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NAASE’s Blog is a curated resource for sales engineers, presales professionals, technical sales leaders, and others working at the intersection of technology, customers, and revenue. We publish practical articles, field perspectives, interviews, and member insights on sales methods, demos, POCs, business value, customer engagement, sales AI, communication, leadership, career growth, and the evolving role of the SE.

Article contributions are currently limited to NAASE Pro Members and contributors specifically invited by the NAASE team. This page is not used for company job postings, although we may publish editorial content about career development, interviewing, hiring trends, and the broader SE job market.

Sales engineers work under many titles, including solutions engineer, presales engineer, solutions consultant, technical sales representative, application engineer, specification sales representative, territory representative, and manufacturer’s representative. Across industries, they help customers understand complex products, evaluate fit, build trust, and connect technical capabilities to business outcomes.

PreSales Compensation Plans 101: Creating Winning Plans for Sales Engineers
Sara Burdsall
June 7, 2022
PreSales Compensation Plans 101: Creating Winning Plans for Sales Engineers
Getting PreSales compensation right is mission-critical to building revenue-generating teams that are incentivized to win for the company and themselves. With little to...
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4 Time-Saving Tech Tools Sales Pros Love
Liza Chubar
May 25, 2022
4 Time-Saving Tech Tools Sales Pros Love
It’s no secret that time is money when it comes to sales. Every extra minute spent on the phone or grabbing lunch with...
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Focusing on Outcomes over Effort in Presales
Sara Burdsall
March 31, 2022
Focusing on Outcomes over Effort in Presales
An article from our sponsors Vivun On Wednesday, Vivun VP of PreSales Brett Crane sat down with Oliver Oursin, Elastic’s EMEA Head of Solutions...
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Eliminating SE Leadership?
John Care
March 30, 2022
Eliminating SE Leadership?
“Never Again”This summary article written with permission of an MTS client. We altered a few peripheral facts to preserve anonymity, but otherwise “it...
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The Rise of the Sales-Proof Buyer
Sara Burdsall
March 25, 2022
The Rise of the Sales-Proof Buyer
Published by the team at Vivun, a sponsor of NAASE We’ve talked a lot about the rapid growth in PreSales, and even recently released...
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Does Spelling Still Matter in 2022?
Ken Lambert
March 3, 2022
Does Spelling Still Matter in 2022?
A few days ago I noticed a post on LinkedIn by a professional there, insinuating that spelling is not a big deal, and...
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Why Do Ideas Die or Not Get Realized?
Constanze Koch
February 10, 2022
Why Do Ideas Die or Not Get Realized?
On January 19, 2022, Alex and Anatoly Agulyansky introduced their product Priz Guru in a webinar to a group of engineer experts and...
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Social Confidence in the World of Technology
Eva Helen
January 25, 2022
Social Confidence in the World of Technology
I used to cry because I’m not a sales engineer. I considered going back to school, pretty much every week. Every time, my...
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