The 8 Pillars of Demand Generation Executive PreviewScott Levine
The document outlines a comprehensive demand generation strategy across multiple channels for a company called KERN.
It includes:
- Eight pillars of demand generation focused on awareness, positioning, sales enablement, and customer satisfaction.
- A strategy targeting CMOs and focusing on benchmarking marketing effectiveness, accelerating revenue through 100 day plans, and removing roadblocks.
- Tactics across websites, blogs, social media, email, mobile, PR, tele-sales and webinars to promote offerings like a marketing health check and weekly best practice tips.
- The goal is to position KERN as a strategic partner for B2B companies seeking to improve marketing performance.
This document provides a guide to data-driven sales prospecting. It discusses how sales prospecting has become more complex but also more crucial in today's business environment. It advocates adopting a data-driven approach to sales prospecting by leveraging different types of company data at each step, including defining the ideal customer profile, finding matching companies, tapping automation, personalized outreach, and evaluation. The document explains key concepts like firmographics, technographics, buying signals, and intent data that are important for a comprehensive understanding of company data to enable effective data-driven sales prospecting.
Marketing Automation Best Practices GuideMohamed Mahdy
This document provides a guide to best practices for marketing automation. It includes sections on strategy and justification, setup and vendor selection, execution and optimization, and lead management best practices. The guide contains advice from interviews with marketing automation experts on topics like adopting a buyer-centered view, training staff, and justifying the investment to leadership. It also provides nine specific ways to make the case for marketing automation software to decision-makers, such as demonstrating potential increases in key metrics like response rates and pipeline growth.
The document provides information and strategies for advanced selling on eBay. It discusses structuring a business on eBay by finding the right items to sell and outperforming competitors. It emphasizes thinking like the buyer by developing effective listings, promotions, customer support and pricing. The document also recommends tools to help scale the business, such as listing management software and selling internationally and off eBay. Finally, it suggests attending free consultations and education resources to improve listings and seller scalability.
Recession Business Strategy: What to Do Before, During, and After a RecessionRocketSource
This document provides strategies for businesses to thrive before, during, and after an economic recession. It recommends focusing on customer experience by listening to customer feedback and aligning products and services to meet customer needs and wants. It also suggests acquiring other companies at the right time, and refining people, processes, and platforms. The document outlines specific strategies used by successful companies during past recessions, such as Starbucks focusing on customer experience initiatives. It emphasizes the importance of being prepared for change by getting organizational assessments and focusing on employee education.
Sales 2.0 refers to a new approach to sales that combines customer-focused methodologies with productivity-enhancing technologies. This transforms selling from an art into a science by enabling a repeatable, collaborative, and customer-enabled sales process. The document discusses how Sales 2.0 is different from traditional CRM by empowering all stakeholders and leveling the playing field for salespeople and managers. It identifies five key tenets of Sales 2.0: acceleration, collaboration, professionalization, accountability, and optimization.
The document discusses how sales organizations can use real-time data analytics to more effectively manage their sales pipelines and processes. It argues that access to up-to-date sales data allows managers to have a complete view of the current sales situation, identify risks, and make decisions to minimize pipeline risk and focus efforts on opportunities that can help meet revenue goals. Rather than just analyzing past data, the document advocates using data proactively to drive sales and ensure goals are met.
The 8 Pillars of Demand Generation Executive PreviewScott Levine
The document outlines a comprehensive demand generation strategy across multiple channels for a company called KERN.
It includes:
- Eight pillars of demand generation focused on awareness, positioning, sales enablement, and customer satisfaction.
- A strategy targeting CMOs and focusing on benchmarking marketing effectiveness, accelerating revenue through 100 day plans, and removing roadblocks.
- Tactics across websites, blogs, social media, email, mobile, PR, tele-sales and webinars to promote offerings like a marketing health check and weekly best practice tips.
- The goal is to position KERN as a strategic partner for B2B companies seeking to improve marketing performance.
This document provides a guide to data-driven sales prospecting. It discusses how sales prospecting has become more complex but also more crucial in today's business environment. It advocates adopting a data-driven approach to sales prospecting by leveraging different types of company data at each step, including defining the ideal customer profile, finding matching companies, tapping automation, personalized outreach, and evaluation. The document explains key concepts like firmographics, technographics, buying signals, and intent data that are important for a comprehensive understanding of company data to enable effective data-driven sales prospecting.
Marketing Automation Best Practices GuideMohamed Mahdy
This document provides a guide to best practices for marketing automation. It includes sections on strategy and justification, setup and vendor selection, execution and optimization, and lead management best practices. The guide contains advice from interviews with marketing automation experts on topics like adopting a buyer-centered view, training staff, and justifying the investment to leadership. It also provides nine specific ways to make the case for marketing automation software to decision-makers, such as demonstrating potential increases in key metrics like response rates and pipeline growth.
