Tag Archive

Tag Archives for " sales marketing alignment "

Marketing Strategy: 3 steps to help optimize website user experience

Learn three steps to optimize your web experience and to get more leads by getting feedback from prospects and customers.. This is the most valuable insight you’ll ever receive because it gives you a direct window into how you serve your customers.

Continue reading

B2B Marketing: The first step a systems integrator took to achieve Sales-Marketing alignment

In this blog post, watch a video excerpt of Kelly Harman, Vice President, Marketing, Carousel Industries, as she discussed how to improve Marketing’s relationship with Sales by working more congruently to help them generate leads at the MarketingSherpa B2B Summit 2012. In this excerpt, learn how the teams at Carousel took the first step to better their relationship by having Marketing walk in Sales’ shoes.

Continue reading
14

B2B Marketing: Why Marketing shouldn’t promise BANT qualified leads for Sales

Many marketers use a model for lead qualification based on these four key characteristics called BANT. However, we should focus more on building bridges of understanding between these two departments. Let’s start by creating a common language for lead qualification that makes more sense than BANT.

Continue reading
1

Sales-Marketing Alignment: How consistent messaging helped ADP engage customers at a faster pace

In many organizations, Marketing and Sales tell the same story from very different perspectives, resulting in inconsistent messaging reach prospects. Read on for a high-level breakdown of the five-step process ADP used to achieve Sales-Marketing alignment and to engage customers at a faster pace.

Continue reading
1

Lead Optimization: 10 audience questions answered

Lead optimization is the core of revenue optimization – making as much money as possible from your time, energy and resources. In response to many questions following a recent webinar, “Optimizing the Lead: A data-driven optimization process that goes beyond lead capture,” Brian Carroll sat down and answered 10 of the audience-submitted answers.

Continue reading
8

Lead Nurturing: 9 questions answered on lead qualification, nurturing, and Marketing-Sales alignment

A couple of weeks ago, I presented an American Marketing Association webcast, “The One-Two Punch of Effective Lead Engagement: Accurate Lists and Powerful Content” (a replay of the webcast is posted below). The nearly 500 attendees had so many excellent questions that my webcast could have easily been an hour longer. That’s why I decided […]

Continue reading
7
CEO agree to marketing plan

How to Get the CEO to Support Your Next Marketing Plan

Do you feel you have the full support of your CEO for your marketing plan? I caught up with with a colleague who coaches marketers. He has a lot of experience to offer but he often feels like his hands are tied. He voiced his frustration to me: “Nearly everyone I talked to say they […]

Continue reading
8

Why Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) Create Confusion

SiriusDecisions made a brilliant contribution to B2B marketing several years ago when they created their Demand Waterfall. That “waterfall” is a metaphor for key funnel stages. It seems like everyone I talk to who works in the technology industry, which is an early adopter of marketing innovations, uses the Demand Waterfall framework. The concept is […]

Continue reading
1 2 3 4