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Improve Sales Enablement & Integrate Content Into the Buyer's Journey

Posted by Elyse Flynn Meyer | 3 Minutes to Read

Sales enablement is the technology, processes, and content that empower sales teams to sell efficiently at a higher velocity.  This is critical in today's fast-moving and continuously interconnected business environment. Whether you are selling to consumers or businesses, sales enablement is critical to your success as an aligned marketing team and a sales team working in tandem toward a common goal.

The following is one of our client stories about how they leverage content marketing and the power of HubSpot for account-based marketing. This enables them to share, present and track interactive sales media and content to further enable the sales team and align with marketing efforts.

CHALLENGE:

The company had three primary challenges they were looking to overcome with account-based marketing leveraging HubSpot as a technology platform.

  1. Streamline: Maintaining sales collateral and ensuring sales reps are truly using the most updated and approved material can be a daunting task. With the number of verticals that this company specializes in, this was a challenge.
  2. Content Interactivity: There is always a need to build interactivity into content to make it more tangible for the receiver of the content, and easier delivery for the sales rep.
  3. Analytics: Tracking the metrics of content is critical. As marketing teams continue to produce more and more content, it becomes increasingly important to know what content is working and what content isn't so you can focus on the right content that is converting prospects into customers. 

SOLUTION: 

This company's marketing team supports sales assets in all 50 states across a variety of verticals and specialties. This makes it critical to leverage digital content for sales reps in a personal, efficient, and engaging way. They use account-based marketing and automation in HubSpot to:

  • Streamline the content distribution process.
  • Make marketing and sales material more interactive.
  • Integrate field activities with their HubSpot and Salesforce instances.
  • Track and report Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) to gain a better understanding of which content is being used by field-based sales teams.
  • Ensure regulatory control of material and safeguard against outdated material being viewed by customers.
  • Segment prospects into the appropriate Buyer Persona, Lifecycle Stage, and Vertical to market to them most effectively based on where they are in the buyer's journey.

HUBSPOT USAGE:

The organization used the following HubSpot tools to customize the journey for each prospect:

  • Smart Lists
  • Workflows
  • Email
  • Lead Scoring
  • Custom Contact Properties
This allows them to automate the process to further engage prospects and move them through the buyer's journey.  Here's an example of how their usage of HubSpot helped to further the sales enablement process for their sales team.

  1. Leads generated from face-to-face or virtual conversations between sales reps and prospects are automatically synced to their HubSpot instance via Salesforce (a native HubSpot integration).
  2. If the contact record did not previously exist, it is created with no manual data entry required by the sales rep.
  3. Contacts are appropriately and automatically segmented into workflows based on their vertical and specialty of interest.
  4. From there, individuals are added to ongoing email campaigns, which increases the critical volume of monthly touchpoints to high-value customers and prospects.
  5. In addition, those contacts are assigned a Lead Score to move them to another Lifecycle Stage in their journey to ensure they are receiving the most relevant information. In addition, the appropriate Buyer Persona is tied to the contact record to segment the database.

RESULTS & IMPACT:

There have been a variety of quantifiable results including cost savings and process improvement utilizing HubSpot for account-based marketing.

Percentage of MQL's to Customers: 31.5% conversion rate of marketing qualified leads to new customers.

Average Email Open Rate: For these contacts, the average email open rate is 48% for the workflow follow-up emails.

Average Email Click-Through Rate: For these contacts, the average email click-through rate is 15% for the workflow follow-up emails.

The chart below shows the contacts created by the sales reps since the beginning of this initiative:

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Other Notable Results & Impact Quotes:

With line-of-sight to the most popular and most-used marketing material, the company can now analyze hundreds of pieces of collateral, understand what is valued by Sales and customers, and focus efforts on the types of content being leveraged. This allows them to positively reinforce and gain insights from the Sales assets that are actively using the tool as well as follow-up with those not using the tool to uncover and resolve challenges.

As you can see, HubSpot provides tremendous value to companies that are looking to improve sales and marketing processes and improve sales enablement. Incorporating technology, processes and content allows the sales team to focus on selling. They know their marketing team has a clear understanding of their goals and process and has dynamic marketing in place to help nurture their contacts over time to become customers. Over time, the company expects usage and adoption, cost per media use, amount and quality of creative elements, the volume of follow-ups, and more, to improve even further.

Topics: Inbound Marketing, HubSpot, HubSpot Integrations

Elyse Flynn Meyer

Posted by Elyse Flynn Meyer

Elyse Flynn Meyer is the Owner and Founder of Prism Global Marketing Solutions, an inbound marketing agency and HubSpot Platinum Partner based in Phoenix, Arizona. Elyse is the author of the book, Mastering Inbound Marketing Your Complete Guide to Building a Results-Driven Inbound Strategy. She is a frequent contributor to Forbes on digital marketing, and was named Marketer of the Year by the American Marketing Association.