The document provides information and strategies for advanced selling on eBay. It discusses structuring a business on eBay by finding the right items to sell and outperforming competitors. It emphasizes thinking like the buyer by developing effective listings, promotions, customer support and pricing. The document also recommends tools to help scale the business, such as listing management software and selling internationally and off eBay. Finally, it suggests attending free consultations and education resources to improve listings and seller scalability.
Recession Business Strategy: What to Do Before, During, and After a RecessionRocketSource
This document provides strategies for businesses to thrive before, during, and after an economic recession. It recommends focusing on customer experience by listening to customer feedback and aligning products and services to meet customer needs and wants. It also suggests acquiring other companies at the right time, and refining people, processes, and platforms. The document outlines specific strategies used by successful companies during past recessions, such as Starbucks focusing on customer experience initiatives. It emphasizes the importance of being prepared for change by getting organizational assessments and focusing on employee education.
Sales 2.0 refers to a new approach to sales that combines customer-focused methodologies with productivity-enhancing technologies. This transforms selling from an art into a science by enabling a repeatable, collaborative, and customer-enabled sales process. The document discusses how Sales 2.0 is different from traditional CRM by empowering all stakeholders and leveling the playing field for salespeople and managers. It identifies five key tenets of Sales 2.0: acceleration, collaboration, professionalization, accountability, and optimization.
The document discusses how sales organizations can use real-time data analytics to more effectively manage their sales pipelines and processes. It argues that access to up-to-date sales data allows managers to have a complete view of the current sales situation, identify risks, and make decisions to minimize pipeline risk and focus efforts on opportunities that can help meet revenue goals. Rather than just analyzing past data, the document advocates using data proactively to drive sales and ensure goals are met.
Growth hacking: the growth hacker guide to analytics: how to get to data-dri...Eveline Smet
This presentation will introduce anyone with a growth hacking mindset in using analytics to grow their business. I will address setting up actionable goals, choosing the OMTM, the conversion funnel, reporting and experimenting.
In today’s hyper competitive, digital world, organizations that use data driven marketing give themselves a fighting chance. No brand is secure just on brand equity alone. Just look at Kodak, Pan Am and Research in Motion (Blackberry). Executives who embrace DDM give themselves the possibility of being relevant to their customers. And, at the end of the day, that is what your customers want most from you.
8 Pillars of Demand Generation InfographicScott Levine
The 8 Pillars Of Demand Generation
An Infographic of the Modern Demand Generation Ecosystem
Demand generation and lead generation are often used synonymously, but they are actually quite different.
The 8 Pillars of demand generation were developed to address a wide range of topics that include everything from building awareness to sales enablement.
Demand generation is typically a multistep integrated marketing and sales process that varies in size and scope based on sales complexity. Demand generation can include building awareness, positioning and consumer research to support purchase behavior, sales enablement, customer onboarding and post-sale customer satisfaction.
Lead Generation: Strictly speaking, lead generation is the process of generating interest in a product or service. Typically, leads are gathered to build a list that provides contacts for sales.
How can you take advantage of these 7 key business trends in 2017 to grow your business and career?
What you need to know to make 2017 your best year ever!
The document provides an overview of different types of buyers in B2B sales and how sales methodology needs to differ based on the buyer and type of solution being sold. It discusses three main types of buyers - early adopters, early majority, and late majority - who have different expectations and purchase processes. For innovative solutions targeting early adopters, the vendor engages with customers from the "mentor" phase through the full purchase process. For mature solutions sought by early majority buyers, vendors engage at the "case" phase during a competitive procurement. Commodity solutions sought by late majority only involve vendor engagement at the final "transaction" phase.
In November 2015, 40 leading marketing executives gathered in Sydney to talk about measuring marketing effectiveness in an always on marketing world. The discussion that followed is presented here.
Modern B2B Marketing in the Era of the Empowered BuyerScott Levine
In the past 20 years, B2B marketing has changed exponentially more than it has in the past 100 years. Today, buyers possess infinite choice and infinite power.
We live in an “instant” world. Whether it’s instant access, information, gratification, justification or rationalization, all of these “instants” have impacted the way that businesses who market to businesses, think, act and react.
Modern Business-to-Business Marketing in the Era of the Empowered Buyer is causing many organizations to rethink their strategies. We are hopeful that some of the information we have shared with you here will enable you to understand the current and possible future state of B-to-B marketing, and will help you to put your organization in a position to best deal with complexities caused by the Modern Empowered B-to-B Buyer.
