Let's talk about Sales Playbook

Google Drive, as you likely already know, is a wildly popular cloud storage platform. It’s often used by teams for collaboration on projects ranging from content marketing to reports for key stakeholders and more. Many businesses create and even store some of their most high-value content in Google Drive. And, unsurprisingly, many businesses want to be able to track activity on those high-value pieces. They look for benefits like trackable links, which can help keep track of who is viewing a document and where t hey came from.

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.

Your sales documents help you convert your leads into customers 🎉🙌 They do, right? Of course! You can easily prove it by measuring which documents are used most by your sales team, which ones your prospects open and read, and… Umm, you are tracking them… aren’t you? OK, whether you track them or not, don’t worry. You’re in the right place now, because we’re reviewing how you can analyze usage by creating short links to track your sales documents.

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.

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:

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.

Knowing exactly what your role is at work and what you’re responsible for is crucial. You don’t want to drop anything accidentally that’s supposed to be on your plate. It’s also important because you need to know who owns certain tasks, or it’s easy for different departments or team members to end up arguing over who exactly is responsible for specific responsibilities. Sales enablement feels like a prime example. As it’s the process of getting the sales team helpful info, resources, and tools to increase sales, there can be a lively debate about who exactly owns it.

When you’re marketing and selling your product, it’s important to know what to lead with so that you’re most likely to drive the sale. Do customers love your pricing? Are your products or services higher-quality, with unique features? Or maybe you’re known for outstanding customer service and fast response times. People make buying decisions based on a number of different factors, but your best chance at driving the conversion is knowing how to leverage value-based selling to get them to purchase from you.

Confluence: A Corporate Wiki Confluence is a corporate wiki that definitely brings heightened collaboration to teams and some marketing and sales teams are using Confluence for sales content management and sales playbooks. Maybe that’s you and your team? If so, that means with Confluence you can bring your entire team together on one platform to access any specific piece of information and manage projects. It increases transparency across the organization for all ongoing projects, daily activities, and resources vital to your business.

The sales landscape is always one of rapid adjustment. As markets, trends, and new tools continue to develop, sales methods evolve right alongside them. And we bet you’re always looking to reinforce your competitive advantage. Well, having a sales playbook is essential to growing and scaling your sales efforts to maintain that advantage. But how do you make a sales playbook? To extract some key sales strategy insights, we did some digging to see what 3 sales management experts highlighted as they developed their winning sales playbooks.