveraging Mindtickle for sales enablement to assess and certify the readiness of each rep see bigger deal sizes, higher win rates and reduced sales cycles. Mindtickle is a global, privately-held company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. Investors include NEA and Accel Partners. For more information, please visit https://www.mindtickle.com.

Mindtickle appoints President and Go To Market leader

SUNNYVALE, CA–(Marketwired – Oct 17, 2017) – Mindtickle, the leading sales readiness platform, announced strong Q3 2017 revenue results, with more than 100 percent quarter-over-quarter growth. Mindtickle continued its expansion into large enterprises where some of the world’s leading tech, pharma, and retail organizations now rely on Mindtickle to keep their sales teams in peak selling condition and win more deals.

As the company expands its market share into larger enterprises, Mindtickle appointed Jules Ehrlich as the president and go-to-market leader for the business. Ehrlich has extensive leadership experience in building enterprise B2B SaaS businesses and joins Mindtickle from Apttus, where he most recently served as their VP and GM for Advanced Solutions.

“Mindtickle is at an exciting phase as we build momentum with blue-chip customers who rely on the platform to not only prepare their sales teams, but also to leverage our readiness analytics as a leading indicator of sales outcomes,” said Mohit Garg, co-founder at Mindtickle. “The broad experience Jules brings in building SaaS businesses will help accelerate our next stage of growth, especially in global enterprises.”

Prior to Apttus, Ehrlich was SaaS SVP and General Manager at CA Technologies, where he founded and built their SaaS business. Ehrlich was also a member of the executive team at Niku Corporation that scaled the business from an early-stage dotcom into a profitable company acquired by CA Technologies in 2005. He graduated from University of Witwatersrand with a bachelor’s in accounting.

“Gartner has recently recognized the importance of the wider sales enablement market for business leaders seeking to improve sales execution beyond traditional training tools,” said Ehrlich. “Mindtickle has completely changed how sales organizations increase win rates by correlating a score that summarizes the readiness of each salesperson, each region and the team as a whole, with sales performance data to drive their enablement strategies. I am really excited to be part of this transformation journey for the industry.”

Mindtickle is hiring! Visit our careers page to learn more open positions and to apply.

About Mindtickle
Mindtickle offers the industry’s most comprehensive readiness solution for closing the knowledge and skill gaps found in customer-facing teams. Sales teams in several industry-leading companies use Mindtickle’s award-winning platform to train, coach, and align their sales teams to make reps and their managers more effective. Combining on-demand online training, bite-sized mobile updates, gamification, coaching and role-play with a data-driven approach, Mindtickle accelerates time-to-productivity, ensures consistent execution, and helps boost sales performance. Companies leveraging Mindtickle for sales enablement to assess and certify the readiness of each rep see bigger deal sizes, higher win rates and reduced sales cycles. Mindtickle is a global, privately-held company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. Investors include NEA and Accel Partners. For more information please visit mindtickle.com.

Mindtickle announces season 2 of ‘The Sales Excellence Podcast’

SUNNYVALE, CA–(Marketwired – Sep 21, 2017) – Mindtickle, the leading sales readiness platform, today announced the second season of the “The Sales Excellence Podcast” that gathers top B2B sales enablement leaders to share winning strategies.

CSO Insights reported that 32.7 percent of organizations had sales enablement roles in 2016, up seven percent from the previous year. As buyers increasingly control the sales process, sales organizations must become more sophisticated and equipped with the right information and questions that lead to a meaningful sales conversation. To help sales leaders navigate this growing space, Mindtickle created “The Sales Excellence Podcast” to create a platform for sharing winning sales strategies.

“The sales leaders we speak to face similar challenges – how to scale their sales organization quickly, keep their reps up to date, and deliver revenue to support top-line growth,” said Mohit Garg, co-founder at Mindtickle. “‘The Sales Excellence Podcast’ was created to give a voice to the leaders who have tackled these challenges and can share their best practices for achieving the hypergrowth their executives demand.”

The inaugural season of the podcast covered topics including Scaling Revenue with Channel PartnersHarnessing Sales PlaybooksDelivering a Consistent Pitch, and more. Season 2 will include interviews with leaders at SAP, Playboox, WinningByDesign, Stackoverflow and Brightedge, among others.

