On this week in sales we’ll be looking at:  * Our car buying experiences * Seismic surpassing $200m in revenue * Increasing product pricing due to inflation  And much more! News: Seismic surpasses $200m in annual revenue run rate Seismic, the global leader in sales enablement, today announced it has surpassed $200 million in annual revenue run rate. * Sales Enablement* Marketing Enablement* Social Selling enablement* Analytics https://londonlovesbusiness.com/seismic-surpasses-200m-in-annual-revenue-run-rate/ How B2B Firms Can Price with Confidence as Inflation Rises Inflation is rising globally, cutting into companies’ profits. To deal with that, companies will need to raise prices. Many business-to-business (B2B) companies granted their customers pricing relief due to the pandemic, meaning they’d already sunk into a pricing hole even without inflation. These five strategies can help B2B firms manage price increases intelligently: * treat customers differently, according to how valuable they are to your business* exchange price for other valuable features – B2B companies can pass on surcharges for fuel, expedited shipping, inventory holding, and longer payment terms* enforce what’s in your contracts* consider indirect increases* adjust your product mix. https://hbr.org/2021/07/how-b2b-firms-can-price-with-confidence-as-inflation-rises Lilt Launches Next-Generation Multilingual Asset Management New Solution Enables Higher Quality Localization Through Automated Linguistic Asset Management Lilt, the modern language service and technology provider, announced the launch of Multilingual Asset Management, a new solution that enables companies to achieve higher quality localization and deliver a more unified brand and voice globally through better, more automated linguistic data quality control. “Linguistic data curation is an essential discipline for modern localization, which depends on training custom machine learning systems. Translation quality is too often compromised by poorly maintained translation memories and glossaries that no longer conform to brand requirements” said Lilt CEO Spence Green. https://salestechstar.com/forecasting-performance-management/lilt-launches-next-generation-multilingual-asset-management/ Sales Enablement vs. Sales Operations: What’s the Difference? Sales Operations  Sales operations are the technical activities that reduce friction for sales reps on a daily basis. Sales operations may include the maintenance of your team’s CRM, data tracking and analysis, setting up new hardware or software for your reps, and so forth.  You can think of your sales operations team as a combination of management, IT, as well as “customer support” for your sales reps. What are the Differences Between Sales Operations and Sales Enablement? Let’s review some of the major differences between sales operations and sales enablement: