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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.

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.

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.

A one-pager is a document that gives a high-level overview of something, usually one topic. One-pager can be used for just about anything - from summarizing an event to giving an overview of a company or product. The key is to tailor the one-pager to its intended audience. That means prioritizing the design and content based on what is most important to them. For example, in the business world, one-pagers are typically heavy on text and light on graphics.

Marketing and sales spend an enormous amount of time hashing out different pipeline stages and funnel stages, trying to determine at what point different users fit into each. And you probably have an established process, so reviewing that will be incredibly helpful and save everyone a lot of time and testing. In order to help you create a stronger marketing and sales funnel upfront that converts more, we’re going to go over how to design a perfect marketing sales funnel design that will make every department happy.

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.

Who Owns Sales Enablement? PMM, Marketing, or Sales? 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.

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.