The Core Facts Every Sales & Marketing Team Should Know!

Shaima Khan
6 min readJan 15, 2020

Wouldn’t you like to up your sales volume at the same time enticing customers towards your company brand?

But of course with digital/online intervention and competition its pretty much hard to maintain the presence of one’s brand. So what’s the catch?

With seamless opportunities in promoting and discovering new sales lead, in this article, you would be finding some of the vital facts and tactics for performing dynamically on the professional front for the backbone of every business that is (sales & marketing team/department).

Hey There! It’s 2020, where the markets are totally ready to launch various products and services contributing to innovation and advancement. Business people (sales & marketing team) dealing and supporting technological inventions via shining limelight on new, customer-centric startups along with diversifying networks and communities.

Including With One Powerful Tactic To Conquer Over Any Customer.

OLD TERMS YET CONTRIBUTING PILLARS FOR COMPANY’S ADVANCEMENTS.

“Sales and Marketing” are the two un-detachable departments and hold a strong balancing strategy that contributes to the company’s profits. They are no new terms, as since long these departments are bringing in and promoting business.

Although today when I think of these terminologies and how they’ve been chased, changed and paced up with digital technology. It is definitely creating another arena for more such possibilities through defining and dictating every potential need of the company as per dynamic market conditions.

The digital era is constantly expanding its reach all over changing the traditional work dynamics. It is making it harder and to a limit competitive for companies to leave old ways of running a business/company. But it’s also providing an advantage to different companies for outreaching its customers through the smart use of online services and applications being designed to boost the business, sales and marketing services through the online channels and several mediums.

DO TRADITIONAL SELLERS AND MARKETERS NEED TO UPSKILL?

As there have been changes that happened in the last few decades, about how each strategy technique or even processes been handling through manufacturing and outsourcing had undergone phases of transformation with the advent of science and technology. So as it has become crucial for selling and marketing under traditional settings to try and take in use of the various online services specifically made to spread awareness and cultivate the need for the typical brand amongst different users.

As we all know the traditional marketing plans and commencement contributes a lot as the inclusion of organization or company’s core values and beliefs and its determined customer base/leads and segmentation that it still inhibits the measurable sales and growth valuation solely held and operated from present technological interventions. The online channels and mediums have helped various businesses established market savvy standards.

So does this really tend to take a traditional working scenario and traditional workers at hault?

Let’s look and take into notice the larger picture containing the sales and marketing practices by traditional as well as online marketers and sellers.

There are skills and practices which are widely used and trusted upon under old business practices as well as for digital age marketing uses:

· Writing an interactive sales and marketing copy.

Whether have a say for previous and at present business keeping skill, writing and designing content for creating compelling sales copy for promoting and brand visibility purpose can never go out of fashion and is trusted by every business person to entice their customers.

· Strategy, strategy and a flexible market strategy.

One benefit that traditional sellers and marketers always gains till now is only because of planning and creating their strategy to conquer over dynamic market conditions and with coming of digital users and handling of the work online, not much consideration is laid upon establishing, segmenting, channelizing work through a strong and an adaptable strategy.

· Marketing and PR (Public Relations) needs should go hand in hand!

Some years ago, marketing techniques were enough to get in customers and generate sales but with changing times there has been a shift in how people react, connect and reach to the desirable product/service via medium of different and trustable sources and channels being described as PR activities (which are responsible for building a reputed image of the product for its users).

· Organizing Events and Meetups.

For quite a while, this type of marketing via events invites people to know more about the brand and its purpose of launch in the marketplace for the growth in its value recognition.

STEPS EVERY MARKETER AND THE TEAM SHOULD BE AWARE OF!

Sales and marketing are one of the most impactful departments just like how the wheels are important to run a car. The same way they make way for company people and their customers to meet. Though every company goes through the way for their different marketing needs and have to run and strategize effective campaigns with trying and testing different marketing and sales solutions.

The crucial steps that marketers should take includes:

1. Customer Feedback.

Every campaign and its marketing is incomplete if it doesn’t involve customer’s feedback that can assure the proper execution and efficiency along with timely results. Gaining customer reviews is important for the marketing team to plan further.

2. Data & Insights.

Its effect is minimal but is the most powerful tool which gives the marketers trustful details and information along with useful insights about the target market to analyze the performance of their solutions.

3. Valuable Content.

At the present time, it is difficult to drive traffic towards the business site and to notice the brand. Nonetheless required result is given by a convincing story of its own which becomes its main content to sell. Creating a copy that outshines an urges a customer towards making a sales decision contributing as a piece of valuable content through providing and increasing the value of the product.

4. Offering Value-Added Products/Freebies.

To retain the customers, it’s the best method is to keep them entertained and interested in your brand’s name. For this, marketers could provide them with vital information and free products/services which could add value for their main purchase and this would help to build a large customer base.

5. Ad Campaigns should be held with the perspective of both parties via various channels.

Here and now, it’s important to create an impact on customers and for completing this purpose marketing campaigns are organized which takes in the needs of both parties (Company & customers) for maintaining better relations. Promotions should be done through multiple channels including sources like social media marketing and press releases.

THE MOST POWERFUL TACTIC THAT WORKS REALLY WELL.

Website Creative and Effective Call To Action (CTAs)

When the business site design and positioning are accurate and made user-friendly, chances are high for its visibility on search engines. The layout of the content, description of products/services should be optimized for mobile use. Crucial is the role of CTA to initiate customer’s responses properly drafted in a box or like a pop-up message (design fit) to evoke interest in customers.

CONDUCTING EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGNS, RELIABLE MARKETING SERVICES WITH THE DASH OF DIGITIZATION IS ALL YOU NEED TO UP YOUR GAME!

Decade by decade we are moving swiftly towards digitization and carrying on with a belief that it would bring a change towards betterment cooperating with advanced technologies within our economy and work environment.

Sales and Marketing techniques have been undergone various challenges of the market’s ups and downs and with time the methods are experiencing the change too with the flowing opportunities that digital age brings in. Along with it the workforce and work responsibilities have been making to cope with these changes.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Only a combination of traditional and advanced skills are not enough to build a strong and effective campaigns generating sales. But there would be a need to become a tech-smart understanding, assisting in the importance of technical support with the inclusion of marketizing the company services with maintaining and considering salesforce according to the organizational needs and belief system to churn out the best results under coming years.

Hopefully, the steps and vital facts would bring in a clear picture of the dynamic marketing environment.

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Shaima Khan

A Content Creator and Writer, Book nerd, Startup Enthusiast, Founder of Artizone Information (www.artizone.in)