Any resource that propels potential customers through the sales funnel, ultimately converting them into clients, is considered sales collateral.
These collateral pieces exist to create brand awareness, provide information, explain benefits, introduce services, and showcase your company’s products. Marketing collateral, in all its forms, comprises a crucial piece of your marketing strategy puzzle. Whether it’s a corporate brochure, an online vibrant social media presence, high quality trade show one-pagers or flyers, a digital marketing campaign, direct mail to your target audience, or something as simple as high quality letterheads and business cards, they need to result in sales or prospective customers becoming faithful, repeat customers.
It’s important to understand that 70% of a prospective client’s journey is completed before they ever reach out to your sales department. This is especially true in today’s digital world where prospective customers are more empowered than ever to gather information about your company without speaking to anyone in your organization. This has created the need for online landing pages along with printed sales and marketing collateral materials. Both play an important role in any company’s marketing strategy if they hope to be relevant in today’s highly competitive market.