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The Half-Hour Sales Appointment

Think back to the last in-person appointment you set with a prospect (or likewise, with a team member). “Can we find an hour on each other’s calendars?” Maybe it’s an hour and a half, maybe even two hours, but no way you’re going to go below that, right? In a recent article on Psychology Today,

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Sales Enablement Should Work For You—Not Vice Versa

Sales enablement involves far more than excellent technology. “Sales enablement” is a broad term, but at the end of the day, its main goal is to increase sales productivity. That’s done on multiple fronts, including consistent content throughout the buying cycle, training, coaching, and sales process improvements. Sales enablement is part of the sales transformation

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Why Prospecting Challenges B2B Marketers

The digital presence of B2B companies like HubSpot, MailChimp and even shipping giant, Maersk, could give some B2C brands a run for their money. But despite the advanced techniques that some B2B companies are using, B2B marketers are struggling to catch up to the digital age as well as B2C companies. Forrester Research, in collaboration

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Best Practices for the Modern Sales Meeting

Everyone knows that the sales landscape has changed radically over the last few years. The technology that reps use, the customer expectations that reps do more than take orders, the research that buyers do—the sales cycle looks very different compared to five years ago, let alone twenty. You might think that one part of the

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7 Sales Content Metrics That Matter Most

Good marketers know their top marketing KPIs and metrics. With the ease of marketing automation and web analytics, there’s no good excuse for not having those metrics on hand to develop your programs and prove their worth to executives. Not to mention, there are many resources for the best KPIs to track. Now, the time

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Count Money You’ve Lost from Ineffective Sales Meetings

There are two types of meetings sales reps will typically find themselves in: Customer-Facing Meetings: These are the meetings that sales reps thrive for, where weeks, months or even years of marketing, cold prospecting emails and voicemails lead. Sometimes they happen over the phone, sometimes over video conferencing and for field sales reps, many of

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Differentiating Your B2B Content: 4 Lessons from B2C

Marketers know that selling to other businesses is a different endeavor from selling to consumers. For many companies, “different” translates into dry and boring. But why should it? Even though you’re selling to a “business,” you’re not selling to a faceless entity; you’re selling to a few key decision-makers, and they’re just as human as

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5 Reasons You Need Interactive Sales Content

As sales reps become less and less reliant upon PowerPoint decks and stilted sales presentations, advanced sales organizations are turning their eyes to the next stage in sales enablement: Interactive sales content. What interactive content doesn’t do is eliminate the sales rep—in fact, it takes the sales rep and makes them a key player in

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How Sales Reps Get Value From CRM: Integration

  This is part 4 of our series on various sales solutions and how those solutions impact the sales reps who use them. Part 1 defined all of the different tools that salespeople may encounter as a part of their technology resources. Part 2 looked at how salespeople can (and can’t) use content management systems

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The Rise of the Content Concierge

In the past year, you may have seen some doom and gloom headlines, including, but not limited to: “Digital Marketing and Death of a B2B Salesman” “Will Digital Cause the Death of the B2B Salesman?” “1 Million B2B Sales Jobs Will Vanish by 2020” These types of headlines aren’t unique to the sales profession, of

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