To listen in, visit https://www.mindtickle.com/sales-enablement-resources/the-sales-excellence-podcast/ and share your feedback through SoundCloud or iTunes.

About Mindtickle
Mindtickle offers the industry’s most comprehensive readiness solution for closing the knowledge and skill gaps found in customer-facing teams. Sales teams across a wide range of industries use Mindtickle’s award-winning platform to train, coach, and align their sales teams to make reps and their managers more effective. Combining on-demand online training, bite-sized mobile updates, gamification, coaching and role-play with a data-driven approach, Mindtickle accelerates time-to-productivity, ensures consistent execution, and helps boost sales performance. Companies leveraging Mindtickle for sales enablement to assess and certify the readiness of each rep see bigger deal sizes, higher win rates and reduced sales cycles. Mindtickle is a global, privately-held company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. Investors include NEA and Accel Partners. For more information, please visit mindtickle.com.

Mindtickle Appoints Veteran Sales Leader as VP of Sales

SUNNYVALE, CA–(Marketwired – Jul 25, 2017) – Mindtickle, the leading sales readiness platform, announced the appointment of Cameron Essalat as VP of Sales for the fast-growing organization. Essalat, who discovered Mindtickle as a sales leader at AppDynamics, joins the company with a first-hand understanding of how its sales readiness platform can increase the effectiveness of sales reps. In addition, Mindtickle opened its second Bay Area office in San Francisco’s South of Market (SoMA) district to support its growing customer base of fast-scaling technology companies.

Most recently, Essalat served as Vice President of Sales of North America (West) for Catchpoint Systems. Prior to Catchpoint, he was director of sales for the commercial team at AppDynamics, where he consistently exceeded revenue targets by up to 233 percent. He used Mindtickle’s platform at both companies to onboard new sales reps quickly, monitor the readiness of his teams and provide coaching to advance them individually.

“Cameron brings a strong track record of scaling sales organizations and building revenue in highly competitive environments,” said Krishna Depura, co-founder and CEO at Mindtickle. “No one knows better how Mindtickle can contribute to sales organizations than someone who relied on the platform to help train, coach and mentor his sales reps to consistent 125-percent-plus achievement quarter-over-quarter.”

“Mindtickle is a strategic partner to sales leaders who need to onboard, upskill and improve the effectiveness of their sales reps with quantifiable results,” said Essalat. “I’ve been typically limited to Salesforce as a tool to manage my teams. It wasn’t until I found Mindtickle that I found a meaningful way to impact the KPIs and metrics we were tracking — pipeline, closed deals, etc. With Mindtickle in my right hand and Salesforce in my left hand, I can collapse the sales rep bell curve to ensure each rep is functioning at the highest level possible. Mindtickle’s platform allows sales leaders the ability to slice and dice data to ensure the rep is receiving training that is specific to him or her versus generic training.”

Cameron has also held senior management positions at Juniper Networks and ServiceSource. He graduated from Tufts University with a bachelor’s degree in economics.

Mindtickle is hiring! Visit careers.mindtickle.com to learn more open positions and to apply.

About Mindtickle
Mindtickle offers the industry’s most comprehensive readiness solution for closing the knowledge and skill gaps found in customer-facing teams. Sales teams in several industry-leading companies use Mindtickle’s award-winning platform to train, coach, and align their sales teams to make reps and their managers more effective. Combining on-demand online training, bite-sized mobile updates, gamification, coaching and role-play with a data-driven approach, Mindtickle accelerates time-to-productivity, ensures consistent execution, and helps boost sales performance. Companies leveraging Mindtickle for sales enablement to assess and certify the readiness of each rep see bigger deal sizes, higher win rates and reduced sales cycles. Mindtickle is a global, privately-held company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. Investors include NEA and Accel Partners. For more information please visit mindtickle.com.

Mindtickle Advisory Board Features Leaders from Top Unicorns

SUNNYVALE, CA–(Marketwired – Jun 13, 2017) – Mindtickle, the leading sales readiness platform, announced the creation of an advisory board to support its fast-growing operations globally. The five inaugural members of the advisory board include Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics; Jim Drill, investor, entrepreneur and ex-president of MOVE Guides; Vineet Jain, co-founder and CEO of Egnyte; Lars Nilsson, VP of Inside Sales at Cloudera and Raj De Datta, co-founder and CEO of BloomReach.