How to Perform More Effective Competitive IntelligenceGeorge Sloane
This document provides an overview of how to perform effective competitive intelligence. It discusses gathering and analyzing information about competitors' sales, marketing, finances, products, pricing and future plans. Competitive intelligence is important to understand how customers see a company compared to its competition and to help decide strategic actions. The entire organization should be involved in collecting intelligence through methods like observing competitor stores, online research, and using third party reports. The information can be analyzed using quantitative and qualitative data as well as snapshots and time series to identify strengths, weaknesses and opportunities.
The document discusses the challenges facing sales teams and how sales analytics can help address these challenges. It notes that sales targets are increasing while costs are expected to be reduced. Customers are also better informed and purchasing processes take longer. This results in longer sales cycles, lower win rates, and missed sales targets for vendors. The document suggests sales analytics can help sales organizations move from gut-feeling decision making to one based on data-driven insights. It provides examples of how sales analytics can benefit different roles including salespeople, managers, executives and marketing teams.
COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE FOR SALES AND MARKETING: HOW TO WIN MORE OPPORTUNITI...HubSpot
This document provides tips and resources for conducting competitive intelligence on sales and marketing strategies. It recommends monitoring competitors' job postings, reviews, website content, thought leadership presence, customer base, employee profiles, and prospects to gain insights. Additional suggestions include analyzing financial filings, startup traction, email volume, social media analytics, metadata, keyword strategies, surveys, advertising tools, RSS subscribers, search trends, and traffic to understand how your company performs compared to competitors. The overall goal is to discover opportunities to differentiate yourself and optimize your own marketing approach.
The document discusses the importance of marketing for businesses and provides statistics to support this. It notes that marketing helps define a company and its products to various stakeholders. Marketing is important because customers now do more online research, and companies face more competition for attention. The document then provides steps businesses can take to improve their marketing, such as evaluating current activities, understanding new technologies, and integrating different marketing disciplines.
Building Alignment for Predictive Marketing Success Lattice Engines
Learn how Hootsuite was able to work with the most enterprise-ready accounts. Lattice surfaced accounts with high likelihood of conversion and acceleration in the pipeline.
& Lattice presentation at the Marketing Nation Summit.
Data driven marketing - Inspiration & Steps to move forwardGus Murray
How digital insights and personalisation are changing the way organisations use their corporate website.
Propeople’s Chief Digital Strategy officer and former SMW Speaker of the Year Gus Murray, delivers an evening of insights, predictions & cocktails. Join us as he shares his experiences working for leading Nordic & Global brands on the future of Data Driven Marketing, B2B / B2C Communications, Insights and digital strategy.
Covered in this session:
> How personalisation is changing the way B2B communicate with their customers
> Content as your customers first purchase
> Using social to better inform your audience understanding
> Social as a service opportunity, and
> The Attention web.
Four Powerful Marketing Concepts from Digital SummitZachary Nelson
During Digital Summit Kansas City, four big marketing concepts were discussed throughout breakout sessions and by presenters. This presentation is a high-level overview of those concepts.
This document outlines a 6 step social media plan for success: 1) Map your plan by defining goals like increasing sales or brand awareness. 2) Create brand profiles on social media with a 45 second elevator pitch. 3) Build your network by connecting with contacts from your email. 4) Start sharing content like helpful articles. 5) Track and measure engagement metrics. 6) Manage your time by dedicating 15 minutes per day. The document also lists common pitfalls to avoid and recommends tools for social media management.
"The State of Revenue Operations" presented by Karen Steele at #FlipMyFunnel ...#FlipMyFunnel
"The State of Revenue Operations" presented by Karen Steele at the 2018 #FlipMyFunnel B2B Marketing and Sales Conference. To learn more about #FlipMyFunnel, visit flipmyfunnel.com.
ABM is a strategic approach that coordinates personalized marketing and sales efforts at named accounts. It involves identifying target companies, engaging them with professional campaigns, and building lasting relationships that lead to new opportunities. Key aspects of ABM include researching accounts to develop ideal customer profiles, creating relevant content to engage accounts across appropriate channels, and measuring the impact of ABM activities on sales outcomes.
One of Our Webcoupers Geniuses gave a presentation on Data Driven Marketing.
The principal idea behind being data driven in the marketing space has always been to incorporate data to in your decision-making process so as to get the best results. However, the approach towards achieving this has evolved over the years.
Data-driven marketing is the strategy of using customer information for optimal and targeted media buying and creative messaging. It is one of the most transformational changes in digital advertising that has ever occurred.
1) The document discusses a proposed "HyperMembership" program by Talentelle to expand their customer base among women in Montreal.
2) The program would encourage women to forward an invitation to join Talentelle to 5 other women they know, in order to rapidly increase membership in a "nuclear escalation".
3) It is argued that a larger membership would allow Talentelle to develop products and services faster through collaboration, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of growing value and membership.
