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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.

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.

Google Drive is probably the most frequently used content management tool. I’m sure that’s no surpise to you 😎. From our perspective, sales teams are the ones constantly creating and sharing your Google Drive files with your prospects to move them towards conversion (closed-won!). The challenge is, that sharing your sales content in google docs, slides, or sheets can give a messy experience for the reader/viewer. The login requirements, the menus, and all the options hanging around just make it…not cool.

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.

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.

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, therefore, it’s easy to see that you need a push for sales enablement. This is sometimes easier said than done because great sales enablement involves collaboration across multiple departments.

How To Align Marketing and Sales for Successful Sales Enablement Very few marketers can say that their content production workflow is a well-oiled machine. That’s because too often, they try to fit into a rigid workflow instead of creating one that works for them. You need high-quality, carefully crafted content that delights your target audience while delivering results month after month. But how can you achieve that without having the right systems in place?

Are you overwhelmed and stretched thin, trying to juggle all the pieces of your content marketing workflow? If that’s the case, you need a content calendar to streamline your production. These calendars create a baseline for production and help you scale your content efforts. Even though planning, creating, delivering, and updating content calendars require time and effort, the results are worth it. This blog post will discuss how you can create an efficient content calendar that works for your marketing team while managing ongoing projects.

Videos are a great way for your sales team to engage with your audience. They are more engaging than text or static images because they’re sensory-rich experiences that can capture our attention and hold it for longer periods of time. Your sales team can embed videos on a landing page or emails to put them right in front of the reader. Embedding videos into your marketing materials is an effective way to communicate a lot of information in a short amount of time.

There’s no one-size-fits-all answer when it comes to setting up a Business Development Representative (BDR) team, but there are some best practices and BDR strategies that can help ensure its success. First, it’s important to have a clear understanding of what your BDRs will be responsible for. What’s their primary purpose? Are they generating new leads? Qualifying prospects? Nurturing leads? All of the above? Once you know what their main focus will be, you can start to build out your team.