“Mindtickle addresses a gap in sales organizations that becomes critical as businesses look to scale quickly,” said Krishna Depura, co-founder and CEO at Mindtickle. “It’s a testament to our vision and the strength of our sales readiness platform that we have been able to attract such high-caliber executive leaders to join our advisory board and support our explosive growth.”

Mindtickle’s advisory board members include a few company founders who went on to grow their companies into “unicorn” businesses, with valuations exceeding $1 billion. Their first-hand knowledge in tackling sales onboarding, training, coaching and ongoing readiness initiatives showed them the value of Mindtickle’s engaging online platform. In some cases, the advisory board members have experienced the impact of Mindtickle in their own organizations, speeding the onboarding process and helping reps increase their sales effectiveness.

Mindtickle Advisory Board:

  • Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics — Jyoti Bansal is a Silicon Valley leader, product visionary, and entrepreneur. He founded AppDynamics in 2008 with the vision of “Application Intelligence” to help modern enterprises embark on their journey of digital transformation with a disruptive approach to managing their software applications. From its founding in 2008 to 2015, Jyoti served as AppDynamics’ Chief Executive Officer, a period of rapid company and customer growth. In September 2015, Jyoti handed day-to-day operations to David Wadhwani, and served as Executive Chairman and Chief Strategist from September 2015 to August 2016. AppDynamics was acquired by Cisco in January 2017 for $3.7 billion.
  • Jim Drill, veteran sales leader, investor and consultant — Jim Drill is a seasoned sales leader who has built successful go-to-market teams at Lithium Technologies, BMC, Imperva, IMLogic, MedSource Technologies, Inc. and PTC. With 28 years of experience in enterprise software, Jim has an impeccable track record of leading diverse teams, from start-ups to teams of more than 400 sales reps within dynamic, growing companies to achieve record global sales results, including two IPOs and two acquisitions. He serves as board member at MOVE Guides and FastSpring, and an advisor to LearnUp, HackerOne and Envoy Global. Jim obtained his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Vineet Jain, Founder and CEO of Egnyte — Vineet Jain is an experienced business leader who has worked in the B2B technology industry in Silicon Valley for more than 25 years. After holding multiple senior level positions at KPMG and Bechtel, Vineet set his sights on becoming a self-made entrepreneur. He started his first company, Valdero, a supply chain solution provider that received funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and Trinity Ventures — and went on to a successful exit. Vineet founded Egnyte in 2007 and led the company to become a leader in the Enterprise File Sync and Share market. Vineet has secured multiple funding rounds to help grow the business from a cadre of co-founders to a global business with more than 300 employees worldwide.
  • Lars Nilsson, VP of Inside Sales at Cloudera — Lars Nilsson is a proven, results-oriented inside sales and sales operations leader with 25 years of management experience building sales organizations and generating demand for products in enterprise software and hardware organizations. Lars currently serves as VP of Field Operations for Cloudera, the company that is revolutionizing enterprise data management by offering the first unified Platform for Big Data. Prior to Cloudera, Lars founded SalesSource, a premier business services consulting firm specializing in Salesforce.com customization and sales process development to aid venture backed start-ups scale and drive pipeline. Lars has also served in sales executive roles at ArcSight/Hewlett Packard, Riverbed Technology, and Portal Software. All three companies achieved an IPO.
  • Raj De Datta, co-founder and CEO of BloomReach — Raj brought 10 years of enterprise and entrepreneurial experience when he co-founded BloomReach. Before launching the company, he was entrepreneur-in-residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures. Prior to that, Raj served as Cisco’s director of product marketing and was on the founding team of telecom company FirstMark/LambdaNet, which grew to $80 million in run-rate revenue. Raj also worked in technology investment banking at Lazard Freres. He holds a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

“Sales leaders know that the faster reps get up to speed and longer they stay engaged, the more effective they’ll be in generating revenue,” said Ravi Viswanathan, General Partner at New Enterprise Associates, an investor in Mindtickle. “The members of the advisory board are incredibly successful business leaders. Their endorsement of Mindtickle’s approach to sales readiness is just one more proof point that the company is well positioned to grow its presence globally.”