We take a look at how today’s most successful B2B tech marketers are leveraging data to identify their addressable market and influence active researchers. Since not all data – and therefore not all data providers – offer the same value, Kevin offers insights on what to look for when investing in pre-purchase data. He then shows you how reliable data can accelerate your ROI from a variety of marketing activities including lead generation, automated nurture, account-based marketing and targeted brand-building initiatives.
Sales Methodologies - A quick guide to boosting success - realSociableDalia Asterbadi
The document discusses the top 6 sales methodologies used today: SPIN Selling, Conceptual Selling, SNAP Selling, Solution Selling, Customer Centric Selling, and Challenger Selling. It provides an overview of each methodology and tips for how to effectively utilize them. It also discusses how technology like realSociable can help salespeople implement the methodologies by providing business intelligence, maximizing online opportunities, and reducing administrative work to focus on relationships. The document advocates integrating technology with sales methodologies to create velocity while maintaining a relationship-driven approach.
ARTWORK Markus Linnenbrink HOWTOSURVIVE, 2012, epoxy resin .docxrossskuddershamus
The document discusses how leading companies are improving collaboration between marketing and other functions through revamping key decision-making processes. It focuses on three areas: planning and strategy decisions, execution decisions, and operations/infrastructure decisions. Companies use simple tools like defining decision roles, criteria, and processes to streamline decisions made at organizational "seams". This approach clarifies responsibilities and has helped companies like Target and Nordstrom make better aligned, faster decisions to increase marketing effectiveness.
Growth hacking: the growth hacker guide to analytics: how to get to data-dri...Eveline Smet
This presentation will introduce anyone with a growth hacking mindset in using analytics to grow their business. I will address setting up actionable goals, choosing the OMTM, the conversion funnel, reporting and experimenting.
In today’s hyper competitive, digital world, organizations that use data driven marketing give themselves a fighting chance. No brand is secure just on brand equity alone. Just look at Kodak, Pan Am and Research in Motion (Blackberry). Executives who embrace DDM give themselves the possibility of being relevant to their customers. And, at the end of the day, that is what your customers want most from you.
8 Pillars of Demand Generation InfographicScott Levine
The 8 Pillars Of Demand Generation
An Infographic of the Modern Demand Generation Ecosystem
Demand generation and lead generation are often used synonymously, but they are actually quite different.
The 8 Pillars of demand generation were developed to address a wide range of topics that include everything from building awareness to sales enablement.
Demand generation is typically a multistep integrated marketing and sales process that varies in size and scope based on sales complexity. Demand generation can include building awareness, positioning and consumer research to support purchase behavior, sales enablement, customer onboarding and post-sale customer satisfaction.
Lead Generation: Strictly speaking, lead generation is the process of generating interest in a product or service. Typically, leads are gathered to build a list that provides contacts for sales.
How can you take advantage of these 7 key business trends in 2017 to grow your business and career?
What you need to know to make 2017 your best year ever!
The document provides an overview of different types of buyers in B2B sales and how sales methodology needs to differ based on the buyer and type of solution being sold. It discusses three main types of buyers - early adopters, early majority, and late majority - who have different expectations and purchase processes. For innovative solutions targeting early adopters, the vendor engages with customers from the "mentor" phase through the full purchase process. For mature solutions sought by early majority buyers, vendors engage at the "case" phase during a competitive procurement. Commodity solutions sought by late majority only involve vendor engagement at the final "transaction" phase.
In November 2015, 40 leading marketing executives gathered in Sydney to talk about measuring marketing effectiveness in an always on marketing world. The discussion that followed is presented here.
Modern B2B Marketing in the Era of the Empowered BuyerScott Levine
In the past 20 years, B2B marketing has changed exponentially more than it has in the past 100 years. Today, buyers possess infinite choice and infinite power.
We live in an “instant” world. Whether it’s instant access, information, gratification, justification or rationalization, all of these “instants” have impacted the way that businesses who market to businesses, think, act and react.
Modern Business-to-Business Marketing in the Era of the Empowered Buyer is causing many organizations to rethink their strategies. We are hopeful that some of the information we have shared with you here will enable you to understand the current and possible future state of B-to-B marketing, and will help you to put your organization in a position to best deal with complexities caused by the Modern Empowered B-to-B Buyer.
How to Perform More Effective Competitive IntelligenceGeorge Sloane
This document provides an overview of how to perform effective competitive intelligence. It discusses gathering and analyzing information about competitors' sales, marketing, finances, products, pricing and future plans. Competitive intelligence is important to understand how customers see a company compared to its competition and to help decide strategic actions. The entire organization should be involved in collecting intelligence through methods like observing competitor stores, online research, and using third party reports. The information can be analyzed using quantitative and qualitative data as well as snapshots and time series to identify strengths, weaknesses and opportunities.
