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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.

Sales Engineer as the “Gut Check”
Ken Lambert
August 20, 2024
Sales Engineer as the “Gut Check”
Sales engineers bring a lot of value to the deal, and to their companies. One of the most important is that of the...
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Unlocking the potential of sales engineers through strategic training programs
Luis Armando Vasquez Ruiz
May 13, 2024
Unlocking the potential of sales engineers through strategic training programs
(Spanish version at the end of the article) In the post-pandemic era, industrial companies face a constantly evolving business landscape, where adaptability and...
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Chief Shipping Returns Officer?  Is the Current C-Suite at Risk of Downsizing?
Ken Lambert
July 2, 2023
Chief Shipping Returns Officer?  Is the Current C-Suite at Risk of Downsizing?
Over the past 4-5 years the corporate world has seen a vast expansion in the C-suite.  Back “in the day” most companies had...
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Key insights on Presales Hiring Criteria
John Hodgson
June 1, 2023
Key insights on Presales Hiring Criteria
Drum roll…. and the results are in… At Bright Dynamics we surveyed 103 PreSales leaders from around the world, asking 54 questions around...
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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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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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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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Constant team or varied partners?  What works best in sales engineering?
Aileen McNabb
September 26, 2021
Constant team or varied partners?  What works best in sales engineering?
I’ve worked in both situations.  Sometimes as an SE I worked exclusively, or close to exclusively with one salesperson (AE).  I’ve also worked...
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