Visual Contenting March 2016 | Page 45

CONTENT MARKETING Your sales team will encounter prospects who don’t know much about your company. They can personalize their approach using content marketing collateral. Personalization isn’t necessarily about custom content, it’s about the timeline. Prospects enter at different points in your funnel, and they may have different goals. Not every customer follows the same steps in the same order. It doesn’t matter where they enter the funnel, what matters is their experience after that point. There are several types of content marketing to share: • Social media content with 93% usage. • Illustrations/photos with 76% usage. • Case studies with 82% usage and 65% effectiveness. • White papers with 71% usage and 63% effectiveness. • Blogs with 81% usage and 59% effectiveness. • Infographics with 67% usage and 58% effectiveness. • E-Newsletters with 81% usage and 60% effectiveness. • Webinars/Webcasts with 66% usage and 66% effectiveness. • In-person events with 81% usage and 75% effectiveness. • Online presentations with 65% usage and 58% effectiveness. Visual Contenting • Articles on your website with 79% usage. • Research reports with 61% effectiveness. • Videos with 79% usage and 62% effectiveness. Needed as brand ambassadors. Employees are your most powerful, most cost-effective content distribution channel. Employees of a socially engaged company are: Sales Should Share on Social • 40% more likely to consider it Media • 78.6% of sales people using social media to sell outperformed those who weren’t using social media. • When it comes to exceeding sales quota by more than 10%, social media users are 23% more successful than their non-social media peers. Where content marketing is shared on social media: • LinkedIn 94% usage and 66% effectiveness. • Twitter 87% usage and 55% effectiveness. • Facebook 84% usage and 30% effectiveness. • Youtube 74% usage and 51% effectiveness. • Google+ 62% usage and 13% effectiveness. • Slideshare