The document discusses the challenges facing sales teams and how sales analytics can help address these challenges. It notes that sales targets are increasing while costs are expected to be reduced. Customers are also better informed and purchasing processes take longer. This results in longer sales cycles, lower win rates, and missed sales targets for vendors. The document suggests sales analytics can help sales organizations move from gut-feeling decision making to one based on data-driven insights. It provides examples of how sales analytics can benefit different roles including salespeople, managers, executives and marketing teams.
COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE FOR SALES AND MARKETING: HOW TO WIN MORE OPPORTUNITI...HubSpot
This document provides tips and resources for conducting competitive intelligence on sales and marketing strategies. It recommends monitoring competitors' job postings, reviews, website content, thought leadership presence, customer base, employee profiles, and prospects to gain insights. Additional suggestions include analyzing financial filings, startup traction, email volume, social media analytics, metadata, keyword strategies, surveys, advertising tools, RSS subscribers, search trends, and traffic to understand how your company performs compared to competitors. The overall goal is to discover opportunities to differentiate yourself and optimize your own marketing approach.
The document discusses the importance of marketing for businesses and provides statistics to support this. It notes that marketing helps define a company and its products to various stakeholders. Marketing is important because customers now do more online research, and companies face more competition for attention. The document then provides steps businesses can take to improve their marketing, such as evaluating current activities, understanding new technologies, and integrating different marketing disciplines.
Building Alignment for Predictive Marketing Success Lattice Engines
Learn how Hootsuite was able to work with the most enterprise-ready accounts. Lattice surfaced accounts with high likelihood of conversion and acceleration in the pipeline.
& Lattice presentation at the Marketing Nation Summit.
Data driven marketing - Inspiration & Steps to move forwardGus Murray
How digital insights and personalisation are changing the way organisations use their corporate website.
Propeople’s Chief Digital Strategy officer and former SMW Speaker of the Year Gus Murray, delivers an evening of insights, predictions & cocktails. Join us as he shares his experiences working for leading Nordic & Global brands on the future of Data Driven Marketing, B2B / B2C Communications, Insights and digital strategy.
Covered in this session:
> How personalisation is changing the way B2B communicate with their customers
> Content as your customers first purchase
> Using social to better inform your audience understanding
> Social as a service opportunity, and
> The Attention web.
Four Powerful Marketing Concepts from Digital SummitZachary Nelson
During Digital Summit Kansas City, four big marketing concepts were discussed throughout breakout sessions and by presenters. This presentation is a high-level overview of those concepts.
This document outlines a 6 step social media plan for success: 1) Map your plan by defining goals like increasing sales or brand awareness. 2) Create brand profiles on social media with a 45 second elevator pitch. 3) Build your network by connecting with contacts from your email. 4) Start sharing content like helpful articles. 5) Track and measure engagement metrics. 6) Manage your time by dedicating 15 minutes per day. The document also lists common pitfalls to avoid and recommends tools for social media management.
"The State of Revenue Operations" presented by Karen Steele at #FlipMyFunnel ...#FlipMyFunnel
"The State of Revenue Operations" presented by Karen Steele at the 2018 #FlipMyFunnel B2B Marketing and Sales Conference. To learn more about #FlipMyFunnel, visit flipmyfunnel.com.
ABM is a strategic approach that coordinates personalized marketing and sales efforts at named accounts. It involves identifying target companies, engaging them with professional campaigns, and building lasting relationships that lead to new opportunities. Key aspects of ABM include researching accounts to develop ideal customer profiles, creating relevant content to engage accounts across appropriate channels, and measuring the impact of ABM activities on sales outcomes.
One of Our Webcoupers Geniuses gave a presentation on Data Driven Marketing.
The principal idea behind being data driven in the marketing space has always been to incorporate data to in your decision-making process so as to get the best results. However, the approach towards achieving this has evolved over the years.
Data-driven marketing is the strategy of using customer information for optimal and targeted media buying and creative messaging. It is one of the most transformational changes in digital advertising that has ever occurred.
1) The document discusses a proposed "HyperMembership" program by Talentelle to expand their customer base among women in Montreal.
2) The program would encourage women to forward an invitation to join Talentelle to 5 other women they know, in order to rapidly increase membership in a "nuclear escalation".
3) It is argued that a larger membership would allow Talentelle to develop products and services faster through collaboration, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of growing value and membership.
We take a look at how today’s most successful B2B tech marketers are leveraging data to identify their addressable market and influence active researchers. Since not all data – and therefore not all data providers – offer the same value, Kevin offers insights on what to look for when investing in pre-purchase data. He then shows you how reliable data can accelerate your ROI from a variety of marketing activities including lead generation, automated nurture, account-based marketing and targeted brand-building initiatives.
