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“I created a one-pager 6 months back—and an AE just requested it to be created again. They had no idea this document existed.” This is something we hear far too often when marketers talk about content usage internally. When you add shared drives and terrible content management systems to the mix, that problem only gets worse with time. If you want to create a system that stops your content from going into the endless abyss of your shared drive, this guide is for you.

Improve Your Product Messaging with our Product Messaging Template Here’s the situation – you sell products or services, but we’ll just call them “products” for simplicity here. Most of the Sales and Marketing team are on the same page about what your product does – some of the values and benefits it provides, how it’s a bit different and generally how to talk about it. But, you know that consistency is key to driving understanding with your buyer and that only consistency brings the repeatability that drives word of mouth and smooths out the purchasing cycle.

Despite over 70% of marketers spending more on content marketing, only 55% of the best b2b marketers have a documented content strategy. Right now, you might be feeling the pain of needing a content strategy for sales content or maybe you’re simply feeling the frustrations from trying to get stuff done without an overall plan. What if you could guarantee great sales content that’s produced on a regular schedule? The best of the best recognize the impact of content strategy on their content production, and there’s plenty of room for improvement for everyone else.

Perform a Sales Content Audit to Streamline Your Sales Process Did you know that the average B2B buyer consumes over 10 pieces of content before making a decision? Of course you know that. So, I bet finding the right piece of content is standing between your sales team and new customers right now. And if your marketing collateral is a jumbled mess across many folders (like I usually see), your sales team is probably missing the content they need to convert a warm lead to a paying customer.

How to Create a Buyer Persona If you want a consistent and repeatable message across all of your teams and increase your conversion rate, then we have the buyer persona template for you! Yes, there are different types of persona templates to download (like the Hubspot persona template or this post from Hootsuite), and just so you know, this isn’t a re-run of the same old persona templates. This isn’t a brand messaging guideline.

If an elevator pitch is the essential distillation of a 20 or 45 minute presentation, a one pager is the same but for your library of product marketing materials. If you haven’t produced any one pagers yet, you are missing a basic tool from your sales enablement toolkit. If you’re expanding on your existing resources, there’s always an opportunity to build a one pager sales pitch that’s just a little bit better.

Product and marketing teams pour their hearts and souls into creating an incredible product line-up and a go-to-market strategy. But if the money-making pages, a.k.a. your product pages, don’t give potential customers what they want, it’ll cost you thousands of dollars and negatively impact your bottom line. A terribly designed product page does three things: Creates a negative user experience Increases bounce rates Reduces conversion rates So, if you don’t give users what they want, they won’t think twice before navigating away from your website.

Every content manager we’ve spoken to has one issue with production: terribly written first drafts. Does this sound familiar to you? Then you’re not alone. It boils down to a lack of standardized content production processes. The production process is tedious, and that only worsens if you don’t have the right systems in place. To avoid this, create a solid content production workflow, and incorporate a key ingredient to set your strategy into motion: the content brief.

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.

Great marketing is all about finding the right balance between unique, compelling messaging and creating a consistent brand. Constantly striving to deliver both unique messaging that will resonate with your target audience and also a repeatable, adaptable framework from which to build those messages is tough. That’s where the best marketing templates and sales templates can be a game changer. But you can’t just use any template. Creating templates for messages that you plan to send to every prospect may save you time, but if they never even open your message, your time is wasted.