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Any chief marketing officer (CMO), RevOps specialist, and sales or marketing team member can tell you that there can be a significant disconnect between the marketing and sales teams. This disconnect isn’t just a potential cause for tension, but it can also cause substantial lost revenue. And while everyone plays a vital role in sales enablement, it’s clear that you need marketing and sales fully aligned for everyone to be more successful.

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.

When you really break it down, helping buyers buy is really what your marketing site is all about, right? That’s certainly how we think about things here, at Content Camel. And it was obvious after many sales calls that a pricing calculator would be helpful – even though we have standard pricing (which is pretty rare in the sales enablement space). On average, B2B buyers consume up to eight vendor-created pieces of content and five third-party pieces before making a buying decision, according to research by FocusVision.

So you have a PDF file that’s just a little too big (or really too big!) to send over email. Or upload. What do you do? Luckily, there are several ways to compress a PDF file without sacrificing quality: Compress the file using Adobe Acrobat Pro Compress it on your computer Compress the file using an online compression tool. Compress it on WinRAR. So, there a number of ways to reduce file size, but some methods are more effective than others.

If you’re anything like me, then you probably have a few favorite websites that you visit on the regular. Whether it’s to get the latest insights on the best sales enablement tools, get tips on How to create a one pager for sales, or to keep in tune with some marketing inspiration. These pages and sites provide valuable information that visitors want to access when they are browsing. Moving beyond just a simple blog, resource centers on your marketing site serve as the gateway to all the great content you’re serving up.

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.