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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.

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.

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.

Your sales stack can make or break your business! Every business needs a sales enablement strategy to empower their sales teams with top sales enablement tools. Great tools automate most of the manual processes and make sure that the reps are focused on doing what they know best, and that’s selling! With the right sales enablement tools, you can empower your reps with a sales stack that can accelerate sales, improve buyer experiences, and (of course!

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.

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 toolkit. If you’re expanding on your existing resources, there’s always an opportunity to build one-sheet that’s just a little bit better. A one-pager is a bit of a paradox - seemingly simple, but ultimately it’s the product of careful choices and thorough editing.

How much should you pay marketers who are part of your content, product marketing, SEO or sales enablement teams? How much should you ask for during salary negotiations as someone who works in these same functions? Content is one of the most pivotal functions inside a marketing organization. It is also a newer role and marketers in these roles are often undervalued and underpaid. That’s why Content Camel put together the Content Marketing Salary Report.