Utilizing the tenets of Inbound Marketing can help you increase your site’s traffic, ultimately driving up the number of quality leads that may be passed on to your sales team. Getting your sales team involved with your marketing effort can help ensure that they get the information they need to target the best-fit leads for your brand.
Join Eric as he walks you through the ways to engage your sales team and use them to enhance the impact of your inbound campaigns.
5. The way Sales uses
social
Companies & Contacts Prospects’ personal
information
Blogging? Sharing? Engaging?
6. The way Marketing uses
social
•Sharing
•Engaging
•Spreading
•Collaborating
•Thought leadership
•Fostering relationships
Time?
7. Pushback from
salesget paid to sell”
Common responses:
• “I
• “I don’t have time”
• “I’m not a good writer”
• “How will this help me?”
8. Your move
•Educate them!
• Baby steps
• Thought leadership, familiarity to
improve their sales leverage
• Address a common question in sales
process
• Ask them to do a webinar
• Ego – you need their help
• Excuses to reach out
9. MarketingSherpa 2012 Search Marketing Benchmark
Report - SEO Edition:
• 60% plan to increase their social media budgets
• 60% plan increases in landing page optimization
• 57% plan increases in SEO
• 41% plan increases in content marketing
14. • Extra listeners
•Assign Google Alerts
•TweetDeck or Twitter search
•Conference hashtags
•Join LI Groups
•Size associated with prominence
15. Extra Labor:
•Max your bandwidth
•Content creation (blopos and webinars)
•SHARE!
•Comments on blogs, articles, LinkedIn discussions
16. Train your team
•Develop quick and agile strategy
•What’s the next step after white paper DL?
•Don’t be creepy on social
•When in doubt, be less sales-y
•APV – Always Provide Value
18. Spectate helps you to…
• Drive better traffic through inbound
marketing (SEO, content creation, social)
• Optimize for more form conversions
• Track prospects and leads, while staying
“top of mind”.
• Nurture them down to the sale