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Luke Monterosso

Luke Monterosso

Luke is a Business Development Manager at Insynth Marketing. With a passion for learning and technology, he'll help you leverage technology to generate more leads and save you time.

Recent posts by Luke Monterosso

3 min read

Getting Started with Sales Enablement

By Luke Monterosso on 21-Aug-2019 08:53:33

Searches for sales enablement has grown almost 50% over the last two years. Aberdeen found that 74% of high-performing organisations have strong sales and marketing alignment; a key aspect of sales enablement.

Although impressive statistics, correlation does not always imply causation. Many sales directors have invested in training, technology, and content that’s supposed to help their sales team perform at higher levels. The benefits don’t materialise or are marginal at best.

Why are some companies reaping the rewards while others feel like they’re pouring money down the drain?

We take a look at what sales enablement isn’t and how to get started with sales enablement that’ll actually be worthwhile for your team.

Topics: Sales
4 min read

Can Sales Enablement Work for My Building Product Brand?

By Luke Monterosso on 10-Jul-2019 08:49:45

Targets, pipelines, prospecting, closure rates, deal sizes, the list goes on. Your sales team has a lot of things to think about throughout the sales process. Sales enablement can feel like it’s adding to the overload of information, tactics and tools out there.

Fortunately, it’s very simple. It’s about making selling as easy as possible by providing salespeople with everything they need to move the sale forward.

Are customers frequently asking what similar projects you’ve worked on? Create a case studies section, by sector, on your website and now your sales team will now have a standardised document to share with customers.

Topics: Sales
6 min read

What Is Really Happening to Your Marketing Content?

By Luke Monterosso on 04-Jul-2019 12:57:12

According to The State of Sales Enablement, 90% of marketing content goes unused by sales. Reps are often unhappy with what marketing is producing and create 40% of all enterprise content themselves.

Not only does this leave less time for sales teams to sell but also its wasting time and resources (through duplicated or unused content) in often an over-strained marketing department.

This issue frequently goes undetected, according to the same report the perception is that marketing creates 80% of content whereas, in reality, that figure is more like 30%. The remaining 70% is created by sales (40%), engineering (10%), services (10%) and other (10%).

Topics: Sales
5 min read

Why Use Sales Enablement for Your Building Product Brand?

By Luke Monterosso on 27-Jun-2019 15:53:55

What if everybody on your sales team understood the needs of your customer, the problems they face and how your company solves them? Better yet, what if they loved your solution, shared your vision and immersed themselves within your sector?

How do you bridge the gap between this idealistic view and reality? You need to support your sales team with processes, you need content, training and technology. How do you get these things?

Topics: Sales
6 min read

What Is Sales Enablement?

By Luke Monterosso on 19-Jun-2019 12:47:16

Over the last few years sales enablement as a business buzzword has taken off. We take a deeper dive into the definition, whether it's here to stay and what it means for your business.

Building product companies with sales enablement in place have benefited from higher win rates, larger deal sizes and faster sales cycles. In an environment where project delays can be inevitable, organisations with sales enablement in place have a much more predictable sales cycle.

Topics: Sales
5 min read

Are Your Building Product Leads Sales Ready?

By Luke Monterosso on 11-Jun-2019 14:21:51

While getting inbound leads through your website might be the easy part, assessing whether they are ready for a sales conversation can be trickier.

Mastering this will help you waste less time with poor fit prospects or annoying those who are not yet sales ready.

Before beginning this process, it is important to recognise the stages of your customer journey. This will help with identifying prospects who are ready to buy and those who may need more help or nurturing.

Once you’ve identified a number of good fit leads, you can begin the sales qualification process by taking a look at your prospect’s level of engagement with your website and marketing content.

Topics: Sales
5 min read

5 Tactics to Shorten Your Sales Cycle

By Luke Monterosso on 07-Jun-2019 08:39:36

In the building product and construction industry, there are a number of factors that can disrupt the sales process. Losing out on specification to a competitor, projects being delayed and legislation changes.

A shorter sales cycle can free up time to generate additional leads. Ultimately improving your sales pipeline and helping you achieve your targets.

When you’ve got more deals progressing through your pipeline, the sales cycle will feel shorter. Done well, it can also become your competitive advantage.

Here are five effective techniques to speed up your sales cycle. 

