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From Aferdita Kadriu<\/p>
“The new reality: marketing needs to know more about sales, sales needs to know more about marketing, and we all need to know more about our customers.” (Jill Rowley)<\/p>
To back up Jill Rowley’s statement, the sales and marketing team should have a clear flow of information about customer needs and knowledge, thus making collaboration more efficient and focused. <\/p>
Consequently, it can be said that silo thinking between the two departments still exists in some companies today, resulting in many misunderstandings such as:<\/p>
Sales Enablement is a tool that bridges the gap between the sales and marketing teams with the goal of making collaboration and communication more efficient. Sales enablement is a strategic continuous process that provides employees with integrated content, training and coaching. So that selling is more efficiently and effectively focused on customer needs. <\/p>
According to Marketo, ”when sales and marketing teams are in sync, companies become 67% better<\/strong> at closing deals.”<\/p> In the context of sales enablement, it is recommended to use a platform such as Salesforce or Showpad. On this platform, all customer-relevant data is collected and at a glance, the most important stakeholders will be able to define the to do’s or the further procedure.<\/p> During the group discussion, it was noted that some employees see such tools as a control and are therefore reluctant to use them. To change the mindset and focus on the benefits of sales enablement, support from management is required.<\/p> The following advantages can be noted when using such a platform:<\/p> Conclusion of Alignment Sales and Marketing:<\/strong><\/p> From the Sonova example, it was clear that the sales and marketing teams struggle at the beginning, but it takes both teams communicating and defining such a process together.<\/p> According to a customer survey conducted by Showpad, those already using the tool resulted in the following facts:<\/p> Social selling<\/strong><\/p> Under social selling, the focus is on a real person and their needs, problems and expectations through one-to-one communication. The focus is on establishing a trusting relationship with decision-makers and positioning oneself as a problem-solver. This leads to the result on social media of following people to people rather than people to business.<\/p> According to the Edelman Trust Barometer 2017, it was stated that people in positions of authority are less trusted<\/strong>, which would imply that CEO’s or the higher level of employees are given less credibility than, for example, other employees or customers <\/strong>. <\/p> For this purpose, a study was conducted by the University of Lucerne on the topic: which product information is more credible? guided.<\/p> The result was as follows:<\/p> It can be deduced that Earnd Media (position 1-5) friends, online reviews, acquaintances, partners and parents are more credible than Paid Media, which is often used by companies (position 8-13).<\/p> LinkedIn, with its 3.4 million users, found that 60% more content was created in 2020 during the pandemic. Not every posted article is successful because a good article with good content arouses interest<\/strong>, builds trust<\/strong>, is inspiring<\/strong>, informative<\/strong> and entertaining<\/strong>. This social selling approach can be used to convince potential customers in the earlier stages of the buying process.<\/p> When creating content<\/strong>, the following question should be answered:<\/p> LinkedIn has expanded its formats to offer users not only the classic post, but document posts, blog posts, surveys, videos and events.<\/p> Here are a few format recommendations:<\/strong><\/p> Conclusion Social Selling:<\/strong><\/p> A good example of social selling is represented by our class comrade M. Hunziker, who is very active on Linkedin and Whatsapp. He came up with the idea of marketing the indoor climate products of the company TCA Thermoclima AG, where he works, under his own name as MH, and this with success. The important thing here is the support of the company.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\tStudy offers of the HWZ on this topic<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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