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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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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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How to Manage Tasks Priority with Urgency – Importance Matrix (UIM)
Alex Agulyansky
November 28, 2021
How to Manage Tasks Priority with Urgency – Importance Matrix (UIM)
We are excited to announce a recent release of an additional Creative Thinking Tool in PRIZ online innovation platform, Urgency – Importance Matrix (UIM)....
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Top 5 Advantages of Outsourcing B2B Sales Teams
Liza Chubar
September 13, 2021
Top 5 Advantages of Outsourcing B2B Sales Teams
Whether they’re small or big companies, businesses of all sizes experience a common issue when expanding and covering different territories: having enough salespeople....
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Industrial Distribution: Who’s doing the selling?
Frank Hurtte
August 26, 2021
Industrial Distribution: Who’s doing the selling?
Let’s talk about selling.  More specifically, let’s discuss selling technical products – products that possess unique features differentiating them from the competition. Further,...
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Value of a 3rd Party General Competitor Analysis
Ken Lambert
July 16, 2021
Value of a 3rd Party General Competitor Analysis
Businesses, and all kinds of organizations including associations, can often get stuck by looking at their business and the overall market through their...
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The Impact of Market Orientation and Market Intelligence on Organizational Performance
Inna Hüessmanns
June 14, 2021
The Impact of Market Orientation and Market Intelligence on Organizational Performance
In recent years, academic studies have focused on the concept of market orientation with the aim of understanding the effect of market orientation...
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Technical Sales Managers: To Get A Seat At The C-Suite Table, Show How Data Can Deliver Value
Freddy Jose Mangum
March 27, 2021
Technical Sales Managers: To Get A Seat At The C-Suite Table, Show How Data Can Deliver Value
A guide for technical sales solution architects, sales engineers, system engineers and presales managers that increases their visibility and impact in driving top-line...
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