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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.

Sales enablement is a crucial piece of the puzzle when it comes to achieving revenue success. As the name suggests, sales enablement is all about giving your sales team the tools they need to be successful. While there are many different components that make up a successful sales enablement strategy, one of the most important is data. After all, data tells the true story about your business. It helps you understand what’s working and what isn’t, identify areas for improvement, and make better decisions moving forward 💪 📈

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.

How often have you been asked how much revenue a specific case study generated? Or rather, how often is the sales team sharing that specific case study? If you’re making a wild guesstimate, trust us—you’re not alone. It’s tough when you invest resources to create content and are not even sure if it’s getting read. It’s even worse when it gets read, but there’s no way of tracking its true ROI.

I don’t have to tell you sales is competitive. In today’s environment empowering your sales team with the right sales enablement tools is essential for your business’s success. Sure, back in the day, many businesses have seen success without those tools. But, seriously, times have changed and so have your buyer’s behaviors and demands on sales productivity.. Are you depriving your sales team of the cutting-edge sales tech to save a few bucks?

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.