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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.

Leveraging Strategy to Improve B2B Sales
Dean de Jongh
March 24, 2021
Leveraging Strategy to Improve B2B Sales
High-value B2B deals seldomly follow a linear path and often take unexpected routes to close. Account-based marketing is proving to be a successful approach...
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What’s the Ideal Win Rate, and Does it Even Matter?
Bernie Doyle
March 9, 2021
What’s the Ideal Win Rate, and Does it Even Matter?
A sales leader recently asked me this: What is the ideal Win Close Rate for a B2B company? I couldn’t answer—for a couple...
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How Companies Get Bragged About Today
Marc Cox
February 18, 2021
How Companies Get Bragged About Today
Over the years I have become increasingly interested in company culture and 12 years ago I founded The Company Spirit. Nowadays I get...
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Guerrilla Marketing for B2B
Ken Lambert
February 7, 2021
Guerrilla Marketing for B2B
“Guerrilla marketing” as a term and technique has been around for a long time, but typically it is associated with B2C endeavors. However,...
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Is B2B Purchasing Overly Cumbersome and Inefficient?
Ken Lambert
January 30, 2021
Is B2B Purchasing Overly Cumbersome and Inefficient?
This topic, and lament, is nothing new- but it does appear that over the past several years things have gotten even more convoluted. ...
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How Many Software Firms can the Economy Support?
Ken Lambert
January 9, 2021
How Many Software Firms can the Economy Support?
In my daily and weekly perusal around the internet in general, and especially on LinkedIn, I am amazed at just how many software...
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How Sales Engineer Compensation Stacks Up to the Rest
Ken Lambert
December 15, 2020
How Sales Engineer Compensation Stacks Up to the Rest
Of course at the North American Association for Sales Engineers we are biased- but we think that being a sales engineer is one...
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Buyers, Vendors, and SRM
Ken Lambert
December 10, 2020
Buyers, Vendors, and SRM
Most of us in technical sales are quite familiar with CRM software and technology, and how that assists us in our daily and...
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