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How Content Marketing Directly Improves Sales

Marketing Insider Group

Businesses have a wealth of options for promoting their solutions to boost sales. While some invest a tremendous amount of money in traditional advertising channels, many use the power of content instead. Content marketing directly improves sales in many ways, and typically costs much less and has higher returns than ads.

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5 Essential Sales Enablement Best Practices to Speed Up Sales Cycles

Act-On

In a perfect world, sales and marketing would be tightly aligned , working toward the same goals and achieving the best possible results. But marketers and sales teams know this isn’t always easy. From this challenge, sales enablement was born. As a result, B2B companies are investing heavily in sales enablement tools.

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Sales Qualified Lead vs Sales Accepted Lead: Distinguishing Sales-Ready Leads from Potential Sales Leads  

Only B2B

Do all those website visitors and content downloads translate into sales conversations? Understanding the Stages: MQLs, SALs, and SQLs Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs) and Sales Accepted Leads (SALs) might sound similar , understanding the distinctions between these lead types is crucial to boosting up your marketing funnel.

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The Winning Formula in Sales

xiQ

The Winning Formula in Sales In the high-speed world of Formula 1 racing, precision, strategy, and agility are paramount. These principles also lie beneath all sales, where professionals navigate the fast-paced market, leveraging insights and technology to cross the finish line ahead of their competition.

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9 Experts Rethinking Demand Generation

How to strategically target your content and lead generation campaigns to disrupt the status quo and facilitate the sale.

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The Marketing Book Podcast: “The Sale Is In The Tale” by John Livesay

The Forward Observer

The Sale Is In The Tale by John Livesay About the Book John Livesay, a keynote speaker and author of the business book Better Selling Through Storytelling , presents us with a business fable set in Austin, Texas. It is about a sales representative whose old ways of selling are not working anymore.

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Transform Your Sales Process with HubSpot Content Assistant

SmartBug Media

In today's competitive landscape, sales teams are under immense pressure to deliver results. Traditional sales strategies often fall short thanks to long sales cycles, decreased close rates, and the need for more personalized outreach. But how can you incorporate HubSpot's Content Assistant into your sales process?

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The Essential Guide to the Buying Experience of the Future

They hold sellers to a high standard, and that means the buying experiences of the past — in-person meetings, transactional conversations, and linear sales funnels — no longer deliver. So forget your old sales playbook, because the ultimate value proposition is an impactful buying experience that guides people to the best possible decision.

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GDPR & Demand Generation: What Your Team Needs To Know

Speaker: David Crane, Head of Content & Thought Leadership, Integrate

The coming month will test the boundaries of change management for marketing organizations (and their colleagues in sales, finance, IT and legal) as they ready their teams for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will go into effect May 2018.

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Your Recipe for Inbound Success

Speaker: Jen Spencer, VP Sales and Marketing, SmartBug Media

And the best part is, it can apply to content for all stages of your funnel! Jen will dive in deep how she did this at a fast-growing SaaS company that shows, among many other things, how you can use buyer personas and establish a cadence to ensure that your content is seen at the right stage of the buyer's journey.

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How to Improve Demand Generation with Empathy

Speaker: Brian Carroll, CEO & Founder of markempa

Here’s the thing: we have more channels, content, and technology to reach potential customers. B2B sales are way more emotional than B2C because people’s careers are on the line. Learn how a company increased sales opportunities by 303% by being uber helpful to buyers.

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Seven Things Marketers Need to Know About Lead Generation

Speaker: Douglas Burdett, Host of The Marketing Book Podcast, Founder/Principal of ARTILLERY

Why helpful, non-promotional content is the key to lead generation success. If you are a marketer who needs to generate more high-quality leads that will turn into sales opportunities and revenue, register now for this special event that will show you how to get started and moving in a profitable direction.

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The Next Level of Sales Enablement: Sales Content Management

Speaker: Deniz Olcay, Senior Director of Product Marketing, and Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager

Modern Sales Content Management (SCM) platforms have become table stakes in the world of sales enablement. Sellers need one-stop access where all of their sales content is stored, organized, deployed, and measured. You'll also learn: How to maximize content impact and buyer engagement.

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Effective B2B Marketing Content That Will Lead to Sales Growth

Effective marketing content leads to increased sales productivity, more revenue, greater marketing effectiveness and stronger alignment between marketing and sales.

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Creating B2B Engagement, Not Just B2B Content

Speaker: Kate Jacobsen, Marketing Programs Manager, BrightTALK

Marketers are generating more and more content to educate and nurture prospects through the sales pipeline. The solution isn't creating more content—it’s getting the most out of what you have on hand. But for many, it’s becoming harder than ever to identify and implement effective methods to connect with the ideal buyer.