Do you know the point in the buyer\u2019s journey that they read your content? Is it when the assistant hands her boss a stack of articles to help him prepare for a meeting? Has your content ever been used by your competitors?<\/p>\n
Much content is not being used to enlist trust, brand recognition, gain followers and ultimately a sale. But we keep writing it and using every means at our disposal to distribute and track it, hoping that someone, at the appropriate point in the decision path, will use it and want to seek us out as a result.<\/p>\n
A lot of hope, guesswork, and crossed fingers. But it can be a far more targeted, interactive experience that enables active decision making.<\/p>\n
There has always been a struggle to bring buyers to the table. We\u2019ve tried Sandler and Spin, Challenger and QBS. We\u2019ve tried marketing automation, content marketing, and social marketing. But the problem remains an enigma: how do we get in? How do we get the attention we need? How can we convert?<\/p>\n
WE\u2019RE OUTSIDERS<\/p>\n
We\u2019re so busy explaining, pitching, writing about, introducing, presenting our solution that we\u2019re not using the right thinking to help buyers or followers do what they need to do first: manage change and get the buy-in they need. Systems congruence and preservation will always come before a purchase, a relationship, or loyalty to an outsider.<\/p>\n
We are outsiders. We aren\u2019t there at the meetings. We have no idea what\u2019s going on on the golf course. We aren\u2019t helping assemble the full Buying Decision Team or help manage the political issues. We are pushing our ideas and solution data against their closed system, waiting for an opening but not facilitating one, doing our best to get in, get attention, change minds, influence, and sell solutions.<\/p>\n
It is possible, however, to use content to facilitate the actual decision making process, help assemble the right people, and align the non-solution-based criteria of the Buying Decision Team\/Stakeholders.<\/p>\n
So decision facilitation is king. Content is a wonderful tool to use at the three points along the decision path where it\u2019s needed. But it\u2019s merely a tool.<\/p>\n
I can work with you to make your content accessible to facilitate action and decisions and help you become invaluable relationship managers, and differentiate you from the competition. sharondrew@sharondrewmorgen.com<\/a> or www.buyingfacilitation.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you know the point in the buyer\u2019s journey that they read your content? Is it when the assistant hands her boss a stack of articles to help him prepare for a meeting? Has your content ever been used by your competitors? Much content is not being used to enlist trust, brand recognition, gain followers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n