Topics: Sales MarTech
6 min read

Look for These 3 Red Flags in Your Google Analytics Data

By Luke Monterosso on 29-May-2019 10:20:47

For marketers Google Analytics can provide a wealth of information about your website and audience. Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in the day to day marketing activities and gloss-over warning signs.

We’ve highlighted 3 red flags you should be looking for in your Google Analytics data. We also reveal how you can combine it with dynamic heatmaps and visitor recordings to increase the number of leads from your website.


Topics: SEO Website
6 min read

Growth Driven Website Design vs Traditional

By Luke Monterosso on 24-May-2019 09:38:27

When it comes to re-designing your website, traditionally it’s a long process and it can be 6-12 months before results are delivered. Growth Driven Design is a methodology that takes a systematic approach to optimising your website in a much shorter time period.

It’s about learning what is working and what isn’t based on user data from the outset. In the GDD process you can then assess what changes will have the best impact on increasing visitors, leads and sales.

Growth Driven Design rethinks the traditional website design cycle of changing your site every 2-3 years. Instead, it focuses on learning and improving based on user feedback and behaviour in incremental design sprints.

Topics: SEO Website
7 min read

9 Tools to Help Your Sales Team Succeed

By Luke Monterosso on 17-May-2019 10:37:46

According to research by HubSpot the top sales priorities in businesses are closing more deals, improving sales funnel efficiency and improving sales technology. In a study by LinkedIn, 82% of top sales people cite tools ‘critical’ to their ability to close deals.

With so many tools on offer, it can be difficult to decide on what is best for you and your team. We thought we’d tackle those top priorities by listing some of our favourite tools.

Include are tools for prospecting, sales intelligence, lead capture, video and more. Each are listed with a free trial so you can decide what works best for you. 

Topics: Sales MarTech
6 min read

What To Ask When Hiring a Digital Marketing Agency

By Luke Monterosso on 09-May-2019 17:39:53

Hiring a marketing agency can help take your company to the next level. You get to work with top strategic and creative talent without the huge overhead, training and recruitment costs. There’s no shortage of digital marketing agencies, so how do you go about choosing an agency that best suits your needs?

There are plenty of good articles with questions to ask your prospective agency but rather than getting concerned with the small details, I want to give you the questions to:

Topics: Content Marketing
6 min read

Are You Hooked on PPC Advertising?

By Luke Monterosso on 03-May-2019 11:48:13

PPC (Pay-per-click) is an advertising model that allows building product companies to have their company appear both above and below the organic search engine results. You’ll pay the search engine every time somebody clicks on your ad regardless of how many times its shown.

Rarely do we speak to a building product company that hasn’t tried paid advertising at some point in their marketing strategy. Do we blame them? Not at all, testing different marketing strategies to find out what works best for your company is part of growing a business. That said, there is a point at which too much paid advertising becomes a problem.


Topics: Content Marketing Lead Generation
5 min read

Attributing Construction Marketing to Leads and Sales

By Luke Monterosso on 26-Apr-2019 11:56:43

 

We want to help you get the data & facts to showcase the ROI of your construction marketing efforts. In this blog we talk about the problems marketers face and how they can be solved.

Next time it comes to asking for headcount or budget you’ll have the data and facts to showcase marketing as a direct driver to revenue.

Building product companies are putting a lot of time and effort into their marketing strategies to support brand awareness, customer satisfaction and their sales team.

How can you be sure your campaign collateral, social media posts and blogs are making an impact with specifiers, architects and contractors and growing your business?


Topics: Content Marketing MarTech
5 min read

Is Sales Wasting Construction Marketing Leads?

By Luke Monterosso on 23-Apr-2019 13:39:54

A lot of time, effort and money is spent on gathering construction marketing leads each year. For building product companies, this may be through trade magazines, building product directories, online marketing, emails, tradeshows or a combination of these. Often, they all point back to one place… your website.

Taking a mystery shopper approach, in our The State of Building Product Digital Marketing 2019 Report, we discovered that 80% of building product companies didn't respond to a product enquiry through their website in any way. Of the 20% that did, only 6% answered the phone to enquire about our requirements and offer additional help.

Topics: Sales
6 min read

What Architects Want: The Key Content Your Website Needs

By Luke Monterosso on 11-Apr-2019 17:05:55

An architect likes the look of your building product. In fact, it has the potential to offer the ideal solution for the architect’s project. They just need to check the product specifications on your website.

But these haven’t been included in the product information.