Sales Methodologies - A quick guide to boosting success - realSociableDalia Asterbadi
The document discusses the top 6 sales methodologies used today: SPIN Selling, Conceptual Selling, SNAP Selling, Solution Selling, Customer Centric Selling, and Challenger Selling. It provides an overview of each methodology and tips for how to effectively utilize them. It also discusses how technology like realSociable can help salespeople implement the methodologies by providing business intelligence, maximizing online opportunities, and reducing administrative work to focus on relationships. The document advocates integrating technology with sales methodologies to create velocity while maintaining a relationship-driven approach.
ARTWORK Markus Linnenbrink HOWTOSURVIVE, 2012, epoxy resin .docxrossskuddershamus
The document discusses how leading companies are improving collaboration between marketing and other functions through revamping key decision-making processes. It focuses on three areas: planning and strategy decisions, execution decisions, and operations/infrastructure decisions. Companies use simple tools like defining decision roles, criteria, and processes to streamline decisions made at organizational "seams". This approach clarifies responsibilities and has helped companies like Target and Nordstrom make better aligned, faster decisions to increase marketing effectiveness.
Every three years we conduct global research
into “What it Takes to Win Business” based on
the perspectives of 178 global Buyers and Sales
Professionals from a range of industry sectors.
We use the findings to help our clients understand
how their customers make their buying decisions,
become more customer-centric and improve their
win/loss ratio.
Steven geffen digital marketing strategy quirk textbook 5Steven Geffen
The document provides an introduction to key concepts for understanding digital marketing strategy. It discusses defining business, marketing, and digital strategies and outlines some important building blocks for developing a strategy, including Porter's Five Forces analysis and the Four Ps framework. The key questions to ask when developing a digital strategy are also examined.
Industry 4.0: Technology Insights for Channel Program OptimizationSeth Jacobsen
The concept of Industry 4.0 – also known as the fourth industrial revolution – is mostly rooted in data, analytics, autonomous learning, and the Internet of Things. The impact of smart technology, however, is not limited to the supply chain and manufacturing operations. Opportunities to innovate exist in the sales and distribution channel as well. Of course, the ultimate goal is to reduce costs, increase productivity and market share, and drive revenue growth.
The document is a whitepaper about using data to align sales and marketing. It discusses how technological developments have transformed sales and marketing and increased the importance of interdepartmental alignment. It emphasizes that data is key to realizing the benefits of aligning sales and marketing, as data can provide insights to ensure each department is working towards the same goals. The whitepaper also provides tips on how to use data in specific ways to improve alignment, such as agreeing on common lead definitions, implementing lead scoring, and using marketing automation to better generate and nurture leads.
This document discusses how companies can better differentiate themselves and increase revenues through "Thoughtful Selling". It notes that customers now find most product information online beforehand, so companies need to close the "insight gap" between their brand and products by providing unique insights. It recommends categorizing customers into "Take Us Forward", "Model It", and "Prove It" groups and matching insights to each group's needs. Additionally, it emphasizes aligning marketing campaigns and sales conversations by integrating efforts between departments to create high-performance programs grounded in unique insights.
Introduction to integrated marketing sales and marketing alignmentNuno Fraga Coelho
This document discusses the importance of alignment between sales and marketing teams. It provides 7 steps to achieve alignment:
1. Get sales and marketing to agree on buyer profiles and prospect traits.
2. Develop an integrated content strategy by auditing current assets and ensuring content meets buyer needs.
3. Agree on common metrics and definitions like what qualifies a "sales ready" lead to ensure both teams are measuring the same things.
4. Establish SLAs that set targets for lead generation and handoff between teams to increase accountability.
5. Create a clear process for handing off leads from marketing to sales and feedback loops.
6. Develop a shared sales/marketing pipeline for increased visibility
Products Don't Sell Themselves
The document discusses differing perspectives on the role of product marketing. Some see it as focused on lead generation, content creation, and driving sales. Others see a broader strategic role in understanding customer needs, defining compelling products and value propositions, and ensuring alignment across functions. The author argues that marketing should contribute in all these areas by understanding customer problems and opportunities rather than just selling existing products. True success comes from solving customer needs, not from any single function alone.
The document discusses the changing role of sales professionals in the printing industry due to technological advances and changes in how customers obtain information. It argues that salespeople must become more consultative and able to provide expertise across multiple media types rather than just print. The next generation of sales professionals will need skills in areas like marketing, data analytics, and financial understanding in order to advise clients on multimedia campaigns and business challenges. They will need to understand clients' industries and finances, continuously learn, and find creative solutions to complex problems.
This document provides an introduction to inbound marketing. It discusses key concepts like buyer personas, the buyer's journey, and using content and SEO to attract potential customers at different stages of their journey. The document is from Doidea, an inbound marketing agency, and it serves as an eBook to teach beginners the basics of inbound marketing. It covers topics like understanding your audience, creating the right content for different stages, and optimizing content to rank higher in search engines. The overall goal of the document is to explain the core components of a successful inbound marketing strategy.
