in Sales , Sales playbook , Marketing How to Reinvent Sales to Help Customers Buy Have you ever been a buyer and felt like bashing your head into the keyboard just trying to make a purchase? This can be true for any industry (buying my first car felt like an introduction to torture), but it’s particularly common in B2B and especially SaaS brands. The B2B buyer’s journey is naturally longer than most B2C journeys, but the reality is that marketing and sales funnels aren’t actually helping that— they’re making it worse.
in Sales content , Sales , Marketing , Content planning , Content development 7 Sales Content Strategy Examples That Boosted Annual Revenue 7 Sales Content Strategy Examples That Boosted Annual Revenue Is your sales team struggling to generate leads and bring in revenue? Maybe it’s the way they conduct the conversation. Or maybe, they don’t have the right assets to encourage a conversion. In this case, content marketing can be the answer. Typically, sales and marketing teams aren’t aligned because marketing wants brand awareness, and sales want leads. But, by creating middle and bottom funnel content—they both win.
in Sales content , Sales , Marketing , Content planning , Content development How Video Can Support Your Sales Enablement Strategy When it comes to sales enablement, there are plenty of tools in your arsenal. Highly trained sales team members. High-functioning, fast-loading sites. Landing pages that collect all the qualifying information you need and live chat options to grab users while they’re on the site. All these options… and yet video is still one of the most powerful sales enablement tools at your disposal here. When used correctly, video can help you do everything from educating and training your sales team, to supporting your marketing efforts.
in Sales content , Sales , Marketing , Content planning , Content development , Seo How to Create Effective SEO Content Briefs: Tips and Best Practices Content creation can feel like a game of telephone. Without the right process in place, it’s easy to lose track of what an article’s original intent was, and that can severely affect your efforts to generate solid content and rank on page #1. Further, without the right context for your piece, you won’t be able to strengthen it with top keywords, internal links, and other SEO tricks and techniques. While a regular content brief can capture the spirit of a piece and provide essential context, an SEO-focused content brief is geared towards getting to the front page of Google, with all the bells and whistles required.
in Marketing , Sales Sales Enablement Budget Planning in 2023 Sales enablement is important. You need to have a strategy and processes in place to ensure that your sales team has all the tools, data, resources, and even content that they need in order to do their jobs well, because without sales, your business is toast. Sales enablement is only possible, however, when you have the right budget in place for it. That’s what we’re focusing on today. We’re going to talk about sales enablement budget planning, and the three crucial parts of the planning and allocation process you need to follow along with sales enablement budget best practices.
in Sales , Sales playbook , Marketing How to Use Marketing Content to Drive Sales Your sales rep’s job is not easy. In many cases, they’re trying to tackle a large number of tasks at once, and sometimes for a single client, including the following: Qualifying leads Product demos and education Creating custom deals Overcoming objections Generating and signing contracts Setting up onboarding Tracking sales performance They’ve got a big job, and the reality is that they likely need a lot of content to help sell more.
in Sales , Sales playbook , Marketing Using Social Selling to Elevate your Marketing Strategy Social selling is a process of using social media to identify and connect with potential buyers for your products or services. It’s a way to use online tools to build relationships with potential customers, nurture those relationships, and ultimately convert them into sales in a way that feels organic. As a B2B marketer or sales leader, you may be wondering how it can help you close more deals. Here’s what you need to know:
in Sales , Sales playbook , Marketing , Content planning What Content Does Sales Actually Want? Content marketing can be an enormous goldmine of potential leads and sales. It can increase site traffic, educate users about your product, capture lead information, and push people through the funnel. All content, though, is not created equal. This is something I’ve seen time and time again as a content marketer. All too often, there’s a misalignment between sales and the marketing department, and the content just doesn’t quite bring in the type of actions or leads that sales needs.
in Sales content , Sales , Marketing content , Content development How to Create a Content Review Process That Works for You If you’re struggling with delayed production timelines and far too many edits to your content, this post is for you. This article will discuss the need for a content approval process and why you should create one for your organization. But before that, let’s discuss what a content approval process is. What is a content approval process? It refers to a detailed approval process that helps companies maintain their brand identity, ensure accuracy and consistency in their messaging, and protect their reputation.
in Sales enablement , Content marketing , Marketing , Sales , Content development , Content planning How to Create a Sales Enablement Strategy Did you know that 65% of over-performing sales teams have a dedicated sales enablement person (or team), and 84% achieve their quotas when there’s a quality sales enablement strategy in place? If you want to be one of those teams absolutely knocking it out of the park, then, it’s easy to see that you need a push for sales enablement. Yes, this is sometimes easier said than done, because great sales enablement involves collaboration across multiple departments.