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The Center for Sales Strategy Blog

5 Ways To Use Video As Part of Your Sales Process

using  video during sales processAs sales consultants, trainers, and coaches, we absolutely love it when the sales teams we work with shares successes they’ve had as a direct correlation to the advice, tips, and tactics we share. 

Our company culture encourages innovation and creativity, which allows us to discover new trends, and figure out what works and doesn't work so that we can share advice with our clients. Video is a tool and tactic that we've explored and had the opportunity to get creative with. 

If you're wondering how you can use video as part of your sales process, keep reading! 

Topics: Video sales process

How to Reduce Zoom Fatigue in the Sales Process

How to Reduce Zoom Fatigue in the Sales Process

In a very short time, the sales process and a large portion of our life went entirely online.

It’s not that every time we contacted a client or prospect it was always in person, but the reliance on shared screen meetings is now the standard and is unlikely to change any time soon. New activities create new buzz words, and the most recent is “Zoom Fatigue.”

Topics: Video sales process

Earn My Attention. Don’t Steal It. 7 Best Practices Using Video to Breakthrough Your Prospects' Email Clutter

prospecting with videoWhen you try to engage in a serious conversation via email, you will generally find the recipient calling you on the phone to have the conversation. If you meet other people for a livingaka work in sales—verbal communication is usually the best form of communication.

To people like us, we only prefer written text when confirming dates or answering 'yes' or 'no' questions. Most salespeople are more effective when they have a face-to-face opportunity than when they depend on their writing abilities. With those face-to-face meetings now temporarily on-hold, we need email to help us reach people we don’t know. You need to stand out from all the other emails, and here's how.

Topics: Video sales process prospecting COVID19 Resources

Video for Sales and Thought Leadership: An Extensive Guide to Getting Comfortable on Camera

Video for Sales and Thought Leadership An Extensive Guide to Getting Comfortable on Camera

If you could start one new thing this month that increased the open rate of your sales emails by 5Xs and improved your open-to-reply rate by 8Xs, would you do it? The obvious answer is yes, but sadly, once most of you realize what it is, you’ll come up with at least one of these excuses as to why you won’t do it and still avoid it.  

Video. Yes, video! Video has the power to not only get your emails opened but replied to! Across platforms (not just email) it’s proven to help get higher response rates, inspire more action, and help sellers reach the C-Suite (source).

Topics: Video thought leadership sales strategy

How To Embed Personalized Video Into Your Hubspot Sales Emails

salesperson using video email in sales processThis post was originally published on the LeadG2 blog.

Recently, LeadG2 shared a post explaining how to send videos via email. Due to spam, security, and email hosting features, many email clients do not allow video embeds directly into emails, so with a few easy steps, marketers and salespeople can send video via email, just not with an actual embed. If you are a Hubspot Sales user at the Professional or Enterprise level, I have good news! Not long ago, Hubspot announced a feature that enables salespeople (or any Hubspot user communicating with a contact through the CRM) to embed videos directly into their 1:1 emails! 

Here are just a few reasons this exciting feature is valuable and vital to the sales process:

  1. Video creates a more personal and humanized sales experience.
  2. Sales reps that use video in prospecting, relationship-building, and sales emails see 5x higher open rates and 8x higher open-to-reply rates.
  3. Video can help to establish and build trust with a prospect that doesn't yet know you.
Topics: Video sales strategy marketing strategy prospecting account based marketing

What Social Media Will Look Like in 2013

the future of social media?This year marks the 20th anniversary of the first text message. Sent on December 3, 1992, the first text went from a PC to a mobile device over Vodafone's U.K. network and read, "Merry Christmas."

Topics: Social Media Video Digital