The document discusses how technology and online research has changed buyer behavior, with customers now 57% through the purchasing process before contacting a salesperson. This has increased the value of subject matter experts who can provide insights beyond what customers find online. The document recommends that companies train their salespeople to become subject matter experts by understanding customer buying behaviors, industry trends, and how to identify opportunities to add value. It provides examples of how one financial company significantly increased sales by restructuring their sales team and processes to focus on a consultative, subject matter expert approach.
Start With A Lead Fusion Bpo Services, Inckongking
The document outlines seven critical success factors for lead generation in complex sales: 1) focusing on conversation rather than campaigns to build relationships over time, 2) defining an ideal customer profile to target the right prospects, 3) establishing a universal lead definition, 4) implementing an effective lead management process, 5) building a foundational database, 6) using integrated multimodal tactics, and 7) providing consistent lead nurturing. The success factors emphasize quality over quantity, understanding buyers, and sustaining dialogue with prospects throughout the sales cycle.
Q&A With Infinity Contact Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Owner, Tom Leidigh
About Tom Leidigh
30 years of executive experience in sales, direct marketing, and CRM program development. Tom is recognized as a leader in outsourced contact and is primarily focused on expansion strategies, trade alliances, and new product development.
Tom earned an M.B.A. with top honors from Arizona State University, and a B.B.A. from the University of Iowa.
Question: Why do clients choose Infinity?
Mr. Leidigh: As an innovator in integrated contact solutions, Infinity Contact has a singular focus: We collaborate with clients to Get Customers, Keep Customers and maximize customer lifetime value. Infinity Contact was founded to provide our clients with an enhanced experience of getting customers and keeping customers. That is real basic in terms of what all our clients want to do but the methodology and process behind that was where we thought we could differentiate B2B sales customer acquisition . Our brand is called Buyerlytics and it is really the science of sales and customers retention. It is integrating data, technology, customer contact and analytics into one program under the Buyerlytics brand. Many of our competitors offer a component or two but our ability to integrate those into a unified program is a huge differentiator and value prop for our clients.
A Guide to Effective Lead Generation - The Journey from List to LeadReshma Nigam
This white paper delineates Markable Solutions’ high impact lead generation techniques to develop marketing qualified leads for an organization’s sales pipeline.
You will learn how to:
1. Define a lead and understand the buying process
2. Build a robust B2B lead generation strategy
3. Use various list-to-lead techniques by Markable Solutions
This document discusses how marketing and sales can improve collaboration to achieve their shared goal of sustainable profitability. It recommends that the two departments communicate more through regular meetings to understand each other's work and align on goals like defining quality leads. By working together on initiatives like content marketing and lead nurturing, companies can generate more sales-ready leads at a lower cost and increase sales performance metrics.
Is Your Customer-Centric Transformation Living Up to its PromiseFrançois Videlaine
Four out of five companies are disappointed by the results of their customer-centric transformations. The document outlines three specific actions companies can take to improve their transformations: 1) Measure customer value beyond advocacy and satisfaction; 2) Ensure segmentation is actionable and not too complex; 3) Focus on a small number of market-beating propositions around pivotal customer events. The CEO can help by giving permission to explore new approaches, inspiring conversations around measurement of customer value, and challenging leaders to integrate existing initiatives.
Business Intelligence is more than a fad. But to embrace it requires a significant commitment.
Every competitive business recognizes the power in knowledge. The definition of “knowledge” is both subjective and obscure. All too often, a business is unable to succinctly express what information it wants and what it will do with this information. Many earnest efforts are made to develop effective data reporting resources. The most common mistakes are costly, time consuming and wasteful.
Digital Marketing Strategy Presentation.pdfJoe Orlando
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Sales and Marketing is BROKEN!
1. Joseph Orlando, TorchLite Group 1 | P a g e
The classic terms should be
reshuffled to Read
“Marketing and Sales”
instead of “Sales and
Marketing.”
While most sales
professionals won’t agree
and many would declare that marketing professionals have a bias, the
fact of the matter is that 70% of the buying decisions made by customers
are made BEFORE they ever come in contact with a sales person.
Prospective buyers today, consumer and businesses alike, take to the
digital world to conduct research; collect information; seek out positive
and negative referrals (ironically, most will accept the opinions of
complete strangers over experts and industry pundits!) The World Wide
Web provides resources to get to answers that before were provided by
Sales teams and outside consultants. The plethora of whitepapers; blogs;
use cases; and 3rd party reviews act to provide armor and weapons to
prospective buyers with the right questions to ask; the things they may
not have considered in demanding of vendors; mistakes to avoid and
more control over their own decision making criteria.
