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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.

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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#StrategicInsight: Blind Spots #5 & Sales Enablement
Michael Dodgson
June 10, 2021
#StrategicInsight: Blind Spots #5 & Sales Enablement
Learning about the blind spots in your #salesfunnel can provide significant benefits to your sales teams. In these two images, you can see...
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Presentation version Conversation
Roger McNamara
May 22, 2021
Presentation version Conversation
15.3 Billion trees are cut down each year across the globe. I dare say a number of these wind up being used for...
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The Five Signals of Buyer Intent in SaaS Sales
Neil McLean
May 11, 2021
The Five Signals of Buyer Intent in SaaS Sales
The modern software buying process is long. Buyers consider many different vendors when exploring software options. In fact, according to Gartner research, SaaS...
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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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Game plans are not a game
Dean de Jongh
February 18, 2021
Game plans are not a game
Why bother with strategy? You may have played the sales and key-account game over and over. We’re going through major shifts due to...
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