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5 Essential Sales Enablement Best Practices to Speed Up Sales Cycles

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Research finds that over half of organizations report higher-quality leads because they use personas. Here are a few tips for getting started: Complete updated research. Whether you have existing personas or you’re creating them for the very first time, you’ll want to update your research. Create persona profiles.

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What is Lead Scoring for Marketing and What Are the Benefits?

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You don’t want a demo of their software — you haven’t even had time to read their content yet. eBook Learn More According to research from Gartner, B2B buyers are spending more time researching online, and less time interacting directly with sales — as little as 5-6% of their total buying journey.

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Integrate Sales and Marketing Software to Streamline Processes

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And marketing teams depend on a solid marketing automation platform (MAP) to deliver personalized content at scale. You need a bidirectional integration to support full visibility into how a prospect interacts with marketing content and sales team members throughout their journey. When the two platforms work together, magic happens.

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3 Ways to Start Earning Links

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Link earning focuses on creating quality content that earns backlinks from high-authority websites. Earn links to your content by using popular backlink tools such as the Ahrefs backlink checker. Evaluate the competitor content earning these types of links. What types of content are they creating? Not sure where to start?

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Sales and Marketing Alignment: Why it Matters

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Real or imagined cultural clashes (“Marketers are mired in process and research.” Today’s buyers are more reliant on digital information to move them along their journey. Research from Gartner shows that buyers only spend 17% of their time meeting with potential suppliers—that’s all suppliers, not just the winning solution.

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10 Simple SEO Basics for Better Rankings

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More traffic helps you support your audience on their buyers’ journeys, whether that’s providing blog content, downloading an eBook, signing up for your email list, scheduling a product demo, or taking some other action. We love this example from the Content Marketing Institute. It’s the overuse and misuse of keywords in your content.

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Marketing Automation for Financial Services Marketers

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You can use automation to enroll new leads in nurture campaigns that send educational content over time. Automate repetitive tasks like scheduling and publishing content, and use advanced features like social media listening and employee advocacy to stay on top of conversations and comments while driving positive engagement.