Content Tips for Supporting Your Sales Team or Your Sales Outsourcing Team

by | Oct 17, 2016 | B2B Marketing, Outsourcing Sales, Small Business Sales

Written by: Carol Springer – Co-Founder Gabriels Sales, Head of Salesforce, Account Engagement (Pardot) & Marketing Cloud Next Consulting

Your buyer now expects you to make it easy for them to buy. So Gabriel Sales now provides both Sales Outsourcing and Outsourced Marketing support for our clients, because content is required to support your sales effort. Here are some rules of thumb and best practices we use to help create powerful content that will support your sales outsourcing without breaking the bank:

Generate Thought Leadership Content – For many companies the production of the content can be tough but the substance of the content is all around them. What we find when doing a content survey and initial interviews is that what our clients believe to be common sense and basic information, is not that common or basic for the buyer. With a series of headshot interviews, we can help them to create a series of blogs, checklists and short informational videos that are authentically educational.

Content Needs to Live Online – You need to make sure your buyers and your sales team can access your content online. This allows your content to be shared easily by your sales team and/or your sales outsourcing team.  Your blog is the easiest way to start.  And when we work with clients we supply our simple to use WordPress plug-in Digital Demand Center.  This allows us to quickly organize content for campaigns to specific buyers.  The tools allows you to contextualize all your content for specific buyers  and also helps with search engine optimization & email marketing. The more you share the more business you will generate.  Below is an example of how you can organize blog posts and videos using a powerful microsite in Digtial Demand Center to automate buyer education.

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Use Multiple Formats – Not all buyers like to be educated by the same format of content. Turn this into an advantage for your sales reps and use a mix of video, blog posts, webcasts, checklists, and eBooks. We really like webcasts as anchor content because we find that we can take a well thought through webcast and turn it into multiple pieces of shorter content in different formats. Once again if you take care of the substance we can take care of the production to support your sales outsourcing clients.  

Use Automation Technology to Score Your Leads – Automation technologies are here for good. They give you the ability to educated buyers, stay top of mind and prioritize leads for you sales outsourcing team. You should expect any sales outsourcing partner to be using these tools to increase your effectiveness and efficiency.

Don’t Forget Calls to Action – You should end every piece of content with a next step to make it easy for your buyer to buy.

If you would like to learn more about Gabriel Sales and our history please visit the About Us Page or feel free to Contact Us to learn more about how we can help with your sales outsourcing and outsourced marketing needs.

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