Far beyond a cliché, the approach to “Content is KING!” is the fulcrum
that has driven this paradigm shift. Car buyers and home buyers
approach a purchase with a vast wealth of information on pricing;
values; deals; seller information and even tactics to get better
deals. Businesses are no different. They press for better Service Level
2. Joseph Orlando, TorchLite Group 2 | P a g e
Agreements (SLAs); terms; discounts and allowances; negotiating
tactics (most are trying to fix maintenance cost to the deal prices and not
the list prices).
This places a greater impetus and reliance on effective marketing than
ever before. Customers, by the time they reach out to Sales, already
know they want to buy. It is less of a sales process and more of a “Help
them buy what they know they want at the best value to both
parties.”
Marketers are no longer able to get away with the nebulous terms of
“awareness” and branding when
so much counts on their efforts
to bring willing buyers to their
doors. The days when Marketing
was there to simply generate
leads and create sales collateral
are over. (If you still look at
Marketing in this way in your
organization...you are missing the opportunity.) Marketing's role is to
bring willing, ready and educated buyers to the sales table. Today this is
their real mandate.
Contemporary marketers are no longer “artists” but have moved into
science. The science of knowing the best target customers; know which
messages resonate with them relating to their very real pain points;
knowing what relevant content works; giving them the reference
3. Joseph Orlando, TorchLite Group 3 | P a g e
materials that help them justify their buying decisions inside the
customer’s organization.
Proficient marketers can now establish an ROI for their spending and
efforts. There are metrics now to see how Marketing Qualified Leads
(MQL) move to become Sales Qualified Leads (SQL) and move through
the sales funnel. The total spend of individual promotions and
campaigns (adding sales costs) over the recognized incremental
revenues (NPV) can provide a better insight into the Marketing ROI. To
add still another dimension is to affix a timeline weight since some
approaches (tradeshows, for example) have a much longer time to close
in days than a customer requesting a RFQ/RFP or requesting a sales call.
This age of Digital Access has created a deluge of available data.
Marketing analytics has taken on an emerging focus for large and small
enterprises alike. Just like there are no standards for IOT and there are
no standards for an enterprise to be considered being “Digital,” the
movement to analytics is a full spectrum that sweeps from collecting
data into spreadsheets and seeking patterns to full-fledged sophisticated
data analytics driven my complex algorithms developed by
mathematical genius.
The effectiveness of analytics places the outcome at the precipice of
success or failure. If you recall how arduous a task it was to establish the
enterprise Mission Statement and how everyone had something to input,
no less energy and participation is needed to establish what does the
enterprise need to know? why? And what to do with what they may
learn? It is far too easy to settle for increases in revenue and profitability
4. Joseph Orlando, TorchLite Group 4 | P a g e
as a single gauge. Of course, these are critical factors but not THE key
KPIs on which to steer an
enterprise.
Each function in the
business will have
different things they want
to focus on. Each
function, if done poorly,
can interpret the data to support the intuitive positions they are taking.
Therefore, the cross functional development of what these KPIs are and
what the appropriate executable actions will be when the given output is
reached is critical.
In addition, every effort, like the Mission Statement exercise, should be
made to make the effort concise – consistent- have significant relevant
impact and distilled down to the most manageable package. Having too
much data and too much output is almost as bad as having none at all!
What do you want to know? Why? What will this cause to happen in
your business?
What are you measuring? Why? Are these elements of your business
you manage?
What are you going to do with the data you get? Are the workflows and
processes in place to pervasively change the way the enterprise goes to
market – or does it fall into one department and they can do little to
change things?
5. Joseph Orlando, TorchLite Group 5 | P a g e
Are you asking the right questions? Are the questions key to the
enterprise’s goals and objectives?
Is there top down and bottom up commitment to act on what is learned?
Are there mechanisms in place to act?
Analytics have long played a key role in process manufacture. There is
clear SOP for mitigating actions and get things back on track. It is
clearly time that Marketing steps up to the science of contributing to the
definition of what the enterprise makes (for whom) that delivers much
valued features and benefits. This is how the enterprise differentiates
itself in their respective appropriate markets. Marketing should be bold
enough to bring the enterprise to appreciate what it shouldn’t try to do
and which customers they shouldn’t try to capture. Accentuate what we
do best and diminish the waste of funds and energies chasing
opportunities for which the enterprise is not suited. Define the pain
points your enterprise can address and the problems to which solutions
we are best suited to deliver. Define the conversations we should be
having AND with whom those conversations should be with. (It isn't a
conversation about the product or service but about solving which of
their problems, let them ask HOW!)
Marketing can make Sales more effective and the enterprise more
successful. Today, the appropriate way the term should read is
“Marketing and Sales.” (In my humble opinion.)