The architect has no way of knowing whether your building product is right after all. The architect could find your contact information and get in touch to clarify the details.

Or they could Google your competitor. The latter takes a fraction of the time.

Topics: Content Marketing Website
6 min read

How Can I Use Live Chat for My Building Product Business?

By Luke Monterosso on 05-Apr-2019 08:45:31

Architects, specifiers and contractors are all comfortable using live chat. The immediate response allows for a better customer experience, an increase in conversions and for the building product industry especially - a competitive advantage to those who use it.

The technology isn’t particularly new, it’s been around for the last 10 years. You may have seen live chat while you’ve been shopping online or talking to your bank. We found that 94% of building product companies didn’t have it on there website. If you’re part of that percentage, don’t worry – it’s fairly straightforward to setup.

Topics: Website MarTech
6 min read

7 Ways You Can Use Video Email for Building Product Sales

By Luke Monterosso on 03-Apr-2019 12:46:59

 

By 2022, online videos will make up more than 82% of all consumer internet traffic — 15 times higher than it was in 2017.

For building product sales teams, it allows those with complex, bespoke and difficult to explain products to deliver their message to potential customers.

It will also save your company time. Every 10 seconds of video you record is equivalent to 81 seconds of typing.

It doesn’t have to be expensive, it can be a screen-recording of you explaining your technical drawing to your customer or perhaps a smartphone recording answering a question they have about your product. At Insynth, we use video because sometimes it’s quicker and more personal than typing an email. 

Topics: Content Marketing MarTech
7 min read

10 Vital Trust Signals Your Website Might Be Missing

By Luke Monterosso on 27-Mar-2019 16:57:44

Did you know 92% of B2B buyers are more likely to purchase after reading a trusted review?

Topics: Website
3 min read

What Is a Secure Socket Layer and Why Should You Care?

By Luke Monterosso on 12-Mar-2019 11:40:27

Secure Socket Layer can be shortened to SSL.

When a web browser contacts your secured website, the SSL certificate enables an encrypted connection. It’s kind of like sealing a letter in an envelope before sending it through the mail.

Without SSL encryption any computer could intercept the transmission from your browser to the server.

This includes the transmission of credit card numbers, usernames and passwords, and other sensitive information.

29% of Building Product websites were not secured with an SSL certificate – (The State of Building Product Digital Marketing, 2019)

Topics: SEO MarTech
4 min read

Sales Enablement: Overcoming Your Fear Of Cold Calling

By Luke Monterosso on 11-Mar-2019 09:34:00

Fear is one of the most common reasons people procrastinate on taking action towards their goals. Psychologists like to say that fear means False, Experiences, Appearing, Real. We want to provide you with actionable steps to help you in the process of overcoming your fear of cold calling. 

Topics: Sales
4 min read

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – My Pipeline Generation Bootcamp Experience

By Luke Monterosso on 06-Mar-2019 10:06:00

I jumped into 8 weeks of sales training with Mr Dan Tyre, HubSpot’s first sales executive of the now multi-billion-pound company, serial investor and co-author the ‘Inbound Organization’. If anyone was going to dispel the common preconception that top salespeople are born with certain personality traits and sales can’t be taught – this was the right person for the job.

Topics: Sales
4 min read

Your Futurebuild 2019 Tradeshow Checklist

By Luke Monterosso on 04-Mar-2019 09:19:10

Attracting over 26,000 visitors and 500 exhibitors, Futurebuild 2019 in London is a much-anticipated event for the construction industry.

Topics: Sales Events Inbound Marketing
3 min read

5 Goals To Share With Your Sales Team For 2019

By Luke Monterosso on 18-Jan-2019 10:09:13

Whether you’re a manager handling an exceptional sales team, an executive looking after a whole sales organisation or a sales rep looking to hit your numbers, 2019 is a fresh start. However, it may not be wise to leave 2018 completely behind you.

Topics: Sales MarTech
6 min read

How You Can Use SMART Goals to Help Grow Your Business

By Luke Monterosso on 14-Dec-2018 08:53:48

One of the biggest frustrations that senior commercial and financial teams have with marketing is their lack of accountability and vagueness when it comes to planning and ROI.

All too often, objectives are woolly and ambiguous, with no real clarity over what the expected outcome will be in a measurable and time bound fashion.  This is where SMART goals can help build your credibility as a marketer and pull together your marketing activities around an overarching objective.

Topics: Sales