About Mindtickle
Mindtickle offers the industry’s most comprehensive readiness solution for closing the knowledge and skill gaps found in customer-facing teams. Sales teams across a wide range of industries use Mindtickle’s award-winning platform to train, coach, and align their sales teams to make reps and their managers more effective. Combining on-demand online training, bite-sized mobile updates, gamification, coaching and role-play with a data-driven approach, Mindtickle accelerates time-to-productivity, ensures consistent execution, and helps boost sales performance. Companies leveraging Mindtickle for sales enablement to assess and certify the readiness of each rep see bigger deal sizes, higher win rates and reduced sales cycles. Mindtickle is a global, privately-held company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. Investors include NEA and Accel Partners. For more information please visit mindtickle.com.

Mindtickle Recognized for Industry Leadership in Sales Readiness

SUNNYVALE, CA–(Marketwired – May 15, 2017) – Mindtickle, the leading sales readiness platform, announced that the company received industry recognition for its innovations that help businesses improve sales performance. Mindtickle is named the winner of a Bronze Stevie® Award in the New Product or Service of the Year – Software – Other category in The 15th Annual American Business Awards. In addition, Mindtickle is included in the Smart Selling Tool’s “Top Sales Tools of 2017 Guide” in the “Sales Management, Coaching & Training” category.

The American Business Awards are the nation’s premier business awards program. More than 3,600 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted for consideration in a wide range of categories. Mindtickle was nominated for its sales readiness platform, which allows companies to ensure sales reps have the knowledge and skill to succeed, and are executing on the plan consistently.

“We created Mindtickle to address a growing challenge for sales organizations that impacts sales performance and slows growth,” said Mohit Garg, Co-founder and CRO at Mindtickle. “Mindtickle’s approach to sales readiness allows companies to onboard, coach, reinforce and communicate with their teams to make them ready for winning customer-facing conversations.”

Smart Selling Tools is an analyst and consulting firm that specializes in sales productivity and sales performance improvement through the use of smart sales tools. The top tools guide is issued annually and recognizes the most valuable solutions in the broader sales enablement ecosystem.

Organizations of all sizes use Mindtickle to ensure sales reps are prepared to have meaningful conversations with prospects and customers. Mindtickle has a proven track record of improving deal motion and win rates by supporting:

  • Sales Onboarding: With Mindtickle, businesses can streamline sales onboarding by creating structured learning paths that dynamically adapt to a rep’s needs.
  • Sales Coaching: Salespeople need to have meaningful conversations to win over customers. Mindtickle provides the most effective way to test, evaluate and equip sales reps for the conversations buyers demand.
  • Ongoing Readiness: Maximize the effectiveness of sales reps by ensuring that they are ready for any sales situation by providing contextual support based on common scenarios and bite-sized information pushes via mobile to keep them informed.

Details about The American Business Awards and the list of 2017 Stevie winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.

To view Smart Selling Tool’s “Top Sales Tools of 2017 Guide,” please visit: https://smartsellingtools.com/top-sales-tools-of-2017-announced/

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About Mindtickle

Mindtickle offers the industry’s most comprehensive readiness solution for closing the knowledge and skill gaps found in customer-facing teams. Sales teams across a wide range of industries use Mindtickle’s award-winning platform to train, coach, and align their sales teams to make reps and their managers more effective. Combining on-demand online training, bite-sized mobile updates, gamification, coaching and role-play with a data-driven approach, Mindtickle accelerates time-to-productivity, ensures consistent execution, and helps boost sales performance. Companies leveraging Mindtickle for sales enablement to assess and certify the readiness of each rep see bigger deal sizes, higher win rates and reduced sales cycles. Mindtickle is a global, privately-held company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. Investors include NEA and Accel Partners. For more information please visit mindtickle.com.

Seismic and Mindtickle Partner to Increase Revenue per Rep at Large Enterprises

SAN DIEGO and SAN FRANCISCOMay 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — According to SiriusDecisions, 63 percent of sales reps fail to achieve quota due to improper training or the inability to find and use relevant content. Today, Seismic, the leading enterprise-grade sales enablement solution, and sales readiness solution Mindtickle announced a technology partnership that will attack both issues, resulting in enterprise sales reps training for, and then executing in sales interactions in a more effective manner than ever before.

“Top-performing sales reps are the ones who want to become better at every aspect of their job, from intelligently preparing and training to engaging prospects with the most relevant, personalized content,” said Doug Winter, Seismic co-founder and CEO at Seismic. “Companies looking to ensure that such top-performing sales reps remain satisfied and up-and-comers reach their fullest potential can only do so today with the help of best-in-class technologies. This is why we’ve partnered with Mindtickle.”

The integration opens up new opportunities for sales reps using both technologies, including:

  • On-demand access to all materials necessary to increase performance: Reps using Seismic and Mindtickle can now receive feedback on both presentation dry-runs and the content used within them at any place and time. Whether they are seated at their desks, in their hotel rooms, or in the lobby before a meeting, reps can tweak content and get coaching on their pitch whenever and wherever they need.
  • Just-in-time readiness on new content: Through Mindtickle’s training and video coaching capabilities, new content within Seismic will be served with Mindtickle modules on how to use it effectively. Sales reps can get smarter on new materials right from within the content platform they are most familiar with, thus decreasing time spent scheduling separate training sessions or requesting guidance from content creators.
  • Valuable information they need to get better: Information collected within Mindtickle and Seismic on rep performance and content engagement will now be fed back to each individual rep, enabling reps to continuously and intelligently improve areas of their job that are directly tied to more effectively closing deals.

“At Nutanix, we pride ourselves in providing sales reps with the right technologies they need to exceed quotas and drive revenue,” said Amir Chaudry, Head of Global Sales Enablement, Educational Services & Field Readiness at Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing. “The combination of Seismic and Mindtickle does just that, helping reps prepare and master messaging before meetings, and win the deal with the most relevant information and collateral during them.”

Benefits of the technology integration also expand to all teams involved in the enablement process, from content creators in marketing to sales ops and training. These benefits include:

  • Holistic sales engagement data: The combination of the two technologies means that teams involved in the creation of sales content and training collateral now have a comprehensive view of reps’ engagement with all sales-oriented materials, helping them to further pinpoint areas of strengths and weaknesses of their salespeople.
  • New content certification: When integrated with Seismic, Mindtickle’s certification process can be applied to new collateral, including product brochures and case studies. This ensures that reps only use the content in the field once they have demonstrated proficiency and expertize in presenting it.

“A truly best-in-class sales team is one with a laser focus on driving revenue that is supported by a high-performing culture across the entire sales and marketing organization,” said Krishna Depura, CEO of Mindtickle. “With Mindtickle and Seismic, every team involved in enabling sales to accelerate deals and increase win rates—from Sales Ops to Sales Enablement and Product Marketing—will know that they are doing their part to have their impact felt on the bottom line.”

For more information on the integration and Seismic’s partnership with Mindtickle, visit Seismic’s site at http://info.seismic.com/sales-readiness.

About Seismic
Seismic’s leading sales enablement solution allows marketing teams to personalize content at scale and equips large sales teams with the right content for every interaction, dramatically improving time spent selling and win rates. Seismic is the only sales enablement platform powered by machine learning algorithms and the award-winning LiveDocs® technology, which automates the creation of personalized sales materials within seconds. Real-time analytics provide unprecedented insight for marketing teams looking to gauge which content helps close deals, further aligning marketing and sales efforts. Headquartered in San Diego and with more than 250 employees across the globe, Seismic is privately held by its executive team and investment firms General Atlantic, JMI Equity, and Jackson Square Ventures.

To see how Seismic is being used by firms in your industry, visit http://www.seismic.com.

About Mindtickle
Mindtickle offers the industry’s most comprehensive readiness solution for closing the knowledge and skill gaps found in customer facing teams. Sales teams across a wide range of industries use Mindtickle’s award-winning platform to train, coach, and align their sales teams to make reps and their managers more effective. Combining on-demand online training, bite-sized mobile updates, gamification, coaching and role-play with a data-driven approach, Mindtickle accelerates time-to-productivity, ensures consistent execution, and helps boost sales performance. Companies leveraging Mindtickle for sales enablement to assess and certify the readiness of each rep see bigger deal sizes, higher win rates and reduced sales cycles. Mindtickle is a global privately held company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. Investors include NEA and Accel Partners. For more information please visit mindtickle.com.